Quitting smoking is a necessity in our times, because smoking cigarettes has been banned from restaurants and public places. And in fact, it's the smart thing to do for more reasons than health alone. This article explores the very best hypnosis techniques that can be employed to make it as painless as possible to break the addiction to cigarettes.

There are three distinct components to a smoking addiction. Two of the parts are mental, and only one part is physical.

Part A: YOU SMOKE FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.

When you were a baby and you got cranky, your mother would put a nipple into your mouth to pacify you. You would get distracted, become more peaceful, and often go to sleep. That scenario 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 mature, if you feel tense or anxious, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - a cigarette!

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 would just ring the bell, and that would make the dogs salivate.

When you connect smoking with any other activity, the other activity will trigger cravings for a cigarette and an urge that makes you feel compelled to smoke a cigarette. This is called a conditioned response.

For example: If you smoke a cigarette when you drive your car, you will automatically get an urge to smoke each time you drive your car.

Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your subconscious: If a person smokes and simultaneously drinks a cup of coffee, the mind takes a picture of the cigarette in the hand, and connects it to the cup of coffee. Thereafter, every time the person sees a cup of coffee, the mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of the cigarette, and the smoker gets a craving for one.

You may be unaware 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 someone 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 smokers and I give you my personal guarantee 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 cigarettes. I believe that ninety percent 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.

After you have eliminated the tension that compels you to smoke a cigarette to create relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and if you can extinguish the conditioned response of feeling an urge for cigarettes when having a cup of coffee, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can give up tobacco without requiring willpower, and without experiencing withdrawal symptoms or gaining weight.

Hypnotism can help motivate a smoker to stop smoking. 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 people smoke for relaxation and pleasure. It's your thoughts which create feelings of stress. More exactly, people constantly run mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it manufactures a feeling of tension.

We can use various hypnosis and NLP techniques to program the unconscious to rapidly take those tension creating mental images, and automatically exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This manufactures relaxation and pleasure, and obliterates the tension that triggers the oral cravings for cigarettes.

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

Part B is where people light-up a cigarette 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 causes an urge to light-up?

There are stop smoking hypnosis, and stop smoking NLP techniques that can quickly extinguish 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.

TO SUMMARIZE

To summarize, by using certain hypnotic and NLP techniques, it becomes very easy to stop smoking without weight gain or having to suffer from withdrawal. And many of these hypnotic methods don't even require post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on training the subconscious mind to use the same mental processes that the subconscious is using to create the smoking habit, to eliminate the mental addiction.

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