Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a long-term health condition that occurs as a result of injury to the lungs. This term is utilized to identify three medical diagnoses classified as COPD. These are emphysema, asthma, and chronic bronchitis.

Asthma develops when a person’s body perceives something in the environment, like chemicals, tobacco smoke, or foods, as dangerous. The body activates the immune system to emit proteins known as histamines. Histamines cause inflammation in lung tissues to help the body ward off invaders. This stiffens lung tissues and impairs breathing.

Persons can be diagnosed with asthma in childhood or even later in life. One of the best ways family members or friends can assist a person with asthma is to stop smoking cigarettes, because secondhand smoke is deadly. If a person newly diagnosed with asthma smokes, he or she should stop smoking immediately.

Physicians also consider chronic bronchitis to be a type of COPD. This disease develops in people who have smoked for a number of years. Cigarette smoke causes tar and bacteria to become trapped in the airways. The bacteria cause recurrent infections in the bronchi, or airway passages, of a person’s lungs.

Chronic bronchitis scars and damages these passages. Individuals with this disease have difficulty exercising or taking deep breaths. Because their airways are stiff and scarred, they develop shortness of breath with just a small amount of exertion. Frequently, if they stop smoking, many of their breathing difficulties will lessen.

The final lung disease classified as COPD is emphysema. A person’s lungs have air sacs at the very ends of the bronchi. These grape-shaped sacs, called alveoli, inflate and deflate as an individual inhales and exhales. People with emphysema develop shortness of breath and are unable to take deep breaths or exhale entirely because air stays trapped in these alveoli. If they are able to learn ways to stop smoking, these symptoms sometimes improve.

Medications and breathing exercises may help people with COPD. In spite of these treatments, however, these individuals continue to demonstrate significant levels of anxiety. Having COPD is like being underwater and holding your breath. Even though you want to remain underwater longer, you feel you must breathe – now! Therefore, you rise to the surface and take a deep breath. Unfortunately, people with COPD cannot just surface and take a deep breath. 

Some stop smoking programs help persons with COPD. Most COPD patients understand that smoking increases their breathing problems. The majority have been smoking for decades, however, which often makes trying to quit extremely hard. 

Many stop smoking programs have been developed. The majority coach people to use the conscious mind to stop smoking. Since the habit of smoking is deeply ingrained in the mind’s subconscious, few people who stop smoking through these approaches stay quit without making changes at the unconscious level. Moreover, the majority of these programs center on the smoker's physical addiction to smoking, which comprises approximately one-tenth of the addictive behavior.

A number of stop smoking programs claim to assist people to learn to relax. The most effective ones use Ericksonian hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. Polarity responses usually occur with traditional hypnosis and direct post-hypnotic suggestions.

Ericksonian hypnotherapy uses metaphors that communicate suggestions for tranquility to the subconscious to assist people to overcome the tendency to behave in a manner contrary to the suggested actions. Many people who are able to become calmer through the use of the NLP Flash technique are able to control anxiety and panic attacks better. Thus, they breathe better. 

Ericksonian Hypnosis provides an innovative alternative strategy to help clients learn how to stop smoking. Professionals who teach Ericksonian Hypnosis understand that the main issue lies in the subconscious. Therefore, they aid people at this level, through stop smoking hypnosis. Contrary to the techniques used by traditional approaches, hypnosis to quit smoking centers on stress reduction, psychological dependency, and habituation, which together make up nine-tenths of one’s smoking addiction. 

Because of Ericksonian hypnotherapy and NLP, COPD patients can live a higher quality of life. These therapies coach those with breathing problems to decrease anxiety. In addition, they assist remove subconscious connections between nicotine and environmental factors. This stops nicotine cravings. These methods offer hope for people with COPD.

Summary: Three chronic lung problems are classified as COPD. These are asthma, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema. Minimizing anxiety that occurs because of breathing problems and finding ways to stop smoking are probably the most effective methods of helping individuals with COPD experience a higher quality of life. Ericksonian hypnosis and NLP strategies aid clients to control anxiety and stop smoking.

Alan B. Densky, CH is the developer of the easiest way to quit smoking cigarettes with hypnotherapy. He now offers an effective Stop Dipping Tobacco program based on the same methods. Learn more at his self hypnosis downloads site where you can watch Free hypnotherapy videos and articles.

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