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Some Articles and Advice about Stopping Smoking.
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Your Willpower With Stop Smoking Hypnosis Therapy
by: Paolo Basauri
What is Stop Smoking Hypnosis Therapy?
If you're a smoker, you've no doubt been alerted? by family members, doctors and even perfect strangers?to the dangers of smoking. Cancer, emphysema and heart disease are only some of the health issues associated with long term smoking habits. If you're ready to quit, but just can't find the willpower, you should strongly consider a stop smoking hypnosis program. The process of stop smoking hypnosis therapy includes manipulating your own subconscious into helping you break the psychological addiction to smoking cigarettes. The sooner you are able to quit smoking, the sooner your health risks will be reduced.
How Does Stop Smoking Hypnosis Work
Stop smoking hypnosis therapy is conducted by a hypno-therapist who has been trained to provide suggestions to your subconscious mind. By replacing your natural cigarette triggers, such as driving or eating, with subconscious reminders about the positive effects of quitting smoking, the hypno-therapist gives your own willpower an internal support system. Hypnotherapy can undermine your natural predilection to smoke by sublimating your cravings and improving your confidence in your ability to quit. Stop smoking hypnosis can also be administered at home via CD or through other audio technology. The use of hypnosis to cure the habit of smoking has varying results, depending on your susceptibility to being hypnotized, but many people adamantly proclaim that the therapy allowed them to quit smoking with virtually no withdrawal symptoms or cravings.
Advantages of Stop Smoking Hypnosis
There are many advantages to participating in a stop smoking hypnosis program. While there are a profusion of products on the market to help you quit smoking, including nicotine patches and gums, hypnosis therapy has some unique benefits. Some of these benefits include:
* Significant decrease in health risks if the therapy is successful
* The treatment is completely drug free
* Therapy can be completed quickly and has no long-term cost involvement
* Stop smoking hypnosis therapy can also boost your confidence in other areas of your life
* Therapy focuses on the positive, instead of resisting something you love, you're trained to be happy about getting rid of something that is hurting you.
* Therapy can be tailored to address your personal smoking triggers and habits
How to Find a Stop Smoking Hypnosis Program
There are many outlets by which you can locate a stop smoking hypnosis problem. Many therapists advertise on the internet, while some can be found in the phone directory. Finding the right therapist to help you quit smoking is a matter of personal preference. You can find help at http://stop-smoking-methods.org
If you are uncomfortable meeting with someone personally, or if there are no therapists locally, there are many stop smoking hypnosis programs available on cassette and CD that can be used in the privacy of your home. Whatever course you choose, you should feel happy with your decision to quit smoking. As the commercials say ?Quitting smoking now greatly reduces serious risks to your health.?
About The Author
Paolo Basauri researchs stop smoking methods, you can find more info
online about quitting smoking at http://quit-smoking-aids.org/
Smoking
- Why People Start and Why They Should Stop
by: Anne Wolski
The epidemic of smoking-related diseases is one that only the potential victims can abolish. Smoking is among the most common habits in the Western world and this dangerous habit will kill a large number of those who engage in it.
It is amazing to think that people would continue to smoke after their first experimental cigarette which causes coughing and nausea. However, the majority of smokers enjoy the taste and smell of tobacco smoke and so they continue on with this potentially lethal habit. Sometimes the ritual of smoking creates pleasure and relaxation itself. For some people, it is a social habit and makes them feel part of the crowd. This is particularly so of people who are shy. Having something to do with their hands when in company helps them to appear more in control and self-confident.
Smokers say that smoking settles their nerves when they are stressed. Some say it also stimulates them and, in both cases, there is some truth. This is due to the nicotine or more precisely, the dose of nicotine as well as other factors. There is also a genuine physical addiction to nicotine so that when the person concerned is not able to get the drug, he or she suffers from withdrawal symptoms which are relieved only by having another cigarette.
A person can have a psychological addiction to smoking as well as the physical addiction. Although the person does not really need that cigarette, he or she misses the perceived enjoyment it used to bring. It has often become such an ingrained habit that the smoker lights up automatically without any thought about it.
