How To Give Up Smoking

October 11th, 2010 Posted in Stop Smoking
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Breaking the smoking addiction really is a necessity today, because smoking has been banned from restaurants and other public places. And in fact, it is the intelligent thing to do for more reasons than health alone. This article explores the very best NLP methodologies that can be employed to make it as painless as possible to break the addiction to cigarettes and tobacco.

There are three separate parts to a smoking addiction. Two of the components are mental, and only one part is physical.

Part A: You Smoke For Relaxation And Pleasure.

When you were a child and you got cranky, your mother would put a pacifier into your mouth to distract you from that upset. You would get distracted, become calmer, and often fall asleep. That scenario was repeated dozens of times so that your unconscious mind was programmed: When something goes into your mouth, you get relaxation and pleasure from it.

Now that you are mature, if you feel agitated, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure – a cigarette!

Part B: Smoking Is A Conditioned Response.

Remember Pavlov? He rang a bell every time that he fed his dogs. After a few repetitions, he could just ring the bell, and that would make the dogs salivate.

When you connect smoking a cigarette with any other behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings for a cigarette and a feeling of urgency that makes you feel compelled to light up a cigarette. This is called a conditioned response.

For example: If you smoke when you drive your car, you will automatically get an urge to light-up a cigarette each time you drive your car.

Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your subconscious: If a person smokes and simultaneously drinks a cup of coffee, the mind takes a picture of the cigarette in the hand, and associates it to the cup of coffee. Thereafter, every time the person has a cup of coffee, his unconscious mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of a cigarette, and the smoker gets a craving for a cigarette.

You may not be consciously aware of the mental image of the cigarette, because it may only be at the subconscious level of mind. Just as you are not consciously aware of what you are seeing through your peripheral vision until someone draws your attention to it. But the image is there, creating a craving for a cigarette.

Part C: There Is A Physical Addiction To Nicotine, But . . .

I’ve worked face-to-face with several thousand people for smoke cessation and I guarantee you that the physical addiction is the weakest part of the habit. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the addiction. I believe that 90% of the smoking addiction are the mental and emotional parts! (Parts A and B).

Here Is What This Means To A Smoker Who Wants To Quit.

As soon as you eliminate the anxiety that makes a smoker put cigarettes into the mouth for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and if you can extinguish the conditioned response of feeling cravings for cigarettes when having a cup of coffee, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can give up cigarettes without requiring willpower, and without having to experience withdrawal symptoms or weight-gain.

Self Hypnosis can help motivate a smoker to quit. Self-hypnosis will make it easy to give up cigarettes because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:

Part A is where smokers light-up for relaxation and pleasure. It’s your thoughts which create feelings of tension. More specifically, people persistently create mental movies in their mind’s eye. If the movie is negative, it brings on a feeling of tension.

We can use different NLP techniques to program the unconscious to automatically take those stress producing mental pictures, and instantly exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This creates relaxation and pleasure, and eliminates the stress that creates the oral compulsions for a cigarette.

Because of the elimination of anxiety, the smoker who is quitting does not experience the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the cigarettes. So quitting without weight gain is possible.

Part B is where smokers smoke because smoking becomes a conditioned response to many different activities and locations. Remember in the earlier example how smoking became unconsciously associated with other activities and environments so that each time you get into that activity or environment, the mind flashes an image of a cigarette, and the image of the cigarette creates an urge to light-up a cigarette?

There are quit smoking hypnosis, and quit smoking NLP techniques that can quickly eliminate those conditioned responses so that a person’s unconscious mind will lose the cravings for cigarettes, and the compulsion to smoke. As a matter of fact, you can even get a compulsion to reject the cigarettes.

In Summary.

To summarize, when we use certain NLP techniques, it can be very easy to quit smoking without withdrawal or weight gain. And many of these methodologies don’t even depend on post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on training the subconscious to use the same thought processes that the unconscious mind is using to create the smoking habit, to eliminate the mental addiction.

Alan B. Densky, CH created his practice in 1978. If you’ve wondered how to give up smoking he offers effective video and audio hypnosis for stop smoking. Visit BestHypnosisDownloads for quit smoking hypnotism today.

