Cigarette Smoking Side Effects - How To Instantly Break The Addiction With Hypnosis

                                                                                         

Smoking is an addictive and harmful habit that affects the lives of millions of people around the globe. We now know the perils of cigarette smoking and smokers are encouraged to find ways to stop smoking for their own health. This is not easy to do, as smokers begin at an early age. The average age at which many people begin to smoke is thirteen years old.

A habit formed at such an early age is not easily broken. Nicotine affects the body in many ways and it is hard to break this addiction without some assistance. There are many different diseases associated with smoking. Most smokers will require assistance to quit smoking and a variety of methods exist for this very purpose.

There are many factors that contribute to why people begin smoking and develop an addiction to cigarettes. The main reason that people start to smoke is peer pressure. It is deemed cool to be able to smoke. It also is forbidden which makes it all the more attractive to teenagers, thus the low starting age for many people. This young age makes quitting smoking more difficult 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 believe that smoking is a safe activity. Parents can wield the biggest influence over their children by setting a good example and discussing smoking, its dangers, and expressing their desire for their children not to smoke. Parents who smoke are far more likely to have children who smoke.

Smokers begin to crave nicotine, a drug within tobacco. Nicotine can affect your mind and body in many negative ways. Nicotine, once inhaled into the lungs reaches the brain in a matter of just eight seconds. Once there, nicotine affects your blood pressure and heart rate. Over time it can increase your bad cholesterol levels and cause the narrowing of your arteries. Nicotine in concentrated doses is a lethal poison, so imagine the damage it does to your body. Nicotine is also addictive and one of the reasons many cannot quit the habit.

Smoking can impact your health on a variety of levels. Getting winded playing a game is one side effect of smoking. More serious smoking related diseases include emphysema and cancer. Heart disease and stroke are also closely associated with cigarette smoking. A person who quits smoking will dramatically reduce their risk of developing these diseases for every year they can go smoke free.

These smoking-related medical conditions often have grave consequences. Lung cancer is nearly always fatal unless detected very early and a full 80% of lung cancer cases are caused by smoking. Lung and heart disease can take years from your life unless you learn how to quit smoking. There is no cure for emphysema, only limited treatment options, plus the damage to your lungs cannot be repaired. Stop smoking benefits include a healthier, longer life and a better quality of life.

There are several different methods to quit smoking, and you must choose the best method for you as an individual. Nicotine patches and gums are made 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 guide you through quitting. 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 withdrawal or weight gain. Hypnotherapy has a high success rate with smokers who have made a decision to quit smoking. Quit smoking hypnotherapy 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 physical addiction to nicotine makes up only about 10% of the cigarette smoking addiction, the psychological aspects of the habit make up a full 90% of the cigarette smoking addiction. Hypnosis treats this aspect of the addiction.

In addition, 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 you from stressful thoughts, and towards relaxing, positive thoughts. In addition, the very essence of hypnosis is that it incorporates a state of deep relaxation.

And about 45% of the smoking behavior is caused by conditioned responses. This is when smoking is associated with other activities and events at the unconscious level of mind. For example, if you smoke and simultaneously watch television, your unconscious will associate the image of a cigarette in your hand with the image of the TV. Each time you see the TV, your unconscious flashes an image of the cigarette in your hand, and you experience an urge to smoke.

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

In summary: While most smokers think that their inability to quit smoking is based on their addiction to nicotine, in truth it's the mental and emotional 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. Hypnosis for quitting smoking is the second most common use of hypnotherapy today.

While hourly rates for hypnotherapists climb higher and higher, there are effective self hypnosis programs available that can greatly reduce the cost of obtaining hypnosis treatment. Since everyone is different, there are no specific "magic" words or post-hypnotic suggestions that will work for everyone. So when choosing hypnosis CDs, look for those 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 CD and DVD sets equates to far less than the amount that an average smoker spends every month on buying cigarettes.

About the author:
Alan B. Densky, CH developed the Video Hypnosis quit smoking technology which helps smokers easily break the habit. He also created many ways to quit smoking using Ericksonian Hypnosis and NLP. Visit the Neuro-VISION self help hypnosis site for free hypnotherapy videos and MP3s.

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