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How many inner conversations have you had with yourself about your smoking habit? How many times have you mentioned to family and friends that you want to quit but seem to stay caught in a smoking rut despite the health risks and the cost? And how many programs have you tried that just flopped? If you are like most people struggling with smoking, you will remember such shattered hopes and may have felt nothing will really come through for you. Unless you tried NLP and hypnosis to quit smoking, you may have been on target. If you fervently want to quit smoking, neurolinguistic therapy with hypnosis is the sensible choice for true results. Smoking cessation hypnotherapy can target the main issues that keep you smoking as well as giving you the tools and guidance to be successful for good. This is not smoke and mirrors, but a proven treatment approved by the AMA since 1958, and one with established credentials and a well-established ethics code. Treatment with hypnosis does not override values and a reputable hypnotherapist will protect your rights and privacy like any other medical professional. You do need a practitioner who is approved by the National Guild of Hypnotists and who adheres to their stringent ethical and professional standards. Included in their code is putting the mental and physical welfare of clients uppermost. They also protect clients from physical, mental or verbal, and make outside referrals as required. A skilled hypnotist has the skills to address problem behavior, and hypnotherapy to stop smoking is the second most common type they practice. Using the most current methods which may include the precision of NLP hypnosis and the ongoing extra support 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 achieve success is that it addresses the three basic concerns in smoking. No method can work that does not address each issue totally and correct the problems each causes. Most people think that the physical addiction to nicotine is the most important factor and the worst problem, but this is simply not factual. If the addiction to the substance called nicotine were the single reason for failure, most smokers would not fail multiple times in their efforts to give up the habit for good. Yes, nicotine is a terribly addictive substance and for most smokers the physical dependence is very real and there are withdrawal sensations that are also real. But did you know these last only a very few days? In fact, every bit of nicotine is flushed 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 trying. Yet quitting without specific training has an average five percent success rate! Stop smoking hypnosis reduces fear of withdrawal problems and blunts the effect of any that do occur. Another attribute of smoking is that it provides calming and comfort, just as using a pacifier soothes and calms an infant. 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 cravings and produces stop smoking benefits instead. The mind can be retrained to substitute the same feelings from other activities that are positive, not negative. Neuro-linguistic programming techniques can educate the brain to remove any linkage between smoking cigarettes and comfort. Lastly, part of the smoking addiction is plain old Pavlovian conditioning. Smokers learn to link smoking with certain activities, from the movie cliché of the cigarette after physical relations to automatically lighting a cigarette while having a beer or cocktail or viewing TV or chatting on the phone. Here hypnosis to quit smoking can permanently remove the association, 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 conditioned to associate positive things with the former triggers, or to recall the advantages of quitting or the created by having the cigarette. A skilled hypnotist will use both positive and negative associations to replace conditioned associations with smoking, selecting those most meaningful for an individual smoker who wants to quit. Quit smoking hypnosis is the only method that can custom fit the treatment to each of the three factors in smoking and eliminate them. Anyone knows quitting requires support, but only stop smoking hypnosis programs effectively make you equipped to support yourself at any time. Alan B. Densky, CH invented the use of Neuro-VISION video hypnosis to stop smoking and received a U.S. Patent for his labors. He offers a range of stop smoking hypnotherapy CDs which give effective help. Visit him for Free stop smoking self-hypnosis videos and downloads.
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