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Smoking is a harmful and addictive habit that affects millions of people around the world. We now know the dangers of cigarette smoking and smokers are urged to find ways to quit smoking for the benefit of their own health. This is not an easy task, as smokers begin at an early age. The average age of a new smoker is thirteen years old.

A habit formed at that age is not easily broken. Nicotine affects many parts of the body and it is hard to pull free without some help. Nicotine addiction is only one of many diseases which can be caused by smoking. Most smokers require some help on how to quit smoking and a variety of methods exist for this very purpose.

There are many reasons why people begin smoking and develop an addiction to cigarettes. The main reason that people start to smoke is peer pressure. Some young people believe smoking will make them seem more mature, and be popular with their peers. It also is forbidden which makes it all the more attractive to rebellious teenagers, hence the low starting age for many people. This young age makes quitting smoking more challenging in your later years.

Media can also have an impact on the decision to begin smoking. Smoking portrayed on television or in movies can lead someone to believe that smoking is a safe activity. Parents can wield the biggest influence over their children by setting a good example and not smoking, or quitting smoking. Parents who smoke are much more likely to have children who start smoking.

Smokers begin to crave nicotine, a drug within tobacco. Nicotine can affect your body and mind in many negative ways. Nicotine, once inhaled into the lungs reaches the brain in a matter of just eight seconds. Once there, nicotine affects your blood pressure and heart rate. Over time it can increase your bad cholesterol and cause the narrowing of your arteries. Nicotine in concentrated doses is a lethal poison, so you can imagine the effects on your body. Nicotine is also addictive and one of the reasons many smokers cannot quit smoking.

Smoking can affect your health on a variety of levels. Low stamina is one side effect of smoking. More serious smoking related diseases include emphysema and cancer. Strokes and heart disease are also closely linked to cigarette smoking. A person who quits smoking will dramatically reduce their risk of developing these diseases for every year they go without smoking.

The outcome of these medical conditions caused by smoking is grim. Lung cancer is almost always fatal unless caught very early and a full 80% of lung cancer cases are caused by smoking. Lung and heart disease can take years from your life unless you learn how to quit smoking. Emphysema cannot be cured but only managed, plus the damage to your lungs cannot be repaired. Stop smoking benefits include a longer life span and a better quality of life.

There are several different ways to quit smoking, and you must pick the best method for you as an individual. Nicotine patches and gums are designed to help you slowly withdraw from the nicotine addiction. Only about 10% of the people who use them quit smoking. Going cold turkey is another option and this works for up to 11% of the smokers who choose this option. Other frequently used methods to quit smoking include an herbal kit that can show you how to quit smoking. It has a success rate similar to that of nicotine patches and gums.

Hypnosis for smoking cessation is a popular and effective option for those who want to quit smoking without weight gain or withdrawal. Hypnotherapy has a high success rate with smokers who are trying to quit smoking. Quit smoking hypnosis might sound like an extreme solution but it delivers solid results up to 70% of the time. This success rate is many times that of other methods.

The reason hypnotherapy is so effective is that it while the addiction to nicotine makes up only about 10% of the cigarette smoking addiction, the emotional and mental aspects of the habit make up a full 90% of the smoking addiction. Hypnotherapy treats this aspect of the addiction.

In addition, 45% of the smoking behavior is caused by stress, and hypnosis has proven to be a safe and effective tool that can help reprogram the mind to divert away from stressful thoughts, and towards more positive and relaxing thoughts. In addition, the practice of hypnosis therapy incorporates a deep state of relaxation.

Another 45% of the smoking behavior is caused by conditioned responses. This occurs when smoking is associated with other activities and events at the unconscious level of mind. For example, if you smoke while watching TV, your unconscious will associate the image of a cigarette in your hand with the image of the TV. Every time you watch TV, your unconscious flashes an image of the cigarette in your hand, and you experience the compulsion to smoke.

