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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Smoking is the number one cause of preventable death in the world today. The adverse health effects of cigarette smoking account for an estimated 443,000 deaths, or nearly one of every five deaths, each year in the United States alone.
Today, almost everyone knows the role that long-term, heavy smoking plays in developing lung cancer and heart disease. What is sometimes overlooked is that it also plays a significant role in damaging dozens of other body systems as well as your overall health.
Apart from the specific damage smoking causes to the lungs, larynx and arteries, smoking also reduces the desire to exercise in most people. This is because many smokers relate smoking to lowering stress. By using a chemical to “lower” stress, your motivation to exercise is reduced. When you lower your oxygen concentration your arteries constrict causing a “smoker’s hack”. This reduces the incentives for healthy exercise even more.
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Many smokers tell me that the reason they smoke cigarettes is to deal with stress but they still want to quit. They also tell me that no matter what method they use to try to quit smoking, the act of quitting increases their level of stress. For many people this double-whammy makes it doubly hard to stop. So if this is you or someone you know, understanding what creates stress and finding healthier ways to deal with it will help in that struggle.
First let’s analyze why cigarette smoking can seem pleasurable. At low dosages, nicotine, the main chemical in cigarettes, is a stimulant. Using nicotine increases your heart rate and raises your blood pressure. Those biological changes in your body interact to produce psychological ones in your mind. At certain levels the reactions to nicotine are perceived as pleasurable. At higher levels, nicotine seems to induce a relaxing state.
Both of these effects can appear to alleviate stress. The stimulation of nicotine generates alertness. This can be associated with a positive feeling. Of course this feeling is actually induced by the dopamine generated in your brain, which causes other changes to its pleasure centers. This release of dopamine has a clear and direct influence on your stress level. An easier and healthier way to create dopamine in your brain is to exercise.
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Today everyone knows the effects of cigarette smoking so why don’t people just quit? Over the years I have interviewed hundreds of people that tell me that they want to quit smoking but they just weren’t able to do it by themselves. After their interview, many of these people were able to stop smoking using Total Mind Therapy. Let’s examine the reasons they said kept them smoking.
1. I’m too stressed out to quit. The biggest reason people say they continue to smoke is because of the stress in their lives. In fact people blame stress for continuing in almost any type of negative habit you can imagine, from smoking to heroin addiction. As a society we have made stress the bogeyman to dump much of our personal responsibility on.
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Are you starting to decide what you are going to make for your New Year’s Resolutions yet? For smokers, one of the biggest ones is, “I want to quit smoking this year.” When January 15th rolls around and a friend asks “How is it going?” most say something like, “well I quit for a day,” or “I’m just too stressed to quit right now. I’ll have to do it later,” which of course means they will make the same resolution next New Year and have the same results.
Why People Who Want to Quit Smoking Don’t
So why don’t people just quit smoking? Here are the top two reasons people tell me that keeps them smoking:
1. I smoke because I’m stressed out. Stress is actually one of the biggest reasons people do any kind of negative habit. “I yelled at my kids because I was stressed out.” I eat chocolate when I’m stressed out.” “I use pain killers because I’m stressed out.” I’m sure you get the point. Stress is a great way to dump your responsibility about almost anything.
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A while ago I posted an article titled 8 Stop Smoking Tips that Work. Some people have asked me if I knew another method or two to help them quit smoking and I do. Here they are:
1. Start an exercise program. When you exercise you put your body into motion. Getting into motion is an excellent way to remind you why you want to quit smoking. An added benefit of exercise is that it can reduce your stress and help you relax, which is often an excuse smokers will use to continue smoking cigarettes.
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Cigarette Smoking is the number one cause of preventable deaths in the world today. The good news is that there are a number of methods to quit smoking available if you want to quit smoking.
As a martial artist I have had my share of bumps and bruises so over the years I have regularly gone to an acupuncturist. I have found that acupuncture is an excellent method for healing these types of injuries as well as helping me when my energy is low or my stress level is high.
