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How many inner arguments have you had with yourself about your smoking habit? How many times have you mentioned to family and friends that you want to stop but seem to stay caught in a smoking rut despite the health risks and the wasted money? And how many programs have you tried that just flopped? If you are like most people addicted to smoking, you will remember such inner dramas and may have felt nothing will really work for you. Unless you tried hypnosis to stop smoking, you may have been on target.

If you sincerely want to quit smoking, hypnosis is the sensible choice for reliable results. Smoking cessation hypnotherapy can address the main reasons that keep you smoking as well as giving you the tools and support to be successful for good. This is not stage entertainment that is good for laughs and tricks, but a proven treatment approved by the AMA since 1958, and one with recognized certification and strict rules of conduct.

Hypnosis does not override values and a certified professional practitioner will protect your rights and privacy like any other medical professional. You do want one who is approved by the National Guild of Hypnotists and who supports their stringent code of ethics and professional conduct. Included in their code is making the physical and mental well-being of their client their main consideration. They also shield clients from verbal, mental or physical, and make outside referrals as needed.

A skilled hypnotist has the training to address problem behavior, and hypnotherapy to quit smoking is the second most regular type they practice. Using the most current methods which may include the precision of NLP enriched hypnosis and the ongoing extra support of self hypnosis stop smoking CD's as well as any pharmacological measures a doctor might also suggest for a patient. Using medical hypnotherapy does not mean other measures are prohibited, but they may not be at all necessary.

The reason that expertly used stop smoking hypnosis is the most effective method to ensure success is that it addresses the three basic factors in smoking. No method can work that does not address each issue totally and correct the problems each causes. Most people think that the physical addiction to nicotine is the most important factor and the most predominant problem, but this is simply not factual. If the addiction to the substance called nicotine were the only reason for failure, most smokers would not fail multiple times in their efforts to give up the habit for good.

Yes, nicotine is a powerfully addictive substance and for most smokers the physical compulsion is very real and there are withdrawal symptoms that are also real. But did you understand these last only a very few days? In fact, every bit of nicotine is eliminated out of the system in just three days or less! For many smokers, it is the fear of withdrawal discomforts and not the reality that causes the most dread and which may prevent even attempting to quit. Yet quitting without training has an average 5% rate of success! Stop smoking hypnosis reduces fear of withdrawal distresses and mitigates the effect of any that do happen.

Another characteristic of smoking is that it provides comfort and calming, just as sucking on a pacifier calms and soothes an infant. Many people treat stress and anxiety with some form of oral soothing like smoking cigarettes or eating. Hypnotic relaxation can substitute for the comfort factor derived from smoking cigarettes, which reduces the insistent urges and produces the benefits of quitting instead. The mind can be conditioned to substitute the same perceptions from other activities that are positive, not negative. Neuro-linguistic programming techniques can train the brain to remove any linkage between smoking cigarettes and comfort.

Finally, part of the smoking habit is plain old Pavlovian habit formation to stimuli. Smokers learn to associate smoking with certain activities, from the movie cliché of smoking immediately after physical relations to having a cigarette while consuming alcohol or watching TV or chatting on the phone. Here stop smoking hypnosis can permanently remove the connection, and when the link is no longer there, there will be no trigger to light a cigarette when the coffee is poured or the cocktail is served. The mind is trained to associate beneficial things with the former triggers, or to recall the benefits of quitting or the negatives of the smoke.

A certified hypnotist will use both negative and positive associations to replace programmed associations with smoking, selecting those most powerful for an individual smoker who wants to quit. Stop smoking hypnosis is the only technique that can precision tune the treatment to each of the three factors in smoking and completely eliminate them. Virtually everyone quitting requires support, but only smoking cessation hypnosis effectively make you your own instant and always available support system.

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Alan B. Densky, CH pioneered the use of Neuro-VISION video quit smoking self-hypnosis and received a U.S. Patent for his invention. He offers a list of stop smoking hypnotherapy CDs which produce efficient assistance. Visit for Free stop smoking self-hypnosis videos and downloads.

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