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The Director of the Duke University Stop Smoking Clinic gently helps you make a firm decision to quit and provides everything you need to succeed: Guidebook, Hypnosis CD, and Cigarette Substitute. The guidebook is warm and supportive, and keeps you engaged with the use of color, cartoons, and charts. For many people, over-the-counter nicotine-replacement products like the nicotine patch can make quitting easier. Dr. Shipley reveals new ways to use these products tha… More >>

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Are you concerned about your health? If you want to quit smoking, hypnosis is the healthiest method. Just think about it for a minute. A quit smoking hypnosis program will teach your healthy habits that you can use for life. But quit smoking drugs have potentially dangerous side effects.

But just as dangerous can side effects be? After all, a lot of the drugs have to be prescribed by a doctor. Doesn’t a doctor’s supervision automatically make taking drugs to quit smoking safe? And aren’t they worth it if the end result is that you don’t smoke anymore?

First, you have to understand that all drugs have side effects. And some of them are more serious than others. You’re already addicted to nicotine, which is a heavy-duty poison. Did you know nicotine has been used for centuries as an insecticide to kill insects?

Well, when you use a nicotine patch or nasal sprays that are compounded with nicotine, you’re still delivering that poison into your system. True, you’re getting doses small enough that they won’t kill you as long as you follow the directions carefully.

But a long-time smoking habit isn’t just about the physical addiction to nicotine. People who have smoked for a number of years to develop “smoking rituals”. Those are the small actions that get repeated every time you smoke.

They are small things, like the way you hold your hand when you smoke your cigarette. Do you hold your cigarette between your index and middle fingers? Or do you like to hold it between your thumb and index finger?

You keep your lighter in your pants pocket? How many times a day do you reach for your lighter? Do you think it’s a coincidence that when you reach for your keys in your pocket, you suddenly crave a cigarette?

It’s no coincidence. Putting your hand in your pocket has become part of a “smoking ritual” that triggers your urge to smoke. Even if you just finished smoking a cigarette a few minutes ago, when you put your hand in your pocket again, you’ll think about having a cigarette.

That’s where the nicotine replacement drugs, like the patch and the nasal sprays and inhalers, can become dangerous. They take care of the physical cravings, but they don’t address the smoking rituals. So a lot of people end up using the quit smoking drugs, smoking their cigarettes or cigars on top of it.

That puts them in danger of having a nicotine overdose. Just because you don’t drop dead on the spot from smoking a cigarette or cigar, doesn’t mean that you can’t overdose on nicotine. You can. Not only can an overdose of nicotine make you violently ill, it can kill you on the spot. Like a dead bug hit with insecticide.

And what about the quit smoking pills? You can’t get them without a prescription, so you would think that they would be safe. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Even under a doctor’s supervision, some of the drugs themselves are just not safe.

If you take the time to read the list of potential side effects that these drugs can cause, it will make you think twice about taking them. You want to quit smoking because you want to be healthy. But do you really want to risk damage to your heart, liver, kidney and other internal organs while you’re in the process of quitting smoking?

There are other safer methods to quit smoking that don’t have any kind of physical health risk at all. No, you don’t have to quit smoking cold turkey. Hypnosis has the best long-term success rate of any of the methods that people use to quit smoking. And the side effects of using hypnosis, long term are actually good for you.

A good hypnosis program will give you tools to help ease the nicotine cravings. You’ll also learn ways to deactivate those “smoking ritual” triggers. And that’s really important for long-term success.

Of all the methods people use to quit smoking, hypnosis is the most effective. There are studies that show that when people use quit smoking hypnosis programs they are successful more than 60% of the time. When you compare that with the success rates of quit smoking drugs (20% to 30%), it makes a lot of sense to use hypnosis programs.

But what exactly happens during hypnosis when it’s used to quit smoking? Basically, you put yourself into a light trance state. You’re not asleep, but you’re not intently focused on your everyday thoughts. You’re in a state of deep relaxation, but you’re still able to hear and respond to the world around you.

A lot of people think they can’t be hypnotized. They know they’re usually tense and have trouble relaxing. But most people can learn relaxation techniques. And that’s really all you need to be able to do for a successful quit smoking hypnosis program.

There are a lot of hypnosis programs that claim that you will quit smoking after one session. This is actually quite possible. Many people report that they have quit smoking for several hours or the rest of the day after only one session.

But that doesn’t mean you never have to use the self hypnosis program began. In reality, when you use a hypnosis program to stop smoking, you’re learning an ongoing technique. You’ll be able to use it for the rest of your life, whenever the urge to smoke comes up.

Think of it this way: if you take a golf lesson, your swing could be greatly improved after only one lesson. But you’d still have to practice that new technique every time you play golf.

It’s the same when you learn a hypnosis technique to stop smoking. Every time you get a nicotine craving, you have a choice to make. You can light up a cigarette or cigar, or you can practice your hypnosis technique.

So will you have to take hypnosis “lessons” forever? Well, think about the golf lesson analogy. If you want to improve your golf game, do you have to take golf lessons forever? Of course not!

You take a lesson to improve your swing, then you go out and practice what you’ve learned. And the more you practice, the better you get, and the easier it is to play well.

But even if your game improves a lot after that one lesson (and lots of practice), there might come a time when you would want to take another lesson. What if you had an accident and hurt your knee, or you just couldn’t play golf for several months? You might need a refresher lesson just to get back into shape.

