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The typical person endeavors to quit smoking between four to six times before they are successful. If you have tried gum, patches, prescriptions or willpower alone with no success, make your final attempt successful with stop smoking hypnosis.

Of all of the ways to quit smoking, hypnosis is literally the most simple and has the most successful track record. If you are willing to consistently listen to and watch CDs and DVDs specifically intended to curb your cravings to smoke, then quit smoking hypnosis will be successful for you.

Many smokers think that they cannot quit smoking because of their addiction to nicotine, but that simply is not true. Medical professionals agree that after seven to ten days - even as soon as three days - all nicotine has been cleared from the body, which leaves smokers to work with the more arduous and far reaching emotional and psychological addiction to smoking cigarettes.

There are countless techniques to quit smoking, but only one method can address both the cravings and the emotional compulsion: quit smoking hypnosis. Many people who have a strong desire to quit still end up asking themselves, “Why can’t I simply stop smoking?”

The answer is clear to hypnotherapists. The part of you that will not let you quit smoking is the unconscious. You cannot alter your unconscious mind by force of will or with a prescription, patch or gum. You need the right kind of help.

In order to quit smoking, support is imperative, but most people do not understand that the best support comes from within their own unconscious. Hypnosis is the most successful method to guarantee that your whole psyche is working to help you stop smoking. That’s because hypnosis provides a persuasive way of communicating with the unconscious mind.

Stop smoking hypnosis helps you overcome the urge to smoke by removing the compulsion to light up. When the urge and compulsion to smoke are subtracted, quitting becomes an easy decision that you can make without difficulty. The best stop smoking hypnosis programs are effective because they work to eliminate the most powerful components of the smoking addiction.

The first component of a successful stop smoking hypnosis program addresses the need to smoke for relaxation and pleasure. This model was actually established when you were an infant. Likely, when you were cranky, your mother or father gave you a bottle on which to suck. Then your attention got diverted; you relaxed and likely went to sleep. Cigarette smokers obtain the same relaxing effect from a cigarette.

With quit smoking hypnosis, your unconscious is reprogrammed to receive relaxation and pleasure by unconsciously trading stress-inducing thoughts with calming thoughts instead, all via the use of the very same triggers that formerly made you anxious. This makes the tension almost disappear magically. In addition, the very essence of hypnosis is relaxation. So by listening to a soothing hypnotherapy CD daily, anxiety levels will quickly fade.

The second component of an effective stop smoking hypnosis program will help you address the habituation, or the “Habit.” Habituation occurs when the unconscious forms an association between smoking and other behaviors, such as driving or watching TV. Perhaps the second that you turn on the television you are fighting with a craving to smoke.

An effective stop smoking hypnosis DVD or CD can reprogram your unconscious associations so that watching TV, for example, actually makes you want to REJECT smoking! This is called, no pun intended, extinguishing a conditioned response.

Here is a news flash! The physical addiction to nicotine is only about ten percent of the addiction. Ninety percent of the addiction to cigarettes is comprised of the emotional and mental components that we’ve discussed so far. And as stated earlier in this article, medical professionals maintain that the body is void of nicotine in as little as three days.

People who use Neuro-Linguistic Programming and quit smoking hypnosis CDs and DVDs realize that when their smoking associations and dependence on cigarettes for relaxation have undergone reprogramming, the physical addiction is essentially such a minuscule part of their smoking habit, that it has no impact on their capability to quit smoking without suffering from withdrawal.

Now, I must advise you that regardless of the unprecedented success that clients have had with stop smoking hypnosis and NLP CDs and DVDs, you must possess the desire to quit smoking prior to commencing a program. And besides the desire to quit, you must make an honest decision to quit. That means that you must be ready and willing to throw your cigarettes away.

Hypnosis CDs and DVDs cannot be used to force you to do something you do not desire to do, so no program can coerce you to stop smoking. But if you have the desire to quit smoking, and you make a decision to quit smoking, hypnosis will help you to remain relaxed and not experience cravings, tension or withdrawal symptoms. Let hypnosis and NLP give you the support you need.

Alan B. Densky, CH is a pioneer in the use of Ericksonian Hypnosis and NLP to help smokers quit smoking. He offers both audio hypnotherapy CDs, and Neuro-VISION Video hypnosis to quit smoking CDs. Visit his hypnosis website for free hypnosis videos & resources.

- Alan B. Densky, CH