How many inner arguments have you had in your head about your smoking addiction? How many times have you mentioned to family and friends that you want to end the habit but seem to stay caught in a smoking rut despite the health 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 hypnosis to stop smoking, you may have been on target.
If you fervently want to stop smoking, hypnosis is the sensible choice for real cures. Smoking cessation hypnotherapy can zone in on the main issues that keep you smoking as well as giving you the tools and support to be successful at last. This is not a mere parlor trick, but a real medical therapy approved by the AMA since 1958, and one with accreditation and a strong code of ethics.
Treatment with hypnosis does not override values and a certified professional hypnotist will honor your privacy and protect your rights just the same as any other medical professional. You do desire a professional who is certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists and who follows their stringent ethical and professional standards. Included in their code is putting the mental and physical welfare of clients uppermost. They also defend clients from mental, physical or verbal abuse, and refer any client as appropriate.
A well trained hypnotherapist has the skills to address problem behavior, and stop smoking hypnotherapy is the second most frequent type they practice. Using methods that are considered state of the art which may include the precision of NLP hypnosis and the ongoing enhancement of self hypnosis stop smoking CD’s as well as any physician directed measures a PCP might also prescribe for a patient. Using hypnosis does not mean other measures are prohibited, but they may not be needed at all.
The reason that skillfully used stop smoking hypnosis is the most effective method to reach success is that it addresses the three basic issues in smoking. No method can succeed that does not address each issue fully and correct the problems each causes. Most people feel that the physical addiction to nicotine is the most important aspect and the most predominant problem, but this is simply not factual. If the addiction to the compound called nicotine were the only reason for failure, most smokers would not fail so many times in their efforts to give up the habit for good.
Yes, nicotine is a terribly addictive substance and for most smokers the physical compulsion 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 metabolized out of the system in just three days or less! For many smokers, it is the fear of withdrawal discomforts and not the reality that causes the most suffering and which may prevent even attempting to quit. Yet quitting without therapy has an average 5% success rate! Stop smoking hypnotherapy reduces fear of withdrawal distresses and blunts the effect of any that do occur.
Another component of smoking is that it provides calming and comfort, just as sucking on a pacifier calms and soothes a baby. Many people treat anxiety and stress with some form of oral activity like smoking cigarettes or eating. Hypnotic relaxation can substitute for the comfort factor received from smoking cigarettes, which reduces the strong cravings and produces stop smoking benefits instead. The mind can be conditioned to substitute the same feelings from other activities that are positive, not negative. Neuro-linguistic programming techniques can teach the brain to remove any association between smoking cigarettes and comfort.
Finally, part of the smoking habit is plain old Pavlovian habit formation to stimuli. Smokers learn to connect smoking with certain activities, from the movie cliché of smoking immediately after physical relations to feeling the need for a cigarette while consuming alcohol or viewing television or talking on the phone. Here quit smoking hypnotherapy can permanently eliminate the connection, and when the link is no longer there, there will be no cue to light a cigarette when the coffee is poured or the cocktail is served. The mind is trained to associate positive things with the former triggers, or to recall the advantages of quitting or the created by having the smoke.
A highly qualified hypnotherapist will use both positive and negative associations to replace conditioned associations with smoking, selecting those most powerful for an individual smoker who wants to quit. Self-Hypnosis to quit smoking is the only technique that can precision tune the treatment to each of the three factors in smoking and completely eliminate them. Virtually everyone quitting requires support, but only smoking cessation programs using hypnotherapy effectively make you your own support team.
Alan B. Densky, CH invented the use of Neuro-VISION video hypnosis to stop smoking and received a U.S. Patent for his invention. He offers a range of CDs and downloads including quit smoking hypnosis MP3s which give efficient help. Visit him for quit smoking hypnosis download audios and videos.
