Cigarette Side Effects A Reason For Worry? Kill The Urge with Stop Smoking Hypnotherapy

How many inner dialogs have you had in your head about your smoking compulsion? How many times have you complained to family and friends that you want to quit 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 didn't succeed? 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 on target.

If you fervently want to quit smoking, hypnotherapy is the sensible choice for reliable results. Hypnotherapy to quit smoking can target the most significant reasons that keep you smoking as well as giving you the tools and boost to be successful once and for all. This is not a mere parlor trick, but a proven treatment approved by the AMA since 1958, and one with accreditation and a strong code of ethics.

Hypnosis does not change your moral values and a reputable hypnotherapist will respect your privacy and rights identical to any other medical professional. You do want one who is certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists and who adheres to their stringent code of ethics and professional conduct. Included in their code is making the physical and mental well-being of their client their main consideration. They also shield clients from mental, physical or verbal abuse, and refer clients to others as needed.

A trained hypnotherapist has the background to address problem behavior, and stop smoking hypnosis is the second most common type they practice. Using state of the art which may include the precision of NLP hypnosis and the ongoing enhancement of self hypnosis stop smoking CD's as well as any medical approaches a physician might also prescribe for a patient. Using hypnotherapy does not mean other measures are excluded, but they may not be needed at all.

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 truly work that does not address each issue totally and correct the problems each causes. Most people believe that the physical addiction to nicotine is the most important aspect and the worst 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 sensations that are also real. But did you realize these last only a very few days? In fact, every bit of nicotine is eliminated out of the system in just 72 hours or less! For many smokers, it is the fear of withdrawal discomforts and not the reality that causes the most dread and which may prevent even trying. Yet quitting without training has an average five percent success rate! Hypnosis to quit smoking reduces fear of withdrawal problems and mitigates the effect of any that do occur.

Another attribute of smoking is that it provides comfort and calming, just as using a pacifier tranquilizes babies. Many people treat anxiety and stress 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 the benefits of quitting instead. The mind can be retrained to substitute the same perceptions from other activities that are positive, not negative. Neuro-linguistic programming techniques can educate the brain to remove any linkage between smoking cigarettes and comfort.

Finally, 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 drinking or viewing TV or talking on the phone. Here stop smoking hypnotherapy can permanently eliminate the connection, 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 presented. The mind is conditioned to associate good things with the former triggers, or to recall the benefits of quitting or the negatives of the cigarette.

A professional clinical practitioner will use both positive and negative associations to replace programmed associations with smoking, selecting those most powerful for an individual patient. Quit smoking hypnosis is the only treatment modality that can precision tune the treatment to each of the three reasons for 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.

Alan B. Densky, CH pioneered the use of Neuro-VISION video hypnosis to quit smoking and received a U.S. Patent for his labors. He offers a range of quit smoking hypnotherapy CDs which produce valuable assistance. Visit for Free quit smoking self-hypnosis videos and downloads.