Mark Miller
I quit smoking after 14 years. It really works! I would highly recommend Neuro-VISION to anyone who wants to quit smoking! It has absolutely changed my life!
This quit smoking through hypnosis video pairs a five-session DVD with an accompanying five-session hypnosis audio CD. The format gives you an at-home program focused on the mental patterns and routines connected with smoking.
Created by Alan B. Densky, CH, drawing on his training and experience with more than 10,000 private clients across over 50,000 hypnosis sessions since 1978.
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Dear Soon-To-Be Non-Smoker,
If you want to quit smoking through hypnosis, Neuro-VISION pairs a five-session video hypnosis DVD with a five-session companion audio CD. This page explains the program, its visual approach to smoking cues and routines, and what comes in the package.
If you've made several attempts to quit smoking - only to fail every single time - then you're not alone.
In fact, research has indicated that only around 3% to 5% of smokers manage to quit successfully using willpower alone. And even with the help of nicotine replacement, only around 10% are able to kick their nasty smoking habit. Of course with this method you are trading one bad habit for another!
Here's the good news! Thousands of ex-smokers have successfully quit smoking using a Revolutionary Hypnosis No Smoking Video Technology. It has an amazing 90% long-term success rate. Best of all, it makes quitting as easy - and as effortless - as watching TV (literally)!
Visualization is a very powerful modality. That's why the best audio no smoking hypnosis programs ask you to visualize yourself taking certain actions. But if you have a poor imagination, you may find it difficult or impossible to visualize. In that case, you are out of luck.
The power of the Neuro-VISION Video Hypnosis No Smoking program is that a special digitized video process presents the visual imagery for you. People who want to quit smoking through hypnosis can follow the visual sequences on screen. They do not have to create every scene themselves. All you have to do is relax and watch the video! Pow—pow—pow!
The US Board of Patents says that it works. (Patent # US4717343A)
1. One key requirement for a U.S. patent is that the invention must work! Here are the four other required criteria.
2. Able to be used (the invention must work and cannot just be a theory)
3. A clear description of how to make and use the invention.
4. New, or "novel" (something not done before)
5. "Not obvious," as related to a change to something already invented.
Alan B. Densky, CH, is the inventor / developer of the Neuro-VISION Video No Smoking Hypnosis technology. He tested the videos on hundreds of his hypnotherapy clients, and received signed affidavits from them, as to its effectiveness. These were submitted to the US Board of Patents, along with reams of substantiating documents in order to receive his Patent.
Thanks to this life-saving stop smoking with hypnosis discovery, numerous ex-smokers have improved their health. Some have added several years to their lives, without effort or willpower.
Sound too incredible? Please put your skepticism on the sidelines until you've finished reading this entire letter. This information could save your life, as it has thousands of people. But first, let's discuss some of the benefits of watching this hypnosis no smoking video.
Quit Without Having To Struggle
Quit Without Feeling Urges & Cravings
Quit Without Gaining Weight
Quit Without Withdrawal
Feel Happier and Healthier
Enjoy Increased Energy
Save Lots Of Money On Cigarettes
Fit In With Today's Non-Smoking Crowd
Enjoy Increased Self-Esteem
Smokers try to quit dozens of times every single day. The problem is that after a short while, they get uncontrollable cravings and a compulsion to smoke again. When they try to consciously resist, the cravings become much stronger.
Pretty soon they are repeating one of their quit smoking slogans to themselves, like, "I'm not going to smoke . . . I'm not going to smoke." The more they tell themselves that they are not going to smoke, the stronger their compulsions become. Eventually, they give up and give in!
Everyone knows that cigarettes cause life-threatening diseases like cancer, emphysema, heart disease and lung disease. But simply knowing this logic doesn't eliminate the cravings.
In fact, thinking about the dangers of smoking can increase stress levels. That stress can make smokers crave cigarettes even more! Let's explore why this happens...
Thinking about smoking creates stress, and stress is one of the three components of the smoking addiction.
As a matter of fact, stress causes *45% of the the addiction! You see, tension causes one to have oral cravings, and all smokers know this fact.
