How many inner dialogs have you had with yourself about your smoking compulsion? How many times have you complained to family and friends that you want to end the habit but seem to go on smoking despite the health risks and the expense? And how many programs have you tried that just failed? If you are like most people struggling with smoking, you will remember such inner dramas and may have felt nothing will really work for you. Unless you tried NLP and hypnosis to quit smoking, you may have been on target.
If you fervently want to quit smoking, hypnotherapy is the rational choice for reliable results. Hypnotherapy to quit smoking can address the most significant issues that keep you smoking as well as equipping you with resources and boost to be successful once and for all. This is not a mere parlor trick, but a real medical therapy approved by the AMA since 1958, and one with accreditation and a strong code of ethics.
Hypnotherapy doesn’t change your moral values and a reliable hypnotist will honor your privacy and protect your rights identical to any other medical professional. You do need a practitioner who is verified by the National Guild of Hypnotists and who adheres to their stringent code of ethics and professional conduct. Included in their code is making the mental and physical welfare of all clients foremost. They also defend clients from verbal, mental or physical, and make outside referrals as needed.
A well trained practitioner has the skills to address problem behavior, and quit smoking hypnotherapy is the second most regular type they practice. Using methods that are considered state of the art which may include the precision of NLP hypnosis and the ongoing enhancement of self hypnosis stop smoking CD’s as well as any medical modalities a doctor might also suggest for a patient. Using medical hypnotherapy does not mean other measures are excluded, but they may not be at all necessary.
The reason that skillfully used smoke cessation hypnotherapy is the most effective method to reach success is that it addresses the three basic factors in smoking. No method can truly work that does not address each issue fully and correct the problems each causes. Most people feel that the physical addiction to nicotine is the most important aspect and the biggest problem, but this is simply not true. If the addiction to the substance called nicotine were the only reason for failure, most smokers would not fail so many times in their efforts to end smoking for good.
Yes, nicotine is a horribly addictive substance and for most smokers the physical dependence is very real and there are withdrawal sensations that are also real. But did you realize these last only a very few days? In fact, every bit of nicotine is metabolized out of the system in just three days or less! For many smokers, it is the fear of withdrawal discomforts and not the reality that causes the most dread and which may prevent even attempting to quit. Yet quitting without training has an average five percent success rate! Stop smoking hypnotherapy reduces fear of withdrawal problems and greatly reduces the effect of any that do happen.
Another characteristic of smoking cigarettes is that it provides comfort and calming, just as using a pacifier calms and soothes an infant. Many people treat anxiety and stress with some form of oral activity like smoking cigarettes or eating. Hypnotic relaxation can replace the comfort factor obtained from smoking cigarettes, which reduces the insistent urges and produces the benefits of quitting instead. The mind can be trained to substitute the same feelings from other activities that are beneficial, not harmful. NLP techniques can train the brain to remove any linkage between smoking cigarettes and comfort.
In conclusion, part of the smoking bondage is plain old Pavlovian habit formation to stimuli. Smokers learn to connect smoking with certain activities, from the movie cliche of smoking immediately after physical relations to automatically lighting a cigarette while having a beer or cocktail or watching television or chatting on the phone. Here quit smoking hypnotherapy can permanently remove the connection, and when the link is no longer there, there will be no trigger to have a smoke when the coffee is poured or the cocktail is served. The mind is conditioned to associate positive things with the former triggers, or to recall the helpful effects of quitting or the created by having the tobacco.
A highly qualified clinical practitioner will use both negative and positive associations to replace conditioned associations with smoking, selecting those most powerful for an individual smoker who wants to quit. Stop smoking hypnosis is the only treatment modality that can precision tune the treatment to each of the three factors in smoking and root them out. Everyone quitting requires support, but only smoking cessation programs using hypnotherapy effectively make you your own instant and always available support system.
Alan B. Densky, CH invented the use of Neuro-VISION video hypnosis to quit smoking and received a U.S. Patent for his labors. He offers a range of stop smoking hypnosis CDs which produce valuable assistance. Visit him for Free stop smoking hypnosis videos and downloads.
– Alan B. Densky, CH