Hypnosis To Quit Cigarettes Can Eliminate Your Health Concerns
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 continue to smoke away despite the risks and the wasted money? And how many methods have you tried that just didn’t succeed? If you are like most smokers, you will remember such shattered hopes and may have felt nothing will really come through for you. Unless you tried hypnosis to stop smoking, you may have been on target.
If you fervently want to stop smoking, hypnotherapy is the reasonable choice for real cures. Quit smoking hypnosis can zone in on the main issues that keep you smoking as well as equipping you with resources and boost to be successful once and for all. This is not stage entertainment that is good for laughs and tricks, but a reputable therapy approved by the AMA since 1958, and one with accreditation and a well-established ethics code.
Hypnotherapy does not override values and a responsible hypnotherapist will respect your privacy and rights like any other medical professional. You do need a practitioner who is certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists and who follows their stringent ethical and professional standards. Included in their code is making the physical and mental well-being of their client their main consideration. They also shield clients from physical, mental or verbal, and refer any client as needed.
A well trained practitioner has the experience and training to address problem behavior, and hypnotherapy to quit smoking is the second most frequent 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 stop smoking self hypnosis CD’s as well as any prescription approaches a primary care physician might also suggest for a patient. Using medical hypnosis does not mean other measures are out of the question, but they may not be needed at all.
The reason that professionally used stop smoking hypnosis is the most effective method to ensure success is that it addresses the three basic issues in smoking. No method can truly work that does not address each issue totally and correct the problems each causes. Most people believe that the physical addiction to nicotine is the most important element and the biggest problem, but this is simply not the case. If the addiction to the substance called nicotine were the sole reason for failure, most smokers would not fail so many times in their efforts to end smoking for good.
Yes, nicotine is a dramatically addictive substance and for most smokers the physical compulsion is very real and there are withdrawal symptoms that are also real. But did you realize these last only a short time? In fact, every bit of nicotine is eliminated out of the system in just 72 hours or less! For many smokers, it is the fear of withdrawal discomforts and not the reality that causes the most distress and which may prevent even attempting to quit. Yet quitting without training has an average 5% rate of success! Hypnosis to quit smoking reduces fear of withdrawal problems and greatly reduces the effect of any that do result.
Another component of smoking cigarettes is that it provides comfort and calming, just as sucking on a pacifier calms and soothes a baby. Many people treat anxiety and stress with some form of oral activity like smoking cigarettes or eating. Hypnotic relaxation can substitute for the comfort factor derived from smoking cigarettes, which reduces the strong cravings and produces the benefits of quitting instead. The mind can be retrained to substitute the same feelings from other activities that are positive, not negative. Neurolinguistic techniques can train the brain to remove any connection between smoking cigarettes and comfort.
In conclusion, part of the smoking habit is plain old Pavlovian habit formation to stimuli. Smokers learn to link smoking with certain activities, from the movie cliche of smoking immediately after physical relations to feeling the need for a cigarette while consuming alcohol or viewing TV or talking on the phone. Here stop smoking hypnosis can permanently sever the connection, and when the link is no longer there, there will be no cue to have a smoke when the coffee is poured or the cocktail is served. The mind is trained to associate beneficial things with the former triggers, or to recall the helpful effects of quitting or the bad things about the smoke.
A certified hypnotist will use both positive and negative associations to replace conditioned associations with smoking, selecting those most compelling for an individual smoker who wants to quit. Quit smoking hypnosis is the only treatment modality that can precision tune the treatment to each of the three reasons for smoking and eliminate them. Virtually everyone quitting requires support, but only smoking cessation programs using hypnotherapy effectively make you your own support team.
Alan B. Densky, CH pioneered the use of Neuro-VISION video quit smoking self-hypnosis and received a U.S. Patent for his invention. He offers a list of quit smoking hypnotherapy CDs which produce valuable assistance. Visit for Free quit smoking hypnosis videos and downloads.
- Alan B. Densky, CH