How many inner arguments have you had in your head about your smoking addiction? How many times have you complained to family and friends that you want to quit but seem to continue to smoke away despite the health risks and the cost? And how many methods have you tried that just didn't succeed? If you are like most people struggling with smoking, you will remember such conversations and inner dialogs and may have felt nothing will really come through for you. Unless you tried hypnosis to stop smoking, you may have been on target.

If you fervently want to cease smoking, hypnotherapy is the rational choice for reliable results. Quit smoking hypnosis can zone in on the core reasons that keep you smoking as well as equipping you with resources and guidance to be successful at last. This is not stage entertainment that is good for laughs and tricks, but a real medical therapy approved by the AMA since 1958, and one with recognized certification and a well-established ethics code.

Treatment with hypnosis does not contradict personal morals and a reputable hypnotherapist will respect your privacy and rights identical to any other medical professional. You do need a practitioner who is certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists and who adheres to their stringent code of ethics and professional conduct. Included in their code is making the physical and mental well-being of their client their main consideration. They also protect clients from verbal, mental or physical, and refer any client as required.

A trained hypnotherapist has the background to address problem behavior, and stop smoking hypnosis is the second most regular type they practice. Using methods that are considered state of the art which may include the precision of NLP enriched hypnosis and the ongoing support of self hypnosis stop smoking CD's as well as any prescription modalities a primary care physician might also suggest for a patient. Using hypnosis does not mean other measures are out of the question, but they may not even be needed at all.

The reason that expertly used hypnosis to quit smoking is the most effective method to achieve success is that it addresses the three basic issues in smoking. No method can succeed that does not address each issue fully and correct the problems each causes. Most people feel that the physical addiction to nicotine is the most important aspect and the most predominant problem, but this is simply not the case. If the addiction to the substance called nicotine were the single reason for failure, most smokers would not fail multiple times in their efforts to stop smoking for good.

Yes, nicotine is a horribly addictive substance and for most smokers the physical compulsion is very real and there are withdrawal physical responses that are also real. But did you know these last only a very few days? In fact, every bit of nicotine is flushed out of the system in just 72 hours or less! For many smokers, it is the fear of withdrawal physical symptoms and not the reality that causes the most dread and which may prevent even trying to quit at all. Yet quitting without specific training has an average 5% success rate! Hypnosis to quit smoking reduces fear of withdrawal problems and blunts the effect of any that do result.

Another characteristic of smoking cigarettes is that it provides comfort and calming, just as sucking on a pacifier tranquilizes an infant. Many people treat anxiety and stress with some form of oral soothing like smoking cigarettes or eating. Hypnotic relaxation can substitute for the comfort factor derived from smoking cigarettes, which reduces the insistent urges and produces stop smoking benefits instead. The mind can be retrained to substitute the same feelings from other activities that are helpful, not harmful. NLP techniques can teach the brain to remove any linkage between smoking cigarettes and comfort. 

Finally, part of the smoking bondage is plain old Pavlovian conditioning. Smokers learn to link smoking with certain activities, from the movie cliché of the cigarette after physical relations to automatically lighting a cigarette while consuming alcohol or watching television or talking on the phone. Here quit smoking hypnosis can permanently eliminate the connection, and when the link is no longer present, there will be no conditioned reaction to have a smoke when the coffee is poured or the cocktail is served. The mind is conditioned to associate good things with the former triggers, or to recall the advantages of quitting or the created by having the smoke. 

A highly qualified hypnotherapist will use both positive and negative associations to replace programmed associations with smoking, selecting those most meaningful for an individual patient. Hypnotherapy to quit smoking cigarettes is the only technique that can precision tune the treatment to each of the three reasons for smoking and completely eliminate them. Everyone quitting requires support, but only smoking cessation hypnosis effectively make you equipped to support yourself at any time.

Alan B. Densky, CH pioneered the use of Neuro-VISION video hypnosis to quit smoking and received a U.S. Patent for his efforts. He offers a range of stop smoking hypnosis MP3s which offer efficient assistance. Visit for Free stop smoking self-hypnosis videos and downloads.

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