Try Hypnosis To Help You Quit Smoking

The number of people who smoke is steadily rising. Just as people are starting, even more are trying to stop and even the largest cigarette manufacturer, Phillip Morris, sponsors television advertisements about programs to stop smoking.

For many years hypnosis has been used to help smokers break the habit. Most people may think that hypnosis is used only to entertain audiences by getting hypnotized people to do amusing and odd things. It can also be used to stop bad habits, conquer stress or fears and to learn good habits.

Hypnotism is described as concentrated relaxation by hypnotherapists and they believe that hypnotism allows a person to by pass the conscious mind which they call the gate keeper. The conscious mind judges, grades and edits what people hear and think while the subconscious mind is said to be like a sponge, believing all it hears as being the truth.

Hypnotists therefore believe that using concentrated relaxation will by pass the gate keeper of the conscious mind and feed the subconscious an imagined reality that the person being hypnotized is a non-smoker, thus turning that person into a non-smoker. This reprogramming changes behavior patterns and removes barriers for the conscious mind.

Any person who is willing to give up control of their conscious minds can be hypnotized. Books and tapes are available that teaches self-hypnosis to stop smoking, otherwise a hypnotherapist can be approached for help.

Self-hypnosis takes time and much practice to master and techniques are taught to relax and guide a person through the images that can make stopping to smoke a reality. Certified hypnotherapists can do all this in a single session (sometimes more than one). In addition, the hypnotherapist will also make suggestions regarding specific physical tasks to help to increase success in efforts to stop smoking.

A major concern and complaint by people trying to stop smoking is the increase in stress levels that they experience. Often people who stop smoking gain weight because eating takes the place of smoking as a substitute for the habit. Hypnosis helps with stress reduction and may decrease potential weight gain issues. It will teach new beliefs and attitudes regarding smoking towards eliminating the habit.

Hypnotherapy is similar to a pleasant state of mind experienced during daydreaming and the eventual effect is that a person becomes relaxed and calm, being able to ignore normal environments. While the person is in total control and is able to awaken at any time, this state of mind will increase the ability to speak to the subconscious mind and make dreams turn to reality.

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Kicking The Smoking Habit Naturally

Smoking is a dangerous habit. There are very natural ways to help kick the smoking habit. Curbing your nicotine cravings can be difficult but nature is the best way to go. Planning, cleaning and supporting your body can get you on the right path! Though many Americans understand the risks of smoking they choose to do it anyway. Nicotine is an addictive drug so powerful that even heroin addicts admit that smoking is harder to quit. Despite the 80% who want to quit they can't drop the habit.

There are 1/3rd of pancreatic carcinoma cases that are due to cigarettes as is most lung cancers. Risk of lung Cancer is greatly elevated depending on the amount and when one started smoking; Smokers have a 5 in 10 chance of getting lung cancer over non-smokers.

Though we don't know a lot about SID or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome it is a little known fact that children with smokers in the house have a much higher chance of dying from it!

Other complications of living with smokers consist of:

* Asthma
* Bronchitis
* Colds
* Ear infection
* Damaged lung development
* Reduced lung functions

Smokers have deficiencies in vitamins such as:

* Vitamin C
* Zinc
* Vitamin A
* and Folic Acid

Though there are many negatives to smoking people find it difficult to stop anyway so let's look at a few ways to kick the habit without using any over the counter medications or unhealthy means:

* Analyze your smoking habits figure out when and why you need each cigarette
* Avoid being around others who smoke
* Learn some deep breathing Exercises- stress is a big factor in getting the urge to smoke
* Detoxify the liver- The liver holds many toxins and detoxifying can curb the crave for nicotine

Detoxifying your body can be an incredible help. The Liver is a meet up place for all the bad addictions of the day. Finding a way to naturally clean out your liver will possibly save you a lot of disappointment. Below are some things to help you clean out your as well as other areas of your body!

