How many inner arguments have you had with yourself about your smoking habit? How many times have you mentioned to family and friends that you want to end the habit but seem to stay caught in a smoking rut despite the health risks and the wasted money? And how many methods have you tried that just flopped? If you are like most people addicted to smoking, you will remember such inner dramas and may have felt nothing will really succeed for you. Unless you tried stop smoking hypnosis, you may have been on target.
If you sincerely want to quit smoking, neurolinguistic therapy with hypnosis is the reasonable choice for real success. Smoking cessation hypnotherapy can address the main reasons that keep you smoking as well as equipping you with resources and boost to be successful once and for all. This is not stage entertainment that is good for laughs and tricks, but a real medical therapy approved by the AMA since 1958, and one with accreditation and strict rules of conduct.
Hypnosis does not change your moral values and a responsible hypnotist will honor your privacy and protect your rights just the same as any other medical professional. You do need a practitioner who is verified by the National Guild of Hypnotists and who supports their stringent ethical and professional standards. Included in their code is making the mental and physical welfare of all clients foremost. They also defend clients from mental, physical or verbal abuse, and make outside referrals as appropriate.
A skilled hypnotist has the experience and training to address problem behavior, and quit smoking hypnotherapy is the second most frequent type they practice. Using the most current methods which may include the precision of NLP enriched hypnosis and the ongoing enhancement of self hypnosis stop smoking CD’s as well as any physician directed modalities a doctor might also dictate for a patient. Using hypnotherapy does not mean other measures are out of the question, but they may not be at all necessary.
The reason that skillfully used stop smoking hypnosis is the most effective method to achieve success is that it addresses the three basic factors in smoking. No method can succeed that does not address each issue fully and correct the problems each causes. Most people think that the physical addiction to nicotine is the most important element and the biggest problem, but this is simply not factual. If the addiction to the substance called nicotine were the only reason for failure, most smokers would not fail four, five, six or even more 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 physical responses that are also real. But did you understand 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 symptoms and not the reality that causes the most dread and which may prevent even attempting to quit. Yet quitting without therapy has an average 5% success rate! Hypnosis to quit smoking reduces fear of withdrawal symptoms and blunts the effect of any that do result.
Another component of smoking is that it provides relaxation, just as using a pacifier soothes and calms babies. Many people treat stress and anxiety with some form of oral soothing like smoking cigarettes or eating. Hypnotic relaxation can replace the comfort factor received from smoking cigarettes, which reduces the insistent urges and produces the benefits of quitting instead. The mind can be conditioned to substitute the same feelings from other activities that are beneficial, not harmful. Neurolinguistic techniques can educate the brain to remove any linkage between smoking cigarettes and comfort.
In conclusion, part of the smoking addiction is plain old Pavlovian conditioning. Smokers learn to connect smoking with certain activities, from the movie cliché of the cigarette after physical relations to automatically lighting a cigarette while consuming alcohol or watching television or talking on the phone. Here stop smoking hypnosis can permanently sever the connection, and when the link is no longer present, there will be no conditioned reaction to have a smoke when the coffee is poured or the cocktail is presented. The mind is conditioned to associate good things with the former triggers, or to recall the helpful effects of quitting or the negatives of the tobacco.
A skilled hypnotist will use both negative and positive associations to replace conditioned associations with smoking, selecting those most powerful for an individual smoker who wants to quit. Quit smoking hypnosis is the only treatment modality that can fine tune the treatment to each of the three factors in smoking and completely eliminate them. Virtually everyone quitting requires support, but only smoking cessation programs using hypnotherapy effectively make you your own instant and always available support system.
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