How to Kick Cigarettes Smoking Using Hypnosis - written by Alan B. Densky, CH

If you are one who is trying to quit smoking, you know how difficult it is to eliminate this harmful addiction. However, it is possible, and half of all adult smokers are able to successfully quit smoking forever. Many smokers succeed in quitting smoking cigarettes by replacing them with new, more positive habits without having to suffer through withdrawal symptoms. By far, the most effective, easiest method to stop smoking and achieve this end is stop smoking hypnotherapy.

Hypnosis for smoking cessation is one of the most regularly practiced forms of hypnotherapy. It is often cited as a tool to stop smoking along with strategies such as the use of nicotine patches and gums and other popular techniques. It helps end the smoking addiction by combating cravings for cigarettes, motivating you to stay committed to quitting, and promoting stress relief and relaxation so you will not be tempted to smoke.

The smoking addiction is made up of both physiological and psychological components. The physiological addiction is a physical need the body develops to nicotine. This component of the addiction is what causes the withdrawal symptoms that make it initially seem near impossible to stop smoking. However, this is a short, temporary stage in the overall process of quitting the habit, lasting only between three days and one week. By the end of this time period, your body acclimates to regular, nicotine-free functioning. Based on thirty years of experience, I believe that the physical addiction to nicotine represents a mere ten percent of the addiction to smoking.

By far, the most challenging part of breaking the smoking addiction is overcoming the psychological addiction, which are the mental and emotional aspects of smoking. I believe this represents ninety percent of the cigarette addiction. When you develop a smoking habit, you develop an unconscious desire to smoke in certain environments, such as after waking up in the morning. This is called a conditioned response. Quit smoking hypnotherapy helps eliminate the unconscious relationships that cause you to crave cigarettes, thereby eliminating the conditioned compulsion to smoke. Hypnotherapy also helps you stay motivated to cease smoking by reinforcing your ideas that gave you the desire to break the smoking addiction in the first place.

Smokers get stuck in the habit of following a ritual of lighting up and smoking. This is why people who attempt to stop smoking using nicotine patches or gums alone often are unable to successfully quit. They promptly overcome the physical addiction, but they have no replacement or relief for the ritual of smoking, which has become a habit and comforting source of stress relief. Self-hypnosis techniques eliminate this mental addiction and serve as stress reducers as well. As a relaxation tool, hypnosis helps effectively relieve anxiety and stress so you will lose the desire to smoke cigarettes.

Combined with effective NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques, stop smoking hypnotherapy can keep you motivated to stop smoking by training the unconscious to focus on the benefits of quitting. Eliminating tobacco benefits you in numerous ways. Within days of quitting, body parts damaged by smoking begin to heal, damaged nerves re-grow, and your sense of taste and smell improves. Within a few weeks, lung function and circulation improve. Within one year, your risk of heart disease is less than half that of a smoker. Within five to fifteen years, your risk of having a stroke is the same as a non-smoker. Your risk of heart disease is the same as someone who has never smoked, and the risk of death from lung cancer and numerous other cancer risks have decreased.

In spite of the dangers of smoking and the benefits of quitting, some smokers never overcome their habit. For the most part, this is because they have never seriously made a decision to quit. Other smokers are afraid to suffer from withdrawal symptoms or live without the smoking habit. But quitting smoking does not have to be the difficult process that makes so many smokers unwilling to even attempt quitting. Hypnosis is a very simple, natural technique for quitting.

Stop smoking hypnosis is a powerful implement for easing cravings for cigarettes, creating powerful motivation, and promoting relaxation and stress relief to eliminate the psychological part of the smoking addiction. Hypnosis techniques to stop smoking can be learned from specialized self-hypnosis CDs that have been developed after decades of experience using hypnosis, NLP, and Neuro-VISION video hypnotherapy to get clients to kick the cigarette addiction.

Hypnosis CDs make it easy to stop smoking for good because they break the smoking addiction in a process that helps extinguish cravings and the desire to smoke. Whatever your motivation is for quitting, hypnosis CDs makes it easier to focus your mind on these reasons, which makes you feel a strong urge to quit. Stop smoking hypnotherapy CDs eliminate the impulse to smoke. Although quitting smoking can be a painful and unsuccessful experience for some, those who take advantage of hypnosis have a far greater percentage of success because it makes the process much easier. Hypnosis is the most effective method for smoke cessation.