In recent years, public opinion against smoking has resulted in policies to restrict the areas where smokers can engage in their habit. Many hotels, restaurants, shopping centres and workplaces have become no-smoking zones. In many places, governments are claiming damages from the billion-dollar tobacco industry to finance the ever growing costs of healthcare for smoking-related diseases.
There is definitely a strong correlation between children?s smoking and the smoking habits of parents and older siblings. The family bond and the desire to be like their parents is the likely cause of this. As young children, many are very disapproving of their parents smoking habits but by the early teens, their thinking begins to change. Often, these young people identify drinking and smoking with the ideal of being an adult.
Early studies just after World War II, concluded that the main cause of lung cancer was definitely cigarette smoking. After comparing a number of variables, it was concluded that only one in two hundred male lung cancer patients were nonsmokers with a similar level of statistics found among women. Other conclusions were that the chances of dying from lung cancer increased with heavier smoking habits. More recent studies have shown that smoking is also a contributory factor in diseases such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and coronary heart disease. It has also been shown that smokers generally live a shorter lifespan than nonsmokers. .
Many people are unaware that it is the toxic substances in the vaporized tar that causes the damage to smokers rather than the nicotine. These tars contain thousands of toxic chemicals, some of which are known carcinogenics. Other interesting factors include the fact that smokers are twice as likely to die before retirement age as nonsmokers. There is also some evidence that filter-tipped cigarettes reduce the risk of disease minimally but not enough to consider them a safe option.
Another area of great concern is that of passive smoking. Studies have shown that the cigarette smoke drifting from the burning end of a cigarette contains twice as much carcinogenic tar as that inhaled by the smoker.
The risks to an unborn baby of a smoking mother are also something of which people need to be aware. These mothers have a higher rate of miscarriages and stillbirths than do nonsmoking mothers.
Giving up the cigarettes is easier said than done. There are many products available which may help but, ultimately, it is a battle that the smoker needs to fight for him or her self. Resisting the temptation to have a cigarette, particularly in times of stress, is crucial. Many people give up over and over again but end up back on the smokes. For this reason, it is important to have a plan and to decide, once and for all, that it is the time to give it up. No one is saying it will be easy but millions give up every year so it can be done.
Copyright 2006 Anne Wolski
About The Author
Anne Wolski has worked in the health and welfare industry for more
than 30 years. She is a co-director of http://www.magnetic-health-online.com
an information portal with many interesting medical articles and also
of http://www.pharmacybyweb.com which has online physicians who can
help you with any questions you may have.
How to
Quit Smoking: 7 simple steps to stop smoking
by: Matthew James
Finding a way to quit smoking sometimes seems like the search for the Holy Grail. However, achieving your aim doesn't have to be fraught with stress and difficulty. Here are seven simple steps that you can take to stop smoking.
Step 1 : Overcoming cravings
Being a smoker is like using crutches for so long that you think the crutches are a part of you and your own legs waste away, but when you stand on you own two feet again, the strength soon returns.
When people smoke more than half of what they breathe is fresh air - pulled through the cigarette right down into the lungs. So if you feel any cravings you can instantly overcome them by taking three deep breaths. Whenever you do this you put more oxygen into your bloodstream. This means you can use deep breaths to change the way you feel instantly and give you power over the cravings.
Step 2 : Why do you want to quit smoking?
Next, think now of all the reasons you don't like smoking, why it's bad and why you want to stop. Write down the key words on a piece of paper. For example, you get short of breath, it's dirty and your clothes smell, your breath smells and it's expensive, inconvenient and so on. Then, on the other side of the paper, write down all the reasons why you'll feel good when you've succeeded in stopping. You'll feel healthier, your sense of taste and smell is enhanced, and your hair and clothes will smell fresher and so on. Whenever you need to, look at that piece of paper.
Step 3 : Re-programme your thoughts
Next, we are going to programme your mind to feel disgusted by cigarettes. I want you recall 4 times when you thought to yourself "I've got to quit", or that you felt disgusted about smoking. Maybe you just felt really unhealthy, or your doctor told you in a particular tone of voice 'You've got to quit' or somebody you know was badly affected by smoking. Take a moment now to come up with 4 different times that you felt that you have to quit or were disgusted by smoking.
