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Home | Health & Fitness | Quit Smoking There are 3 separate elements contained in a cigarette smoking habit. Two of the parts are mental/emotional, and only one part is physical. Part A: YOU SMOKE FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE. When you were a toddler and you got restless, your mother would put a nipple into your mouth to pacify you. You would get distracted, become more peaceful, and often go to sleep. That scenario was repeated hundreds of 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 mature, if you feel tense or anxious, 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 the dogs would salivate. When you connect smoking a cigarette with any other action, the other action 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 smoke a cigarette when you see someone else smoking, you will automatically get an urge to smoke 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 and simultaneously drinks a cup of coffee, the mind takes a picture 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 subconscious mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of the cigarette, and the smoker gets a craving for one. You may not be consciously aware of the mental movie of the cigarette, because it may only be at the unconscious level of mind. Just as you are unaware 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 . . . I have had the experience of working with several thousand people for smoke cessation and I can guarantee you that the physical addiction is the weakest part of the smoking addiction. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the smoking habit. 90% of the smoking addiction are the mental and emotional parts! (Parts A and B). HERE IS WHAT THIS MEANS TO A SMOKER WHO WANTS TO QUIT. When you eliminate the tension that causes a smoker to light-up a cigarette for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and when you erase 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 give up smoking without requiring willpower, and without having to suffer from withdrawal symptoms or gaining weight. Hypnotism can help encourage a smoker to quit smoking. Self-hypnosis will make it easy to give up smoking because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how: Part A is where you light-up for relaxation and pleasure. It's our thoughts which create feelings of stress. More exactly, people invariably play mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it causes a feeling of anxiety. We can use different NLP techniques to train the subconscious to quickly and easily take those tension creating mental movies, and instantly exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This instills relaxation and pleasure, and obliterates the tension that causes the oral cravings for cigarettes. Because of the elimination of tension, the smoker who is quitting does not feel the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the cigarettes. So quitting without weight gain is possible. Part B is where you 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 smokers get into that activity or environment, the mind flashes an image of a cigarette, and the image of the cigarette triggers an urge to smoke? There are quit smoking hypnosis, and stop smoking NLP techniques that can effortlessly eliminate those conditioned responses so that a smoker's subconscious 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 SUMMARY In summary, when we use certain hypnotic techniques, it becomes very easy to quit smoking without weight gain or having to suffer from withdrawal. And many of these hypnotic methods don't even require post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on training the unconscious mind to use the same thought processes that the unconscious mind is using to create the addiction to cigarettes, to eliminate the mental addiction. Article Source: http://www.articlewheel.com
Alan B. Densky, CH established his practice in 1978. He offers Neuro-VISION Video Stop Smoking Self Hypnosis DVDs and Audio Stop Smoking Self Hypnosis CDs. Visit his free repository of original hypnosis & NLP articles or download FREE self hypnosis and NLP newsletters and MP3's.
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