In the last post we talked about how to eliminate cravings for cigarettes that are based on stress. In today’s issue, we’re going to talk about how cravings for cigarettes and compulsions to smoke can come from unconscious associations called conditioned responses.
THE SECOND ELEMENT OF A SMOKING ADDICTION IS SMOKING
FROM CRAVINGS CAUSED BY CONDITIONED RESPONSES
When you were in high school you probably studied about a scientist named Pavlov, and his dogs. If you recall, Pavlov rang a bell every time that he fed his dogs. And after he repeated the exercise a few times, all he had to do to get the dogs to salivate, was to ring the bell.
Being a dog owner and lover, I actually tried this experiment. Every time the doorbell rang, I gave my two dogs a cookie. By the third time the bell rang, the dogs would run to the closet where I kept the dog cookies instead of the front door.
My neighbor found out about my experiment, and one day he came and rang my bell every half hour just to annoy me. What a pain! I had to break the dogs of that habit in a hurry.
THE CRAVINGS FOR CIGARETTES THAT ARE CAUED BY CONDITIONED
RESPONSES ARE ABOUT *45% OF THE SMOKING ADDICTION
If you smoke and simultaneously drink a cup of coffee, your mind takes a picture of the cigarette in your hand, and connects it to the image of the cup of coffee. Thereafter, every time you have a cup of coffee, your mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It “flashes” an image of your cigarette, and you get a craving for one.
You may be consciously unaware of the mental picture of the cigarette, because it may only be at the unconscious level. But the image is definitely there, creating a craving for a cigarette.
The same thing happens if you smoke and drive; smoke and watch TV; smoke and have a drink, etc. Pretty soon, almost everything causes you to unconsciously see a cigarette, and those unconscious images cause you to feel cravings and a compulsion to smoke.
THE TRICK
The trick is for you to “erase” the conditioned responses. In other words, the trick is to get your mind to stop flashing unconscious images of cigarettes. And even more than that, you want to get your unconscious mind to automatically flash an image of yourself, in the same scenario without a cigarette!
If you are not able to unconsciously see your cigarette, then you won’t feel any cravings, urges, or compulsions to smoke. And if you are disassociated (you see yourself), you can’t feel your feelings (cravings and urges).
And when you see yourself behaving in a certain way, then you will get a compulsion to behave that way. So if your unconscious flashes an image of you drinking coffee without a cigarette, then you will get a compulsion to NOT smoke while drinking coffee!
After watching the Neuro-VISION® Video Hypnosis Program, “Quit Smoking In A Flash!,” clients reported that when they have a cup of coffee, their mind flashes a movie of themselves drinking coffee, but without any cigarette in the picture! They also reported that they no longer have any cravings for a cigarette, or a desire to smoke when they have their coffee, or watch TV, or talk on the phone, or drive their car, etc.
To prove that I’m telling the truth, click HERE to watch and listen to some of our case histories. By the way, none of the people who did any of our testimonials were paid a single cent in return for their testimonial.
Similarly, the same NLP thought patterns that I use in the Neuro-VISION Video Hypnosis program, are programmed into the unconscious using visualization techniques in our lower priced audio hypnosis program, “I Quit Smoking!”
So part of what the technology does, is to erase your negative conditioned responses, and then setup new positive unconscious associations that eliminate your cravings for cigarettes when you are in situations where you used to crave them in the past.
THE THIRD ELEMENT OF A SMOKING ADDICTION TO NICOTINE - *10% OF THE SMOKING ADDICTION IS PHYSICAL
The third element is called a physical addiction to nicotine. It’s my opinion that the physical addiction is only about 10% of the smoking addiction.
And once you make a decision to quit and use any of my hypnosis programs to:
1. Deal with the element of smoking for relaxation and pleasure
2. Erase the conditioned responses
It becomes easy for you to quit and remain a comfortable non-smoker.
That’s because 90% of the smoking addiction is mental, and you are dealing with 90% of the problem. If you are trying to quit by using patches, gums, shots, lasers, etc., you are only dealing with 10% of the problem, the physical addiction. That’s why most people fail to quit using these technologies alone.
In the next post, we’ll talk about the frame of mind that you will need to be in to successfully quit smoking. You’ll need Desire, Decision, and Learning. These are the three prerequisites you’ll need to successfully quit smoking, and staying quit. So that’s it for today. See you next time.
Until then, the best thing that you can do for yourself is to visualize yourself as a healthy person who has never smoked a cigarette.
See yourself in all of the situations that you “used” to smoke in, only see yourself as a non-smoker. Picture all of the good things that you would like to have happen for you because you are a non-smoker. Do this exercise on a daily basis.
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