Cigarette Smoking Side Effects - How To Easily Break The Habit With Hypnosis

By: Alan B. Densky

[ Posted On: 2008-07-03 ]

Smoking is a dangerous and addictive habit that affects the lives of millions of people around the globe. We now know the perils of cigarette smoking and smokers are urged to find ways to stop smoking for the benefit of their own health. This is not easy to do, as most smokers begin at an extremely young age. The average age at which many people begin to smoke is only thirteen years old.

A habit formed at such a young age is not easily broken. Nicotine affects many parts of the body and it is hard to pull free without some help. Nicotine addiction is only one of many different diseases which can be caused by smoking. Most smokers need assistance on how to quit smoking and many different methods exist for this very purpose.

There are many factors that contribute to why people begin smoking and develop an addiction to cigarettes. The main reason that people begin to smoke is peer pressure. It is deemed cool to be able to smoke. It also is forbidden which makes it all the more attractive to rebellious teenagers, hence the low starting age for many people. This young age makes quitting smoking more difficult in your later years.

Media can also have an impact on the decision to begin smoking. Smoking in movies or on television can lead someone; especially a younger person to think that smoking is acceptable behavior. Parents can wield the biggest influence over their children by setting a good example on how to quit smoking. Mothers and fathers who smoke are far more likely to have children who start to smoke.

Nicotine is the drug within tobacco that smokers crave. Nicotine can affect your mind and body in many different ways. Nicotine, once inhaled into the lungs reaches the brain in a matter of just eight seconds. Once there, nicotine affects your heart rate and blood pressure. Over time it can increase your bad cholesterol levels and cause the narrowing of your arteries. Nicotine in concentrated doses is a lethal poison, so you can imagine the effects on your body. Nicotine is also addictive and this is why many people cannot quit smoking.

Smoking can impact your health on a variety of levels. Getting winded playing a game is one side effect of smoking. More serious smoking related diseases include emphysema and cancer. Heart disease and stroke are also closely linked to cigarette smoking. A person who quits smoking will greatly reduce their chances for these diseases for every year they can go smoke free.

The outcome of these medical conditions caused by smoking is grim. Lung cancer is almost always fatal unless detected very early and a full 80% of lung cancer cases are caused by smoking. Heart and lung disease can subtract years from your life unless you are able to quit smoking. Emphysema cannot be cured but only managed, plus the damage to your lungs cannot be repaired. Stop smoking benefits include a healthier, longer life and a better quality of life.

There are several different methods to quit smoking, and you must select the right method for you as an individual. Nicotine gums and patches are designed to help you slowly withdraw from the nicotine addiction. Only about 10% of the people who use them will actually quit smoking. Going cold turkey is another option and this is effective for up to 11% of the smokers who choose this option. Other well known methods to quit smoking include an herbal kit that can show you how to quit smoking. It has a success rate similar to that of nicotine patches and gums.

Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation is a popular and effective option for those who want to quit smoking without withdrawal or weight gain. Hypnotherapy has proven to be highly effective with smokers who have made a decision to quit smoking. Hypnosis might sound like an extreme solution but it delivers solid results up to 70% of the time. This success rate is many times that of other methods.

The reason hypnosis is so effective is that it while the physical addiction to nicotine makes up only about 10% of the smoking addiction, the psychological aspects of the habit make up a full 90% of the smoking addiction. Hypnosis treats this aspect of the addiction.

About 45% of the smoking behavior is caused by stress, and hypnosis has proven to be a powerful, non-invasive tool that can help reprogram the mind to divert you away from stressful thoughts, and towards relaxing, positive thoughts. In addition, the practice of hypnosis therapy incorporates a deep state of relaxation.

And about 45% of the smoking behavior is prompted by conditioned responses. This occurs when smoking is associated with other stimuli at the unconscious level of mind. For example, if you smoke and simultaneously watch TV, your unconscious will associate the image of a cigarette in your hand with the image of the TV. Every time you watch TV, your unconscious flashes an image of the cigarette in your hand, and you experience the compulsion to smoke.

Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation is regularly used to "extinguish" the conditioned responses by disassociating the unconscious connections between cigarettes and TV, driving, coffee, working on your computer, or any other environment where an unconscious association has been created.

In summary: While most smokers think that their inability to quit smoking is due to their addiction to nicotine, in truth it's the mental aspects of smoking that present the largest barriers. Hypnotherapy was accepted by the American Medical Association in 1958 as an effective tool. And hypnosis for smoke cessation is the second most common use of hypnotherapy today.

While hourly rates for hypnotherapists continue to skyrocket, there are some effective hypnosis CDs available that can greatly reduce the cost of obtaining hypnosis treatment. Since everyone is different, there are no specific "magic" words or post-hypnotic suggestions that will work for everyone. So when choosing hypnosis CDs, look for those that incorporate a broad variety of hypnotic and NLP techniques in a series of at least six or more sessions to enjoy the best possible outcome. In any case, the cost of the best self hypnosis programs equates to far less than the amount that an average smoker spends each and every month on buying cigarettes.

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About The Author: Alan B. Densky, CH invented the Video Hypnosis quit smoking program that helps smokers easily quit the habit. He also created other ways to quit smoking with Ericksonian Hypnosis and NLP. Visit the Neuro-VISION self development hypnosis site for free hypnosis videos and MP3s. www.neuro-vision.us/

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