* Echinacea- Cleans the nicotine from lymph system and lungs
* Taking Vitamin C will help catch the toxins throughout your body. Taking 1000mg of Vitamin C 4 times a day.
* Primrose Oils
* Sun wellness Chlorella tabs
* Glutamine

These products if taken properly will flush all the toxins through your intestinal tract. Do not eat a lot of junk this will make the craving worse.

A few good Herbs to try in your battle with cravings nicotine or sugar are:

* Ginseng
* Magnesium
* potassium
* Calcium
* and Zinc

Taking other vitamins such as B-complex can only provide more positive results to your quest to quit! Quitting although not an easy task can be accomplished if you set your mind to it and using home remedies can improve your body! Finding the right combination can be difficult at first but definitely worth it when you get it down right!

Darren Williger is an over-caffeinated, low carbohydrate eating, winemaking enthusiast who writes for SmokersWebsite.com, DifferentMedicine.com, and RemedyZone.Com.

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Finding Your Alternative Motive to Quit Smoking

Quitting smoking successfully is a mental battle, and to make it through you're going to need an alternative motive to persevere. I know that the mental motivation everyone's telling you to get behind is your health. But I'm sorry to say, that's probably not going to be enough.

There seems to be so much written implying that smokers don't actually know that what they're doing is bad for them. THEY KNOW! And they care. But the cigarettes have more of a hold on them than a long list of health concerns can fix.

You've known smoking is terrible for you for all the years you've spent doing it. If you're under 60, you knew smoking was extremely bad for you before you ever took your first puff. I knew from my very first cigarette to my last, and knowing that never helped me to not smoke.

You know that your health is the most important thing you've got, and is absolutely the most important reason you should and will quit. But knowing that you need to quit for your health isn't going to get you through the first few months. Your mind is going to try all sorts of things on you when you stop smoking. Bargaining, rationalizing, self-pitying, yadda, yadda, yadda. To fight back against that, you need something else to work for, something else to lean on, and something else to get behind.

For me, as simple and inconsequential as it sounds, it was the inconvenience. We were moving to a new building, and the set up of the new place was going to make going outside to smoke a really unpleasant experience. For every cigarette, I'd need to grab my keys, head down two flights of stairs and out the building's front door. Then I'd be out front, on a major, very busy street. I'd been accustomed to hanging out in the secluded back yard of our previous place, and having a nice relaxing cigarette break. Maybe seeing a neighbor or two, but not streams of human and auto traffic. As we prepared to move, I was dreading the new smoking situation, knowing that I was really going to hate standing out there 20 times a day. Then it finally hit me, I didn't have to deal with it. I didn't have to stand out there. Dreading that became my alternative motive, which is what I leaned on during the bad days. I didn't have to smoke. And that's when I finally quit.

I really hate feeling inconvenienced. That's my little quirk. Understanding that little quirk got me through the quitting process.

Anything you seriously hate about your smoking habit can be your alternate motive. It can be big or small. Big, like, you want to make your kids happy, because the fact that you smoke causes them so much stress. Or small, like, you love to travel but long flights are almost unbearable because you have to go so long without smoking. It could be financial, could be social, could be career related, could be concerns about your appearance. Anything that brings up that feeling of dread in your stomach. Take a while and think about that one thing, other than your health, that you really, really hate about smoking. It doesn't matter how pointless or weird it may sound to anyone else. It's just for you, nobody needs to know! You're looking for what ever turns on your "Wait, I don't have to do this" bulb.

When you've found it, hold on to it.

After a day without cigarettes, your brain will start bargaining and rationalizing with you about your health. "If I just have a couple of cigarettes a week, or maybe a day, it will be so much better than before. Right?" "C'mon, a few cigarettes now and then isn't that bad." "Mrs. Forbisher from down the road smoked and she lived to be 97."

But your alternative motive can't be bargained with. You can't rationalize away how your kids feel about your smoking, and you can't cut a deal with the airline to let you smoke on the way to New Zealand. It may be weird, but it's rock solid. Your quirky little alternative motive will help give you the extra mental strength you need to become a non-smoker.

Jenny Keane has been cigarette free for 5 years.

Visit Jenny's site How To Quit Smoking Cigarettes for more advice and tips on quitting.

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