Cigarette Smoking Side Effects - How To Instantly Break The Habit Using Hypnotherapy

                                                                                         

Smoking is a harmful and addictive habit that affects the lives of millions of people around the world. Today, we are aware of the dangers of smoking, and smokers are encouraged to quit smoking for the benefit of their own health. This is not easy to do, as smokers begin at an young age. The average age of a new smoker is only thirteen years old.

A habit formed at that age is not easily broken. Nicotine affects many parts of the body and it is hard to break this addiction without some help. There are many different diseases which can be caused by smoking. Most smokers will require some help on how to quit smoking and many methods exist for this very purpose.

There are many different reasons why people begin smoking and develop an addiction to cigarettes. The main reason that people try smoking is peer pressure. Some young people believe smoking will make them seem more mature, and increase their popularity with their peers. It also is forbidden which makes it all the more alluring to rebellious teenagers, hence the low starting age for many people. This young age makes quitting smoking more challenging in your later years.

Media can also influence the decision to begin smoking. Smoking in movies or on television can lead someone; especially a younger person to think that smoking is a harmless activity. Parents can wield the biggest influence over their children by setting a good example on how to quit smoking. Mothers and fathers who smoke are much more likely to have children who start to smoke.

Smokers begin to crave nicotine, a drug within tobacco. Nicotine can affect your body and mind in many harmful ways. Nicotine, once inhaled into the lungs reaches the brain in a mere eight seconds. Once in your brain, nicotine affects your heart rate and blood pressure. Over time it can increase your bad cholesterol and cause the narrowing of your arteries. Nicotine in concentrated doses is a lethal poison, so you can imagine the effects on your body. Nicotine is also addictive and this is why many smokers cannot quit the habit.

Smoking can affect your health on a variety of levels. Low stamina is one side effect of smoking. More serious smoking related diseases include emphysema and cancer. Heart disease and stroke are also closely linked to cigarette smoking. A person who quits smoking will dramatically reduce their risk of developing these diseases for every year they go without smoking.

These smoking-related medical conditions often have grave consequences. Lung cancer is almost always fatal unless caught very early and 80% of lung cancer cases are caused by smoking. Heart and lung disease can take years from your life unless you learn how to quit smoking. Emphysema cannot be cured but only managed, plus the damage to your lungs cannot be repaired. The benefits of quitting smoking include a healthier, longer life and a better quality of life.

There are many different ways to quit smoking, and you must choose the right method for you as an individual. Nicotine gums and patches are designed to help you slowly withdraw from the nicotine addiction. These only work for about 10% of the people who use them. Going cold turkey is another option and this is effective for up to 11% of the smokers who try to quit this way. Other popular methods to quit smoking include an herbal kit that can show you how to quit smoking. It has a success rate similar to that of nicotine gums and patches.

Hypnosis for smoking cessation is a very popular option for those who want to quit smoking without experiencing withdrawal symptoms or weight gain. Hypnotherapy has a high success rate with smokers who are trying to quit smoking. Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation might sound like an extreme solution but it delivers solid results up to 70% of the time. This success rate is many times that of other methods.

The reason hypnotherapy for smoking cessation is so effective is that it while the addiction to nicotine makes up only about 10% of the cigarette smoking addiction, the mental and emotional aspects of the habit make up about 90% of the smoking addiction. Hypnotherapy treats this aspect of the addiction.

Additionally, 45% of the smoking behavior is caused by stress, and hypnotherapy has proven to be a safe and effective tool that can help reprogram the mind to divert it from stressful thoughts, and towards more positive and relaxing thoughts. In addition, the very essence of hypnosis is that it incorporates a deep state of relaxation.

Another 45% of the smoking behavior is prompted by conditioned responses. This is when smoking is associated with other situations at the unconscious level of mind. For example, if you smoke while watching TV, your unconscious will associate the image of a cigarette in your hand with the image of the TV. Every time you watch TV, your unconscious flashes an image of the cigarette in your hand, and you experience an urge to smoke.

Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation is routinely used to "extinguish" the conditioned responses by disassociating the unconscious links between cigarettes and TV, drinking coffee, working on your computer, driving, or any other environment where an unconscious association has been formed.

In summary: Although most smokers believe that their inability to quit smoking is based on their addiction to nicotine, in truth it is the mental aspects of smoking that present the largest barriers. Hypnotherapy was accepted by the American Medical Association in 1958 as an effective tool for quitting smoking. And hypnosis for smoke cessation is the second most common use of hypnotherapy today.

While hourly rates for hypnotherapists climb higher and higher, there are effective hypnosis CDs available that can greatly reduce its cost. Since everyone is different, there are no specific "magic" words or post-hypnotic suggestions that will work for everyone. So when choosing a self hypnosis program, look for programs that incorporate a broad variety of hypnotic and NLP techniques in a series of at least six or more sessions to obtain the best possible results. In any case, the fee for the very best self hypnosis programs equates to much less than the amount that an average smoker wastes each and every month on cigarettes.

About the author:
Alan B. Densky, CH invented the Video Hypnosis quit smoking program which helps smokers easily quit the habit. He also created other ways to quit smoking with Ericksonian Hypnosis and NLP. Visit the Neuro-VISION self improvement hypnosis site for free hypnosis videos and downloads.

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