Using Self Hypnosis To Kick The Smoking Habit

If you are trying to quit smoking cigarettes, you know how tough it is to break this injurious habit. However, it is possible, and half of all adult smokers will successfully quit smoking forever. Many smokers succeed in quitting smoking cigarettes by replacing them with new, positive habits without having to experience withdrawal symptoms. By far, the most effective and easiest method to stop smoking and achieve this end is stop smoking hypnotherapy.

Quit smoking hypnotherapy is one of the most frequently practiced forms of hypnosis. It is often cited as a tool for quitting smoking along with strategies such as the use of nicotine patches and gums and other popular means. It helps to end the smoking addiction by combating cravings to smoke, keeping you committed to quitting, and promoting relaxation and stress relief so you will not be tempted to smoke.

The smoking addiction has both physiological and psychological components. The physiological addiction is a physical need the body acquires for nicotine. This aspect of the addiction causes the withdrawal symptoms that make it seem near impossible to stop smoking. However, this is a short, temporary phase in the overall process of quitting the habit, lasting only between three days and one week. By the end of this time period, your body acclimates to normal, nicotine-free functioning. Based on thirty years of experience, I believe that the physical need for nicotine represents a mere ten percent of the addiction to smoking.

By far, the most challenging part of quitting smoking is overcoming the psychological addiction, which are the mental and emotional aspects of smoking. I believe this represents ninety percent of the tobacco addiction. When you develop a smoking habit, you unconsciously develop a desire to smoke in certain environments, such as during work breaks. This is called a conditioned response. Quit smoking hypnotherapy helps eliminate the unconscious relationships that cause you to crave cigarettes, thereby eliminating the conditioned urge to smoke. Hypnosis also helps you stay motivated to give up smoking by strengthening the ideas that gave you the desire to break the smoking addiction in the first place.

Smokers get stuck ritually lighting up and smoking. This is why people who attempt to stop smoking using nicotine patches or gums alone often have such a difficult experience. They rapidly overcome the physical addiction, but they have no replacement or relief for the ritual of smoking cigarettes, which has become a psychological addiction and comforting source of stress relief. Stop smoking hypnotherapy techniques eliminate this mental addiction and serve as stress reducers as well. As a relaxation tool, hypnosis helps effectively relieve stress and anxiety so you will lose the desire to smoke cigarettes.

Combined with some powerful NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques, quit smoking hypnotherapy can keep you committed to stop smoking by training your unconscious mind to focus on the benefits of quitting. Eliminating tobacco benefits you in many ways. Within days of quitting, body parts damaged by smoking begin to heal, damaged nerves re-grow, and the sense of taste and smell improves significantly. Within weeks, lung function and circulation improve. Within one year, your risk of heart disease is less than half that of a smoker. Within five to fifteen years, the risk of having a stroke is the same as a non-smoker. Your risk of heart disease is the same as someone who has never smoked, and your risk of dying from lung cancer and numerous other cancer risks have decreased.

In spite of the harmful effects of smoking and the benefits of quitting, some smokers never overcome their habit. For the most part, this is because they have never really made a decision to quit. Other smokers are often afraid to experience withdrawal symptoms or let go of the smoking habit. However, quitting smoking does not have to be the agonizing process that makes so many smokers hesistant to even attempt quitting. Hypnosis acts as a very simple, natural technique for quitting.

Hypnosis is an effective implement for easing cravings for cigarettes, providing powerful motivation, and promoting relaxation and stress relief to eliminate the psychological addiction to smoking. Stop smoking hypnotherapy techniques can be easily learned from specialized self-hypnosis programs that have been developed after decades of using hypnosis, Neuro-VISION video hypnotherapy, and NLP to get clients to quit smoking.

Hypnotherapy programs make it easy to stop smoking completely because they break the smoking habit in a process that helps obliterate cravings and any desire to smoke. Whatever your motivation is for breaking the habit, hypnosis and NLP makes it easier to focus your mind on these reasons, which makes you feel a strong urge to quit. Stop smoking hypnotherapy programs eliminate the compulsion to smoke. Even though quitting smoking can be a painful and unsuccessful endeavor for some, those who take advantage of quit smoking hypnosis have a far greater percentage of success because it makes the process a ‘slam-dunk’. Hypnotherapy is the most effective method for smoke cessation.

Alan B. Densky, CH pioneered the use of video quit smoking aids and received a U.S. Patent on the process. He offers a number of ways to quit smoking if you are ready to quit smoking now.

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