The first component of a successful stop smoking hypnosis program addresses the need to smoke for pleasure and relaxation. This example was actually instituted when you were a baby. No doubt, when you got cranky, your parents gave you a bottle on which to suck. Then it diverted your attention; you relaxed and likely went to sleep. Cigarette smokers experience the same soothing effect from a cigarette.
With quit smoking hypnosis, your unconscious is reprogrammed to attain pleasure and relaxation by unconsciously replacing stress-inducing thoughts with calming thoughts instead, all through the use of the very same triggers that previously made you tense. This makes the tension almost disappear magically. In addition, the very principal goal of hypnosis is relaxation. So by listening to a soothing hypnotherapy CD daily, anxiety levels will quickly fade.
The second component of an effective stop smoking hypnosis program will help you deal withMichael Emery
Michael J. Emery
the habituation, or the “Habit.” Habituation transpires when the unconscious forms an association between smoking and other behaviors, such as driving or watching television. Perhaps the moment that you turn on the TV you are besieged with a craving to smoke.
An effective stop smoking hypnosis DVD or CD will reprogram your unconscious associations so that watching TV, for example, actually makes you want to NOT smoke! This is called, no pun intended, extinguishing a conditioned response.
Here is a news flash! The physical nicotine addiction is merely about ten percent of the addiction. Ninety percent of the addiction to cigarettes comes from the mental and emotional components that we have looked at thus far. And as stated earlier in this article, medical experts tell us that the body is clear of nicotine in as little as three days.
People who use Neuro-Linguistic Programming and quit smoking hypnosis CDs and DVDs recognize that when their smoking associations and reliance on cigarettes for relaxation have been reprogrammed, the physical addiction is essentially such a minuscule part of their smoking habit, that it has no influence on their power to quit smoking without enduring withdrawal.
Now, I must tell you that despite the extraordinary success that clients have had with stop smoking hypnosis and NLP CDs and DVDs, you must hold the des