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Cigarette Side Effects A Cause For Concern? Kill The Compulsions with Quit Smoking Hypnosis (Track This Article)

How many inner dialogs have you had in your head about your smoking compulsion? How many times have you mentioned to family and friends that you want to quit but seem to continue to smoke away despite the risks and the cost? And how many therapies have you tried that just failed? If you are like most people addicted to smoking, you will remember such conversations and inner dialogs and may have felt nothing will really work for you. Unless you tried NLP and hypnosis to quit smoking, you may have been on target.

If you sincerely want to stop smoking, hypnosis is the sensible choice for real success. Hypnotherapy to quit smoking can zone in on the main issues that keep you smoking as well as giving you the tools and boost to be successful for good. This is not stage entertainment that is good for laughs and tricks, but a proven treatment approved by the AMA since 1958, and one with accreditation and a strong code of ethics.

Hypnosis doesn't override values and a certified professional hypnotherapist will respect your privacy and rights just the same as any other medical professional. You do need a practitioner who is approved by the National Guild of Hypnotists and who follows their stringent code of ethics and professional conduct. Included in their code is putting the mental and physical welfare of clients uppermost. They also protect clients from verbal, mental or physical, and refer clients to others as needed.

A skilled hypnotist has the experience and training to address problem behavior, and stop smoking hypnosis is the second most frequent type they practice. Using the most current methods which may include the precision of NLP enriched hypnosis and the ongoing enhancement of stop smoking self hypnosis CD’s as well as any prescription approaches a physician might also prescribe for a patient. Using hypnotherapy does not mean other measures are prohibited, but they may not even be needed at all.

The reason that skillfully used stop smoking hypnosis is the most effective method to achieve success is that it addresses the three basic issues in smoking. No method can truly work that does not address each issue completely and correct the problems each causes. Most people feel that the physical addiction to nicotine is the most important factor and the most predominant problem, but this is simply not true. If the addiction to the chemical called nicotine were the single reason for failure, most smokers would not fail so many times in their efforts to stop smoking for good.

Yes, nicotine is a terribly addictive substance and for most smokers the physical dependence is very real and there are withdrawal physical responses that are also real. But did you know these last only a short time? In fact, every bit of nicotine is flushed out of the system in just 72 hours or less! For many smokers, it is the fear of withdrawal physical symptoms and not the reality that causes the most dread and which may prevent even trying to quit at all. Yet quitting without specific training has an average 5% rate of success! Hypnosis to quit smoking reduces fear of withdrawal problems and greatly reduces the effect of any that do happen.

Another component of smoking cigarettes is that it provides calming and comfort, just as using a pacifier tranquilizes a baby. Many people treat anxiety and stress with some form of oral soothing like smoking cigarettes or eating. Hypnotic relaxation can substitute for the comfort factor derived from smoking cigarettes, which reduces the cravings and produces the benefits of quitting instead. The mind can be trained to substitute the same feelings from other activities that are helpful, not harmful. Neurolinguistic techniques can train the brain to remove any linkage between smoking cigarettes and comfort.

Lastly, part of the smoking habit is plain old Pavlovian habit formation to stimuli. Smokers learn to associate smoking with certain activities, from the movie cliché of smoking immediately after physical relations to having a cigarette while drinking or watching TV or talking on the phone. Here quit smoking hypnosis can permanently remove the association, and when the link is no longer there, there will be no stimulus to light a cigarette when the coffee is poured or the cocktail is served. The mind is conditioned to associate good things with the former triggers, or to recall the advantages of quitting or the negatives of the smoke.

A skilled hypnotist will use both positive and negative associations to replace conditioned associations with smoking, selecting those most meaningful for an individual patient. Hypnotherapy to stop smoking cigarettes is the only technique that can custom fit the treatment to each of the three reasons for smoking and completely eliminate them. Anyone knows quitting requires support, but only smoking cessation programs using hypnotherapy effectively make you your own instant and always available support system.

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Alan B. Densky, CH developed the use of Neuro-VISION video quit smoking self-hypnosis and received a U.S. Patent for his hard work. He offers a list of quit smoking hypnotherapy CDs which give valuable help. Visit for Free quit smoking hypnosis videos and downloads.

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