Hypnosis Can Break Your Smoking Habit Right Now

Breaking the smoking habit has become a necessity at this point in history, because smoking cigarettes has been banned from eateries and public places. And in fact, it's the smart thing to do for more reasons than good health alone. This editorial explores the very best hypnosis and NLP techniques that can be used to make it as painless as possible to break the addiction to cigarettes.

There are three individual parts to a cigarette smoking habit. Two of the elements are mental, and only one part is physical.

Part A: YOU SMOKE FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.

When you were an infant and you got restless, your mother would put a nipple into your mouth to pacify you. You would get distracted, become more peaceful, and often go to sleep. That sequence of events was repeated many, many 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 a grownup, if you feel agitated, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - a smoke!

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 would just ring the bell, and that would trigger the dogs to salivate.

When you pair smoking with any other activity, the other activity will trigger cravings for a cigarette and an urge that makes you feel compelled to smoke a cigarette. This is called a conditioned response.

For example: If you light-up a cigarette when you watch a movie, you will automatically get an urge to light-up each time you go to the movies.

Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your subconscious: If a person lights-up a cigarette and simultaneously drinks a cup of coffee, the mind takes a snapshot of the cigarette in the hand, and ties it to the cup of coffee. Thereafter, every time the person sees a cup of coffee, the mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of the cigarette, and the smoker gets a craving for one.

You may not be consciously aware of the mental picture of the cigarette, because it may only be at the subconscious level of mind. Just as you are unaware of what you are seeing through your peripheral vision until someone or something 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 . . .

After having worked with several thousand smokers, I give you my personal guarantee that the physical addiction to tobacco is the weakest part of the addiction. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the habit. 90% of the addiction are the mental and emotional parts! (Parts A and B).

HERE IS WHAT THIS MEANS TO A SMOKER WHO WANTS TO QUIT.

What this means is that as soon as you eliminate the feeling of tension that compels you to put cigarettes into your mouth for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and if you can extinguish the conditioned response of feeling a craving for cigarettes when having a cup of coffee, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can stop smoking without requiring willpower, and without having to experience withdrawal symptoms or weight-gain.

Self-hypnosis will make it easy to stop smoking because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:

Part A is where you light-up a cigarette for relaxation and pleasure. It's your thoughts which create tension. More to the point, people constantly run mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it brings on a feeling of tension.

We can use various hypnosis and NLP techniques to re-program the subconscious to instantly take those tension creating mental pictures, and quickly exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This creates relaxation and pleasure, and obliterates the tension that creates the oral compulsions and cravings for cigarettes.

Because of the elimination of stress, the smoker who is quitting doesn't experience the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the cigarettes. So quitting without weight gain is possible.

Part B is where you light-up 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 smokers get into that activity or environment, the mind flashes an image of a cigarette, and the image of the cigarette causes an urge to light-up?

There are effective and powerful NLP techniques that can effectively erase those conditioned responses so that a person's 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

In summary, when we utilize certain NLP methods, it becomes very easy to quit smoking without withdrawal or weight gain. And many of these hypnotic methods do not even require post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on programming the unconscious mind to use the same mental processes that the unconscious mind is using to create the addiction to cigarettes, to eliminate the mental addiction.

Alan B. Densky, CH started his professional practice in hypnosis in 1978. He has worked face-to-face with over 10,000 clients for stress related symptoms including weight loss hypnosis. He maintains a library of original NLP & hypnosis articles, and offers FREE hypnosis and NLP MP3's and newsletters.

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