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How many inner dialogs have you had in your head about your smoking habit? How many times have you mentioned to family and friends that you want to quit but seem to go on smoking despite the dangers and the expense? And how many programs have you tried that just failed? If you are like most people struggling with smoking, you will remember such inner dramas and may have felt nothing will really work for you. Unless you tried hypnosis to stop smoking, you may have been on target.

If you honestly want to quit smoking, neurolinguistic therapy with hypnosis is the rational choice for real success. Quit smoking hypnosis can zone in on the most significant reasons that keep you smoking as well as giving you the tools and support to be successful once and for all. This is not stage entertainment that is good for laughs and tricks, but a real medical therapy approved by the AMA since 1958, and one with recognized certification and strict rules of conduct.

Hypnosis does not change your moral values and a responsible hypnotherapist will respect your privacy and rights just the same as any other medical professional. You do want one who is approved by the National Guild of Hypnotists and who follows their stringent ethical and professional standards. Included in their code is putting the mental and physical welfare of clients uppermost. They also defend clients from physical, mental or verbal, and refer clients to others as required.

A skilled hypnotist has the experience and training to address problem behavior, and hypnotherapy to stop smoking is the second most common type they practice. Using methods that are considered state of the art which may include the precision of NLP enriched hypnosis and the ongoing support of stop smoking self hypnosis CD's as well as any medical measures a primary care physician might also prescribe for a patient. Using hypnotherapy does not mean other measures are out of the question, but they may not be at all necessary.

The reason that professionally used stop smoking hypnosis is the most effective method to reach success is that it addresses the three basic issues in smoking. No method can work that does not address each issue completely and correct the problems each causes. Most people think that the physical addiction to nicotine is the most important aspect and the most predominant problem, but this is simply not factual. If the addiction to the chemical called nicotine were the only reason for failure, most smokers would not fail so many times in their efforts to quit for good.

Yes, nicotine is a powerfully addictive substance and for most smokers the physical need is very real and there are withdrawal symptoms that are also real. But did you know these last only a short time? In fact, every bit of nicotine is flushed out of the system in just 72 hours or less! For many smokers, it is the fear of withdrawal symptoms and not the reality that causes the most distress and which may prevent even trying. Yet quitting without training has an average five percent rate of success! Hypnosis to quit smoking reduces fear of withdrawal symptoms and mitigates the effect of any that do happen.

Another characteristic of smoking cigarettes is that it provides comfort and calming, just as sucking on a pacifier calms and soothes a baby. Many people treat stress and anxiety with some form of oral activity like smoking cigarettes or eating. Hypnotic relaxation can replace the comfort factor obtained from smoking cigarettes, which reduces the insistent urges and produces stop smoking benefits instead. The mind can be trained to substitute the same sensations from other activities that are helpful, not harmful. Neurolinguistic techniques can educate the brain to remove any linkage between smoking cigarettes and comfort.

Finally, part of the smoking habit is plain old Pavlovian conditioning. Smokers learn to associate smoking with certain activities, from the movie cliche of smoking immediately after physical relations to having a cigarette while consuming alcohol or watching television or chatting on the phone. Here stop smoking hypnotherapy can permanently remove the connection, and when the link is no longer present, there will be no cue to light a cigarette when the coffee is poured or the cocktail is presented. The mind is conditioned to associate good things with the former triggers, or to recall the helpful effects of quitting or the bad things about the cigarette.

A skilled clinical practitioner will use both positive and negative associations to replace conditioned associations with smoking, selecting those most powerful for an individual smoker who wants to quit. Quit smoking hypnosis is the only treatment modality that can custom fit the treatment to each of the three reasons for smoking and completely eliminate them. Everyone quitting requires support, but only smoking cessation hypnosis effectively make you equipped to support yourself at any time.