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How many inner arguments have you had in your head about your smoking habit? How many times have you mentioned to family and friends that you want to end the habit but seem to go on smoking despite the risks and the wasted money? And how many therapies have you tried that just flopped? 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 stop smoking hypnosis, you may have been correct. If you fervently want to cease smoking, hypnosis is the reasonable choice for reliable results. Quit smoking hypnosis can target the most significant reasons that keep you smoking as well as giving you the tools and guidance to be successful at last. 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. Hypnotherapy doesn't change your moral values and a reputable hypnotherapist will respect your privacy and rights identical to any other medical professional. You do want one who is approved by the National Guild of Hypnotists and who adheres to their stringent code of ethics and professional conduct. Included in their code is putting the mental and physical welfare of clients uppermost. They also shield clients from mental, physical or verbal abuse, and make outside referrals as required. A well trained practitioner has the experience and training to address problem behavior, and quit smoking hypnotherapy 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 support of CD’s for stop smoking hypnosis as well as any medical modalities a PCP might also dictate for a patient. Using hypnotherapy does not mean other measures are excluded, but they may not be at all necessary. The reason that professionally used stop smoking hypnosis is the most effective method to ensure success is that it addresses the three basic factors in smoking. No method can succeed that does not address each issue completely and correct the problems each causes. Most people believe that the physical addiction to nicotine is the most important factor and the biggest problem, but this is simply not true. If the addiction to the substance called nicotine were the sole reason for failure, most smokers would not fail multiple times in their efforts to quit for good. Yes, nicotine is a powerfully addictive substance and for most smokers the physical compulsion is very real and there are withdrawal symptoms that are also real. But did you understand these last only a very few days? In fact, every bit of nicotine is metabolized 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 therapy has an average five percent rate of success! Stop smoking hypnosis reduces fear of withdrawal symptoms and greatly reduces the effect of any that do occur. Another component of smoking is that it provides calming and comfort, just as using a pacifier tranquilizes an infant. Many people treat anxiety and stress with some form of oral soothing like smoking cigarettes or eating. Hypnotic relaxation can substitute for the comfort factor received from smoking cigarettes, which reduces the cravings and produces the benefits of quitting instead. The mind can be trained to substitute the same sensations from other activities that are beneficial, not harmful. Neurolinguistic techniques can teach the brain to remove any association between smoking cigarettes and comfort. Lastly, part of the smoking addiction is plain old Pavlovian habit formation to stimuli. Smokers learn to connect smoking with certain activities, from the movie cliché of the cigarette after physical relations to feeling the need for a cigarette while drinking or viewing TV or talking on the phone. Here hypnosis to quit smoking can permanently sever the connection, and when the link is no longer present, 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 good things with the former triggers, or to recall the benefits of quitting or the negatives of the tobacco. A professional hypnotherapist will use both positive and negative associations to replace conditioned associations with smoking, selecting those most powerful for an individual client. Self-Hypnosis to quit smoking is the only method 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 hypnosis effectively make you your own instant and always available support system.
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Alan B. Densky, CH developed the use of Neuro-VISION video hypnosis to stop smoking and received a U.S. Patent for his invention. He offers a list of stop smoking hypnosis CDs which produce efficient assistance. Visit him for Free stop smoking self-hypnosis videos and downloads.
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