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Quitting smoking has become a necessity in our times, because smoking has been banned from restaurants and public places. In fact, it's the smart thing to do for more reasons than good health alone. This article explores the very best Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques that can be used to make it as painless as possible to break the addiction to cigarettes. There are three distinct parts to a smoking habit. Two of the elements are mental, and only one part is physical. Part A: YOU SMOKE FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE. When you were an infant and you became cranky, your mother would put a pacifier into your mouth to pacify you. You would get distracted, become relaxed, and often go to sleep. That sequence of events was repeated dozens 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 upset, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - a cigarette! 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 the dogs would salivate. When you associate smoking with any other behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings for a cigarette and a feeling of urgency that makes you feel compelled to smoke a cigarette. This is called a conditioned response. For example: If you light-up when you see someone else smoking, you will automatically get an urge to light-up each time you see someone else smoking. Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your unconscious: 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 ties it to the cup of coffee. Thereafter, every time the person has a cup of coffee, his subconscious 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 not be consciously aware of the mental movie of the cigarette, because it may only be at the unconscious 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've worked with several thousand people for smoke cessation and I guarantee you that the physical addiction to tobacco is the weakest part of the habit. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the addiction to cigarettes. I believe that 90% 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 tension that makes you light-up a cigarette for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and when you erase the conditioned response of feeling an urge for cigarettes when having a cup of coffee, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can quit smoking without needing willpower, and without experiencing withdrawal symptoms or gaining weight. Self-hypnosis will make it easy to quit smoking because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how: Part A is where you smoke for relaxation and pleasure. It's our thoughts which create anxiety. More exactly, people invariably play mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it brings about a feeling of tension. We can use different hypnotic methods to train the subconscious to quickly and easily take those tension producing mental pictures, and quickly exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This produces relaxation and pleasure, and obliterates the tension that causes the oral urges and compulsions for a cigarette. Because of the elimination of feelings of tension, the smoker who is quitting doesn't experience the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the cigarettes. So quitting without weight gain is possible. Part B is where you smoke a cigarette 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 people 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 a cigarette? There are efficient and powerful hypnosis and NLP technologies that can effortlessly erase those conditioned responses so that your unconscious 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 SUMMARY In summary, by using certain hypnotic and NLP techniques, it can be very easy to quit smoking without withdrawal or weight gain. And many of these methods do not even depend on post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on training the subconscious to use the same thought processes that the subconscious mind is using to create the smoking habit, to eliminate the mental addiction.
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Alan B. Densky, CH opened his practice starting in 1978. He offers Neuro-VISION Video Quit Smoking Self Hypnosis Programs and Audio Stop Smoking Self Hypnosis CD’s. Visit his free repository of original hypnosis & NLP articles or download FREE NLP & self hypnosis MP3's.
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