Using Hypnosis To Kick The Smoking Habit
If you are trying to quit smoking, you know how hard it is to crush this dangerous compulsion. It is possible however, and half of all adult smokers will successfully quit smoking forever. Many smokers have been able to quit smoking cigarettes by replacing them with new, more positive habits without having to suffer through withdrawal symptoms. By far, the easiest, most effective method to quit smoking and accomplish this end is stop smoking self hypnosis.
Quit smoking hypnotherapy is one of the most regularly practiced forms of hypnotherapy. It is often cited as a tool to quit smoking along with strategies such as nicotine replacement therapy and other popular techniques. It helps to end the smoking addiction by combating cravings for cigarettes, motivating you to stay committed to quitting, and promoting stress relief and relaxation so you will not be tempted to smoke.
The smoking addiction contains both psychological and physiological aspects. The physiological addiction is a physical need the body acquires for nicotine. This aspect of the addiction is what causes the physical withdrawal symptoms that make it initially feel near impossible to quit smoking. However, this is a short, temporary stage in the overall process of quitting the habit, lasting only between three days and one week. By the end of this period of time, your body acclimates to usual, nicotine-free functioning. Based on thirty years of experience, I believe that the physical need for nicotine constitutes a mere ten percent of the addiction to cigarette 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 makes up ninety percent of the cigarette addiction. When you develop a smoking habit, you develop an unconscious desire to smoke at certain times, such as after waking up in the morning. This is called a conditioned response. Quit smoking self hypnosis helps eliminate the unconscious associations that cause you to crave cigarettes, thereby eliminating the conditioned response to smoke. Hypnosis also helps you stay motivated to give up smoking by strengthening the beliefs that gave you the desire to break the smoking addiction in the first place.
Smokers get stuck in the habit of lighting up and smoking. This is why many people who try to quit smoking using nicotine patches or gums alone are unable to successfully quit. They quickly overcome the physical addiction, but they have no relief or replacement for the ritual of smoking, which has become a mental addiction and comforting source of stress relief. Stop smoking self hypnosis techniques eliminate this habit and serve as stress reducers as well. As a relaxation tool, hypnosis helps effectively relieve stress and anxiety so you will lose the cravings for cigarettes.
Combined with some effective NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques, quit smoking self hypnosis can keep you committed to stop smoking by training the unconscious to focus on the benefits of quitting. Eliminating tobacco benefits you in numerous 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. Within a few weeks, circulation and lung function improve. Within a 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 at all, and the risk of death from lung cancer and a number of other cancer risks have decreased.
In spite of the dangers of smoking and the benefits of quitting, some smokers never overcome their unpleasant addiction. For the most part, this is because they have never really committed to quitting. Other smokers are afraid to suffer from withdrawal symptoms or live without the smoking habit. Quitting smoking does not have to be the difficult process that makes so many smokers hesistant to even try quitting. Hypnosis acts as a very simple, natural method of quitting.
Hypnotherapy is a powerful implement for curbing cravings for cigarettes, providing powerful motivation, and promoting relaxation and stress relief to completely eliminate the psychological part of the smoking addiction. Stop smoking hypnotherapy techniques can be learned with ease from specialized self-hypnosis programs that have been developed after decades of using hypnosis, NLP, and Neuro-VISION video hypnotherapy to help people give up smoking.
Stop smoking hypnotherapy programs make it easy to quit smoking permanently because they break the smoking compulsion in a process that helps eliminate cravings and the desire to smoke. Whatever your motivation is for breaking the habit, hypnosis 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. Although quitting smoking can be an unsuccessful experience for some, those who utilize quit smoking hypnotherapy have a much greater rate of success because it makes the process easier. Hypnosis is the most effective method for smoke cessation.
Alan B. Densky, CH pioneered the use of video stop smoking aids and received a U.S. Patent on the technology. He offers a number of ways to stop smoking if you are ready to quit smoking now.
- Alan B. Densky, CH
