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The Best Way To Break Your Cigarette Addiction Is With Hypnosis And Nlp
By Alan B. Densky, CH
Quitting smoking may be a necessity today, because smoking has been banned from restaurants and other public places. And in fact, it is the intelligent thing to do for more reasons than health alone. This article explores the very best hypnosis and NLP methods that can be employed to make it as painless as possible to break the addiction to cigarettes.
There are 3 individual elements contained in a cigarette addiction. Two of the elements are mental/emotional, and one part is physical.
Part A: YOU SMOKE FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.
When you were a child and you got upset, your mother would put a bottle into your mouth to distract you from that upset. You would get distracted, become peaceful, and often fall asleep. That scenario was repeated thousands of times so that your unconscious mind was programmed: When something goes into your mouth, you get relaxation and pleasure from it.
Now that you are fully-grown, if you feel tense or nervous, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - a cigarette!
Part B: SMOKING IS A CONDITIONED RESPONSE.
Remember Pavlov? He rang a bell every time that he fed his dogs. After a few repetitions, he could just ring the bell, and that would make the dogs salivate.
When you connect smoking a cigarette with any other activity, the other activity will trigger cravings for a cigarette and an urge that makes you want to smoke. This is called a conditioned response.
For example: If you light-up when you watch a movie, you will automatically get an urge to light-up a cigarette each time you go to the movies.
Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your subconscious: If a person smokes and simultaneously drinks a cup of coffee, the mind takes a picture of the cigarette in the hand, and links it to the cup of coffee. Thereafter, every time the person sees a cup of coffee, her mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of a cigarette, and the smoker gets a craving for one.
You may not be consciously aware of the mental picture of the cigarette, because it may only be at the subconscious level of mind. Just as you are not consciously aware of what you are seeing through your peripheral vision until someone or something draws your attention to it. But the image is there, creating a craving for a cigarette.
Part C: THERE IS A PHYSICAL ADDICTION TO NICOTINE, BUT . . .
I've worked face-to-face with several thousand smokers and I give you my guarantee that the physical addiction is the weakest part of the habit. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the addiction. 90% of the smoking habit are the mental and emotional parts! (Parts A and B).
HERE IS WHAT THIS MEANS TO A SMOKER WHO WANTS TO QUIT.
What this means is that as soon as you eliminate the tension that makes you put
into your mouth for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and if you can extinguish the conditioned response of feeling an urge for when having a cup of coffee, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can give up smoking without requiring willpower, and without suffering from withdrawal symptoms or weight-gain.
Self-hypnosis will make it easy to give up smoking because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:
Part A is where people light-up for relaxation and pleasure. It's your thoughts which create feelings of anxiety. More specifically, people invariably create mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it manufactures a feeling of stress.
We can use different NLP and Hypnosis methods to train the subconscious to instantly take those stress producing mental pictures and movies, and quickly exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This manufactures relaxation and pleasure, and obliterates the stress that creates the oral urges for a cigarette.
Because of the elimination of anxiety, the smoker who is quitting does not experience the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the cigarettes. So quitting without weight gain is possible.
Part B is where people light-up because smoking becomes a conditioned response to many different activities and locations. Remember in the earlier example how smoking became unconsciously associated with other activities and environments so that each time you get into that activity or environment, the mind flashes an image of a cigarette, and the image of the cigarette creates an urge to light-up?
There are effective and powerful hypnosis and NLP methods that can effortlessly extinguish those conditioned responses so that a person's subconscious mind will lose the cravings for cigarettes, and the compulsion to smoke. As a matter of fact, you can even get a compulsion to reject the cigarettes.
IN SUMMARY
In summation, by utilizing certain NLP techniques, it becomes very easy to stop smoking without withdrawal or weight gain. And many of these hypnotic methods do not even require post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on training the subconscious to use the same mental processes that the subconscious mind is using to create the addiction to cigarettes, to eliminate the mental addiction. Alan B. Densky, CH started his practice in hypnosis in 1978. He has worked one-on-one with over ten-thousand clients for hypnotic weight loss and stress related symptoms. He maintains a free library of original NLP & hypnosis articles, and offers FREE hypnosis and NLP MP3's.
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