How to Kick Smoking Cigarettes Using Hypnotism

by on 12/27/2009

If you are one who is trying to quit smoking, you know how challenging it is to crush this destructive compulsion. However, it is possible, and half of all adult smokers will succeed in quitting smoking forever. Many smokers have successfully quit smoking cigarettes by replacing them with different, positive habits without having to suffer through withdrawal symptoms. By far, the easiest and most effective method to stop smoking and accomplish this end is stop smoking self hypnosis.

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

The smoking addiction is made up of both physiological and psychological aspects. The physiological addiction is a physical need the body develops to nicotine. This aspect of the addiction is what causes the physical withdrawal symptoms that make it initially seem near impossible to stop smoking. However, this is a short, temporary stage in the overall process of quitting smoking, 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 constitutes barely 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 represents ninety percent of the cigarette addiction. When you develop a smoking habit, you develop an unconscious desire to smoke in certain environments, such as after waking up in the morning. This is called a conditioned response. Stop smoking self hypnosis helps eliminate the unconscious associations that cause one to crave cigarettes, thereby eliminating the conditioned compulsion to smoke. Hypnosis also helps you stay motivated to give up smoking by reinforcing your ideas that gave you the wish to break the smoking addiction in the first place.

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

By adding powerful NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques, quit smoking self hypnosis can keep you committed to stop smoking by training the unconscious mind to focus on the benefits of quitting. Eliminating tobacco benefits you in a great number of ways. Within days of quitting, body parts damaged by smoking begin to heal, damaged nerves re-grow, and your sense of taste and smell improves. 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, your 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 the risk of death from lung cancer and a number of other cancer risks have decreased.

Despite the dangers of smoking and the benefits of quitting, some smokers never overcome their 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 agonizing process that makes so many smokers unwilling to even attempt quitting. Hypnosis acts as a very simple, natural technique for quitting.

Hypnosis for quitting smoking is a powerful implement for easing cravings for cigarettes, creating powerful motivation, and promoting relaxation and stress relief to completely eliminate the psychological part of the smoking addiction. Hypnosis techniques to stop smoking can be learned from specialized self-hypnosis CDs that have been developed after decades of experience using hypnosis, NLP, and Neuro-VISION video hypnotherapy to help clients kick the cigarette addiction.

Hypnotherapy CDs make it easy to stop smoking for good because they break the smoking compulsion in a process that helps extinguish cravings and the desire to smoke. Whatever your motivation is for breaking the habit, hypnosis CDs makes it easier to focus your mind on these reasons, which makes you feel a powerful urge to quit. Stop smoking hypnosis CDs eliminate the urge to smoke. Even though quitting smoking can be a painful and unsuccessful endeavor for some, those who take advantage of quit smoking self hypnosis CDs have a much greater rate of success because it makes the process much easier. It is the most effective method for smoke cessation.

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

- Alan B. Densky, CH

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