Quit Smoking – Hypnosis Will Help You Quit for Good
How many people do you know who have quit smoking for a month or a year or and then started up again? What methods did they use to quit smoking: hypnosis, drugs, cold turkey? If they started back up after trying to quit smoking, hypnosis was probably not one of the things they tried. Is that your story, too? Unfortunately, it’s really common.
Anyone who has smoked for a number of years comes to a point where they really want to quit. In fact, they’re desperate to quit. That’s when they find out just how addicted they are. Because even though they have really good reasons, and a lot of motivation to quit, they can’t.
Has this already happened to you? Have you already had the experience of wanting to quit because the new baby was on the way? Or your new boyfriend or girlfriend doesn’t smoke. So you don’t want to anymore either? Or maybe you’re just tired of seeing so much of your hard-earned cash literally go up in smoke!
Whatever your reason for wanting to quit smoking, good intentions are usually not enough. Nicotine addiction is so strong, that you’ll need all the help he can get. The good news is, there’s a lot of help available. You have a lot of good quit smoking methods and products to choose from.
Quitting smoking is really a two-pronged process. You have to deal with both the physical nicotine addiction, and the psychological habits that you have created around smoking. Let’s call them your “smoking rituals”.
Everyone who has smoked for any number of years has actually built a whole set of smoking rituals that are unique to them. One of the reasons it’s so difficult to quit smoking is that the rituals become self reinforcing. What exactly does that mean?
It means that when you first began smoking you developed a set of habits, or actions, that you used every time you lit up your cigarette. And these are things like having a favorite ashtray, preferring a particular brand of cigarettes, using matches instead of a lighter, or always buying a red or a yellow lighter.
Now think about how many cigars or cigarettes you smoke every day. Do you smoke one pack a day? That’s 20 cigarettes. So that’s 20 times a day that you use your red lighter, or you look at that gold and white cigarette package. And then there are all of the habitual places and times that you smoke. You have a cigarette sitting in your favorite chair, or you light up after every meal.
So after even one year of smoking, do you really wonder why every time you see your cigarette lighter, or you finish a meal, it just feels natural to have a cigarette? In fact, it feels uncomfortable not to have one. And we’ve only been talking about your behavioral habits.
When you quit smoking cigarettes, you also have to face your nicotine addiction. And the physical addiction to nicotine is as strong or stronger than a physical addiction to heroin. The good news about that is: once you stop putting nicotine into your system, most of it flushes out within a couple of days.
Quit smoking drugs, like patches and pills and nasal sprays, are intended to help you get through the physical withdrawal period. They’re supposed to help reduce the nicotine cravings, and you’re supposed to gradually taper off from them. They work about 20% to 30% of the time for long-term smoking cessation. But if you talk to people who have successfully quit smoking for 10 or 20 years, you’ll probably find that they used self hypnosis at some point to help them stop smoking for good.
Joanne Fallwater
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/quit-smoking-hypnosis-will-help-you-quit-for-good-724079.html
Helping my boyfriend quit smoking?
I am a non-smoker. My boyfriend has been smoking for over 6 years and he said it’s almost impossible for him to quit. however, we want to get married and I have told him that he will need to quit before we get engaged or I can’t marry him.
He’s trying to quit now and I’m very happy. I don’t know much about quit smoking aids. He has a filter that he attaches to his cigarettes which makes it less harmless. I was wondering how effective these filters are?
Also, I want to get him something else that can help him quit. I’ve heard about hypnosis and some other stop smoking aids. Can anyone tell me which ones are better and where can I buy them?
sorry i meant to type less harmful. thanks for correcting.
He has a filter that he attaches to his cigarettes which makes it less harmless.
