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Smoking is a dangerous and addictive habit that affects millions of people around the world. Today, we are aware of the dangers of smoking, and smokers are encouraged to stop smoking for the benefit of their own health. This is not an easy feat, as smokers begin at an extremely young age. The average age of a new smoker is thirteen years old. A habit formed at that age is not easily broken. Nicotine affects the body in many ways and it is hard to break this addiction without help. Nicotine addiction is only one of many diseases associated with smoking. Most smokers require assistance on how to quit smoking and many different methods exist for this very purpose. There are many different reasons why people begin smoking and develop a smoking habit. The main reason that people try smoking is peer pressure. Some young people think it looks "cool" when portrayed on television, in movies, and in advertisements. It also is forbidden which makes it all the more alluring to rebellious teenagers, thus the low starting age for many people. This young age makes ceasing smoking more challenging in your later years. Media can also have an impact on the decision to begin smoking. Smoking portrayed in movies or on television can lead someone; especially a younger person to believe that smoking is acceptable behavior. Parents can wield the biggest influence over their children by setting a good example on how to quit smoking. Parents who smoke are much more likely to have children who smoke. Smokers begin to crave nicotine, a drug within tobacco. Nicotine can affect your body and mind in many harmful ways. Nicotine, once inhaled into the lungs reaches the brain in a mere eight seconds. Once there, nicotine affects your heart rate and blood pressure. Over time it can increase your bad cholesterol levels and narrow your arteries. Nicotine in concentrated doses is a lethal poison, so you can imagine the damage it inflicts on your body. Nicotine is also addictive and this is why many people cannot quit the habit. Smoking can affect your health on a variety of levels. Getting winded playing a game is one side effect of smoking. More serious smoking related diseases include emphysema and cancer. Heart disease and stroke are also closely associated with cigarette smoking. A person who quits smoking will greatly reduce their risk of developing these diseases for every year they go without smoking. These smoking-related medical conditions often have grave consequences. Lung cancer is almost always fatal unless detected very early and 80% of lung cancer cases are caused by smoking. Heart and lung disease can subtract years from your life unless you learn how to quit smoking. Emphysema cannot be cured but only managed, plus the damage to your lungs cannot be repaired. Stop smoking benefits include a longer life span and a better quality of life. There are many different methods to quit smoking, and you must pick the best method for you as an individual. Nicotine gums and patches are designed to help you slowly withdraw from the nicotine addiction. Only about 10% of the people who use them are able to quit smoking. Another option is going cold turkey, and this works for up to 11% of the smokers who try to quit this way. Other popular methods to quit smoking include an herbal kit that can guide you through quitting. It has a success rate similar to that of nicotine gums and patches. Hypnosis for smoking cessation is a popular and effective option for those who want to quit smoking without experiencing withdrawal symptoms or weight gain. Hypnotherapy has proven to be highly effective with smokers who have made a decision to quit smoking. Quit smoking hypnosis might sound like an extreme solution but it delivers solid results up to 70% of the time. This success rate is far greater that of other methods. The reason hypnotherapy is so effective is that it while the addiction to nicotine makes up only about 10% of the cigarette smoking addiction, the mental and emotional aspects of the habit make up about 90% of the cigarette smoking addiction. Hypnotherapy treats this aspect of the addiction. About 45% of the smoking behavior is caused by stress, and hypnotherapy has proven to be a powerful, non-invasive tool that can help reprogram the mind to divert away from stressful thoughts, and towards relaxing, positive thoughts. In addition, the practice of hypnosis incorporates a state of deep relaxation. And about 45% of the smoking behavior is caused by conditioned responses. This occurs when smoking is associated with other activities and events at the unconscious level of mind. For example, if you smoke while watching television, your unconscious will associate the image of a cigarette in your hand with the image of the TV. Every time you see the TV, your unconscious flashes an image of the cigarette in your hand, and you feel an urge to smoke. Hypnosis for smoking cessation is routinely used to "extinguish" the conditioned responses by disassociating the unconscious links between cigarettes and TV, driving, coffee, working on your computer, or any other environment where an unconscious association has been formed. In summary: Although most smokers believe that their inability to quit smoking is due to their addiction to nicotine, in truth it is the psychological aspects of smoking that present the largest barriers. Hypnotherapy was accepted by the American Medical Association in 1958 as an effective tool. Hypnosis for quitting smoking is the second most common use of hypnotherapy today. While hourly rates for hypnotherapists continue to skyrocket, there are some effective self hypnosis programs on the market that can greatly reduce the cost of obtaining hypnosis treatment. Since everyone is unique, there are no specific "magic" words or post-hypnotic suggestions that will work for everyone. So when choosing hypnosis CDs, look for programs that incorporate a broad variety of hypnotic and NLP techniques in a series of at least six or more sessions to obtain the best possible results. In any event, the fee for the best self hypnosis programs equates to much less than the amount that an average smoker spends each and every month on buying cigarettes.
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Alan B. Densky, CH created the Video Hypnosis stop smoking program helps smokers easily quit the habit. He also created many ways to stop smoking using Ericksonian Hypnotherapy. Visit his Neuro-VISION self help hypnosis site for free hypnotherapy videos and downloads. www.neuro-vision.us/
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