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How many inner conversations have you had in your head about your smoking habit? How many times have you complained 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 flopped? If you are like most smokers, you will remember such inner dramas and may have felt nothing will really come through for you. Unless you tried hypnosis to stop smoking, you may have been right.

If you honestly want to quit smoking, neurolinguistic therapy with hypnosis is the sensible choice for true cures. Smoking cessation hypnotherapy can zone in on the most significant issues that keep you smoking as well as giving you the tools and support to be successful for good. This is not stage entertainment that is good for laughs and tricks, but a reputable therapy approved by the AMA since 1958, and one with accreditation and a strong code of ethics.

Hypnotherapy does not override values and a responsible practitioner will protect your rights and privacy identical to any other medical professional. You do want one who is approved by the National Guild of Hypnotists and who follows their stringent ethical and professional standards. Included in their code is making the physical and mental well-being of their client their main consideration. They also defend clients from mental, physical or verbal abuse, and refer clients to others as required.

A well trained practitioner has the skills to address problem behavior, and quit smoking hypnotherapy is the second most common type they practice. Using state of the art which may include the precision of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and the ongoing support of self hypnosis stop smoking CD’s as well as any prescription measures a physician might also dictate for a patient. Using medical hypnotherapy does not mean other measures are excluded, but they may not be needed at all.

The reason that skillfully 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 truly work that does not address each issue completely and correct the problems each causes. Most people think that the physical addiction to nicotine is the most important factor and the most predominant problem, but this is simply not factual. If the addiction to the chemical 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 compulsion is very real and there are withdrawal symptoms that are also real. But did you realize these last only a short time? 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 symptoms and not the reality that causes the most distress and which may prevent even trying to quit at all. Yet quitting without therapy has an average five percent rate of success! Hypnosis to quit smoking reduces fear of withdrawal distresses and mitigates the effect of any that do happen.

Another component of smoking cigarettes is that it provides relaxation, just as sucking on a pacifier tranquilizes 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 strong cravings and produces stop smoking benefits instead. The mind can be retrained to substitute the same sensations from other activities that are positive, not negative. Neurolinguistic techniques can educate the brain to remove any linkage between smoking cigarettes and comfort.

In conclusion, part of the smoking habit is plain old Pavlovian conditioning. Smokers learn to connect smoking with certain activities, from the movie cliche of smoking immediately after physical relations to automatically lighting a cigarette while consuming alcohol or watching television or chatting on the phone. Here stop smoking hypnotherapy can permanently delete the association, and when the link is no longer present, there will be no stimulus to light a cigarette 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 advantages of quitting or the bad things about the tobacco.

A skilled hypnotist will use both positive and negative associations to replace programmed associations with smoking, selecting those most compelling for an individual client. Hypnosis to quit smoking cigarettes is the only method 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 support team.

Alan B. Densky, CH invented the use of Neuro-VISION video quit smoking self-hypnosis and received a U.S. Patent for his hard work. He offers a range of quit smoking hypnotherapy CDs which give efficient help. Visit him for Free quit smoking self-hypnosis videos and downloads.

- Alan B. Densky, CH