WHAT? I hope you meant "less harmful"
and nicotine patches imo
References :
how are going to change that man.you knew he was a smoker and now you want him to quit before you get married.your the 1 who benfits from marriage not him so kiss his feet everynight when he quits.that man loves you to death lol
References :
I used to smoke but i quit. There is alot of things out there that claim to help you quit smoking. I myself didnt try them. They still release nicotine and other substances to stop the "crave" . The problem with these things are habbit….your not really quitting your finding away to replace the "fix"…if you ask me….COLD TURKEY is the BEST way!!! I swear on it!…..I noticed that when i quit what bothered me the most wasnt the "crave" it was the fact that i didnt know what to do with my old "break time"…..it was like smoking was my hobby lol….COLD TURKEY AND A NEW HOBBY!!!!! that what worked for me! oh and WILLPOWER lol………i almost cried for a smoke when i first quit….it feels horrible…but it can be done and its well worth it!
References :
my own experience!
First of all, best of luck to your boyfriend. Cigarette smoking is a form of nicotine addiction just like chewing tobacco. I HAVE SMOKED FOR FORTY YEARS and I finally quit.
Let me speak from my own experience and the knowledge of nearly sixty years of life has taught me.
Your boyfriend is now and will always be a nicotine addict just as I am. The differance is that I am not smoking. The fail rate for smokers is actually higher than persons addicted to heroin, meth, and cocaine. Nicotine is the single most addictive substance to to mankind. Nicotine addiction takes a lot of drive and willpower to maintain.
Now, for the ways in which to quit: Patches, gum, Chantix and anything that delivers nicotine to the human body will keep a person addicted. You would never give heroin to a heroin addict to help them quit, so why would giving nicotine to a smoker work? As for Chantix, though it does not deliver nicotine it does deliver its drug to the brain and tricks the brain into sending endorphins into the bloodstream just as if it were nicotine.
Consider this advice. In the US, pharmaceutical maufactures make untold BILLIONS of dollars profits by playing on peoples lack of knowledge. Smoking cessation aids are a big business and have made many execs wealthy. If hypnosis, drugs like Chantix and all the other charms happen to work for a person than thank God.
The awful truth is this, once you deliver nicotine to your body and you do this repeatedly, your body will then become addicted to the drug. I have not smoked in nearly two years and believe me, I have tried everything to quit. The best way to quit and the way in which is most successful is JUST STOP. Your body will have its varying degrees of withdrawl symptoms, but tell yourself NO withdrawl symptoms could ever be as hideous as dying of lung cancer, emphysema, pancreatic cancer and the list goes on.
Ask any former smoker how they FINALLY quit and odds are nearly all will tell you they did it cold turkey. It’s not fun and it was the single hardest thing I ever did in my life. One fact that a former smoker must always keep in mind is that you are NOT stronger than nicotine. It held you in its deadly embrace and you finally pulled away from it. All it would take is for you to take ONE puff and you could and likely will be smoking again. Your brain is not able to understand a span of time when you are a nicotine addict. To your brain whether you quit for a day, a week, a month a year of ten years…it is as though it was YESTERDAY. You could pick up a cigarette and light up like you never quit.
I speak from the life of an older man, fifty – six years old. Trust me, no smoker with any brains wants to continue to smoke. Nicotine addiction is beatable. Thousands of people in the US quit successfully each year. The mere fact that our geniuses in our government have decided to tax cigarettes should be a motivation to throw them away. The sad fact is that our wondrus politicians know how hard quitting is and so they have found a great revenue source to line their pockets with folks money from taxing cigarettes.
In my humble opinion the best website on the planet to quit smoking is http://www.whyquit.com. Look for the videos and yes, sit and watch them. This man knows exactly what smokers go through when they quit. I know for me that I can never take another puff!
I wish your boyfriend well and may you both have a long healthy, and smoke – free life.
References :
Hi itstoolate,
actually, it is never too late
I am trying very hard to have a friend quit smoking. Her problem is that she loves her smoke breaks, it allows her to take her mind off things. She is not really willing to give this up.
I ordered her an electronic cigarette and hope that over time she can transition to zero nicotine cartridges.
Good Luck!
References :
http://www.ecigarettes365.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=141
THis is a program I just got for my mom after turning to it as a last resort. I know it seems stupid and maybe too good to be true but I want to help you. Give it a try
http://a6b1b7p507um4mam321r1dog-j.hop.clickbank.net/
References :