The second component of the smoking addiction is called a conditioned response, which makes up another *45% of the addiction.
If a person smokes and watches TV at the same time, the unconscious can pair the images. It links the TV with a cigarette moving towards the face. After smoking a couple of times when watching TV, this association becomes embedded at the unconscious level of mind.
Thereafter, every time that person looks at the TV, the unconscious fills in the missing part of the picture. It "flashes" an image of the cigarette coming towards the face. That image creates the craving and the compulsion to smoke.
Pretty soon the smoker has associated cigarettes with the computer, a cup of coffee, just seeing someone else smoking, etc. In short, nearly everything in a smoker's daily life is reminding them of a cigarette and they find themselves smoking more and more automatically.
The third component of the smoking addiction is the physical addiction to nicotine.
Medical research proves that the body metabolizes all nicotine in about 72 hours. The addiction to nicotine is only about 10% of the smoking addiction.
As you can see, the first 2 components account for 90% of the smoking addiction. Mental aspects of smoking cause most cravings and compulsions—not NOT the physical addiction to nicotine!
Another way of lookig at is is that the mind is mostly responsible for causing the cravings and compulsions. And what the mind causes, the mind can cure! The best way to do that is to...
Video hypnosis works because it reaches deep into the part of the brain where unwanted habits take root, the unconscious.
If you are familiar with hypnosis, then you know it can rapidly change the way we think, feel, and behave. It's the alpha level of consciousness. You pass through this daydream-like state as you fall asleep at night. And you pass through it again as you awaken in the morning.
Research has proven that when you watch TV, you spend two-thirds of your viewing time in this alpha state. In that sense, you are in a state of hypnosis!
If you prefer an audio-only program, compare I Quit Smoking! and Kick the Habit!. For dipping or chewing tobacco, see Kick Bacc!. The Neuro-VISION homepage introduces our other hypnosis and NLP programs.
And that gives video the amazing ability to alter and compel human behavior.
While forms of self hypnosis (Audio CDs) that you merely listen to may work at times. However, video is much more effective. Audio stop smoking hypnotherapy asks you to use your imagination. Video (Television) Quit Smoking Hypnosis Treatment does not require you to visualize!
Are you beginning to see how powerful video quit smoking hypnosis is? This hypnosis video to quit smoking supplies the visual scenes. That can help people who find it hard to picture them on their own. Using this technology, thousands of ex-smokers have reported losing their cravings for cigarettes. They have also reported feeling relaxed, even if they smoked several packs a day. Clients also did not experience withdrawal symptoms or side effects such as weight gain. The hypnotherapy addressed stress that was causing oral cravings!
And the sweetest thing of all... they didn't need any willpower or costly treatments. They experienced automatic and fast results because their mind was scientifically programmed to quit smoking.
If you're ready for the powerful results thousands of successful ex-smokers report, you'll be thrilled. Discover my video quit smoking hypnosis breakthrough...
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The Neuro-VISION Program has a high success rate because it deals with the 90% part of the addiction—the mental part.
And it goes a step further by integrating the power of video with hypnosis. This is perfect for people who have a difficult time with visual imagery, because it does the complex hypnotic visualizations for them!
Have I mentioned that Neuro-VISION is the only hypnosis technology ever to have been awarded a Registered U.S. Patent?
This program includes:
Neuro-VISION 60-minute Quit Smoking In-A-Flash! Video Hypnosis DVD. This video program includes 5 Sessions.
Note: Our process compacts 5 Hypnosis Sessions that normally require 5 CD's onto 1 CD to save you $35.00 and a lot of clutter. Plus you receive the full length 5 Session DVD Video Hypnosis program.
Neuro-VISION is a video breakthrough technology, but it is NOT a video of a hypnotist hypnotizing a subject. It is a Hypnosis To Stop Smoking Video that reprograms the unconscious to automatically eliminate stress, cravings, and the compulsion to smoke!
