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Hypnotic Methods Can Break Your Cigarette Addiction Right Now

Breaking the smoking habit is a necessity today, because cigarettes have been banned from eateries and other public places. In fact, it is the intelligent thing to do for more reasons than good health alone. This editorial explores the very best hypnosis methodologies that can be utilized to make it as painless as possible to break the addiction to tobacco.

There are 3 distinct elements contained in a smoking habit. Two of the elements are mental, and only one part is physical.

Part A: YOU SMOKE FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.

When you were a little baby and you got upset, your mother would put a pacifier into your mouth to calm you down. You would get distracted, become calm, and often go to sleep. That sequence of events was repeated dozens 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 a grownup, if you feel anxious or tense, 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 sound of the bell would trigger the dogs to salivate.

When you pair smoking a cigarette with any other action, the other action will trigger cravings for a cigarette and a compulsion that makes you feel compelled to light up a cigarette. 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 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, the subconscious fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of a cigarette, and the smoker gets a craving for a cigarette.

You may be unaware 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 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've worked face-to-face with several thousand people who smoke and I give you my personal 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 to tobacco. 90% 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.

As soon as you eliminate the feeling of tension that pushes you to light-up a cigarette for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and when you erase the conditioned response of feeling compulsions for cigarettes when having a cup of coffee, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can give up smoking without needing willpower, and without having to suffer from withdrawal symptoms or weight-gain.

Hypnosis can help motivate a smoker to stop 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 a cigarette for relaxation and pleasure. It's our thoughts which create feelings of anxiety. More specifically, people always watch mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it creates a feeling of stress.

We can use different NLP and Hypnosis methods to re-program the unconscious mind to automatically take those anxiety creating mental images, and automatically exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This creates relaxation and pleasure, and eliminates the anxiety that causes the oral urges for a cigarette.

Because of the elimination of stressful feelings, the smoker who is quitting does not experience the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the cigarettes. So quitting without weight gain is possible.

Part B is where you smoke 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 smoke?

There are efficient NLP methods that can effortlessly extinguish those conditioned responses so that your unconscious 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.

TO SUMMARIZE

To summarize, when we use certain NLP methods, it can be very easy to stop smoking without withdrawal or weight gain. And many of these methods don't even depend on post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on training the unconscious mind to use the same thought processes that the subconscious is using to create the addiction to cigarettes, to eliminate the mental addiction.