Remember each of those times, one after another, as though they are happening now. I want you to keep going through those memories and make them as vivid as possible. See what you saw, hear what you heard, and feel how you felt. I want to take a few minutes now to keep going through those memories again and again, overlap each memory with the next until you are totally and utterly disgusted by cigarettes.
Step 4 : What are the consequences if you don?t stop smoking?
It's also helpful to really consider for a moment what the consequences are if you don't stop smoking now, if you just carry on and on. Imagine it, what will happen if you carry on smoking. What are the consequences?
Next, imagine how much better is your life going to be after you've stopped. Really imagine it is months from now and you successfully stopped. Cigarettes are a thing of the past, keep that feeling with you, and imagine having it tomorrow, and for the rest of next week.
Step 5 : Breaking smoking associations
Also the human mind is very sensitive to associations, so it's very important that you have a clear out and remove all cigarettes from your environment. Move some of the furniture in your house and at work. Smokers are accustomed to cigarettes in certain situations. So, for example, if you used to smoke on the telephone at work move the phone to the other side of the desk.
Step 6 : Take a break!
Smokers use cigarettes to give themselves little breaks during the day. Taking a break is good for you, so carry on taking that time off - but do something different. Walk round the block, have a cup of tea or drink of water, or do some of the techniques on this programme. In fact, if possible drink a lot of fruit juice. When you stop smoking the body goes through a big change. The blood sugar levels tend to fall, the digestion is slowed down and your body starts to eject the tar and poisons that have accumulated. Fresh fruit juice contains fructose that restores your blood sugar levels, vitamin C that helps clear out impurities and high levels of water and fiber to keep your digestion going. Also try to eat fruit every day for at least two weeks after you have stopped.
Also when you stop, cut your caffeine intake by half. Nicotine breaks down caffeine so without nicotine a little coffee will have a big effect.
Step 7 : Change your feelings
You were used to using cigarettes to signal to your body to release happy chemicals, so next we are going to programme some good feelings into your future. I'd like you to fully remember now a time when you felt very deep pleasure. Take a moment to recall it as vividly as possible. Remember that time - see what you saw, hear what you heard, and feel how good you felt.
Keep going through the memory, as soon as it finishes, go through it again and again, all the time squeezing your thumb and finger together. That's right, see what you saw, hear what you heard, and feel how good you felt. Pictures big and bright, sounds loud and crisp and feelings strong. We are making an associational link between the squeeze of your fingers and that good feeling.
Okay, stop and relax. Now if you have done that correctly when you squeeze your thumb and finger together you should feel that good feeling again. Go ahead do that now, squeeze thumb and finger, and remember that good feeling.
Now we're going to programme good feelings to happen automatically whenever you are in a situation where you used to smoke.
Next I'd like you to squeeze your thumb and finger together, get that good feeling going and now imagine being in several situations where you would have smoked, but being there feeling great without a cigarette. See what you'll see hear and take that good feeling into those situations without a need for a cigarette.
Imagine being in a situation where someone offers you a cigarette and you confidently say 'No thanks, I don't smoke'. And feel good about it!
About The Author
Matthew James is the founder of http://www.Self-Hypnosis-Tapes.biz
a website dedicated to promoting the use of self-hypnosis and NLP
for self-improvement. The site offers a range of essential resources
and techniques that will enable you to achieve greater success.
What are You Afraid of?
Fear is a part of everyone's
life. Fear is both good and bad
depending on the situation. Fear can help keep you alive if you
must flee from a dangerous situation. Fear can keep you from
doing things that would endanger your safety or wellbeing, such
as driving too fast or robbing a bank.
But fear is mostly a limiting
factor in most people's lives. Are
you afraid of trying out for the school play or baseball team?
Are you afraid of going to the job interview? Are you afraid of
meeting new people? I could go on forever listing common fears
that keep people from achieving their dreams and goals. Fear is
so common, so limiting and so devastating that it's important to
determine what your own fears are when it comes to quitting
smoking.
At first glance you may
be thinking, "I'm not afraid of anything
related to quitting." Let's examine the many fears smokers have
and what you can do about them.
