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The average person makes an effort to quit 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 stick with stop smoking hypnosis.

Of all of the ways to quit smoking, hypnosis is truly the easiest and has the best track record. If you are willing to consistently listen to and watch CDs and DVDs 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 nicotine addiction, 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 focus on the more arduous and far reaching psychological and emotional addiction to smoking cigarettes.

There are various ways to quit smoking, but just one method can address both the cravings and the emotional compulsion: quit smoking self hypnosis. Many people who want to quit still end up asking themselves, “Why can’t I simply stop smoking?”

The answer is obvious to hypnotherapists. The part of you that won’t let you quit smoking is the unconscious mind. You cannot change your unconscious by force of will or with a patch, prescription or gum. You need the correct kind of help.

To quit smoking, support is imperative, but the majority of people do not grasp that the best support comes from within their own unconscious mind. Hypnosis is the most successful process to guarantee that your whole psyche is united to help you stop smoking. That’s because hypnosis provides a compelling way of communicating with the unconscious.

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 effortless choice that you can make without difficulty. The best stop smoking hypnosis programs work because they work to eliminate the most powerful components of the addiction to smoking.

The first part of a successful stop smoking hypnosis program addresses the desire to smoke for relaxation and pleasure. This model was actually founded when you were a baby. No doubt, when you were cranky, your parents gave you a bottle on which to suck. Then your attention got diverted; you relaxed and probably fell asleep. Smokers get the same calming effect from a cigarette.

With quit smoking hypnosis, your unconscious mind is reprogrammed to receive relaxation and pleasure by unconsciously exchanging stress-inducing thoughts with calming thoughts instead, all via the use of the very same triggers that formerly made you anxious. This makes the tension almost magically disappear. Additionally, the very core of hypnosis is relaxation. So by listening to a calming hypnotherapy CD daily, stress levels will quickly fade.

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

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

Here is a news flash! The physical nicotine addiction is only about ten percent of the addiction. Ninety percent of the addiction to cigarettes is comprised of the emotional and mental components that we’ve looked at thus far. And as stated earlier in this article, medical experts maintain 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 realize that when their smoking associations and dependence on cigarettes to relax have undergone reprogramming, the physical addiction is in fact such a tiny part of their smoking problem, that it has no influence on their power to quit smoking without suffering from withdrawal.

Now, I must advise you that despite the unparalleled success that clients have had with stop smoking hypnosis and NLP CDs and DVDs, you must possess the desire to quit smoking prior to starting a program. And in addition to the desire to quit, you must make an honest decision to quit. That means that you must be ready and willing to throw your cigarettes away.

Hypnosis cannot be used to force you to do something you do not wish to do, so no program can coerce you to give up smoking. But if you have the wish to quit smoking, and you make a determination to quit smoking, hypnosis will help you to remain comfortable 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 and NLP to help clients stop smoking. He offers both audio hypnosis CDs, and Neuro-VISION Video hypnosis to stop smoking CDs. Visit his self hypnosis website for free hypnosis resources & videos.

- Alan B. Densky, CH