Stop Smoking

I’ve helped a lot of people quit smoking. While doing this, I’ve been told a lot of reasons why it is good to smoke.

I’ve been told smoking sharpens your mind, relaxes you, calms you, keeps you from yelling at the kids (or spouse), tastes good with coffee, tastes better after a meal. In short, makes you feel “better”. (I always ask “better than what”?)

I know you don’t completely believe these reasons, or why know you should quit smoking. I also know a part of you DOES believe these things, and more.

The obvious and overlooked part is you must have a strong reason to continue smoking or you would have already stopped. By the way, there is no law that says your reason to keep smoking has to make any logical sense. It rarely does.

You’ve probably already proven your reasons untrue. Smoking might taste better with coffee because the coffee taste on your tongue covers the bad taste of smoking???

Even when you know the reason doesn’t make sense, that knowledge doesn’t always help you stop. It might just add to your frustration in the struggle to stop. Just one more reason to stop that doesn’t out-weigh the craving to continue.

It all comes down to two things. The belief that smoking will make you feel better and what you’re trying to feel better than. That’s it.

If you’re too hot, you look for ways to cool off. If you’re leg hurts you look for pain relief. If you feel bad (tired, stressed, overwhelmed, angry, lonely, whatever…) you look to feel good. If you have held the belief that smoking makes you feel good, that’s where your mind takes you.

This is an only slightly simplified explanation of a craving. Most smokers have more than one type of craving like, the ‘first thing in the morning’ craving feels different than the ‘after lunch’ craving. But the same model applies.

So how to help this situation? I can spend a few articles explaining it (and I have, look for them) But, it comes down to changing the feelings, motivations and beliefs involved.

First, feeling bad needs to be looked at and helped. If it’s stress, get it managed, if it’s a bad situation, do what you can to fix it or get help.

Second, you belief that smoking helps you feel good (it’s probably the innocent mistake that smoking equals being an adult, in control, strong, capable, etc…) In truth, a cigarette is a plant leaf and chemicals wrapped in paper. The good feeling you’re anticipating from smoking is created by your mind. YOU make yourself feel better when you smoke. So it only makes sense that you can make yourself feel good by doing something that is healthy. If, your mind believes it makes you feel good.

And that’s the trick. quit smoking is mainly about modifying behavior. That’s why the success rate of medication and nicotine replacement alone is so poor. The only current exception is Chantix and even Pfizer, the makers of Chantix, recommend behavior modification along with the medication.

A quality quit smoking hypnosis program is available for download from Quick Hypnosis!

There are now lots of available treatment for people who love to smoke, whether the treatment be psychological or medical. In terms of medical means, there are laser treatments along with a few therapies. But to cure it in a psychological level, hypnosis for smoking is emerging to be a well-recommended method for most smokers. But to be able to make this approach effective, one needs the help of an expert.

The number of practitioners of this method is constantly growing and hence, it is now a familiar topic for anyone whom you might stumble upon for a conversation. Its effectivity has been proven firmly that is led to its easy acceptance of the market.

The only scary thought in the concept is the inclusion of the word hypnosis. Since this term is more commonly associated with potions, magic, and others that are paranormal. With this, it helps to be more knowledgeable about the concept of hypnosis and why it should not be as scary as it seems.

This is just a state where your subconscious is to serve you dominant. It is believed that through this, changing one’s life is taken easy. For instance, if you are a smoker who wants to quit smoking, then hypnosis can make your thinking clearer about really stopping the vice.

The most common problem why people who are trying to quit smoking are relapsing is because of withdrawal effects. But if you look closely, these withdrawal effects are just the products of your mind. This is the thinking that you cannot function well without the substance and thus being manifested to physical symptoms.

By dealing directly to the mind, which is the cause of the problem, hypnosis for smoking is considered as the most effective approach in quitting tobacco use. In this way, you can start living a new and clean life free from these substances.

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