If you want to quit smoking, acupuncture can be an excellent alternative method. I have talked with a number of people who have used this method to quit smoking successfully. I realize that some people might be skeptical about using acupuncture as a way to quit smoking but research shows that it can be very helpful for some people.
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Smoking is the number one cause of preventable deaths in the world today. You probably already know that. In fact, there’s probably not a person alive who doesn’t know that smoking cigarettes can cause cancer, heart disease and death. They know if they quit smoking they greatly improve their chances of living a long and healthy life. But even with this information, there are still tens of millions of people smoking in the U.S. and millions upon millions smoking around the world.
Most people that I know that smoke want to quit smoking. But, once you have become a smoker there is a strange dynamic that comes into play. Non-smokers, people who have never smoked a cigarette in their lives, can be very arrogant toward you. They don’t even try to hide their disdain for the habit and exhibit a holier-than-thou attitude that can be extremely annoying, to say the least. This type of attitude can, and probably often does piss you off at that person while at the same time reinforces your desire to smoke.
If this is you to tell you the truth I don’t blame you. Nobody and I mean nobody, likes to be looked down on or treated like a second class citizen. That being said, recently, laws prohibiting smoking in restaurants and bars have been expanded to public places and outdoor venues. One state has even enacted legislation prohibiting smoking in your own car! While it’s reasonable that smokers should not subject non-smokers to the poisons in their second hand smoke these laws do not help anyone who wants to quit smoking.
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It is estimated that either directly or indirectly, tobacco causes more than 400,000 deaths each year in the U.S. alone. The startling part of this statistic is that it represents nearly 20 percent of all the deaths in the U.S. One out of five deaths are either directly or indirectly a result of smoking.
According to the World health organization smoking is the leading preventable cause of premature death in the world. Tobacco related deaths around the developed world are almost identical to the death rates cause by smoking here in the United States. This means that 20 percent of all deaths are preventable.
Since more and more people understand the hazards, more and more people want to quit smoking. While the number of people who have quit smoking continues to grow, there are still approximately 47 million smokers in the U.S. If you are a smoker that wants to quit, you’ve probably read or heard tons of quit smoking information over the years, but nonetheless, you’re still smoking. Most people fail to quit smoking many times before they finally succeed.
For people who want to quit smoking, the psychological impact of failed attempts can be construed in two ways, depending on your general mindset and attitude. One group of people view the failed attempts in the glass-half-full, or positive perspective. “I quit for two days. I just have to keep on trying.” The other group, with the glass-half-empty, or negative perspective, take the negative attitude. “Oh, what’s the use? I’ll never succeed.”
This simple bit of insight is actually a way to help you quit smoking. You can use this information today, right now. Let me ask you, did you learn to ride a bike in a day? If course not. The same goes for changing habits, try, try again is the key to manipulating your own mindset. To quit smoking you need to persevere.
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Are you looking for a method to quit smoking? If you’re a smoker you’ve probably looked for all kinds of ways to quit smoking.
You want to know something interesting? Did you know that people from various cultures have been smoking tobacco in rituals or just for enjoyment for many centuries? Until the fairly recent past, people did not become addicted and nobody smoked anything near the equivalent of a pack a day. People just did not have to worry about wanting to quit smoking. It was merely an occasional pleasure or a significant event. So why is this problem today? Why do so many people want to quit smoking?
In the latter part of the 20th century doctors began issuing stern warnings on the horrible effects smoking has on a person’s health. This was presumably a new discovery. It kind of sounds like the new discovery of the $700 billion problem that fell out of the sky a few years ago and onto the United States taxpayer’s shoulders, seemingly without warning! Well that’s the same thing that happened with cigarettes. Even though tobacco manufacturers today offer advice and methods on how to quit smoking, this seems a bit incongruent. These are the same companies that sell millions of cigarettes around the world and that sell the nicotine patches to help you quit.
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