| Breaking the smoking addiction is a necessity today, | | | | HERE IS WHAT THIS MEANS TO A SMOKER WHO |
| because smoking cigarettes has been banned from | | | | WANTS TO QUIT. |
| eateries and public places. And in fact, it is definitely | | | | If you can eliminate the feeling of tension that |
| the smart thing to do for more reasons than health | | | | causes a smoker to light-up a cigarette for relaxation |
| alone. This commentary explores the very best | | | | and pleasure (Part A) . . . and when you erase the |
| Neuro-Linguistic Programming methods that can be | | | | conditioned response of feeling a craving for |
| used to make it as painless as possible to break the | | | | cigarettes when having a cup of coffee, driving, or |
| addiction to cigarettes. | | | | finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can break |
| There are three distinct parts to the addiction to | | | | the addiction to tobacco without needing willpower, |
| tobacco. Two of the parts are mental/emotional, and | | | | and without having to experience withdrawal |
| only one part is physical. | | | | symptoms or gaining weight. |
| Part A: YOU SMOKE FOR RELAXATION AND | | | | Self Hypnosis can help encourage a smoker to stop |
| PLEASURE. | | | | smoking. Self-hypnosis will make it easy to break the |
| When you were a child and you got cranky, your | | | | addiction to tobacco because it takes care of Parts |
| mother would put a pacifier into your mouth to | | | | A & B! Here is how: |
| distract you from that upset. You would get | | | | Part A is where people smoke for relaxation and |
| distracted, become calmer, and often fall asleep. That | | | | pleasure. It's our thoughts which create feelings of |
| sequence of events was repeated thousands of | | | | stress. More specifically, people constantly run mental |
| times so that your unconscious mind was | | | | movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it |
| programmed: When something goes into your mouth, | | | | brings about a feeling of stress. |
| you get relaxation and pleasure from it. | | | | We can use some very powerful NLP or Hypnosis |
| Now that you are fully-grown, if you feel tense or | | | | techniques to program the unconscious mind to |
| nervous, you crave something in your mouth for | | | | quickly take those stress creating mental movies, and |
| relaxation and pleasure - a smoke! | | | | instantly exchange them for relaxation producing |
| Part B: SMOKING IS A CONDITIONED RESPONSE. | | | | mental pictures and movies. This instills relaxation and |
| Remember Pavlov? He rang a bell every time that he | | | | pleasure, and obliterates the stress that triggers the |
| fed his dogs. After a few repetitions, all he had to do | | | | oral cravings for a cigarette. |
| was to ring the bell, and the sound of the bell would | | | | Because of the elimination of feelings of tension, the |
| trigger the dogs to salivate. | | | | smoker who is quitting doesn't feel the compulsion or |
| When you link smoking a cigarette with any other | | | | need to substitute food in place of the cigarettes. So |
| behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings for a | | | | quitting without weight gain is possible. |
| cigarette and a feeling of urgency that makes you | | | | Part B is where people get cravings for cigarettes |
| feel compelled to smoke. This is called a conditioned | | | | because smoking becomes a conditioned response to |
| response. | | | | many different activities and locations. Remember in |
| For example: If you smoke when you drive your car, | | | | the earlier example how smoking became |
| you will automatically get an urge to light-up each | | | | unconsciously associated with other activities and |
| time you drive your car. | | | | environments so that each time people get into that |
| Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets | | | | activity or environment, the mind flashes an image of |
| programmed into your unconscious: If a person | | | | a cigarette, and the image of the cigarette triggers |
| smokes and simultaneously drinks a cup of coffee, | | | | an urge to light-up? |
| the mind takes a picture of the cigarette in the hand, | | | | There are efficient hypnosis technologies that can |
| and associates it to the cup of coffee. Thereafter, | | | | quickly extinguish those conditioned responses so |
| every time the person has a cup of coffee, his | | | | that your unconscious will lose the cravings for |
| unconscious mind fills in the missing part of the | | | | cigarettes, and the compulsion to smoke. As a |
| picture. It flashes an image of the cigarette, and the | | | | matter of fact, you can even get a compulsion to |
| smoker gets a craving for one. | | | | reject the cigarettes. |
| You may not be consciously aware of the mental | | | | IN SUMMARY |
| picture of the cigarette, because it may only be at | | | | To summarize, by utilizing certain NLP techniques, it |
| the unconscious level of mind. Just as you are | | | | becomes very easy to stop smoking without |
| unaware of what you are seeing through your | | | | withdrawal or weight gain. And many of these |
| peripheral vision until someone draws your attention | | | | methods don't even depend on post-hypnotic |
| to it. But the image is there, creating a craving for a | | | | suggestions. They depend on training the mind to use |
| cigarette. | | | | the same mental processes that the mind is using to |
| Part C: THERE IS A PHYSICAL ADDICTION TO | | | | create the smoking habit, to eliminate the mental |
| NICOTINE, BUT . . . | | | | addiction. |
| After having worked with several thousand smokers, | | | | Author's Bio |
| I give you my personal guarantee that the physical | | | | Alan B. Densky, CH created his practice in 1978. He |
| addiction is the weakest part of the addiction. In | | | | offers Neuro-VISION Video Stop Smoking Self |
| fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the | | | | Hypnosis Programs and Audio Stop Smoking Self |
| addiction to tobacco. I believe that ninety percent of | | | | Hypnosis CD's. Visit his free repository of original |
| the smoking habit are the mental and emotional parts! | | | | hypnosis & NLP articles or download FREE self |
| (Parts A and B). | | | | hypnosis and NLP MP3's. |