Stop the Addiction Impulse in 60 Seconds (Here’s How)

What causes addiction, and why is it so hard to quit? Discover precisely how addiction works in the brain, the powerful connection between addiction and dopamine, and what’s really driving your cravings. In this video, I’ll show you how to break the addiction cycle with practical steps that can help

Why you can’t stop addictions. If you have an addiction, whether it’s smoking, alcohol, porn addiction, sugar, social media, gambling, whatever, and you try to fight it or you try to resist it, that addiction will become 10 times stronger. And this is what a lot of people don’t realize. An addiction is not low willpower. It’s not a lack of discipline at all.

It’s not that the person’s crazy or weak or any of that. I’m going to show you exactly what an addiction is in the body. Then I’m going to show you a technique to weaken this addiction within a minute and put you back in the driver’s seat. Everything is based on survival. If you’re thirsty, the body will go after water.

When you’re hungry, your body will go after food. With addictions, it’s a little different. You drink some alcohol, you feel less stressed, you feel better, you’ll feel happier. What happens next is this chemical dopamine is going to tag alcohol as something that increases survival. Let’s say you took a drug and you felt high and you felt less stressed or you felt more energetic.

This chemical is going to tag that as something to help you survive. And if we take gambling, you’re increasing your odds to get more resources with less effort, right? People are scrolling all these potential mates to pick from in a very short period of time and it’s an abundance because pornography mimics reproduction which is a internal survival drive. Let’s take ultrarocessed foods, right? You eat a doughnut, you get pleasure immediately from that.

This chemical will tag it as survival. So as you repeat it, it becomes stronger and stronger and stronger in two different chemicals. This chemical right here, it’s the gas pedal that gets you activated. And then dopamine is kind of like the finetuner. It tunes into specifically what is considered important, whether it’s alcohol, drug, water, food, etc.

Dopamine does not have anything to do with giving you pleasure. It’s another chemical called opioids that gives you the pleasure, at least initially. But if you keep doing it, the pleasure goes away. Okay? And all you get now is relief.

But our brains have not differentiated cocaine from comfort, alcohol from stress relief. And then the more you do it, the more these chemicals go higher and higher and higher. And then we get massive glutamate spikes. When this chemical goes this high, you start having abnormal body sensations that are no longer just an urge towards something. It’s basically agitation.

You feel pressure in your body. You go from I want it to I need it or I have to have it. Now we have this compulsion or this obsession with certain things. And of course if you ignore it, you fight it, you resist it, guess what happens? Your body turns up the dial.

The flight or fight system kicks in there. you have more cortisol, more stress, more body sensation like your chest gets tight or you have more anxiety, more pressure to get you to give in. And so eventually addictions have nothing to do with pleasure. It’s all to do with relieving the withdrawals. So now let’s show you what you can do about this.

How can we quickly reduce the body urge or sensation that is driving you towards this thing? So let’s just say for example you are addicted to alcohol right and you start getting these body urges or compulsions to go after that thing. What can you do to reduce that urge? First thing you have to realize is that urge is coming from either too much glutamate or dopamine. It’s coming up but it will come down.

The question is how do we bring it down? The first thing you’re going to do, number one, is you’re going to rate on a scale from 0 to 10 the intensity of this compulsion or impulse. Number two, you’re going to locate it or point to where it is in your body. Is it coming from your chest or your head or another part of your body? You’re locating where this sensation is because it is a body sensation.

Okay? Number three, you’re going to describe it to yourself. Is it pressure? Is it a pulling feeling? Is it a tight chest?

Is it like anxiety or a restlessness in your muscles? Whatever it is, just describe it. And then number four, you’re going to go back to number one. Rate that sensation. Okay?

from 0 to 10, you’re going to notice the intensity is going to be significantly lower. And then you’re going to go to number two, locate it and point to it. Where is it now? Did it shift? Did it move?

Is it in the same location? And then number three, describe it. Did it change in character? And then number four, go back to number one, rerate it. What you’re actually doing is you’re taking something that’s very vague and kind of all over your body and you’re making it very specific.

You’re differentiating you from it. You’re putting it over here, okay? Away from you so you can kind of see it and you can identify it and you can also realize it’s not you, it’s this other thing. And what’s really magical about this is the more you define it and you look at it and you put it over there, the less it’s going to affect you, the less intense it’s going to be. And a lot of times these sensations can go away in under a minute.

Just follow step 1 2 3 4 and repeat until that sensation is gone. Remember, it’s on a wave and you’re just speeding the thing up to bring it down to zero intensity. go ahead and do this and then comment down below and then read all of the success stories. This really works. It’s an amazing technique.

Is it going to cure you? No. This is only temporary. It’s a quick technique just to allow you to cope with it. Next thing, NAC.

It stands for NetAL cyine. This is a natural remedy that they use for a lot of things. Tylenol poisoning to break up thick mucus, but it also greatly helps reduce these glutamate spikes that I talked about. Glutamate is an exytotoxin for the brain. NAC helps you regulate the spikes, so it has more of a normal amount.

Some people take 600 milligrams. If they have maybe a minor problem, 1,200 milligrams. But if they really have this major addiction, they might take 2400 milligrams per day. Because high glutamate is causing things to be urgent, having compulsions, and more pressure. In the brain, you have the gas pedal, which is glutamate, and then you have the brakes.

What are the brakes? GABA. What’s a good way to increase GABA? Glycine, which I like to combine it with magnesium as magnesium glycinate because you get the glycinate which actually increases the GABA that breaks plus you have magnesium that actually can help reduce cortisol and the fight orflight mechanism because in addictions when you resist the body starts massively increasing stress hormones to force you to do certain things. Magnesium glycinate is another antidote for this impulse.

As a side note, if you’re a smoker, okay, and you’re addicted to nicotine, it’s a little different. Nicotine is one of those really strong addictive things in your body. And then if you smoke a pack a day, you’re talking hundreds of trainings, okay, for that dopamine. So, if you’re a smoker and you’re trying to get rid of that, you’re going to have to add a couple additional things to help you. More vitamin B1 and also potassium.

Both of these can greatly help in the biochemical pathways for smokers. And then the other thing about a smoker is that the withdrawals can last one to two weeks hardcore. So, as long as you can go into this and hang in there for 2 weeks, it’s going to get a lot easier. And you have to retrain your body. And that brings up another very, very important thing, and this is your environment.

Changing the people that you hang out with, if the