"Quitting is like
losing a friend," many smokers will say. Who's
not afraid to lose a friend? If you've smoked for any period of
time, you probably have an emotional attachment to your
cigarettes. They're a comfort--a constant--that you can always
count on to be there when you need them. As strange as it may
sound, it's true: Cigarettes are your friend (but this friend is
the kind that will stab you in the back!).
Next, you may be afraid
of losing the friendship of the "smoking
buddies" you have at the designated smoking areas where you
work. Many smokers spend an extraordinary amount of time (more
than most realize) each day smoking with other smokers in
designated smoking areas. Naturally, friendships develop. The
socializing becomes part of the attraction for smokers. Here are
people with a common bond--people who won't judge or make
negative comments about your smoking. If you're going to quit
smoking you can't expect to "hang out" in smoking areas
and not
be tempted. Quitting often means making a clean break from your
smoking buddies and their friendship.
Even more frightening than
losing friendships is losing a spouse
or losing the love of family members. If you are married to a
smoker and you are trying to quit, you may be afraid that your
relationship with your spouse may change drastically or even
end. Depending on your situation, you may be afraid that other
members of your family may "abandon" you or ostracize you
for
quitting.
Another common fear about
quitting is that you will gain weight.
This fear is not without merit. Most smokers do gain some
weight at first, but with proper diet and exercise you can
control your weight (and get healthier in the process).
Perhaps the biggest fear
among smokers when it comes to quitting
is the fear of failure. No one likes to fail. If you try to quit
and don't, you may feel like a failure and that you can't quit.
If you have tried several times to quit and haven't been able
to, you may find your self-esteem suffering. You may think
thoughts like "I can't do anything" or "I'm a failure"
or "I'll
never be able to quit."
Strangely enough, some
smokers may even fear successfully
quitting. If you quit, you quit for life. Does that lifetime
commitment scare you? The hidden fear is "what if I start
smoking again? I'm not sure I can handle it."
So what do you do about
all your fears? How do you overcome
them?
First, recognize that everyone
has fears and that it's ok to be
afraid. Then recognize that you CAN HANDLE IT! That's perhaps
the overall fear: "I'm just afraid I can't handle it." You
CAN
handle it!
Next, begin to examine
each fear for what it really is. Is it an
excuse or delay tactic by your own mind? Does it really have
merit? Will your feared outcome really come to pass? What if it
does come to pass? Ask yourself what's the worst thing that can
happen? So what? You'll survive!
Next, take some action
on behalf of your fear. In other words,
investigate what will happen if you quit. Talk to family and
friends and smoking buddies about your desire to quit. Let them
know you have concerns about what THEY will do if YOU quit. Get
commitment from the people in question to support YOUR decision
to quit.
If you are afraid of gaining
weight, get busy on your exercise
and healthy diet campaign! Take action!
If you are afraid of failure,
you must understand that you HAVE
NOT FAILED until you quit quitting! If you resume smoking after
quitting, you still have the opportunity to quit again! No one
said life was perfect. You don't have to be perfect. Just work
toward that goal on a daily basis, and don't beat yourself up
when you discover that you aren't perfect (pssst! here's a
secret: NO ONE IS PERFECT!)
If you are afraid of success,
just refer to the previous
paragraph. If you quit, you quit for life. If you falter, and
begin smoking again--well, just quit again! You did it before.
Besides, you quit smoking everyday, every time you put out your
cigarette. The only question is "how long is it before you light
up again?"
Finally, let fear be a
motivator. Fear is good if you use it
properly. Never forget the downside of smoking:
* your health suffers
* you may experience pain associated with diseases caused by
smoking
* you waste lots of money on "death sticks"
* your life will be shortened
* second-hand smoke will harm those around you
* your risk of having a house fire is much higher
* your breath, clothes, car, hair and house stink
Yes, these are the brutally
honest truths, but they can help
motivate you in the right direction to quit.
Acknowledge your fears,
examine your fears, then go about your
business, and get busy quitting! Don't be afraid anymore!
** Article © Copyright Fred Kelley of QuitSmoking.com. Visit the web site at http://www.quitsmoking.com for great information and products designed to help you quit smoking.
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