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COPD: Hypnosis Stop Smoking Is The Best Way To Treat COPD

July 15th, 2010 Posted in Stop Smoking
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Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a chronic health problem that develops as a result of damage to the lungs. This acronym is used to identify three medical diagnoses categorized as COPD. These include emphysema, asthma, and chronic bronchitis.

Asthma starts when a person’s body views something in the environment, such as chemicals, cigarette smoke, or foods, as hazardous. The immune system begins to emit proteins known as histamines. These proteins produce inflammation in lung tissues to help the body ward off invaders. This stiffens lung tissues and weakens breathing.

Persons can be diagnosed with asthma in childhood or even later in life. One of the best ways that family and friends can help individuals with this condition is to quit smoking cigarettes, since secondhand smoke kills. If someone just diagnosed with this condition does smoke, he or she ought to quit smoking as soon as possible.

Physicians also classify chronic bronchitis as a form of COPD. This condition develops in people who have smoked for a number of years. Tobacco smoke causes tar and bacteria to become trapped in the lungs. This bacteria cause recurrent inflammation of the bronchi, or airway tubes, of a person’s lungs.

Chronic bronchitis irritates and stiffens these passages. People with this disease find deep breathing and exercise difficult. Because their lung tissues are stiff and irritated, they become short of breath with even a little exertion. Sometimes, if these people stop smoking, some of their breathing difficulties will diminish.

The third lung disease categorized as COPD is emphysema. A person’s lungs have air sacs at the end of the bronchial tubes. These grape-shaped sacs, called alveoli, inflate and deflate as an individual inhales and exhales. Persons with emphysema become short of breath and are unable to breathe deeply or exhale completely since air stays trapped in these alveoli. If these people find ways to stop smoking, these symptoms may get better.

Medicines and breathing exercises may help people who have COPD. In spite of these therapies, however, these people continue to have significant anxiety levels. Having COPD is like trying to breathe underwater. Even though you try to stay under longer, you feel you must breathe – now! Therefore, you swim toward the surface and take a deep breath. Those who have COPD, however cannot swim to the surface and take a deep breath.

Several stop smoking programs treat clients with COPD. Most COPD patients understand that smoking increases their breathing problems. Most have been smoking for many years, however, which often makes consciously quitting extremely hard.

Many stop smoking programs are available. Most encourage people to utilize the conscious mind to stop smoking. Since the dependency on smoking is etched strongly in the mind’s unconscious, few people who quit smoking with the help of approaches stay quit without making changes at the unconscious level. Moreover, the majority of these programs center on the smoker’s physical addiction to nicotine, which comprises only about one-tenth of the smoking addiction.

A number of stop smoking programs claim to help persons to relax better. The most effective ones use Ericksonian hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. Polarity responses often happen with traditional hypnotherapy and straightforward post-hypnotic suggestions.

Ericksonian hypnosis uses metaphors that relay suggested thoughts that promote peace to the unconscious to help people to overcome the propensity to do the opposite of what is suggested. Often, people who learn to relax through the use of the NLP Flash strategy are able to decrease anxiety and panic attacks better. Therefore, they breathe more easily.

Ericksonian Hypnotherapy provides an innovative alternative strategy for helping individuals learn how to stop smoking. Professionals who teach this understand that the problem is rooted in the unconscious. Therefore, they assist people at this level, through stop smoking hypnosis. Contrary to the techniques used by traditional approaches, hypnosis to quit smoking focuses on stress reduction, mental addiction, and the habit, which together make up 90 percent of one’s smoking habit.

Through Ericksonian hypnosis and NLP, these patients can live a better life. These approaches coach individuals with breathing problems to decrease anxiety. In addition, they assist eliminate unconscious associations between cigarettes and environmental factors. This extinguishes nicotine cravings. These treatments provide hope to persons with COPD.

Summary: Three chronic lung problems are categorized as COPD. These include asthma, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema. Controlling anxiety that occurs because of breathing problems and finding ways to stop smoking are probably the most effective methods of helping patients with COPD experience a higher quality of life. Ericksonian hypnotherapy and NLP approaches assist patients to control anxiety and quit smoking.

Alan B. Densky, CH is the developer of the best way to quit smoking cigarettes with hypnotism. He offers a powerful Stop Chewing Tobacco program based on those same methods. See more at his Neuro-VISION hypnotherapy & NLP site where you can use Free hypnosis videos and articles.

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