With the Neuro-VISION hypnosis no smoking technology, thousands of smoking addicts have been able to quit smoking without:
Cravings
Smokers Anonymous®
founder Dr. Francis White
"Neuro-VISION teaches people to quit smoking at the subconscious level of mind, in a relaxed fashion without suffering from the typical withdrawal symptoms and without gaining weight."
Scientific studies reveal astonishing results:
90% of clients lost their cravings and compulsion to cigarette after watching the Neuro-VISION hypnosis video, while 70% stayed as non-smokers after one year!
And the best part is that they simply sat back and relaxed passively while the DVD unconsciously programmed their mind to quit smoking!
"Personal Development" in England employed 3 independent reviewers.
"All three reviewers stated that the flash away images had a profound positive effect on the thoughts and feelings they had about cigarettes when they were in situations that before they would have found it extremely hard to avoid smoking."
What Makes Neuro-VISION More Effective Than Traditional Hypnosis No Smoking Methods?
As I proved before, *90% of the smoking addiction is mental, and only *10% is a physical addiction to nicotine.
That's why treating the symptoms of smoking with shots, laser thearay, patches, and nicotine gum don't work for you. Those methods only attack a very minor part of the problem - the *10% physical addiction.
The only truly effective way to quit smoking is to reprogram your mind.
My video hypnosis program automatically "rewires" your thought processes to eliminate cravings for cigarettes and the compulsion to smoke. That makes it is much more effective than any other traditional methods used by smokers who want to quit.
Two Reasons Why Neuro-VISION Is Far Better Than Other Quit Smoking Hypnosis Programs
Reason # 1: Neuro-VISION targets the unconscious part of the mind.>
Most of the inexpensive hypnosis programs available today rely on Traditional Hypnosis, which is an obsolete technique that requires direct commands.
Today most people are skeptical and don't like to be told what to do. So Traditional forms of hypnosis are no longer very effective.
The Neuro-VISION Technology is based on video versions of more effective methods, including Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming).
These technologies eliminate the resistance to suggestions which is usually experienced with Traditional Hypnosis. Instead, they bypass logic and go straight to the unconscious part of the mind, where they exchange bad habit recordings into new, positive messages.
Factor # 2: Neuro-VISION does ALL the complex visualizations for the client.
Everyone has a different level of talent and ability when it comes to visualization. Many have very little ability and give up quite easily.
And even when a person has a talent for visualization, they usually visualize something completely unlike what the hypnotherapist asks them to picture. This is because everyone interprets every word differently.
Neuro-VISION Video Quit Smoking Hypnosis completely eliminates the requirement to visualize, because it does all the complex visualizations for you.
All that is required is that you sit back, relax, and let the video do the visualizing. You won't have to exert a tremendous amount of energy to try and picture what is being described by the hypnotherapist.
It's painless, effortless and automatic. And you can be assured that you're doing it exactly right, so you get powerful results.
You are fully protected with my Exclusive 90-Day money-back guarantee.
Most people think about the benefits of quitting smoking in terms of attaining excellent health and vitality. But what they're not aware of is that...
When you smoke only one pack a day, carton purchases cost $3,650–$4,563 in after-tax income each year. To spend that amount, you must earn about $4,867–$6,083 before tax. That assumes an illustrative 25% effective tax rate.
At 1½ packs a day, you pay tobacco companies between $5,475–$6,844 each year.
For two packs a day, yearly costs reach $7,300–$9,125. That is a slow, painful cost as well.
Quitting can save about $3,650–$9,125 per year. Your savings depend on whether you smoke one or two packs a day.
So how much is it worth to you to save thousands dollars every year? What would you invest to enjoy remarkable health and well-being as a non-smoker?
Over the years, thousands have happily paid a $600.00 to $1,000.00+ professional fee to help them kick their smoking habit. And why wouldn't they, if the benefits they gain are so much more than the investment price?
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I quit smoking after 14 years. It really works! I would highly recommend Neuro-VISION to anyone who wants to quit smoking! It has absolutely changed my life!
Now I’m not smoking, and made it easy to quit. I’m saving money, and I fit in with the crowd and I feel great!
