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Is the How and Why Important?
Take All of Me! Most folks believe they need to understand the underlying causes of their nicotine addiction before they can successfully...
Carol Williard van Ginkel
Mar 273 min read
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Who Will You Be in 2025?
"Oneness!" unframed Today I am thinking of a woman who I helped stop smoking many years ago. Lacking self-confidence in middle age and...
Carol Williard van Ginkel
Jan 142 min read
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How to Quit Smoking/Vaping Cold Turkey without the Fight
In theory quitting smoking by going cold turkey might appear to be like ripping off a bandage: One rip and get it over with! But...
Carol Williard van Ginkel
Dec 30, 20242 min read
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Fight or Surrender?
With the holidays approaching I recognize that dealing with an addiction is the last thing we want to think about. We all want comfort...
Carol Williard van Ginkel
Dec 11, 20243 min read
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Another Success!
I am sharing another endorsement from a successful client after being nicotine free for 6 months. I wanted to post it as it is always...
Carol Williard van Ginkel
Dec 4, 20241 min read
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Happy Thanksgiving!
It has been said that you can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it. Most folks think that the opposite of addiction is...
Carol Williard van Ginkel
Nov 25, 20242 min read
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How's Your Health as a Smoker or Vaper?
I don’t have a single client who sought help to get free from smoking or vaping that was not suffering the health consequences from their...
Carol Williard van Ginkel
Nov 3, 20242 min read
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Do You Want to Feel Better?
When it comes down to it, this is the essential question that all of us must face when we are coming to terms with our behavior when it...
Carol Williard van Ginkel
Oct 29, 20242 min read
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How's Your Health as a Smoker or Vaper?
I don’t have a single client who sought help to get free from smoking or vaping that was not suffering the health consequences from their...
Carol Williard van Ginkel
Oct 21, 20242 min read
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How Did This Happen?
It seems like only yesterday you had your first cigarette or first hit from a friends vape. It was a bit weird at first. You felt a...
Carol Williard van Ginkel
Oct 13, 20242 min read
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What is Your Nicotine Dependency Costing YOU?
A common feeling of my clients who come to work with me is anxiety. Most people pick up the phone worried about their health; something...
Carol Williard van Ginkel
Oct 6, 20243 min read
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I Won't Blow Smoke...
The premise of most smoking cessation products and programs is that withdrawal from nicotine is a horrible experience to be avoided at...
Carol Williard van Ginkel
Oct 2, 20243 min read
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Stop Like a Winner
I am here to open out a way for you to gain freedom from the bondage to nicotine. Like you, I had a million reasons to avoid even the...
Carol Williard van Ginkel
Sep 21, 20242 min read
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Don't Let Fear Stand in Your Way from Quitting Nicotine
Most smokers and vapers would quit but they are afraid the cure will be worse than the problem. Here is what two of my clients have to...
Carol Williard van Ginkel
Sep 17, 20242 min read
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The Great Myth: Vaping is a Path to Stopping Smoking Part 2
The Facts Are… While those who vape believe they are being less harmful to their bodies if they use e-cigarettes as opposed to tobacco...
Carol Williard van Ginkel
Sep 9, 20242 min read
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The Great Myth: Vaping is the Path to Stopping Smoking Part 1
Vaping was promoted by the tobacco industry as the path to stopping smoking. They touted the benefits of not having the 7,000 chemicals...
Carol Williard van Ginkel
Aug 28, 20243 min read
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Techniques that Work for Stopping Smoking and Vaping
Nicotine addicts are looking for tools, tips and techniques to get rid of their problem. They want the "silver bullet" to stop their...
Carol Williard van Ginkel
Aug 19, 20242 min read
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Tips for Stopping Smoking or Vaping
The web is filled with well-meaning tips for nicotine dependent people that in the end are not lasting. They purport to help smokers and...
Carol Williard van Ginkel
Aug 12, 20243 min read
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Conventional Wisdom of Most Programs to Quit Nicotine
“Conventional wisdom” will tell you the best way to get free from nicotine is to by replacing the vape or cigarette with a patch, or gum....
Carol Williard van Ginkel
Aug 5, 20241 min read
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Do You Want to Be a Zynfluencer?
It’s the newest coolest thing, to become a Zynfluencer. Although the parent company Phillip Morris International, which is the...
Carol Williard van Ginkel
Jul 29, 20242 min read
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