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Breaking the smoking addiction really is a necessity in our times
, because smoking cigarettes has been banned from eateries and other public places. In fact, it's the smart thing to do for more reasons than good health alone. This editorial explores the very best hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming methodologies that can be used to make it as painless as possible to break the addiction to tobacco.
There are three individual factors to the addiction to cigarettes. Two of the components are mental/emotional, and one part is physical.
Part A: You Smoke For Relaxation And Pleasure.
When you were an infant and you became cranky, your mother would put a pacifier into your mouth to distract you from that upset. You would get distracted, become mellow, and often go to sleep. That scenario was repeated thousands of times so that your unconscious mind was programmed: When something goes into your mouth, you get relaxation and pleasure from it.
Now that you are a grownup, if you feel tense or anxious, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - a smoke!
Part B: Smoking Is A Conditioned Response.
Remember Pavlov? He rang a bell every time that he fed his dogs. After a few repetitions, he could just ring the bell, and the sound of the bell would trigger the dogs to salivate.
When you connect smoking with any other behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings for a cigarette and a feeling of urgency to smoke. This is called a conditioned response.
For example: If you smoke a cigarette when you drive your car, you will automatically get an urge to light-up a cigarette each time you drive your car.
Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your subconscious: If a person smokes a cigarette and simultaneously drinks a cup of coffee, the mind takes a snapshot of the cigarette in the hand, and links it to the cup of coffee. Thereafter, every time the person sees a cup of coffee, the mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of a cigarette, and the smoker gets a craving for a cigarette.
You may be unaware of the mental picture of the cigarette, because it may only be at the subconscious level of mind. Just as you are not consciously aware of what you are seeing through your peripheral vision until something or someone draws your attention to it. But the image is there, creating a craving for a cigarette.
Part C: There Is A Physical Addiction To Nicotine, But . . .
I've worked face-to-face with several thousand people for smoke cessation and I give you my personal guarantee that the physical addiction to tobacco is the weakest part of the habit. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the addiction. 90% of the habit are the mental and emotional parts! (Parts A and B).
Here Is What This Means To A Smoker Who Wants To Quit.
When you eliminate the tension that pushes you to put cigarettes into the mouth for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and when you erase the conditioned response of feeling a compulsion for cigarettes when having a cup of coffee, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can give up smoking without needing willpower, and without suffering from withdrawal symptoms or gaining weight.
Hypnosis can help encourage a smoker to quit. Hypnosis will make it easy to give up smoking because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:
Part A is where smokers light-up a cigarette for relaxation and pleasure. It's your thoughts which create anxiety. Moreover, people invariably watch mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it causes a feeling of tension.
We can use different NLP techniques to re-program the subconscious mind to easily take those stress producing mental images, and automatically exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This creates relaxation and pleasure, and obliterates the stress that causes the oral compulsions and urges for cigarettes.
Because of the elimination of feelings of anxiety, the smoker who is quitting does not experience the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the cigarettes. So quitting without weight gain is possible.
Part B is where smokers light-up a cigarette because smoking becomes a conditioned response to many different activities and locations. Remember in the earlier example how smoking became unconsciously associated with other activities and environments so that each time you get into that activity or environment, the mind flashes an image of a cigarette, and the image of the cigarette causes cravings for a cigarette?
There are powerful NLP techniques that can quickly eliminate those conditioned responses so that a smoker's subconscious will lose the cravings for cigarettes, and the compulsion to smoke. As a matter of fact, you can even get a compulsion to reject the cigarettes.
In Summary.
In summation, when we use certain NLP techniques, it becomes very easy to stop smoking without weight gain or having to suffer from withdrawal. And many of these methodologies don't even require post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on training the mind to use the same mental processes that the unconscious is using to create the addiction to cigarettes, to eliminate the mental addiction.
by: Alan Densky
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