(Hypnotherapy) Using Hypnosis To Quit Smoking

October 30th, 2008 admin Posted in hypnosis |

By John Hubert

Smoking is an addiction that many people aren’t able to break. It plagues all countries around the world, from America to Europe to all the other regions, and no matter how hard some people try, they just can’t kick the habbit.

What many people don’t realise however, is that they can use hypnosis to quit smoking, and it’s a lot easier than some people may think. Just what do you know of hypnosis exactly? Is it based on fact or preconceptions, word of mouth or beliefs that are unsubstantiated? If you answered that you didn’t know, then allow me to explain just what hypnosis is.

Hypnosis you see is a form of treatment and psychological deepening technique that has been around for many hundreds of years. It’s only been recently that hypnosis has started to gain such a wide acceptance by the public, and also an understanding from the scientific community. So how can one actually use hypnosis to quit smoking however, you might ask? The answer is, through the same techniques as you’d use hypnosis in any other way.

Hypnosis works by placing our mind into a deeply relaxed and tranquil state, known as a trance. When it’s in this state then we can give our subconscious certain suggestions, which it will subsequently act upon. If you just can’t quit smoking, you can give yourself a suggestion such as ‘I will have no desire to ever pick up another cigarette again’. Whilst you’re in hypnosis, this suggestion will seep into your subconscious. When you awaken yourself from trance, don’t be surprised if you do in fact end up quit smoking, as that is precisely what the hypnosis session was supposed to make you do.

Lots of people will automatically dismiss hypnosis as not working, even though they haven’t tried it. The thought of running around the room doing odd things that some mad stage hypnotist suggests isn’t what hypnotherapy is really about. Hypnosis can be therapeutic just as it can be entertaining, perhaps even more so. For this reason it’s important to try and understand that hypnosis can help you quit smoking, if you put your mind to it. Now no one is saying it will happen immediately, it may take a couple of missions, but using hypnosis to quit smoking has a very high success rate.

If you’re tried every other method under the sun to kick your addiction, from nicotine patches and gum right through to trying to quit ‘cold turkey’, and none of these methods have work, then in all honesty and seriousness, why not give hypnosis a go? It can’t hard, and the worst that will happen is that you’ll experience a relaxing state of warmth without any affects. So at the very least, you’ll become relaxed whilst in the state and enjoy it, even if it doesn’t help you. But odds are however that it will do something for you and your smoking addiction.

So don’t be one of those people that says ‘you can’t use hypnosis to quit smoking’, be one of those people that actually gives it a go and sees for themselves just how well hypnosis can work. What we don’t try we will only end up regretting, so why not give hypnosis a go today? You never know what may happen.

John Hubert is a a surveyor and studies various technique of learning hypnotism. He recommends his page on ways of using Hypnosis To Quit Smoking. He runs a website that teaches you how to - Learn Hypnosis.

Quit Smoking NLP CDs - They Can Work Well
By Alan Densky

The average person tries to quit smoking between four to six times before they beat the addiction. If you have tried gum, patches, prescriptions or willpower alone without success, make your final attempt successful with stop smoking hypnosis.

Of all of the ways to quit smoking, hypnosis is literally the most trouble-free and has the most successful track record. If you are willing to consistently watch and listen to DVDs and CDs specifically created to curb your cravings to smoke, then quit smoking hypnosis will work for you.

Many smokers think that they are unable to quit smoking because of their nicotine addiction, but that simply is not true. Medical experts agree that after seven to ten days - even as soon as three days - all nicotine has been eliminated from the body, which leaves smokers to focus on the more difficult and far reaching psychological and emotional addiction to smoking cigarettes.

There are countless ways to quit smoking, but just one method can address both the cravings and the emotional compulsion: quit smoking hypnosis. Many people who want to quit still end up asking themselves, “Why can’t I simply stop smoking?”

The answer is clear to hypnotherapists. The part of you that won’t let you quit smoking is your unconscious. You can’t change your unconscious mind by force of will or with a prescription, patch or gum. You need the right kind of help.

To quit smoking, support is imperative, but many people do not understand that the best support comes from within their own unconscious. Hypnosis is the most effective technique to ensure that your entire psyche is working to help you stop smoking. That’s because hypnosis provides a persuasive method of communicating with your unconscious mind.

Quit smoking hypnosis helps you get rid of the urge to smoke by removing the impulse to light up. When the urge and compulsion to smoke are removed, quitting becomes painless choice that you can make without difficulty. The best stop smoking hypnosis programs are successful because they address the most powerful elements of the smoking addiction.

The first part of an effective stop smoking hypnosis program addresses the craving to smoke for pleasure and relaxation. This precedent was actually established when you were a baby. Likely, when you were cranky, your parents put a bottle in your mouth. Then your attention got diverted; you relaxed and likely went to sleep. Smokers get the same calming effect from a cigarette.

With quit smoking hypnosis, the unconscious is reprogrammed to receive pleasure and relaxation by automatically replacing stress-inducing thoughts with calming thoughts instead, all via the use of the very same triggers that previously made you anxious. This makes the tension almost magically disappear. In addition, the very essence of hypnosis is relaxation. So by listening to a soothing hypnotherapy CD daily, stress levels will quickly fade.

The second part of an effective stop smoking hypnosis program will help you tackle the habituation, or the “Habit.” Habituation occurs when the unconscious forms an association between smoking and other behaviors, such as driving or watching television. Perhaps the second that you turn on the TV you are fighting with a craving to smoke.

An effective stop smoking hypnosis CD or DVD will reprogram your unconscious associations so that driving, for example, actually makes you want to REJECT smoking! This is known as, no pun intended, extinguishing a conditioned response.

Here is a news flash! The physical nicotine addiction is only about ten percent of the addiction. Ninety percent of the addiction to cigarettes is comprised of the emotional and mental components that we’ve discussed so far. And as stated earlier in this article, medical professionals maintain that the body is clear of nicotine in as little as three days.

People who use Neuro-Linguistic Programming and quit smoking hypnosis CDs and DVDs recognize that when their smoking associations and reliance on cigarettes to unwind have undergone reprogramming, the physical addiction is in fact such a diminutive part of their smoking habit, that it has no effect on their capability to quit smoking without suffering from withdrawal.

Now, I must tell you that despite the unparalleled success that clients have had with stop smoking hypnosis and NLP CDs and DVDs, you must hold the desire to quit smoking prior to undertaking a program. And as well as the desire to stop smoking, you must make an honest decision to quit. That means that you must be ready and willing to throw your cigarettes away.

Hypnosis CDs and DVDs cannot be used to force you to do something you don’t desire to do, so no program can coerce you to stop smoking. But if you have the desire to quit smoking, and you make a decision to quit smoking, hypnosis will help you to remain relaxed and not experience tension, cravings, or withdrawal symptoms. Let hypnosis and NLP give you the support you need.

Alan B. Densky, CH is a pioneer in the use of Ericksonian Hypnosis and NLP to help people stop smoking. He offers both audio hypnotherapy CDs, and Neuro-VISION Video hypnosis to stop smoking CDs. Visit his self-hypnosis website for free hypnosis videos & resources.

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