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Quit Your Cigarette Addiction With Hypnosis

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Breaking the smoking habit is a necessity today, because cigarettes have been banned from restaurants and public places. And in fact, it is the smart thing to do for more reasons than health alone. This article explores the very best Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques that can be used to make it as painless as possible to break the addiction to cigarettes and tobacco.

There are three separate factors to a cigarette smoking addiction. Two of the components are mental/emotional, and one part is physical.

Part A: YOU SMOKE FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.

When you were a baby and you got restless, your mother would put a nipple into your mouth to calm you down. You would get distracted, become more peaceful, and often go to sleep. That sequence of events was repeated hundreds of times so that your unconscious mind was programmed: When something goes into your mouth, you get relaxation and pleasure from it.

Now that you are mature, if you feel nervous or tense, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - a cigarette!

Part B: SMOKING IS A CONDITIONED RESPONSE.

Remember Pavlov? He rang a bell every time that he fed his dogs. After a few repetitions, he would just ring the bell, and the sound of the bell would trigger the dogs to salivate.

When you connect smoking a cigarette with any other behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings for a cigarette and a feeling of urgency that makes you want to smoke. This is called a conditioned response.

For example: If you light-up a cigarette when you see someone else smoking, you will automatically get an urge to light-up a cigarette each time you see someone else smoking.

Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your subconscious: If a person smokes a cigarette and simultaneously drinks a cup of coffee, the mind takes a picture of the cigarette in the hand, and associates it to the cup of coffee. Thereafter, every time the person has a cup of coffee, the unconscious mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of the cigarette, and the smoker gets a craving for one.

You may be unaware of the mental movie of the cigarette, because it may only be at the subconscious level of mind. Just as you are not consciously aware of what you are seeing through your peripheral vision until something draws your attention to it. But the image is there, creating a craving for a cigarette.

Part C: THERE IS A PHYSICAL ADDICTION TO NICOTINE, BUT . . .

I have had the experience of working with several thousand people who smoke and I give you my guarantee that the physical addiction to tobacco is the weakest part of the smoking addiction. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the habit. 90% of the smoking habit are the mental and emotional parts! (Parts A and B).

HERE IS WHAT THIS MEANS TO A SMOKER WHO WANTS TO QUIT.

If you can eliminate the tension that pushes a smoker to light-up a cigarette for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and when you erase the conditioned response of feeling a craving for cigarettes when having a cup of coffee, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can give up cigarettes without needing willpower, and without experiencing withdrawal symptoms or gaining weight.

Self Hypnosis can help motivate a smoker to stop smoking. Self-hypnosis will make it easy to give up cigarettes because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:

Part A is where people smoke a cigarette for relaxation and pleasure. It's our thoughts which create stress. More exactly, people invariably create mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it brings about a feeling of tension.

We can use different hypnotic methods to re-program the mind to automatically take those tension creating mental pictures and movies, and quickly exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This instills relaxation and pleasure, and obliterates the tension that causes the oral compulsions and urges for a cigarette.

Because of the elimination of anxiety, the smoker who is quitting doesn't feel the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the cigarettes. So quitting without weight gain is possible.

Part B is where people smoke a cigarette because smoking becomes a conditioned response to many different activities and locations. Remember in the earlier example how smoking became unconsciously associated with other activities and environments so that each time people get into that activity or environment, the mind flashes an image of a cigarette, and the image of the cigarette triggers an urge to smoke a cigarette?

There are stop smoking hypnosis, and quit smoking NLP techniques that can effortlessly extinguish those conditioned responses so that your unconscious will lose the cravings for cigarettes, and the compulsion to smoke. As a matter of fact, you can even get a compulsion to reject the cigarettes.

IN SUMMATION

In summary, when we use certain hypnotic and NLP techniques, it becomes very easy to stop smoking without withdrawal or weight gain. And many of these methodologies do not even depend on post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on programming the subconscious to use the same thought processes that the subconscious mind is using to create the smoking habit, to eliminate the mental addiction.

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About the Author

Alan B. Densky, CH created his practice in 1978. He offers Neuro-VISION Video Stop Smoking Hypnosis DVD's and Audio Quit Smoking Self Hypnosis CDs. Visit his library of hypnosis articles or download FREE self hypnosis and NLP MP3's.

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