Tuesday, September 25, 2007

How to Quit Smoking Cigarettes Using NLP CDs

If you are trying to quit smoking cigarettes, you know how difficult it is to crush this harmful habit. However, it is possible, and half of all adult smokers will succeed in quitting smoking forever. Many smokers have been able to quit smoking cigarettes by replacing them with new, positive habits without having to experience withdrawal symptoms. By far, the most effective and easiest method to stop smoking and achieve this end is hypnosis. Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation is one of the most regularly practiced forms of hypnosis. It is often cited as a tool for quitting smoking along with strategies such as the use of nicotine gums or patches and other popular means. It works to end the smoking addiction by combating cravings to smoke, keeping you committed to quitting, and promoting stress relief and relaxation so you will not be tempted to smoke. The smoking addiction contains both psychological and physiological components. The physiological addiction is a physical need the body develops to nicotine. This component of the addiction causes the withdrawal symptoms that make it feel near impossible to stop smoking. However, this is a short, temporary stage in the overall process of quitting the habit, which lasts only between three days and one week. By the end of this time period, your body adjusts to regular, nicotine-free functioning. Based on thirty years of experience, I believe that the physical addiction to nicotine represents only ten percent of the addiction to cigarettes.By far, the most challenging part of breaking the smoking addiction is overcoming the psychological addiction, which are the mental and emotional aspects of smoking. I believe this makes up ninety percent of the tobacco addiction. When you develop a smoking habit, you develop an unconscious desire to smoke in certain environments, such as before going to bed at night. This is called a conditioned response. Stop smoking self-hypnosis works to eliminate the unconscious relationships that cause you to crave cigarettes, thereby eliminating the conditioned compulsion to smoke. Hypnotherapy also helps you stay motivated to give up smoking by strengthening the beliefs that gave you the wish to stop smoking in the first place. Smokers get stuck in the habit of lighting up and smoking. This is why people who attempt to stop smoking using nicotine patches or gums alone often are unable to quit. They rapidly overcome the physical addiction, but they have no replacement or relief for the ritual of smoking cigarettes, which has become a habit and pleasurable source of stress relief. Self-hypnosis techniques eliminate this mental addiction and serve as stress reducers as well. As a relaxation tool, hypnosis helps effectively relieve anxiety and stress so you will lose the cravings for cigarettes.By adding some effective NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques, quit smoking self-hypnosis can keep you committed to stop smoking by training the unconscious mind to focus on the benefits of quitting. Eliminating tobacco benefits you in numerous ways. Within days of quitting, body parts damaged by smoking begin to heal, damaged nerves re-grow, and the sense of taste and smell improves significantly. Within a few weeks, lung function and blood circulation improve. Within a year, your risk of heart disease is less than half that of a smoker. Within five to fifteen years, the risk of having a stroke is the same as a non-smoker. Your risk of dying from lung cancer and a number of other cancer risks have decreased, and the risk of heart disease is the same as someone who has never smoked at all.In spite of the harmful effects of smoking and the health benefits of quitting, some smokers never overcome their harmful addiction. For the most part, this is because they've never seriously committed to quitting. Other smokers are afraid to experience withdrawal symptoms or let go of the smoking habit. However, quitting smoking does not have to be the torturous process that makes so many smokers reluctant to even attempt quitting. Hypnosis is a very simple, natural technique for quitting. Hypnotherapy is an effective tool for killing cravings for cigarettes, building powerful motivation, and promoting relaxation and stress relief to completely eliminate the psychological aspects of the smoking addiction. Stop smoking hypnotherapy techniques can be learned with ease from specialized self-hypnosis programs that have been developed after decades of experience using hypnosis, Neuro-VISION video hypnotherapy, and NLP to get clients to kick the cigarette addiction.Stop smoking hypnotherapy programs make it easy to stop smoking permanently because they break the smoking habit in a process that helps extinguish cravings and any desire to smoke. Whatever your motivation is for quitting, hypnosis and NLP makes it easier to focus your mind on these reasons, which makes you feel a great urge to quit. Quit smoking hypnosis programs eliminate the compulsion to smoke. Although quitting smoking can be a painful experience for some, those who use quit smoking self hypnosis have a far greater rate of success because it makes the process much easier. Hypnotherapy is the most effective method for smoke cessation.

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