I smoked 60 years, and I averaged two to three cartons a week. This is the amazing thing about Neuro-VISION, I watched Neuro-VISION for 1/2 hour, then I was offered a cigarette and I didn’t want it, and I haven’t wanted one since.
I quit. The video is excellent. It’s really is very relaxing. I feel it was definitely worth the money!
I feel completely free of cigarettes. I do not have the slightest craving for cigarettes at all.
I didn’t believe that anything could make me stop smoking after that long. I’ve never had one cigarette from the first time I saw Neuro-VISION. It was well worth the money.
I wanted to write and let you know, all these years later, how pleased and thankful I am for the gift you gave me when you cured me of smoking through your hypnosis.
Now I do not even think about smoking. I am around smokers occasionally and I am not bothered by others smoking. I never thought I could go through a day not thinking about cigarettes.
This is probably one of the weirdest things I have ever done to quit smoking, and it worked! I cannot tell you how glad I am that it helped me.
At last I am happy to report that I’m smoke free for 35 days and have been exposed to numerous active smokers yet I have had no desire to bum a cigarette, which until now has always been my relapse trigger.
The second time that I watched your video, I quit smoking and it was pretty easy. None of my family or friends could believe it because I was smoking 2 packs a day! Even I couldn’t believe it myself.
I ordered it and it really helped me to quit smoking about 7 months ago. And it turned out to be a lot easier than I thought
I purchased the quit smoking DVD and quit smoking with no struggle or discomfort.
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My Best Regards,
Alan B. Densky, CH
CEO of Neuro-VISION
P.S. Traditional or ineffective hypnosis products can cost a lot and cause frustration. Why not use my video quit smoking hypnosis program to break your smoking addiction?
All you need to do is relax and watch the video as it stops your smoking addiction automatically. No willpower required. You will not need to make an effort.
And remember, if it doesn't work, I'll give you a full refund (less S&H) so it's completely risk-free. But what if it does work? Then it's certainly worth it!
* Alan B. Densky's opinion after working with thousands of heavily addicted smokers since 1978.
Customer Reviews
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Neuro-VISION combines guided hypnosis and NLP with visual sequences. Its design also addresses learned smoking cues and routines. On-screen imagery presents the visual sequences, while the companion audio CD provides five sessions.
On screen, visual sequences guide you instead of asking you to create every image in your imagination. Five hypnosis sessions on the companion audio CD are designed to accompany the DVD.
The complete video program is currently available on DVD and CD-ROM, not as a download. A quick-start download is available while the discs are on the way.
I quit smoking after 14 years. It really works! I would highly recommend Neuro-VISION to anyone who wants to quit smoking! It has absolutely changed my life!
-- Mark Miller
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Now I'm not smoking, and made it easy to quit. I'm saving money, and I fit in with the crowd and I feel great!
-- Marie DiStephano
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"I smoked 60 years, and I averaged two to three cartons a week. This is the amazing thing about Neuro-VISION, I watched Neuro-VISION for 1/2 hour, then I was offered a cigarette and I didn't want it, and I haven't wanted one since. There was no withdrawal, you just feel so relaxed, there's no craving, and the nice part about it, you don't gain any weight!" -- John Hadley
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I quit. The video is excellent. It's really is very relaxing. I feel it was definitely worth the money!"
-- Julie Currie
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"I was smoking 3 packs a day for 35 years, and now I'm flabbergasted! If I get put under any stress I see this Neuro-VISION flash into my mind and it takes it right away. I feel completely free of cigarettes. I do not have the slightest craving for cigarettes at all."
-- Ruth Chrisman
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"I smoked about 3 packs a day for better than 30 years. I didn't believe that anything could make me stop smoking after that long. I've never had one cigarette from the first time I saw Neuro-VISION. It was well worth the money." --Ron Galic
Dear Mr. Densky,
I wanted to write and let you know, all these years later, how pleased and thankful I am for the gift you gave me when you cured me of smoking through your hypnosis.
I was doubtful it would work but was desperate, having tried everything else to no avail. But, sure enough you told me that I would. not have to return after 4 or 5 visits, and that I would never smoke again.
