Aids For Quitting Smoking

Smokers who are looking to quit smoking have a number of ways to make the task easier

. If you want to stop smoking you will find it extremely difficult without help of some sort:

Buy an Electronic Cigarette

There are now many electronic cigarettes available (although avoid the cheap ones) and these may be a good option depending on what you want to achieve. These are sold as an alternative to smoking normal cigarettes which is cheaper, cleaner and harmless to others. They can supply nicotine (at various levels) but this can gradually be reduced to zero. The electronic cigarette satisfies your psychological need to smoke so you are not actually stopping smoking but doing it in a harmless way.

Use physical products to relieve symptoms

There are also many products that help relieve the withdrawal symptoms that you experience when quitting smoking. Some like Zyban are medicines which can have side effects and some like Smoke Deter (which is a homeopathic sublingual spray) are natural products. It is really a case of finding what suits you best.

Hypnosis

However, of all the quitting smoking aids, hypnosis is probably the most effective. This is nothing like the stage acts where a hypnotist makes people do silly things. Here the treatment will only work if you really want to quit smoking and are prepared to do something about it.

The reason hypnosis is successful if that the major part of an addition to cigarettes is psychological rather than physiological. That is not to underestimate the physical addition which will make the first week or so very unpleasant. But after that period it is the mental and emotional aspects of smoking that are the problem.

The reason is that smokers come to sub consciously associate particular activities and situations with smoking. This can be anything from social situations or drinking coffee through to watching TV. Hypnosis aims to break these associations so that you do not crave cigarettes when they occur. It also helps you to stay focused on the reasons why you wanted to quit in the first place which keeps motivation high. Hypnosis will help you train your unconscious mind to focus on the advantages of stopping smoking whilst at the same time removing the cravings caused by previous conditioned responses.

Of course this cannot be achieved overnight and will require commitment from you.

Best Way Forward

With any method of quitting smoking the key is to really mean it. If you are just doing it reluctantly to please someone else you will not succeed. However, if you are determined, it does not have to be an agonizing process. You can use a physical product to help with the nicotine withdrawal symptoms and hypnosis to address the psychological addition. This should mean that you lose the cravings to smoke and give you the best chance to remain a non-smoker long term.

by: John Latno

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