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How You Can Use Hypnotherapy To Break The Tobacco Habit
- By Alan B. Densky, CH
- Published 11/20/2007
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The typical person attempts to stop smoking between four to six times before they succeed. If you have tried gum, patches, prescriptions or willpower alone with no success, make your final attempt successful with stop smoking hypnosis.
Of all of the ways to quit smoking, hypnosis is literally the least complicated and has the best track record. If you are willing to consistently listen to and watch CDs and DVDs specifically created to curb your cravings to smoke, then quit smoking hypnosis will be successful for you.
Many smokers think that they are unable to quit smoking because of their addiction to nicotine, but that simply is not true. Medical professionals agree that after seven to ten days - even as soon as three days - all nicotine has been eliminated from the system, which leaves smokers to deal with the more difficult and far reaching emotional and psychological addiction to smoking cigarettes.
There are countless processes to quit smoking, but only one method can address both the cravings and the emotional compulsion: stop smoking hypnosis CDs. Many people who wish to quit still end up asking themselves, "Why can't I simply stop smoking?"
The answer is clear to hypnotherapists. The part of you that will not let you quit smoking is your unconscious. You can't alter your unconscious by force of will or with a prescription, patch or gum. You need the right kind of help.
In order to quit smoking, support is imperative, but the majority of people do not realize that the best support comes from within their own unconscious. Hypnosis is the most successful technique to guarantee that your complete psyche is united to help you stop smoking. That is because hypnosis provides a compelling way of communicating with your unconscious.
Quit smoking hypnosis helps you overcome the urge to smoke by removing the compulsion to light up. When the urge and compulsion to smoke are removed, quitting becomes painless decision that you can make without difficulty. The best stop smoking hypnosis programs are effective because they work to eliminate the most powerful components of the addiction to smoking.
The first part of a successful stop smoking hypnosis program addresses the need to smoke for relaxation and pleasure. This pattern was actually instituted when you were an infant. No doubt, when you got cranky, your mother or father gave you a bottle on which to suck.
With quit smoking hypnosis, the unconscious is reprogrammed to attain relaxation and pleasure by automatically trading stress-inducing thoughts with calming thoughts instead, all via the use of the very same triggers that formerly made you tense. This makes the tension almost disappear magically. In addition, the very fundamental nature of hypnosis is relaxation. So by listening to a soothing hypnotherapy CD daily, anxiety levels will quickly fade.
The second part of an effective stop smoking hypnosis program will help you address the habituation, or the "Habit." Habituation takes place when the unconscious produces an association between smoking and other behaviors, such as driving or watching TV. Perhaps the second that you turn on the TV you are overwhelmed with a craving to smoke.
An effective stop smoking hypnosis CD or DVD can reprogram your unconscious associations so that watching TV, for example, actually makes you want to NOT smoke! This is known as, no pun intended, extinguishing a conditioned response.
Here is a news flash! The physical addiction to nicotine is merely about ten percent of the addiction. Ninety percent of the addiction to cigarettes stems from the mental and emotional components that we've discussed so far. And as stated earlier in this article, medical professionals maintain that the body is clear of nicotine in as little as three days.
People who use Neuro-Linguistic Programming and quit smoking hypnosis CDs and DVDs realize that when their smoking associations and reliance on cigarettes for relaxation have undergone reprogramming, the physical addiction is really such a tiny part of their smoking problem, that it has no effect on their capacity to quit smoking without suffering from withdrawal.
Now, I must tell you that despite the extraordinary success that clients have had with stop smoking hypnosis and NLP CDs and DVDs, you must possess the desire to quit smoking prior to starting a program. And in addition to the desire to stop smoking, you must make an honest decision to quit. That means that you must be ready and willing to throw your cigarettes away.
Hypnosis cannot be used to force you to do something you don't desire to do, so no program can coerce you to quit. But if you have the desire to quit smoking, and you make a determination to quit smoking, hypnosis CDs and DVDs will help you to remain relaxed and not endure tension, cravings, or withdrawal symptoms. Let hypnosis and NLP give you the support you need.
