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How many inner discussions 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 stay caught in a smoking rut despite the health risks and the cost? And how many methods have you tried that just failed? If you are like most smokers, you will remember such conversations and inner dialogs and may have felt nothing will really come through for you. Unless you tried NLP and hypnosis to quit smoking, you may have been correct. If you honestly want to quit smoking, hypnosis is the reasonable choice for reliable success. Smoking cessation hypnotherapy can zone in on the main issues that keep you smoking as well as equipping you with resources and boost to be successful at last. 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 a strong code of ethics. Hypnosis doesn't contradict personal morals and a reputable hypnotherapist will honor your privacy and protect your rights like 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 putting the mental and physical welfare of clients uppermost. They also protect clients from verbal, mental or physical, and make outside referrals as needed. A well trained practitioner has the background to address problem behavior, and hypnotherapy to stop smoking is the second most frequent type they practice. Using state of the art which may include the precision of NLP enriched hypnosis and the ongoing support of stop smoking self hypnosis CD’s as well as any pharmacological approaches a physician might also prescribe for a patient. Using medical hypnosis does not mean other measures are prohibited, but they may not be at all necessary. The reason that expertly used smoke cessation hypnotherapy is the most effective method to attain success is that it addresses the three basic issues in smoking. No method can work 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 most predominant problem, but this is simply not the case. If the addiction to the compound called nicotine were the single reason for failure, most smokers would not fail four, five, six or even more times in their efforts to stop smoking for good. Yes, nicotine is a horribly addictive substance and for most smokers the physical dependence is very real and there are withdrawal physical responses that are also real. But did you realize these last only a short time? In fact, every bit of nicotine is eliminated out of the system in just three days 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 trying. Yet quitting without specific training has an average 5% success rate! Stop smoking hypnotherapy reduces fear of withdrawal distresses and blunts the effect of any that do result. Another characteristic of smoking is that it provides relaxation, just as sucking on a pacifier soothes and calms an infant. Many people treat stress and anxiety with some form of oral activity like smoking cigarettes or eating. Hypnotic relaxation can substitute for the comfort factor derived from smoking cigarettes, which reduces the cravings and produces the benefits of quitting instead. The mind can be conditioned to substitute the same feelings from other activities that are helpful, not harmful. Neuro-linguistic programming techniques can educate the brain to remove any connection between smoking cigarettes and comfort. Lastly, part of the smoking habit is plain old Pavlovian habit formation to stimuli. Smokers learn to associate smoking with certain activities, from the movie cliché of smoking immediately after physical relations to having a cigarette while drinking or watching TV or talking on the phone. Here stop smoking hypnosis can permanently delete the association, and when the link is no longer present, there will be no stimulus to light up when the coffee is poured or the cocktail is served. The mind is trained to associate positive things with the former triggers, or to recall the helpful effects of quitting or the created by having the tobacco. A skilled clinical practitioner will use both positive and negative associations to replace conditioned associations with smoking, selecting those most compelling for an individual client. Self-Hypnosis to quit smoking is the only technique 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 hypnosis effectively make you your own support team.
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Alan B. Densky, CH invented the use of Neuro-VISION video stop smoking self hypnosis and received a U.S. Patent for his labors. He offers a range of quit smoking hypnosis CDs which give effective assistance. Visit for Free quit smoking hypnosis videos and downloads.
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