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If you are someone who is trying to quit smoking cigarettes, you know how tough it is to eliminate this damaging compulsion. It is possible however, and half of all adult smokers are able to quit smoking forever. Many smokers have been able to quit smoking cigarettes by replacing them with new, more positive habits without having to suffer through withdrawal symptoms. By far, the most effective and easiest method to quit smoking and accomplish this end is hypnotherapy.

Quit smoking hypnosis is one of the most commonly practiced forms of hypnosis. It is often cited as a tool to quit smoking along with strategies such as the use of nicotine gums and patches and other popular methods. It helps end the smoking addiction by combating cravings for cigarettes, motivating you to stay committed to quitting, and promoting relaxation and stress relief so you will not feel the urge to smoke.

The smoking addiction has both physiological and psychological components. The physiological addiction is a physical need the body acquires for nicotine. This aspect of the addiction is what causes the withdrawal symptoms that make it initially feel near impossible to quit smoking. However, this is a short, temporary stage in the overall course of quitting smoking, lasting only between three days and one week. By the end of this time period, your body acclimates to usual, nicotine-free functioning. Based on thirty years of experience, I believe that the physical need for nicotine constitutes only ten percent of the addiction to smoking.

By far, the most challenging part of breaking the smoking addiction is overcoming the psychological addiction, which are the mental and emotional aspects of smoking. I believe this represents ninety percent of the smoking addiction. When you develop a smoking habit, you develop an unconscious desire to smoke at certain times, such as when watching TV. This is called a conditioned response. Quit smoking self-hypnosis helps eliminate the unconscious associations that cause one to crave cigarettes, thereby eliminating the conditioned response to smoke. Hypnotherapy also helps you stay motivated to give up smoking by reinforcing the ideas that gave you the wish to break the smoking addiction in the first place.

Smokers get stuck in the habit of following a ritual of lighting up and smoking. This is why people who attempt to quit smoking using nicotine patches or gums alone usually have such a difficult experience. They quickly overcome the physical addiction, but they have no replacement or relief for the ritual of smoking cigarettes, which has become a habit and pleasurable source of stress relief. Self-hypnosis techniques eliminate this habit and serve as stress reducers as well. As a relaxation tool, hypnosis helps effectively relieve anxiety and stress so you will lose the cravings for cigarettes.

Combined with some powerful NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques, stop smoking self-hypnosis can keep you committed to kicking the habit by training the unconscious mind to focus on the benefits of quitting. Eliminating tobacco benefits you in numerous ways. Within days of quitting, body parts damaged by smoking begin to heal, damaged nerves re-grow, and the sense of taste and smell improves significantly. Within a few weeks, lung function and blood circulation improve. Within one year, your risk of heart disease is less than half that of a smoker. Within five to fifteen years, the risk of having a stroke is the same as a non-smoker. Your risk of heart disease is the same as someone who has never smoked at all, and the risk of death from lung cancer and numerous other cancer risks have decreased.

In spite of the harmful effects of smoking and the benefits of quitting, some smokers never overcome their harmful addiction. For the most part, this is because they have never really committed to quitting. Other smokers are afraid to suffer through withdrawal symptoms or give up the smoking habit. However, quitting smoking does not have to be the difficult process that makes so many smokers hesitant to even attempt quitting. Hypnotherapy provides a very simple, natural method of quitting.

Hypnosis is a powerful tool for easing cravings for cigarettes, providing powerful motivation, and promoting relaxation and stress relief to eliminate the psychological aspects of the smoking addiction. Stop smoking hypnosis techniques can be easily learned from specialized self-hypnosis CDs that have been developed after decades of experience using hypnosis, Neuro-VISION video hypnotherapy, and NLP to get clients to quit smoking.

Hypnotherapy CDs make it easy to quit smoking for good because they break the smoking compulsion in a process that helps eliminate cravings and the desire to smoke. Whatever your motivation is for quitting, hypnosis and NLP makes it easier to focus your mind on these reasons, which makes you feel a great urge to quit. Stop smoking hypnosis CDs eliminate the impulse to smoke. Although quitting smoking can be a painful and unsuccessful experience for some, those who take advantage of stop smoking self hypnosis have a much greater rate of success because it makes the process much easier. Hypnotherapy is the most effective method for smoke cessation.

Insomnia is a very common symptom of stress and depression. Whether you wake up during the night and have a hard time falling back to sleep, or you have a hard time falling asleep initially, you have insomnia.

THERE ARE FOUR TYPES OF INSOMNIA

PSYCHO-REACTIVE INSOMNIA: Psycho-reactive Insomnia is generally caused by tension. The person’s mind is keeping them awake with worry. In addition, they may begin to worry about getting to sleep because they have to awaken in the morning. Insomnia sufferers often worry that they may become ill or die from lack of sleep.

ENDOGENOUS INSOMNIA: This is often caused by a discomfort within the body ranging from indigestion to pain.

EXOGENOUS INSOMNIA: This is caused by disturbances outside of the body such as noise or a partner’s snoring. This is the easiest type of insomnia or sleep disturbance to cure.

FUNCTIONAL INSOMNIA: This is caused by a physical problem in the subject’s sleep-wakefulness center in the brain.

Many insomniacs develop a phobia of getting into bed because they expect to lie awake. This negative type of expectation can cause a bout of insomnia all by itself.

HERE ARE THE FACTS

1. Nobody has ever died from or become ill from not sleeping enough. The body and mind will always get at least the minimum amount of rest that it needs, no matter what. If you lose some sleep one night, the next night you will get enough sleep to make up the loss.

