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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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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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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Most of us have been affected by the illness or death of someone who smokes. According to the World Health Organization, cigarette smoking is the number one cause of preventable deaths in the world today. That’s why I decided to help people to stop smoking using Total Mind Therapy, a combination of hypnosis and NLP, to give people that wanted to quit a method to quit smoking that works. Since I started I have helped hundreds of people become smoke free for life. During that time I’ve asked each one of my clients why they thought they hadn’t succeeded so far. From what I could seem the biggest common denominator is usually because they hadn’t found a way to quit smoking that worked for the long haul.
Now, although I believe you should quit as soon as possible, just dropping your cigarettes in the trash often isn’t the best method to quit smoking. Most people that quit cold turkey fail so, unless you are ready to white knuckle it you might not want to use this method to quit smoking.
That may sound like bad advice from someone who helps people quit smoking but my research has shown me that only about 5 to 7 percent of the people who try to quit this way actually succeed. What you want to do is take some time to think about how you can set yourself up for success rather than failure.
For example, you can find some great ways to quit smoking on the internet. With all information available to quit smoking on the internet I’m sure you can find one that can work for you. Whatever plan you choose, make sure you have all the pieces in place before you actually quit. This gives you a much higher probability that you will succeed.
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I think that most people that smoke today understand the risks of smoking. But sometimes, in order to make a decision to quit smoking, it takes information and reinforcement. This article was written to remind you of the risks of smoking and, if you have a loved one who smokes, what you can do about it.
I help people quit stop smoking with Total Mind Therapy, which is a term I coined that uses a combination of hypnosis and NLP for smoking cessation. I tell you that because I want you to know I have talked with thousands of people about their smoking habits. I have found that smokers find it’s easier to quit when they have a method to quit smoking that works and good reasons to quit.
Part of those reasons involves the risks smoking brings to their health. Another reason many people quit smoking today is that it is becoming more and more socially unacceptable. In fact, some people make it a point to hate smokers and will make loud, rude comments about a person who is smoking. These are usually people who have never smoked a cigarette in their life.
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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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