Easy Ways To Break Your Cigarette Addiction With Hypnosis and NLP
There are three separate components to a cigarette smoking addiction. Two of the components are mental/emotional, and one part is physical.
Part A: YOU SMOKE FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.
When you were a toddler and you became upset, your mother would put a nipple into your mouth to distract you from that upset. You would get distracted, become relaxed, and often go to asleep. That sequence of events was repeated hundreds 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 an adult, if you feel tense or nervous, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - a smoke!
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 could just ring the bell, and that would trigger the dogs to salivate.
When you associate smoking a cigarette with any other behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings for a cigarette and a compulsion to light up. This is called a conditioned response.
For example: If you smoke a cigarette when you see a cup of coffee, you will automatically get an urge to smoke a cigarette each time you have a cup of coffee.
Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your subconscious: If a person smokes a cigarette and simultaneously drinks a cup of coffee, the mind takes a snapshot of the cigarette in the hand, and connects it to the cup of coffee. Thereafter, every time the person has a cup of coffee, his mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of a cigarette, and the smoker gets a craving for one.
You may be unaware of the mental image 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 something or 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 have had the experience of working with several thousand smokers and I guarantee you that the physical addiction is the weakest part of the habit. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the smoking habit. ninety percent of the addiction are the mental and emotional parts! (Parts A and B).
HERE IS WHAT THIS MEANS TO A SMOKER WHO WANTS TO QUIT.
What this means is that if you can eliminate the anxiety that makes you put cigarettes into your mouth for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and if you can extinguish the conditioned response of feeling cravings for cigarettes when having a cup of coffee, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can give up smoking without needing willpower, and without suffering from withdrawal symptoms or gaining weight.
Hypnosis will make it easy to give up smoking because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:
Part A is where smokers smoke for relaxation and pleasure. It’s your thoughts that create tension. More to the point, people persistently run mental movies in their mind’s eye. If the movie is negative, it creates a feeling of tension. We can use different NLP techniques to program the unconscious to quickly take those stress creating mental images, and automatically exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This produces relaxation and pleasure, and eliminates the stress that creates the oral urges and compulsions for cigarettes.
Because of the elimination of anxiety, 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 smokers get cravings for cigarettes 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 you get into that activity or environment, the mind flashes an image of a cigarette, and the image of the cigarette triggers an urge to light-up?
There are quit smoking hypnosis, and quit smoking NLP techniques that can effortlessly extinguish those conditioned responses so that your subconscious 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.
IN SUMMATION
To summarize, when we utilize certain hypnotic techniques, it becomes very easy to quit smoking without withdrawal or weight gain. And many of these methodologies don’t even depend on post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on programming the mind to use the same thought processes that the unconscious mind is using to create the addiction to cigarettes, to eliminate the mental addiction.
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Alan B. Densky, CH created his practice in NLP and hypnosis in 1978. He has worked face-to-face with over ten-thousand clients for hypnotic appetite suppression, hypnosis for weight loss, smoke cessation hypnosis, and other stress related symptoms. He maintains a library of original hypnosis & NLP articles, and offers FREE hypnosis and NLP newsletters and MP3 downloads. He can be contacted through his website at www.Neuro-VISION.us
- Alan B. Densky, CH
