Ending smoking is a necessity for some of you. Others of you may have a strong desire to quit tobacco now. You know how hard it is to quit without a powerful aid. So here's a question: should you go with a drug, gum or the patch, or with hypnosis?
Gums and Patches
Don't Change the Underlying Smoking Habit
Nicotine gums or patches do help some people ease their symptoms as they try to quit smoking, but it doesn't change the underlying drive or habit. And studies have shown that about 95% of success at stopping the behavior of using tobacco is about the habit while curbing physiological absorption of nicotine can be attributed to the other 5%. Using drugs to stop smoking may help some people, but for many there are uncomfortable side effects leaving their neurotransmitters feeling scrambled and overcooked.
To kick the habit of smoking right now and make it last forever, you need to completely lose the desire to smoke. Nicotine replacement or drugs can't do that for you. Using hypnotherapy or targeted self hypnosis to stop smoking can help you to never desire a single cigarette again.
Three Scientific Studies Show
How Effective Hypnosis Is When You Stop Smoking
Here are three scientific studies which showed just how powerful the hypnosis technique can be compared to anti-nicotine drugs, patches and gums:
1. Largest study ever says hypnosis is three times more effective: This study was reported in the Journal of Applied Psychology at the University of Iowa, October 1992. "How One in Five Give Up Smoking: Hypnosis Most Effective Says Largest Study Ever: 3 times effectiveness of patch and 15 times willpower. Hypnosis is the most effective way of giving up smoking, according to the largest ever scientific comparison of ways of breaking the habit. A meta-analysis, statistically combining results of more than 600 studies of 72,000 people from America and Europe to compare various methods of quitting." What it showed: hypnosis was found to be more than 15 times more effective than trying to quit alone and three times as effective as nicotine replacement methods. Pretty strong, right?
2. "Hypnosis Patients Twice As Likely To Quit. Study of 71 smokers showed that after a two-year follow up, patients that quit with hypnosis were twice as likely to still be smoke-free than those who quit on their own." This study was reported in a paper called Guided health imagery for smoking cessation and long-term abstinence, Wynd CA. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 2005; 37:3, pages 245-250. It's simple and powerful conclusion: willpower just wasn't enough to quit or maintain freedom from smoking.
3. "90.6% Success Rate Using Smoking Hypnosis Of 43 consecutive patients undergoing this treatment protocol, 39 reported remaining abstinent at follow-up (6 months to 3 years post-treatment)." Source: University of Washington School of Medicine, Depts. of Anesthesiology and Rehabilitation Medicine, Int J Clin Exp Hypn. 2001 Jul;49 (3):257-66. Barber J.
What You Can Do Now to
Quit Smoking Forever
Here's all you need: the willingness to direct yourself to just let go of tocacco. (Resist any pressure from your loved ones who might nag or berate you to stop smoking). Then the process will be easy.
To quit tobacco, just do one of these three things:
* Use a good local or distance hypnotherapist -- This would be a superb, personalized way to go. And your hypnotherapist would hold you accountable. And she or he would not judge you -- only encourage you. Before your session, recall your smoking "triggers" so you can discuss them with your hypnotherapist. Here are some typical triggers: arising from sleep, having your daily cup of coffee, work break time, driving in your car, after making love. Your list could be different, shorter or longer. But the point is you've got to know what they are and then you'll need to discuss them with your hypnotherapist.
* Read a good self hypnosis book -- My book, Instant-Self-Hypnosis, How to Hypnotize Yourself with Your Eyes Open -- besides having an effective stop smoking script -- teaches you how to create your own scripts (using the imagery and symbols that speak to you with the most success). Then, for each goal, you'd simply follow the method I outline in the book daily for 21 to 30 days.
* Purchase a good hypnosis stop smoking mp3 or script.
Author Resource:-
Forbes Robbins Blair is the author of two self-hypnosis books: the popular Instant Self-Hypnosis and The Self-Hypnosis Revolution. His website, http://www.instant-self-hypnosis.com, offers hypnosis articles, news, audios, hypnosis-by-phone and privagte in-office client hypnotherapy. Two of his hypnosis audios are: "Eating Healthy" & "Lose 3 Pounds Every Seven Days".
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