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Hypnosis Can Break Your Smoking Habit Right Now
By Alan B. Densky, CH
Breaking the smoking addiction may be a necessity today, because have been banned from eateries and public places. And in fact, it is definitely the intelligent thing to do for more reasons than health alone. This article explores the very best Neuro-Linguistic Programming methodologies that can be utilized to make it as painless as possible to break the addiction to tobacco and cigarettes.
There are 3 separate components to a smoking 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 toddler and you became upset, your mother would put a bottle into your mouth to calm you down. You would get distracted, become calmer, and often go to sleep. 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 a grownup, if you feel agitated, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - a smoke!
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 the sound of the bell would trigger the dogs to salivate.
When you associate smoking a cigarette with any other activity, the other activity will trigger cravings for a cigarette and an urge to light up a cigarette. This is called a conditioned response.
For example: If you smoke a cigarette 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 a cigarette and simultaneously drinks a cup of coffee, the mind takes a picture of the cigarette in the hand, and associates it to the cup of coffee. Thereafter, every time the person sees a cup of coffee, her subconscious 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 be unaware 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 something or someone 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 with several thousand people who smoke and I guarantee you that the physical addiction is the weakest part of the habit. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the addiction to cigarettes. The strongest parts of the smoking addiction 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 when you eliminate the anxiety that makes
you light-up a cigarette for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and if you can extinguish the conditioned response of feeling a craving for when having a cup of coffee, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can quit smoking without requiring willpower, and without having to experience withdrawal symptoms or weight-gain.
Self-hypnosis will make it easy to quit smoking because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:
Part A is where smokers smoke a cigarette for relaxation and pleasure. It's your thoughts which create tension. More exactly, people invariably play mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it brings about a feeling of stress.
We can use various hypnotic methods to program the mind to quickly and easily take those stress producing mental movies, and automatically exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This manufactures relaxation and pleasure, and obliterates the stress that causes the oral cravings and compulsions for a cigarette.
Because of the elimination of tension, the smoker who is quitting doesn't experience the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the cigarettes. So quitting without weight gain is possible.
Part B is where smokers smoke 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 smokers get into that activity or environment, the mind flashes an image of a cigarette, and the image of the cigarette triggers an urge to smoke a cigarette?
There are stop smoking hypnosis, and quit smoking NLP techniques that can effortlessly erase those conditioned responses so that a smoker's unconscious 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 summary, when we use certain hypnotic and NLP techniques, it can be very easy to stop smoking without weight gain or having to suffer from withdrawal. And many of these hypnotic techniques do not even require post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on programming the mind to use the same thought processes that it is using to create the addiction to cigarettes, to eliminate the mental addiction. Alan B. Densky, CH opened his professional practice in hypnosis in 1978. He has worked one-on-one with over 10,000 clients for stress related symptoms including weight loss hypnosis. He maintains a library of original NLP & hypnosis articles, and offers FREE NLP & hypnosis newsletters and MP3's.
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