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If you are trying to quit smoking, you know how tough it is to crush this dangerous addiction. It is possible however, and half of all adult smokers quit smoking forever. Many smokers have successfully quit smoking cigarettes by replacing them with new, positive habits without having to experience withdrawal symptoms. By far, the most effective, easiest method to stop smoking and achieve this end is stop smoking self-hypnosis.

Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation is one of the most frequently practiced forms of hypnotherapy. It is often cited as a tool to stop smoking along with strategies such as the use of nicotine patches and gums and other popular methods. It helps to end the smoking addiction by combating cravings to smoke, motivating you to stay committed to quitting, and promoting stress relief and relaxation so you will not be tempted to smoke.

The smoking addiction contains both psychological and physiological aspects. The physiological addiction is a physical need the body develops to nicotine. This aspect of the addiction causes the physical withdrawal symptoms that make it seem near impossible to stop smoking. However, this is a short, temporary phase in the overall process of quitting the habit, lasting only between three days and one week. By the end of this period of time, your body acclimates to normal, nicotine-free functioning. Based on thirty years of experience, I believe that the physical addiction to nicotine constitutes a mere ten percent of the addiction to smoking.

By far, the most challenging part of breaking the smoking addiction is overcoming the psychological addiction, which are the mental and emotional aspects of smoking. I believe this constitutes ninety percent of the cigarette addiction. When you develop a smoking habit, you unconsciously develop a desire to smoke in certain situations, such as before going to bed at night. This is called a conditioned response. Stop smoking self-hypnosis works to eliminate the unconscious relationships that cause one to crave cigarettes, thereby eliminating the conditioned compulsion to smoke. Hypnotherapy also helps you stay motivated to cease smoking by strengthening your ideas that gave you the wish to stop smoking in the first place.

Smokers get stuck in the habit of following a ritual of lighting up and smoking. This is why people who attempt to stop smoking using nicotine gums or patches alone usually have such a difficult experience. They promptly overcome the physiological addiction, but they have no relief or replacement for the ritual of smoking, which has become a psychological addiction and pleasurable source of stress relief. Self hypnosis techniques eliminate this habit and serve as stress reducers as well. As a relaxation tool, hypnosis helps effectively relieve anxiety and stress so you will lose the desire to smoke cigarettes.

Combined with effective NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques, quit smoking self-hypnosis can keep you motivated to breaking the habit by training the unconscious mind to focus on the benefits of quitting. Eliminating tobacco benefits you in many ways. Within days of quitting, body parts damaged by smoking begin to heal, damaged nerves re-grow, and your sense of taste and smell improves. Within weeks, lung function and blood circulation improve. Within one year, your risk of heart disease is less than half that of a smoker. Within five to fifteen years, your risk of having a stroke is the same as a non-smoker. Your risk of heart disease is the same as someone who has never smoked at all, and the risk of dying from lung cancer and a number of other cancer risks have decreased.

Despite the harmful effects of smoking and the benefits of quitting, some smokers never overcome their habit. For the most part, this is because they have never really made a decision to quit. Other smokers are afraid to suffer through withdrawal symptoms or give up the smoking habit. However, quitting smoking does not have to be the agonizing process that makes so many smokers reluctant to even attempt quitting. Hypnotherapy provides a very simple, natural technique for quitting.

Hypnotherapy is a powerful tool for controlling cravings for cigarettes, providing powerful motivation, and promoting relaxation and stress relief to eliminate the psychological aspects of the smoking habit. Hypnosis techniques to stop smoking can be learned with ease from specialized self-hypnosis CDs that have been developed after decades of experience using hypnosis, NLP, and Neuro-VISION video hypnotherapy to get clients to stop smoking.

Hypnotherapy CDs make it easy to stop smoking for good because they break the smoking addiction in a process that helps extinguish cravings and the desire to smoke. Whatever your motivation is for quitting, hypnosis CDs makes it easier to focus your mind on these reasons, which makes you feel a strong urge to quit. Stop smoking hypnotherapy CDs eliminate the compulsion to smoke. Even though quitting smoking can be an unsuccessful endeavor for some, those who utilize self hypnosis have a much greater rate of success because it makes the process a 'slam-dunk'. Hypnotherapy is the most effective method for smoke cessation.