Smoking is the biggest single cause of illness, and daeth around the world, and over 50 percent of all people who smoke die from a cigarette smoking connected disease. The younger you are when you start cigarette smoking the more likely you are to smoke for the duration of your life. Usually these individuals are the ones who die at a premature age, and find it hard to give up. Trying to stop smoking is quite difficult, however, not totally unattainable. There are a number of different tools to assist you to give up cigarette smoking, and a lot of individuals are turning to hypnotherapy.
Although some individuals discover thay can give up with willpower alone, other individuals need some form of treatment, and discover it harder to stop. For that reason hypnosis could be for you if you struggling to keep the habit. The hypnotherapy that you go through deals with a number of different factors icluding your emotional and physiological emotions. You will have a full healthcare history takem such as when you began cigarette smoking, and how many you smoke a day.
Honesty is usually the very best policy, and if you lie about the amount this can be the first stage of denial, and can make quitting more difficult. Hypnotherapy is not a magical cure, and will require you to be honest, and beneficial for it to work better. Although the motivation will be increased there needs to be some there in the first place for it to be effective. Visualizing yourself in the future healthier, cleaner, richer, and happier is one of the quite a few techniques that are used during the sessions.
The hypnotist will create the sensation deep in your mind that cigarette smoking is bad, and that it has huge impacts on your life. Although you may think you know this already you will be surprised how different you feel when the feelings are placed deep inside your conscious. The ideas, and emotions that are placed there will be incredibly strong, allowing you to fully believe them. Your mind will be trained to fully grasp that smoking is bad, not only for your health health, but also your body, and mind.
Although the hypnotherapy sessions are quite expensive they are worth it to make sure that once you stop smoking you never revert back again. Often with other techniques to stop smoking you could be tempted to go back, and have simply one cigarette. However thay are addictive, and the moment you have one you are quite likely to have another. when you have made the choice to stop you have to never look back, and embrace the new cleaner, healthier style of life. Inside a short space of time your sense of smell, and taste will begin to return, and you will be far healthier.
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Here is someone who came to us on 2nd Sept to quit smoking. When he left the clinic he said nothing has happened I dont feel any different. Thats because there is no change of feelings with hypnotherapy or information medicine (Laser/Bioresonance) there is simply a change of behaviour. Desmond was connected to a bioresonance system while undergoing hypnosis. The hypnosis took care of the mental conditioning and the bioresonance took care of the physical cravings. After the session, although Desmond didnt feel any different, he did not have the urge to smoke either and his resolve to stay-stopped was vastly boosted by the hypnotherapy. This is what he had to say in his video interview two weeks later: “I decided not to ‘faff’ around with the NHS but to go private – the best decision of my life.” “My name is Desmond and I was a compulsive smoker for 25 years. I looked up on the internet for the first time and decided to come (here). I rang up on the Friday, was seen on the Tuesday. I was a non-smoker the day I left, and have been a non-smoker ever since. Since I was such an entrenched smoker, my friends did not think I could do it straight away. But once I left here I found the compulsion to smoke had gone completely. Before I came here I was smoking cigarettes every ten minutes. I was smoking about 15-20 a day, and I was also smoking weed. I don‟t have carvings for any of it (cigarettes or spliffs) any more.” “I have never tried any other method of quitting smoking, not …
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There are endless good reasons to quit smoking, including reducing your risk of cancer, heart disease and early death. Despite these well-known risk factors, however, many smokers find themselves needing a more personal reason to want to kick the habit; possibly because the threat of “maybe” contracting a deadly disease just doesn’t seem likely (the old, “it will never happen to me” syndrome).
This article is going to share some easy steps to help you come up with your own powerful, compelling reason(s) to quit smoking once and for all.
1) First, take a few moments to jot down on a sheet of paper the negative aspects of how smoking makes you feel. You can include actual physical problems like shortness of breath and fatigue; as well as feelings like embarrassment that your clothing and hair may stink; feeling like an outcast stepping outside to smoke while everyone else stays inside socializing and having a good time; or even your fears, like dying young and leaving your children before your time.
Write down as many reasons as you can, and try to make them reasons that really matter to YOU – not just what other people have said to you or you’ve heard others say before.
2) When you’re done with your list, look it over carefully. Read each item on the list, and really think about how it feels to experience that situation in your daily life. Now choose the top three reasons that are most repulsive to you and circle them.
Take another sheet of paper and write a longer description of each of those three items. For example, if one of your top reasons was “to not die young and abandon my children”, write a paragraph or two about why that is important to you. How would it affect your children if you died before your time? How will your smoking impact them, now and in the future? Will your smoking addiction encourage them to smoke later in life? Continue writing until you feel you have identified your core reason for wanting to quit smoking. This may seem like a morbid exercise, but it can be incredibly powerful. Being a smoker for a long time desensitizes you to the true long-term effects of smoking. This exercise jars you out of the haze of denial.
Now go through this same process for the other two important reasons on your list.
3) When you’ve got your three descriptions written, read them over again. Now take a final sheet of paper and write a description of the opposite outcome. When you do quit smoking, what will happen instead of those other experiences? For example, you might write that you will be around to love your children and grandchildren for many years to come, your kids will be really proud of you for quitting, they’ll be blessed with a healthy, strong parent that has the energy and stamina to play with them, and so on.
Do this for all three reasons you described earlier.
