How You Can Use Hypnosis To Kick The Cigarette Smoking Addiction
The typical person attempts to quit smoking between four to six times before they succeed. If you have tried gum, patches, prescriptions or willpower alone without success, make your final attempt stick with stop smoking hypnosis.
Of all of the ways to quit smoking, hypnosis is truly the most trouble-free and has the best track record. If you are willing to consistently listen to and watch DVDs and CDs specially designed to curb your cravings to smoke, then quit smoking hypnosis will be successful for you.
A lot of smokers believe that they cannot 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 cleared from the body, which leaves smokers to work with the more difficult and far reaching psychological and emotional addiction to smoking cigarettes.
There are many processes to quit smoking, but just one method can address both the cravings and the emotional compulsion: quit smoking hypnosis CDs. A lot of people who wish to quit still end up asking themselves, "Why can't I simply quit smoking?"
The answer is obvious to hypnotherapists. The part of you that will not let you quit smoking is the unconscious. You can't change your unconscious mind by force of will or with a patch, prescription or gum. You require the correct kind of help.
In order to quit smoking, support is imperative, but a lot of people do not realize that the best support comes from within their own unconscious. Hypnosis is the most successful process to guarantee that your whole psyche is united to help you stop smoking. That is because hypnosis provides a powerful way of communicating with the unconscious mind.
Stop smoking hypnosis helps you get rid of the urge to smoke by removing the impulse to light up. When the compulsion and urge to smoke are subtracted, quitting becomes effortless choice that you can make without difficulty. The best stop smoking hypnosis programs are successful because they work to eliminate the most powerful elements of the smoking addiction.
The first component of a successful stop smoking hypnosis program addresses the need to smoke for pleasure and relaxation. This precedent was actually established when you were an infant. Most likely, when you got cranky, your parents put a bottle in your mouth. Then your attention got diverted; you relaxed and likely went to sleep. Smokers get the same soothing effect from a cigarette.
With quit smoking hypnosis, your unconscious is reprogrammed to attain pleasure and relaxation by unconsciously replacing stress-inducing thoughts with calming thoughts instead, all through the use of the very same triggers that formerly made you tense. This makes the tension almost magically disappear. Further, the very principal goal of hypnosis is relaxation. So by listening to a soothing hypnotherapy CD daily, anxiety levels will quickly diminish.
The second component of an effective stop smoking hypnosis program will help you tackle the habituation, or the "Habit." Habituation occurs when the unconscious makes an association between smoking and other behaviors, such as watching TV or driving. Perhaps the moment that you turn on the TV you are overwhelmed with a craving to smoke.
An effective stop smoking hypnosis CD or DVD will reprogram your unconscious associations so that driving, for example, actually makes you want to REJECT smoking! This is known as, no pun intended, extinguishing a conditioned response.
Here is a news flash! The physical addiction to nicotine is only about ten percent of the addiction. Ninety percent of the addiction to cigarettes comes from the emotional and mental components that we have talked about so far. And as stated earlier in this article, medical experts agree 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 recognize that when their smoking associations and dependence on cigarettes to relax have undergone reprogramming, the physical addiction is really such a tiny part of their smoking dependency, that it has no influence on their capacity to quit smoking without suffering from withdrawal.
Now, I must tell you that regardless of 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 besides the desire to quit smoking, you must make an honest decision to quit. That means that you must be ready and willing to throw your cigarettes away.
Hypnosis can't be used to force you to do something you don't want to do, so no program can coerce you to give up smoking. But if you have the desire to quit smoking, and you make a decision to quit smoking, hypnosis will help you to remain relaxed and not suffer from tension, cravings, or withdrawal symptoms. Let hypnosis and NLP give you the support you need.
Alan B. Densky, CH is a pioneer in the use of Ericksonian Hypnosis & NLP to help smokers quit smoking. He offers both audio hypnotherapy CDs, and Neuro-VISION Video quit smoking hypnosis CDs. Visit his self-hypnosis site for free hypnosis videos.
Published October 16th, 2007
Filed in Psychology