Hypnotic Methods Can Break Your Smoking Addiction Right Now

There are 3 distinct parts to a smoking addiction. Two of the elements are mental/emotional, and one part is physical.

Part A: YOU SMOKE FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.

When you were a baby and you started crying, your mother would put a nipple into your mouth to distract you from that upset. You would get distracted, become calm, and often fall asleep. 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 nervous, 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 make the dogs salivate.

When you pair smoking with any other action, the other action will trigger cravings for a cigarette and a compulsion to smoke. This is called a conditioned response.

For example: If you light-up when you drive your car, you will automatically get an urge to light-up each time you drive your car.

Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your subconscious: If a person smokes a cigarette and simultaneously drinks a cup of coffee, the mind takes a picture of the cigarette in the hand, and links it to the cup of coffee. Thereafter, every time the person sees a cup of coffee, her 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 not be consciously aware of the mental picture of the cigarette, because it may only be at the subconscious 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 one-on-one with several thousand people for smoke cessation and I guarantee you that the physical addiction to cigarettes is the weakest part of the habit. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the addiction to tobacco. The strongest parts 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.

What this means is that as soon as you eliminate the anxiety that causes you to put cigarettes into your mouth 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 tobacco without needing willpower, and without experiencing withdrawal symptoms or gaining weight.

Self-hypnosis will make it easy to give up tobacco because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:

Part A is where you smoke for relaxation and pleasure. It’s our thoughts that create feelings of tension. More to the point, people invariably create mental movies in their mind’s eye. If the movie is negative, it creates a feeling of tension. We can use various hypnosis and NLP techniques to train the unconscious mind to instantly and automatically take those anxiety producing mental pictures, and automatically exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This creates relaxation and pleasure, and obliterates the anxiety that causes the oral compulsions and cravings for a cigarette.

Because of the elimination of feelings of anxiety, 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 get cravings for cigarettes 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 creates an urge to light-up a cigarette?

There are stop smoking hypnosis, and quit smoking NLP techniques that can quickly eliminate those conditioned responses so that your unconscious 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

In summation, when we utilize certain NLP techniques, it can be very easy to stop smoking without withdrawal or weight gain. And many of these techniques do not even require post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on training the subconscious to use the same thought processes that the subconscious mind is using to create the smoking habit, to eliminate the mental addiction.

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Alan B. Densky, CH started his practice in hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming in 1978. He has worked face-to-face with over 10,000 clients for

- Alan B. Densky, CH