Using NLP To Stop Smoking

If you are one who is trying to quit smoking cigarettes, you know how difficult it is to crush this destructive addiction. It is possible however, and half of all adult smokers are able to quit smoking forever. Many smokers succeed in quitting smoking cigarettes by replacing them with different, 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 hypnosis.

Hypnosis for smoking cessation is one of the most commonly 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 to smoke, keeping you committed to quitting, and promoting relaxation and stress relief so you will not feel the urge to smoke.

The smoking addiction is made up of both psychological and physiological aspects. The physiological addiction is a physical need the body develops to nicotine. This component of the addiction causes the physical withdrawal symptoms that make it feel near impossible to stop smoking. However, this is a short, temporary stage in the overall course of quitting smoking, which lasts only between three days and one week. By the end of this time period, your body acclimates to regular, nicotine-free functioning. Based on thirty years of experience, I believe that the physical need for nicotine represents only ten percent of the addiction to cigarettes.

By far, the most challenging part of breaking the smoking addiction is overcoming the psychological addiction, which are the mental and emotional aspects of smoking. I believe this makes up ninety percent of the smoking addiction. When you develop a smoking habit, you unconsciously develop a desire to smoke in certain situations, such as every morning after breakfast. This is called a conditioned response. Quit smoking hypnosis works to eliminate the unconscious associations that cause one to crave cigarettes, thereby eliminating the conditioned urge to smoke. Hypnosis also helps you stay motivated to cease smoking by reinforcing the beliefs that gave you the desire to break the smoking habit in the first place.

Smokers get stuck in the ritual of lighting up and smoking. This is why many people who try to stop smoking using nicotine gums or patches alone have such a difficult experience. They rapidly overcome the physical withdrawal, but they have no replacement or relief for the ritual of smoking cigarettes, which has become a mental habit and pleasurable source of stress relief. Stop smoking 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 desire to smoke cigarettes.

Combined with effective NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques, quit smoking hypnosis can keep you committed to kicking the habit by training the unconscious 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 the sense of taste and smell improves significantly. Within a few weeks, blood circulation and lung function 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 at all, and the risk of death from lung cancer and a number of other cancer risks have decreased.

Despite the harmful effects of smoking and the benefits of quitting, some smokers never overcome their addiction. For the most part, this is because they have never really made a decision to quit. Other smokers are often afraid to suffer through withdrawal symptoms or let go of the smoking habit. Quitting smoking does not have to be the torturous process that makes so many smokers unwilling to even try quitting. Hypnotherapy provides a very simple, natural technique for quitting.

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

Hypnosis programs make it easy to stop smoking permanently because they break the smoking addiction in a process that helps extinguish cravings and any desire to smoke. Whatever your motivation is for quitting, hypnosis makes it easier to focus your mind on these reasons, which makes you feel a great urge to quit. Stop smoking hypnosis programs eliminate the conditioned urge to smoke. Even though quitting smoking can be an unsuccessful experience for some, those who take advantage of quit smoking hypnotherapy have a much greater rate of success because it makes the process a 'slam-dunk'. Hypnosis is the most effective method for smoke cessation.

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Alan B. Densky, CH pioneered the use of video stop smoking aids and received a U.S. Patent on the process. He offers effective hypnotic help to stop smoking if you are ready to quit smoking now. www.neuro-vision.us/SmokingCessation1.html

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