The Fastest Way To Break Your Cigarette Addiction Is With NLP and Hypnosis
By: Alan B. Densky, CH
Breaking the smoking addiction is a necessity today, because smoking cigarettes has been banned from restaurants and other public places. In fact, it is the smart thing to do for more reasons than health alone. This commentary explores the very best hypnosis methods that can be utilized to make it as painless as possible to break the addiction to tobacco and cigarettes.
There are 3 distinct factors to the addiction to tobacco. Two of the components are mental, and only one part is physical.
Part A: YOU SMOKE FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.
When you were a toddler and you became upset, your mother would put a nipple into your mouth to calm you down. You would get distracted, become mellow, and often fall asleep. That scenario was repeated many, many times so that your unconscious mind was programmed: When something goes into your mouth, you get relaxation and pleasure from it.
Now that you are an adult, if you feel upset, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - a smoke!
Part B: SMOKING IS A CONDITIONED RESPONSE.
Remember Pavlov? He rang a bell every time that he fed his dogs. After a few repetitions, he could just ring the bell, and that would trigger the dogs to salivate.
When you connect smoking a cigarette with any other activity, the other activity will trigger cravings for a cigarette and a feeling of urgency that makes you feel compelled to light up. This is called a conditioned response.
For example: If you light-up a cigarette when you see someone else smoking, you will automatically get an urge to light-up a cigarette each time you see someone else smoking.
Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your unconscious: If a person smokes a cigarette and simultaneously drinks a cup of coffee, the mind takes a snapshot of the cigarette in the hand, and ties it to the cup of coffee. Thereafter, every time the person sees a cup of coffee, his unconscious mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of a cigarette, and the smoker gets a craving for one.
You may not be consciously aware of the mental image of the cigarette, because it may only be at the unconscious level of mind. Just as you are not consciously aware of what you are seeing through your peripheral vision until something or someone draws your attention to it. But the image is there, creating a craving for a cigarette.
Part C: THERE IS A PHYSICAL ADDICTION TO NICOTINE, BUT . . .
After having worked with several thousand people who smoke, I give you my guarantee that the physical addiction is the weakest part of the smoking addiction. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the addiction. The strongest parts of the smoking habit are the mental and emotional parts! (Parts A and B).
HERE IS WHAT THIS MEANS TO A SMOKER WHO WANTS TO QUIT.
What this means is that as soon as you eliminate the anxiety that makes you put cigarettes into your mouth for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and if you can extinguish the conditioned response of feeling a compulsion for cigarettes when having a cup of coffee, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can stop smoking without requiring willpower, and without having to suffer from withdrawal symptoms or gaining weight.
Hypnosis will make it easy to stop smoking because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:
Part A is where smokers light-up a cigarette for relaxation and pleasure. It's our thoughts which create tension. More to the point, people invariably watch mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it brings about a feeling of stress.
We can use different NLP and Hypnosis methods to re-program the subconscious mind to instantly and automatically take those tension creating mental images, and instantly exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This instills relaxation and pleasure, and obliterates the tension that creates the oral urges and compulsions for cigarettes.
Because of the elimination of feelings of tension, the smoker who is quitting doesn't experience the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the cigarettes. So quitting without weight gain is possible.
Part B is where smokers light-up a cigarette because smoking becomes a conditioned response to many different activities and locations. Remember in the earlier example how smoking became unconsciously associated with other activities and environments so that each time you get into that activity or environment, the mind flashes an image of a cigarette, and the image of the cigarette triggers an urge to light-up a cigarette?
There are powerful and effective hypnosis techniques that can effortlessly erase those conditioned responses so that your mind will lose the cravings for cigarettes, and the compulsion to smoke. As a matter of fact, you can even get a compulsion to reject the cigarettes.
IN SUMMATION
To summarize, when we utilize certain NLP techniques, it becomes very easy to stop smoking without weight gain or having to suffer from withdrawal. And many of these hypnotic methods do not even require post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on training the subconscious mind to use the same mental processes that the subconscious is using to create the smoking habit, to eliminate the mental addiction.
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