I must say I found that funny, since each time I left your office the first thing I did was light up a cigarette. But, this trip, white I chuckled, explaining to my husband what a joke it was to think I would never smoke again, and how we had wasted our time and money. But, low and behold, I did not ever light up again ... and what is more I cannot be in the company of anyone who smokes and can pick a smoker out of a crowd like a blood hound.
I am so grateful because I have asthma; I am sure from my smoking habit; and other ailments too.
It's hard telling how long I would live if I had never touched the darn things. I smoked for 33 years and it was Lauren Bacall in some movie my friends and I went to that got us to go buy a pack and practice ... we were 15. I didn't smoke in front of my parents, which kind of slowed down the effect, but when I got older I smoked more.
At any rate, thank you, you probably added years to my life, as I will be 82 in July. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Vernalea (Annie) Stevens - Ft. Myers, FL
Yes, Yes. Yes. This took me by complete surprise. I had tried the patch along with the nicotine gum. I have tried to quit off and on the past 20 years.
Now I do not even think about smoking. I am around smokers occasionally and I am not bothered by others smoking. I never thought I could go through a day not thinking about cigarettes. After watching the Neuro-Vision DVD for 21 days all my cravings dissipated and about 45 days later I had a full day of not even thinking about smoking. Not once did my brain crave it.
My total weight gain 10 months after I quit is about 8 pounds. Nothing a little exercise can't take care of. I am elated. I feel great and feel I have won the war with this addiction.
Linda Levesque - Springvale, ME
Dear Mr. Densky,
This is probably one of the weirdest things I have ever done to quit smoking, and it worked! I cannot tell you how glad I am that it helped me. My story below if you are interested.
Over the years, my best girlfriend and I had tried to quit smoking together using Zyban, hypnosis at a group seminar, guilt, and shear willpower to quit smoking. Neither of us really liked the chains that bound us but we both thoroughly enjoyed the feeling we got when we smoked. Both of us being very strong personalities, this did not equate with being tied to a cigarette. The costs were getting so bad that we were spending $200 a month on cigarettes and complaining that we wanted to make more money to go do things like have dinner out and go shopping. Another scenario that did not compute: Nothing ever worked for longer than about a week or two, once for me a month.
So now that my best girlfriend was sitting in the hospital with three areas of cancer, not smoking and her husband started smoking again along with her sister, mother and other dear friend, I did not want to leave her side. I decided that I was not going to be one of the friends and family members running outside with the group for a smoke and leaving my friend in her room alone. So I scoured the Internet for the most complex, complete and powerful "systems" on the market that included hypnosis.
I told my girlfriend that I would quit smoking so that I could be with her without needing to go smoke and desert her. I wanted to have this "system" at my disposal so that I could use it over and over if I needed to without having to call and make an appointment and try to get in and get time to go to a session. What a pain. Not something I would take time out to do for myself or anyone else.
Of course, Neuro-Vision hypnosis and flash therapy was what I found. It was the most complex, integrated system including hypnosis that I had ever found. I knew that hypnosis was what I wanted because I just did NOT want to suffer. I was really over the relationship with my cigarettes but did not want to suffer the pain of quitting. Normally I am anxious enough, I did not need the pressure of withdrawals.
So I bought it. I figured even if I didn't smoke for 2 weeks I would have earned the $50 a week back by not smoking so it was not hurting me financially. Then after a few weeks of not smoking, I thought this was pretty cool and maybe, just maybe I would set another goal for myself to earn an Iphone. My birthday was coming up, 45 years old and I have been wanting an Iphone so badly but couldn't justify the money. Ha. But I could justify the $50 a week on cigarettes. Amazing
So, I watched the DVD and had been doing the Audio for a few days prior anyway that I received immediately over the internet. And again being surprised at the hypnosis session being so different than what I had done prior. Then right afterward that evening, I was watching a movie with my family and I got up from the couch, grabbed my glass of wine and went to be back door to hang out and smoke. It was a very intense section in the movie. We all stopped and wondered what I was doing, including me. I didn't have the urge to smoke and was able to go back to the couch, but the habit of going to the door and smoking a cigarette was so ingrained that I went to the door anyway. We all laughed at that one.