It’s the same thing when you use hypnosis to quit smoking. You learn it. You practice it. You improve your technique. And the beauty of it is, even though your goal is to quit smoking forever, if that doesn’t happen after your first hypnosis try, you can still try again until you reach your goal.

When your goal is to quit smoking for good, you haven’t failed unless you stop trying. Chances are you’ve already tried to quit smoking at least once. So you already know that it’s not an easy thing to do.

The reality is that most people try to quit smoking several times before they finally quit for good. So instead of beating yourself up for relapsing, think of it as getting one step closer to your final goal. As long as you keep trying to quit, there is no doubt that you will be successful. And using hypnosis will definitely help you achieve your goal.

Quit smoking hypnosis programs are popular right now, but will they work for you? Even if you really want to quit smoking, hypnosis might cause you some serious doubts.

Maybe the only kind of hypnosis you’ve ever seen is the kind they do in Las Vegas. You know, the hypnotist stands on the stage and asks for a volunteer from the audience. And it usually winds up that someone gets volunteered by a friend sitting next to them. Everyone in the audience has had a few drinks. Everyone is in a good mood and wants to see a show.

So the volunteer gets up on stage. The hypnotist says a few magic words. And right in front of everybody, the volunteer starts clucking like a chicken. Or crawling on the floor meowing like a cat. Everyone laughs. The hypnotist snaps the volunteer out of his trance.. And the poor guy doesn’t remember anything, but feels great anyway!

If that’s what you think happens when you use hypnosis to quit smoking, you’ll be either relieved or disappointed. The truth is, hypnosis programs for quitting smoking are more commonly a set of relaxation suggestions that you learn to help you do something that you really want to do. These programs are not designed to force you to do something that you’re not willing to do (for instance, act like a chicken!).

Many self hypnosis programs for quitting smoking, advertise that they can help you quit in one session. Sometimes it really does work that way, but not always. Smoking is a really difficult addiction to overcome. And some people need to try quitting several times before they can quit for good.

So even if you buy a quit smoking hypnosis program, and you end up quitting for only a day or a week, you are actually making good progress. Why would anyone consider failure to quit “good progress.”?. Well, you’re making progress because you actually learned some new self hypnosis techniques. And if they help you quit even for a few hours, when otherwise you would have smoked your cigarettes or cigars, then you made progress.

Smoking addiction is particularly difficult beat. Not only do you have a physical addiction to nicotine, but the longer you smoke, the more rituals and habitual patterns you develop. If you smoke one pack of cigarettes a day, you practice your “cigarette smoking ritual” 20 times every day. How many other activities do you practice 20 times every day?

No wonder it takes people more than one try to finally quit smoking for good! That’s why using a good self hypnosis program for quitting smoking is a great investment. It’s something you can use over and over again. But you only pay for it once.

Self hypnosis programs are excellent tools for changing behaviors, long-term. Even if you manage to quit smoking for a year, it’s not uncommon for the temptation to smoke to come back. Especially If your life situation changes drastically.

Some of the most stressful events in life are considered by most people to be positive, for instance, weddings, babies, buying a new house, getting a promotion. Might have quit during a time in your life when there was relatively low stress. Maybe you were lucky enough to have that low stress situation last for a year or two. But when you start that new job, and you’re nervous about the big meeting with your new boss, it can suddenly seem like a really good idea to start smoking again. Stress can do that to you.

That’s why self hypnosis is such a great tool. Even if your sneaky mind is telling you it’s a good idea to go out and buy a pack of cigarettes after a year of not smoking, you can do choose to start thinking about your hypnosis routine. Once you learn it, you can use it forever.

  When people decide to stop smoking it is always best to know exactly why you want to quit.Are you quitting for your self or someone else?If you are quitting for someone else you chances of succeeding is very unlikely.It’s always best to quit for your self,but what if you like to smoke?That is going to make things very difficult to succeed.Even if you don’t like smoking and it’s just a habit for you.You would think it would be easy to quit,but it’s not as easy as people think.The reason is your body gets use to the nicotine in them.When you go without your body don’t like it.So you start getting angry,upset,sad,nervous,rude just plain hard to deal with so you usually give in with in a week or two.
 

  Nicotine is a part of the chemical makeup of a cigarette.Nicotine is a drug that is why you get addicted to smoking so easily.Once you smoke for a while it becomes very difficult to stop smoking.This also has created a whole other market just to stop smoking.
 
  As you probably know there are many quit smoking methods on the market today.You have probably tried two or three of them.Patches,inhalers,chewing gum,pills,prescription drugs,shots,even smoke less cigarettes.They claim to cut back on cravings,who knows they might help some people.Some of them like gum just keeps your mind off smoking.It does help by keeping busy when trying to quit smoking.Never start using food as a way to forget about smoking.Many people do eat more when trying to quit smoking. This is where Hypnosis can help many people.
 
  You must get in the right mind set when trying to quit smoking.Also You must get in your head you are going to quit for good!This will take alot of discipline and Will Power.If you have had trouble doing this,Hypnosis maybe your answer.Hypnosis works on your mind and conscious to help forget about smoking.Remember smoking is just a habit so you must keep your mind on something else.Hypnosis can help you forget about smoking.
 

  Before you try anything else to stop smoking may I suggest,looking into Hypnosis further to see if it could be right for you.It has been very successful for many people.When you buy just one pack of cigarettes a day and smoke them you are spending nearly $25.00 a week.What if you smoke two packs a day?Many people do and this gets very expensive.Also just think about the health issues you might have latter in life.Can you actually afford to keep smoking?