The Easiest Way To Break Your Cigarette Addiction Is With NLP

There are 3 distinct parts to the addiction to tobacco. Two of the parts are mental, and one part is physical.

Part A: YOU SMOKE FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.

When you were an infant and you got restless, your mother would put a nipple into your mouth to distract you from that upset. You would get distracted, become peaceful, and often go to asleep. That sequence of events was repeated hundreds of times so that your unconscious mind was programmed: When something goes into your mouth, you get relaxation and pleasure from it.

Now that you are a grownup, if you feel upset, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - a smoke!

Part B: SMOKING IS A CONDITIONED RESPONSE.

Remember Pavlov? He rang a bell every time that he fed his dogs. After a few repetitions, he would just ring the bell, and the sound of the bell would trigger the dogs to salivate.

When you connect smoking a cigarette with any other activity, the other activity will trigger cravings for a cigarette and a feeling of urgency to light up a cigarette. This is called a conditioned response.

For example: If you smoke a cigarette when you watch a movie, you will automatically get an urge to light-up each time you go to the movies.

Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your unconscious: If a person smokes and simultaneously drinks a cup of coffee, the mind takes a snapshot of the cigarette in the hand, and links it to the cup of coffee. Thereafter, every time the person has a cup of coffee, his subconscious mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of the cigarette, and the smoker gets a craving for a cigarette.

You may not be consciously aware of the mental picture of the cigarette, because it may only be at the unconscious level of mind. Just as you are unaware of what you are seeing through your peripheral vision until someone or something draws your attention to it. But the image is there, creating a craving for a cigarette.

Part C: THERE IS A PHYSICAL ADDICTION TO NICOTINE, BUT . . .

After having worked with several thousand people who smoke and I give you my personal guarantee that the physical addiction to cigarettes is the weakest part of the smoking habit. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the habit. ninety percent of the smoking addiction are the mental and emotional parts! (Parts A and B).

HERE IS WHAT THIS MEANS TO A SMOKER WHO WANTS TO QUIT.

What this means is that when you eliminate the feeling of tension that causes you to smoke a cigarette to create relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and if you can extinguish the conditioned response of feeling a craving for cigarettes when having a cup of coffee, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can give up smoking without requiring willpower, and without experiencing withdrawal symptoms or gaining weight.

Self-hypnosis will make it easy to give up smoking because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:

Part A is where you smoke a cigarette for relaxation and pleasure. It’s a person’s thoughts that create anxiety. More exactly, people invariably create mental movies in their mind’s eye. If the movie is negative, it causes a feeling of tension. We can use different NLP techniques to re-program the unconscious to instantly and automatically take those anxiety producing mental movies, and quickly exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This manufactures relaxation and pleasure, and eliminates the anxiety that causes the oral cravings and urges for cigarettes.

Because of the elimination of stress, the smoker who is quitting does not experience the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the cigarettes. So quitting without weight gain is possible.

Part B is where you light-up because smoking becomes a conditioned response to many different activities and locations. Remember in the earlier example how smoking became unconsciously associated with other activities and environments so that each time people get into that activity or environment, the mind flashes an image of a cigarette, and the image of the cigarette triggers an urge to smoke a cigarette?

There are efficient hypnosis and NLP technologies that can effectively erase those conditioned responses so that a person’s mind will lose the cravings for cigarettes, and the compulsion to smoke. As a matter of fact, you can even get a compulsion to reject the cigarettes.

IN SUMMATION

In summation, by utilizing certain NLP techniques, it becomes very easy to quit smoking without withdrawal or weight gain. And many of these methods don’t even require post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on training the mind to use the same thought processes that the subconscious mind is using to create the addiction to cigarettes, to eliminate the mental addiction.

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Alan B. Densky, CH established his practice in hypnosis and NLP in 1978. He has worked face-to-face with over ten-thousand clients for

- Alan B. Densky, CH