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How can Hypnotherapy help me to Stop Smoking?
How does it work?
Using a combination of positive suggestion and visualisation and NLP techniques I can make it easier for you to get rid of smoking without craving cigarettes. In fact you will be surprised to find that you feel confident and relaxed, not only after the session, but continuing throughout the following weeks. Your friends and family will be amazed at how you have given up so easily!
What about putting weight on if I give up?
Any possible alternative habits are taken care of in the carefully worded session and you will find that you feel great, without resorting to other habits such as nail-biting or overeating.
What about people tempting me afterwards?
Because most people are able to quit without tension or irritability there should be no temptation to continue smoking if somebody offers you a cigarette. The desire to smoke to reduce stress simply won't be there.
Hypnotherapy helps you to stop smoking by using the power of your subconscious mind to change your thinking processes, making it much easier to stop. I have noticed that people in Plymouth and Devon have used their will power to try and stop. This creates irritability, mood swings, bad temper, cravings and possible weight gain. Hypnotherapy was proven to be the best method of Stopping Smoking. The findings were as a result of an in-depth study, not only in Plymouth in Devon but all over the world, of all methods of stopping smoking.
David Pollock, Director of ASH, said he was surprised by the success of hypnosis, which anecdotal evidence had suggested was not very effective. One organisation not surprised by the results is the British Society of Medical & Dental Hypnosis. Christopher Pattinson, the society's Academic Chairman, said that current hypnosis techniques are a far cry from their popular image of music-hall tricks involving swinging fob watches. The latest relaxation techniques achieve success rates of up to 60 per cent from a single session, he said.
Stop playing Russian roulette with your health.
“It’s never too late to get rid of smoking”
Stop Smoking in One Session Using the best of Clinical Hypnotherapy and NLP
By Lyta Humphris, Plymouth, Devon.
Overcoming Your Dependence on Tobacco and Addiction to Nicotine
Are you tired of being 'ruled' by a cylinder of tobacco wrapped in paper – if so, then I’ve got some good news for you - simply wanting to stop smoking is a large part of the battle to successfully giving up smoking.
The only way to stop smoking is to overcome the psychological dependence on tobacco and the physical addiction to nicotine.
To slowly stop smoking is not recommended - because in this way you are only teasing your body - and the desire to smoke still remains.
One of the main reasons people want to stop smoking is that they want their body to be healthy - and free from the toxins contained in cigarette smoke. An easy way to stop smoking is to get aware of all the health problems that smokers are likely to experience.
Tobacco use accounts for about one third of all cancer deaths in the United States – and smokeless tobacco carries many of the same health risks as cigarettes.
Some scientists have stated that the addiction to tobacco is harder to break than the addiction to heroin – but hypnotherapists strongly disagree – with many able to re-program a smoker’s brain within two hours.
As well as causing bad breath, tobacco use is a major cause of body odour – it certainly makes your clothes smell! Few tobacco-related lessons are taught in school – maybe telling students that smoking cigarettes will make them smell, will horrify them more than telling them they may get cancer.
Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Reducing tobacco use, especially cigarette smoking, is a public health priority – and giving up smoking is the single best thing you can do for your health.
Giving up smoking isn’t easy - but the health benefits are worth it. Most people are aware that smoking cigarettes is bad for your health - as a smoker, you've heard many stories about smoking and health. In the United Kingdom every packet of cigarettes has ‘SMOKING KILLS” printed in large letters on the side of the packet – UK smokers can’t say nobody told them!
Smoking is a habit, which leads to potentially serious health problems. The health benefits of stopping smoking begin almost immediately – and the sooner you’re able to quit smoking, the sooner your health risks are reduced.
Nicotine replacement products and other medications can help you stop smoking. Using nicotine products can certainly help to reduce the craving and severe withdrawal symptoms you feel when you try to stop smoking.
There are various forms of nicotine replacement products, and nicotine given as gum, patches, nasal spray or inhaler is the most widely used method for helping people stop smoking. About 20 out of 100 people who use nicotine replacement therapy stop smoking for at least 12 months, compared with 12 out of 100 people who don't use it.
Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) stops, or reduces, the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal – but to break free from smoking, you need to break free from nicotine.
How you feel when you stop smoking depends on how much you smoked, how addicted your body is to nicotine - and how ready you are to stop smoking.
Choosing to stop smoking is much more powerful than having to stop – and an easy way to stop smoking is to see a hypnotherapist. Research shows that using hypnosis to stop smoking is as effective as any other stop smoking technique.
Another major reason to stop smoking is financial – and it’s much better to pay for a two hour stop smoking session than to continue to pay for cigarettes for the rest of your life – which may turn out to be shorter than you expected.