Stop smoking hypnotherapy is regularly used to “extinguish” the conditioned responses by disassociating the unconscious links between cigarettes and TV, driving, coffee, working on your computer, or any other environment where an unconscious association has been created.

In summary: Although most smokers believe that their inability to quit smoking is due to their addiction to nicotine, in truth it’s the mental aspects of a smoking addiction that present the largest barriers. Hypnotherapy was accepted by the American Medical Association in 1958 as an effective tool for quitting smoking. Hypnosis for quitting smoking is the second most common use of hypnotherapy today.

While hourly rates for hypnotherapists continue to skyrocket, there are excellent self hypnosis programs on the market that can greatly reduce its cost. Since everyone is unique, there are no specific “magic” words or post-hypnotic suggestions that will work for everyone. So when choosing hypnosis CDs, look for programs that incorporate a broad variety of hypnotic and NLP techniques in a series of at least six or more sessions to enjoy the best possible outcome. In any case, the cost of the very best self hypnosis programs equates to much less than the amount that an average smoker spends each and every month on buying cigarettes.

Alan B. Densky, CH developed the Video Hypnosis stop smoking technology that helps smokers easily break the habit. He also created many ways to quit smoking using Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and NLP. Visit his Neuro-VISION self development hypnosis site for free hypnosis videos and MP3s.

– Alan Densky

The average person endeavors to stop smoking between four to six times before they are successful. If you have tried patches, gum, prescriptions or willpower alone with no 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 listen to and watch DVDs and CDs especially intended to curb your cravings to smoke, then quit smoking hypnosis will be successful for you.

Many smokers think that they are unable to quit smoking because of their addiction to nicotine, but that simply is not true. Medical experts maintain that after seven to ten days – even as soon as three days – all nicotine has been cleared from the body, which leaves smokers to work with the more arduous and far reaching psychological and emotional addiction to smoking cigarettes.

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

For hypnotherapists, the answer is clear. The part of you that won’t let you quit smoking is the unconscious mind. 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 realize that the best support comes from within their own unconscious mind. Hypnosis is the most successful method to guarantee that your whole psyche is working to help you stop smoking. That is because hypnosis provides a powerful way of communicating with the unconscious mind.

Stop smoking hypnosis helps you get rid of the urge to smoke by removing the desire to light up. When the compulsion and urge to smoke are subtracted, quitting becomes a straightforward 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 need to smoke for relaxation and pleasure. This pattern was actually instituted when you were an infant. No doubt, when you got cranky, your parents put a bottle in your mouth. Then it diverted your attention; you relaxed and likely fell asleep. Smokers obtain the same relaxing effect from a cigarette.

With quit smoking hypnosis, your unconscious mind is reprogrammed to receive relaxation and pleasure by unconsciously trading stress-inducing thoughts with calming thoughts instead, all through the use of the very same triggers that previously made you anxious. This makes the tension almost disappear magically. In addition, the very fundamental nature of hypnosis is relaxation. So by listening to a calming hypnotherapy CD daily, stress levels will quickly diminish.

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

An effective stop smoking hypnosis DVD or CD will reprogram your unconscious associations so that driving, for example, actually makes you want to NOT smoke! This is known as, no pun intended, extinguishing a conditioned response.

Here is a news flash! The physical addiction to nicotine is merely about ten percent of the addiction. Ninety percent of the addiction to cigarettes comes from the mental and emotional components that we have looked at so far. And as stated earlier in this article, medical experts agree 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 find that when their smoking associations and dependence on cigarettes to relax have undergone reprogramming, the physical addiction is in fact such a minuscule part of their smoking dependency, that it has no effect on their ability to quit smoking without suffering from withdrawal.

Now, I must advise you that despite the unprecedented success that clients have had with stop smoking hypnosis and NLP CDs and DVDs, you must hold the desire to quit smoking prior to commencing a program. And besides the desire to quit smoking, you must make a sincere decision to quit. That means that you must be ready and willing to throw away your cigarettes.

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

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

– Alan B. Densky, CH

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