If you are trying to quit smoking cigarettes, you know how difficult it is to break this dangerous habit. However, it is possible, and half of all adult smokers will successfully quit smoking forever. Many smokers succeed in quitting smoking cigarettes by replacing them with different, more positive habits without having to suffer through withdrawal symptoms. By far, the easiest and most effective method to quit smoking and accomplish this end is hypnosis.
Quit smoking hypnotherapy is one of the most frequently practiced forms of hypnosis. It is often cited as a tool to stop smoking along with strategies such as the use of nicotine gums and patches and other popular methods. It helps to end the smoking addiction by combating cravings for cigarettes, motivating you to stay committed to quitting, and promoting relaxation and stress relief so you will not be tempted to smoke.
The smoking addiction has both psychological and physiological aspects. The physiological addiction is a physical addiction the body develops to nicotine. This component of the addiction causes the physical withdrawal symptoms that make it seem near impossible to quit smoking. However, this is a short, temporary part in the overall progression 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 represents barely ten percent of the addiction to 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 situations, such as before going to bed at night. This is called a conditioned response. Quit smoking hypnotherapy works to eliminate the unconscious associations that cause one to crave cigarettes, thereby eliminating the conditioned response to smoke. Hypnosis also helps you stay motivated to quit smoking by strengthening the ideas that gave you the wish to quit smoking in the first place.
Smokers get stuck in the habit of following a ritual of lighting up and smoking. This is why many people who try to quit smoking using nicotine patches or gums alone are unable to quit. They soon overcome the physiological addiction, but they have no relief or replacement for the ritual of smoking cigarettes, which has become a habit and comforting source of stress relief. Stop smoking hypnotherapy techniques eliminate this habit and serve as stress reducers as well. As a relaxation tool, hypnosis helps effectively relieve anxiety and stress so you will lose the cravings for cigarettes.
Used in combination with powerful NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques, stop smoking hypnotherapy can keep you committed to stop smoking by training your 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 the sense of taste and smell improves significantly. Within weeks, lung function and circulation 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 stroke is the same as a non-smoker. Your risk of dying from lung cancer and numerous other cancer risks have decreased, and your risk of heart disease is the same as someone who has never smoked.
Despite the dangers of smoking and the benefits of quitting, some smokers never overcome their habit. For the most part, this is because they've never really committed to quitting. Other smokers are often afraid to suffer from withdrawal symptoms or let go of the smoking habit. However, quitting smoking does not have to be the difficult process that makes so many smokers reluctant to even try quitting. Hypnosis acts as a very simple, natural method of quitting.
Hypnosis is an effective tool for killing cravings for cigarettes, building powerful motivation, and promoting relaxation and stress relief to eliminate the psychological addiction to smoking. Stop smoking hypnotherapy techniques can be learned from specialized self-hypnosis programs that have been developed after decades of using hypnosis, NLP, and Neuro-VISION video hypnotherapy to
help clients kick the cigarette addiction.
Stop smoking self-hypnosis programs make it easy to quit smoking for good because they break the smoking habit in a process that helps extinguish cravings and the desire to smoke. Whatever your motivation is for quitting, hypnotherapy makes it easier to focus your mind on these reasons, which makes you feel a powerful urge to quit. Quit smoking hypnosis programs eliminate the compulsion to smoke. Even though quitting smoking can be an unsuccessful and painful endeavor for some, those who take advantage of stop smoking self hypnosis have a much greater rate of success because it makes the process easier. It is the most effective method for smoke cessation.
