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My boyfriend has been smoking for maybe 10 years. He's only 23 and I want to help him. I've been going about it the wrong way, by getting upset with him. I want to  know what i can do to help him quit. He tells me that he wants to, but he doesn't know how. I'm scared that I'll be like my mom in the sense that My mom had to do suffer with that with my dad for the first 13 years of my life. I love him with all my heart and I just want the best for him. What can I do to help him quit, for good this time?

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Dear Jaqi,

I know how hard it is to get off drugs. people should realize that drug addiction is more of a physical disease, then a "mental" disease.

Most drug addicts are hypoglycemic, which is a condition that probably existed before the addiction. It may run in the family.

Please read:

What is Hypoglycemia? at
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/what_is_hypo.html

The Serotonin Connection at
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/serotonin_connection.html

“Alcoholism (Addiction) is a Treatable Disease” at:
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/alcoholism_treatable.html

Here are some other references:

http://www.uncommonforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=89904#89904
http://www.uncommonforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=195252#195252
http://www.uncommonforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=206328#206328
http://www.uncommonforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=235736#235736
http://www.uncommonforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=25242

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Jurriaan Plesman, BA(Psych), Post Grad Dip Clin Nutr
Editor: HYPOGLYCEMIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA at
www.hypoglycemia.asn.au
Author: “Getting off the Hook” at
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Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychotherapist

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I have a degree in Psychology from the Sydney University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Nutrition. I am also the author of “GETTING OFF THE HOOK” which deals with the nutritional and psychological treatment of personality disorders. It is freely available on the internet at Google Book Search. I am interested in the relationship between nutrition and behaviour, and as a Probation ans Parole Officer facilitated groups for offenders, many of whom were alcoholics and drug addicts, sex offenders or compulsive gamblers, as well as the whole gamut of “personality disorders”. I am also the ex-editor of the Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia Newsletter, a quarterly publication dealing with hypoglycemia and related health problems. Its web site, together with a shortened course of PSYCHOTHERAPY can be visited at: http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au

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Nutritional Psychotherapist

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The Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au

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GETTING OFF THE HOOK
which is freely available on the internet at Google Book Search. Various articles in Hypoglycemic Health Association Newsletter

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BA(Psych) (Sydney University) Post Grad Dip Clin Nutr (International Academy of Nutrition)

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