How to Stop Smoking Using Hypnotherapy

If you are trying to quit smoking, you know how difficult it is to eliminate this injurious addiction. However, it is possible, and half of all adult smokers will succeed in quitting smoking forever. Many smokers succeed in quitting smoking cigarettes by replacing them with different, more positive habits without having to experience withdrawal symptoms. By far, the most effective, easiest method to quit smoking and accomplish this end is stop smoking hypnosis.

Hypnosis for smoking cessation is one of the most commonly practiced forms of hypnotherapy. It is often cited as a tool for quitting smoking along with strategies such as nicotine replacement therapy and other popular techniques. It helps end the smoking addiction by combating cravings for cigarettes, keeping you committed to quitting, and promoting relaxation and stress relief so you will not feel the need to smoke.

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

By far, the most challenging part of quitting smoking 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 unconsciously develop a desire to smoke at certain times, such as every morning after breakfast. This is called a conditioned response. Quit smoking hypnosis works to eliminate the unconscious relationships that cause one to crave cigarettes, thereby eliminating the conditioned compulsion to smoke. Hypnosis also helps you stay motivated to cease smoking by reinforcing your ideas that gave you the wish to quit smoking in the first place.

Smokers get stuck in the ritual of lighting up and smoking. This is why many people who attempt to quit smoking using nicotine gums or patches alone are unable to quit. They rapidly overcome the physical withdrawal, but they have no relief or replacement for the ritual of smoking, which has become a habit and pleasurable source of stress relief. Stop smoking hypnosis techniques eliminate this habit and serve as stress reducers as well. As a relaxation tool, hypnosis helps effectively relieve stress and anxiety so you will lose the cravings for cigarettes.

By adding effective NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques, stop smoking hypnosis can keep you committed to breaking the habit by training your unconscious mind to focus on the benefits of quitting. Eliminating tobacco benefits you in many 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 significantly. Within weeks, lung function and circulation improve. Within a 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 your risk of death from lung cancer and a number of other cancer risks have decreased.

In spite of the harmful effects of smoking and the benefits of quitting, some smokers never overcome their addiction. For the most part, this is because they've never really made a decision to quit. Other smokers are afraid to experience withdrawal symptoms or let go of the smoking habit. Quitting smoking does not have to be the torturous process that makes so many smokers hesistant to even attempt quitting. Hypnosis is a very simple, natural method of quitting.

Hypnosis for quitting smoking is a powerful implement for extinguishing cravings for cigarettes, providing powerful motivation, and promoting relaxation and stress relief to eliminate the psychological addiction to smoking. Stop smoking hypnotherapy techniques can be learned with ease from specialized self-hypnosis CDs that have been developed after decades of experience using hypnosis, Neuro-VISION video hypnotherapy, and NLP to get clients to give up smoking.

Hypnotherapy CDs make it easy to quit smoking permanently because they break the smoking addiction in a process that helps eliminate cravings and the desire to smoke. Whatever your motivation is for quitting, hypnosis makes it easier to focus your mind on these reasons, which makes you feel a powerful urge to quit. Stop smoking hypnosis CDs eliminate the urge to smoke. Although quitting smoking can be a painful and unsuccessful experience for some, those who utilize stop smoking self hypnosis CDs have a much greater percentage of success because it makes the process a 'slam-dunk'. Hypnosis is the most effective method for smoke cessation.

Alan B. Densky, CH pioneered the use of video stop smoking aids and received a U.S. Patent on the process. He offers effective hypnotic help to stop smoking if you are ready to quit smoking now. http://www.neuro-vision.us/SmokingCessation1.html