So now I am 45 years old and have not smoked a cigarette for 8 weeks. I have had a couple of events that were really scary health wise for me and arguments and situations that I normally would have smoked my way through, but have not. I've been able to visit "comfortably" with my friend in the hospital and at home without the need to escape for that cigarette.
Now I have a very cool Iphone that I use daily and can write off as an expense as I am also an independent mediator. Now I have a LOT more money in my pocket that I notice when I go to get cash out of my wallet; the cash is there because I haven't spent it on cigarettes.
I also have two very young grandkids 17 months and 4 months old that I do not have to run away from to have a cigarette. And I can do all of this, for the most part, comfortably.
I know that I have the DVD and audio at my fingertips if I need them. And don't get me wrong, there are some intense "moments," no longer than moments though, that I want to smoke. If I have one I know that I will be hooked once again and have thus far refrained. I've learned that it is my decision and I now have the ability to make a good decision and not feel so overwhelmingly drawn to making the one that will keep me in chains. Then I will be saving all this money for a vacation with my husband of 27 years, and more now hopefully that I have quit smoking.
Thank you for uncapping the mind.
Sincerely,
Jamie M. Mazzeo
I'm delighted to submit this testimonial
as to the efficacy of the Neuro-Vision "Quit Smoking in a Flash!" program.
I was a smoker for 30+ yrs and approximately 2 years ago I began in earnest to seek a permanent solution to my smoking addiction. I started using the patch combined with an anti-depressant used to help diminish cigarette cravings & joined a national organization's smoking cessation support group.
FYI I have also tried a Laser Therapy Center and was told I just didn't have a strong enough desire to quit, after I went thru the laser treatment twice and relapsed.
Next I purchased & listened to several stop smoking hypnosis CD's faithfully each night for weeks at a time that had been purchased via the Internet.
I went to a highly recommended and very expensive Chinese acupuncturist trained in China, now practicing here in the US.
That was all done because I was determined to quit by any means possible and I admit that I was quite skeptical of this method. I smoked my last cigarette earlier that day watched the video several times that evening and listened to the CD.
At last I am happy to report that I'm smoke free for 35 days and have been exposed to numerous active smokers yet I have had no desire to bum a cigarette, which until now has always been my relapse trigger.
The DVD with the visual imagery seems to work best for my personal style of learning and the CD's with the imbedded metaphors seem to compliment it nicely. I now feel confident that I can lick this and will continue to use the video and CD regularly or as often as necessary to insure that I am smoke free for life.
Thanks,
-- John G Baker
I was a smoker for 23 years and I was very hooked on it. It was like my friend - a bad friend.
I found your web about a year ago and even though I was skeptical, I ordered your neuro-vision to quit smoking about a year ago. I've always wanted to quit for a long time, but I always got too nervous and started eating too much.
The second time that I watched your video, I quit smoking and it was pretty easy. None of my family or friends could believe it because I was smoking 2 packs a day! Even I couldn't believe it myself.
I still love listening to the hypnosis sessions because they make me very relaxed and comfortable and I can fall asleep fast now. Before I always had a problem with that.
I want to get your phobia program next because I've always had a problem driving my car over bridges and I want to fix that.
Thanks for helping me quit smoking. -- Meghan Wilson
Thanks for offering your Neuro-vision stop smoking program. I ordered it and it really helped me to quit smoking about 7 months ago. And it turned out to be a lot easier than I thought -- and I didn't even gain any weight, which is hard for me to believe.
All in all it was a very pleasant process and I still listen to the CD's for relaxation.
Thanks! - - Martin Hoffman
I purchased the quit smoking DVD and quit smoking with no struggle or discomfort.
I was a pack and a half a day smoker and have smoked for over 30 years. You could say I am a total believer in your program, it was a miracle for me. I also went to a a social event and had a few drinks and was not even tempted (the ultimate test in a smokers book).
I am hopeful to lose some weight and have the desire to exercise this time around.
Thanks -- Karen