Using Self Hypnosis To Kick The Smoking Habit

By: Alan B. Densky, CH

If you are someone who is trying to quit smoking cigarettes, you know how hard it is to crush this harmful habit. However, it is possible, and half of all adult smokers are able to quit smoking forever. Many smokers have successfully quit smoking cigarettes by replacing them with new, more positive habits without having to suffer through withdrawal symptoms. By far, the easiest and most effective method to stop smoking and achieve this end is stop smoking hypnotherapy.

Hypnosis for smoking cessation is one of the most regularly practiced forms of hypnotherapy. It is often cited as a tool to stop smoking along with strategies such as the use of nicotine gums and patches and other popular techniques. It helps to end the smoking addiction by combating cravings for cigarettes, motivating you to stay committed to quitting, and promoting stress relief and relaxation so you will not be tempted to smoke.

The smoking addiction contains both physiological and psychological aspects. The physiological addiction is a physical addiction the body develops to nicotine. This aspect of the addiction is what causes the physical withdrawal symptoms that make it initially seem near impossible to stop smoking. However, this is a short, temporary part in the overall process of quitting smoking, which lasts only between three days and one week. By the end of this period of time, your body adjusts to normal, 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 cigarette smoking.

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 represents ninety percent of the tobacco addiction. When you develop a smoking habit, you unconsciously develop a desire to smoke at certain times, such as before going to bed at night. This is called a conditioned response. Quit smoking hypnotherapy helps eliminate the unconscious relationships that cause you to crave cigarettes, thereby eliminating the conditioned urge to smoke. Hypnosis also helps you stay motivated to stop smoking by strengthening your ideas that gave you the desire to stop smoking in the first place.

Smokers get stuck in the ritual of lighting up and smoking. This is why people who attempt to stop smoking using nicotine gums or patches alone usually have such a difficult experience. They soon overcome the physiological addiction, but they have no replacement or relief for the ritual of smoking cigarettes, which has become a mental 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 stress and anxiety so you will lose the desire to smoke cigarettes.

By adding some powerful NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques, stop smoking hypnotherapy can keep you motivated to kicking the habit by training the unconscious to focus on the benefits of quitting. Eliminating tobacco benefits you in a great number of ways. Within days of quitting, body parts damaged by smoking begin to heal, damaged nerves re-grow, and your sense of taste and smell improves. Within a few weeks, blood circulation and lung function improve. Within one year, your risk of heart disease is less than half that of a smoker. Within five to fifteen years, your risk of having a stroke is the same as a non-smoker. Your risk of heart disease is the same as someone who has never smoked at all, and the risk of dying from lung cancer and a number of other cancer risks have decreased.

In spite of the harmful effects of smoking and the health benefits of quitting, some smokers never overcome their habit. For the most part, this is because they've never really 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 hesistant to even attempt quitting. Hypnosis is a very simple, natural method of quitting.

Hypnosis for quitting smoking is an effective implement for killing cravings for cigarettes, building powerful motivation, and promoting relaxation and stress relief to eliminate the psychological addiction to smoking. Stop smoking hypnotherapy techniques can be learned with ease from specialized self-hypnosis programs that have been developed after decades of experience using hypnosis, NLP, and Neuro-VISION video hypnotherapy to get clients to kick the cigarette addiction.

Stop smoking self-hypnosis programs make it easy to stop smoking for good because they break the smoking habit in a process that helps obliterate cravings and the desire to smoke. Whatever your motivation is for quitting, hypnotherapy makes it easier to focus your mind on these reasons, which makes you feel a powerful urge to quit. Quit smoking hypnosis programs eliminate the urge to smoke. Although quitting smoking can be an unsuccessful and painful experience for some, those who utilize self hypnosis have a far greater rate of success because it makes the process a 'slam-dunk'. It is the most effective method for smoke cessation.

Alan B. Densky, CH pioneered the use of video quit smoking aids and received a U.S. Patent on the technology. He offers effective hypnotic help to quit smoking if you are ready to quit smoking cigarettes now.