Carry these lists with you and read them slowly each day, really paying attention to how they make you feel. With enough repetition, you will actually begin training your brain to view smoking as an unpleasant, dangerous activity – which will make quitting easier when you decide it’s time.
While this may not remove the discomfort that comes along with nicotine withdrawal, it will certainly help you to stop seeing smoking as a harmless activity and instead see it for what it is: a true threat to your health, happiness and longevity.
If that isn’t enough reason to quit, what is?
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Beyond meditation, breathing exercises and emotional balancing, there are more physical activities that can help reduce your discomfort when you quit smoking.
Here are a few more ideas:
- Exercise
Since most people don’t smoke while they exercise, getting active is a great way to distract yourself from your desire to smoke.
How to do it: First speak to your doctor to be sure physical activity is safe for you. Once you’ve gotten the green light, consider the types of exercise that would be most appealing to you. For the first few weeks of being a non-smoker, you may want to avoid very intense exercise unless you are already in great shape, because overdoing it will only make you more miserable. Instead, consider lighter forms of exercise that will get you moving but not tax your body too much, like walking, swimming, golfing, or dancing.
Exercise helps in several ways. First, it helps you burn off feelings of irritability and tension through physical movement, plus induces feelings of peacefulness and well-being when those endorphins start to flow. Plus it helps you expand your lung capacity again, which is likely diminished if you have been smoking for a long time.
- Rest
Quitting smoking is draining to say the least, on physical, emotional and mental levels. One of the best ways to help yourself get through it is to allow plenty of time to rest. Avoid quitting smoking during an extremely hectic or stressful time in your life. If you can, set your quit date for a time when you’ll be on vacation, or at least have a lighter schedule than normal.
Don’t be surprised if during the first several days of your quit, you feel very tired and have trouble concentrating. Nicotine is a stimulant that your body has become dependent upon and when you stop ingesting it, you’ll probably feel like someone has “pulled the plug” and most of your energy has drained away. If this happens, simply allow yourself to rest as much as possible. Treat your fatigue just like you would the flu or a bad cold. Drink plenty of fluids and take it easy until it passes.
- Distraction
Another helpful technique is to keep your mind focused on other things while you’re in the early stages of quitting. It’s best to choose activities that would make it difficult to smoke while you do them, like spending time in public places that do not allow smoking, or cleaning out and organizing your attic. It may also help if you keep something similar in size or shape to a cigarette in your hands during idle moments, like a pen or straw.
More than any other coping method, however, your own attitude and determination will have a lot to do with your success or failure in becoming a non-smoker. If you want it badly enough, you’ll be willing to deal with unpleasant side effects as they come up. Just keep reminding yourself that the symptoms are temporary. In as little as a few weeks, you’ll be feeling much stronger physically, mentally and emotionally.
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Affirmations can be helpful for a variety of purposes, but they are especially effective in helping ease the discomfort of quitting smoking (or eliminating any bad habit). Why? Because your thoughts usually determine how you feel, and your feelings about something usually trigger corresponding actions.
One of the reasons why smoking is seductive and pleasurable for many people is because they keep telling themselves that they enjoy it! Think about that for a moment. They tell themselves constantly that they love smoking, they need to smoke, they want to smoke. So they smoke.
This same concept can be used in reverse – to get yourself thinking and feeling that you DON’T want to smoke. However, you don’t want to insert references to smoking in your affirmations, simply because you already have a belief that smoking is pleasurable. Once that connection has been made in your subconscious mind, any thought of smoking is going to trigger a strong desire to smoke.
Instead, you can use affirmations to emphasize the benefits of not smoking – without mentioning smoking at all.
Here are some examples:
I love being able to breathe freely.
I love taking good care of my body.
I nourish my body with healthy habits.
I deserve a clean, healthy body.
My teeth are white, my skin is glowing and I feel great!
I can change my habits by changing my mind.
I honor and respect myself always.
I am strong enough to overcome any challenge.
I feel so free.
I take one step at a time to where I want to be.
I trust my inner guidance to lead me to a state of perfect well-being.
I believe in my ability to do anything I desire.
How to Use Affirmations
Affirmations work best when they are recited repeatedly and while giving your full focus to them. Not only should you say the words, but you should also do your best to call up the corresponding FEELING associated with the words. For example, if you say, “I feel so strong and empowered” you should actually make an effort to feel that way. This does take practice if you are not used to controlling your emotional state, but it gets easier the more you do it.
Constant repetition many times a day is important also, because you are attempting to override existing beliefs in your subconscious mind. A belief is nothing more than a thought you have thought many, many times before, until eventually it becomes your “truth”.
For example, the belief that smoking calms you down. Physiologically, smoking does not have relaxation benefits but many smokers have convinced themselves that it does. Because they believe this, they seem to feel more relaxed after smoking. To override this belief, you need to replace it with an opposing belief – like affirming that you feel calm and relaxed already, so there is no need to smoke in order to relax.
The example affirmations above will help get you started, but feel free to write your own too! Think about the aspects of smoking you enjoy, and come up with a phrase that affirms you already feel that way (again, not mentioning smoking!). Likewise, think about how you feel as a non-smoker and emphasize those positive qualities too.
Affirmations do take time to fully sink in to your subconscious mind, but just like your old beliefs were formed, consistent repetition and reinforcement will help them become permanent.
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