Frequently one session with a professional hypnotist followed by a self-hypnosis recording is all it takes to quit. You can increase the odds that you will change permanently with a combination of outside and self-help. This will give you better odds for winning long term health.
There are more than a dozen schools of hypnotherapy (NLP) so be sure to do your research and choose the one that appeals to you most. You can also mix and match techniques to create an effective path to your ultimate goal of permanent smoking cessation.
One very popular technique is known as hypnosis. This therapeutic method has been in practice since the late 1800s. In the olden days, hypnosis was thought to be a hoax. Today, many health professionals recognize it as a very powerful way to change behavior. Understand that physical addiction is just one aspect of the smoking habit. You must adjust your mind if you want long term change.
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According to Allan M. Brandt a professor at Harvard Medical School, in the 1990’s more Americans died of tobacco related diseases than the combined total of those who died from alcohol, AIDS, road accidents, fire, murder, suicide and illegal drugs. The World Health Organization predicts that more than ten times as many people will die from using tobacco products this century.
Studies show that exposure to tobacco in any form can significantly increase your risk of heart disease, lung disease and cancer. In a recent study of over 27,000 subjects published in the British Medical Journal, researchers found that people exposed to second hand smoke for more than 21 hours a week have a 62 percent increased risk of having a heart attack. The same study found that merely breathing second hand smoke for an hour a week increased that risk by 15 percent and smokers were three times more likely to have a heart attack than non-smokers.
I help smokers quit smoking using Total Mind Therapy It’s been my experience that nearly all smokers want to quit smoking. The fact is that most have, many times. A study showed that nearly 70 percent of our nation’s 44.5 million smokers want to quit smoking but only 5 percent of those who try to quit actually succeed.
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If you want to quit smoking there are many different types of therapies to help you. Cold turkey is one way, which of course means to quit smoking with no therapy all at once. While this does work for some people and is very beneficial to your physical health, most people find this a very difficult method to quit smoking.
Since I use hypnotherapy to help people quit smoking I have interviewed hundreds of people who have used nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). NRT can be a very helpful way to help a person quit smoking because addresses the physical addiction. Using nicotine replacement therapy a person can gradually wean themselves off of nicotine.
Since nicotine is a drug that induces a dependency, when a person tries to quit smoking, they often suffer physical withdrawal symptoms that can make life unpleasant until they pass. These symptoms include the “smoker’s flu” which mimics a cold or flu accompanied by irritableness, grumpiness and fatigue. By the way, these are the most common symptoms you might experience after you quit smoking. A few other common withdrawal symptoms are headaches, coughs and sore throats. NRT allows the smoker to use gums, patches, sprays, inhalers, or lozenges with nicotine in them so they can break the smoking habit without experiencing severe withdrawal symptoms. This is accomplished by lowering the dose of nicotine over a period of time until the body no longer craves it.
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We all know that cigarette smoking is bad for our health. In fact, by now, nearly everyone on the planet is aware of the dangers of cigarette smoking. Even knowing the dangers, there are over 3000 kids that start smoking every day!
Now like I said, nearly all of us are aware of the hazards of smoking. When I started smoking, packs of cigarettes had just began to have the warning “Caution: Cigarette Smoking May be Hazardous to Your Health” printed on their side. This was the first government effort to inform people that smoking was bad for you. Since then, fighting the battle against cigarettes has been a case of the tobacco industry versus common sense.
Unfortunately common sense does not prevail and our government continues to rather ineffectually attempt to legislate our behavior. At the same time the tobacco industry continues to spend hundreds of millions of dollars fighting the legislation and promoting their products of death.
Legislation passed on April 1, 2009 nearly doubled the price of tobacco. I believe that the rationale was that, by making tobacco products so expensive, especially in the economy we are now experiencing, this would be great method to help smokers quit smoking, simply because of the cost.
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There are many ways that you can quit smoking, but some just won’t work – for you. That does not mean they are not effective, it just means that they were not effective – for you. Most people try three to five times and just as many ways before they successfully quit smoking. Some people take even more tries. Some find they can stop smoking on the first attempt, but that is not usually the case. If you have tried different methods to quit smoking that have failed in the past, since many people have used hypnotherapy to stop smoking, you may want to consider this method. Hypnosis can help you quit smoking also – if you want it to.
The power of suggestion may be part of why some can use hypnosis for smoking cessation. They believe it is going to work so it does. Also, studies have shown that there is really something to this type of method to quit smoking. Your subconscious mind is very powerful. It is where all your habits and addictions are stored. While some people have subconscious brains that resist addictions, others are not so inclined. For example, there is evidence that shows that alcoholism might not run in a family but rather addiction does. That is important to keep in mind.
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When I was in the Navy I smoked, sometimes as much as two packs a day. After I got out of the Navy I used a combination of hypnotherapy and visualization to quit smoking. Since learning of the power of hypnotherapy to help people stop smoking, I have helped hundreds of people quit. I think it is the number one best thing you can do for your long term health. There are as many reasons as there are methods to quit smoking. Here are nine of the best reasons I know to quit smoking for good.
1. Smoking Causes Poor Circulation and Heart Disease
Smoking can kill you a number of ways. The most prominent is heart disease. There were 831,272 deaths due to heart disease in 2006. It continues to be the number one cause of death in the United States. Smoking is responsible for 30 percent of all heart attacks and cardiovascular deaths. Nicotine, the main ingredient in cigarettes, raises your blood pressure and makes your blood clot more easily. When your blood clots more easily it gets stuck in your veins causing poor circulation and heart attacks.
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