2. Our internal clock brings about a valley of fatigue in cycles. Every four to six hours you will experience the maximum amount of fatigue, and this is when it is easiest for you to fall asleep. After that you will experience a renewed level of energy and it will become difficult to fall asleep.

3. Many people are sure that they have not slept a wink, but research labs have proven that we all sleep during the night. Sometimes you believe that you’ve been lying awake thinking, but actually you have been sleeping lightly and dreaming.

4. Trying to fall asleep: There is a law of nature called “The Law of Reversed Effect.” The law says that if you “try” to do something, you will get the opposite. And the harder you “try,” the more you will get the opposite. So, trying to fall asleep will insure that you will remain awake. Do not “try” to fall asleep, and do not try to will yourself to sleep. Merely allow yourself to fall asleep.

5. Alcohol will put you to sleep: This may be true, as alcohol is a depressant. However, as soon as the drink wears off, you will awaken abruptly and it will become harder than ever to fall asleep.

6. Sleeping pills will help: During sleep it is the dream phase in which we get our rest. Sleeping pills suppress the dream phase of sleep (REM sleep). That is why one generally awakens feeling more tired than before going to sleep after using drugs.

EFFECTING A CURE

1. figure out what time you feel the most fatigued in the evening. From that point forward, every evening at least an hour before that time, take a bath that is slightly warmer than body temperature for 20 minutes. A shower will not have the intended effect.

2. Drink a warm beverage, preferably not tea because of the caffeine, which will wake you up. It’s best to drink warm milk if you can tolerate it.

3. Stop thoughts of problems that you have. Do not think about what you need to do tomorrow. If you are worried that you will forget what you have to do tomorrow, write it down.

4. Avoid stimulating thoughts and TV shows. If you must read, then read something that is tiresome.

5. Reserve your bed for sleep. Watch TV or read only from a chair or while on your couch.

6. Get into bed at least 20 minutes before your valley of fatigue. Once you are in bed, if worries start to pop into your head, repeat this mantra several times to yourself, “I’ll think about it tomorrow.” This will help to stop the excessive thinking. Do not try to make your mind blank and don’t try to fall asleep. Just allow yourself to rest.

7. For Endogenous Insomnia, you should eliminate the discomfort to the best of your ability.

8. For Exogenous Insomnia, make your room as quiet as possible. If your partner listens to loud music, you can move to another room. Running a fan motor can bring on sleep, as it will tend to muffle loud noises. The monotonous drone of the fan usually proves to be quite hypnotic and relaxing.

HYPNOSIS FOR INSOMNIA – PSYCHO-REACTIVE AND FUNCTIONAL INSOMNIA

Practice hypnotherapy for insomnia every day. Stress worsens and can even cause a sleeping problem. Self-hypnosis CD’s can help you to swiftly manage stress. Post-hypnotic suggestions for coping, and to encourage the anticpation of sleep can help. Your sub vocalized motto should be: “I fall asleep promptly, and sleep soundly and restfully all through the night.”

Alan B. Densky, CH. is certified by the National Guild Of Hypnotists, and he is an NLP Practitioner. He offers self-hypnosis for sleep disturbances. He hosts a FREE hypnosis article index on his Neuro-VISION Video

If you think smokeless tobacco is “up to snuff” and not dangerous, think again. Whatever it is called – spitting, dipping or chewing – it is every bit as hazardous as smoking. A lot of doctors judge more so because users are unaware of the threats. Cancers of the lips, mouth, tongue and throat can quickly develop in people who use smokeless tobacco and cause debilitating and grotesque – even deadly – results.

Even with the painful and dangerous effects of smokeless tobacco, quitting with traditional practices remains very difficult. A lot of people believe the reason lies in nicotine, a natural, super toxic substance found in tobacco that is the plant’s defense to prevent being eaten by insects. Comparing equal amounts, nicotine is more deadly than strychnine or snake venom, and three times deadlier than arsenic.

When dipping, the nicotine makes its way to the brain in less than 10 seconds, where it produces a flood of dopamine, which brings about a relaxing feeling. Nicotine also promotes adrenaline production, so it both calms and energizes. However, the emotional component of smokeless tobacco addiction is much stronger and produces far more obstacles to quitting smokeless tobacco than nicotine.

A lot of users took their first chew as young as nine years old. In just a few months, using smokeless tobacco becomes an ingrained habit that delivers reliable stress relief. In addition to the psychological conditioning, a social conditioning occurs, as images of many athletes dipping also attract young users.

Understanding that there are individual emotional and physical issues that contribute to a chewing habit makes it easier to create a plan to prevail smokeless tobacco addiction. Let’s look at each component individually and look at effective methods to curb them.

Dipping for Relaxation and Pleasure: Just like using a pacifier to appease a fretful child, over the course of time, people who use tobacco products begin to associate putting an object in their mouths with relaxation and satisfaction. Curbing the effects of tobacco usage involves addressing all components of the addiction.

Tobacco Dipping is a Conditioned Response: The classic case in point of a conditioned response relates to Pavlov and his dogs, which were trained to anticipate food – and thus began salivating – when a bell was rung. In relation, if, for example, you always use chewing tobacco after each meal, you will consequently have a craving to chew when you get finished eating.

In your mind, the images of folding the napkin and pushing the play away may be tied to using snuff, even if you are not conscious of it. Developing awareness of the situations or trigger images can help you defeat cravings.

The Physical Addiction to Nicotine: Despite the intense addiction, medical professionals say that the physical part of nicotine addiction is quelled after people quit using tobacco for a week. It’s my strong belief that nicotine addiction comprises a mere 10 percent of smokeless tobacco dependency. Therefore, 90 percent of the fight to quit dipping is overcoming the mental and emotional components. So what does this mean for people like you who would like to quit?

Quitting becomes much easier if you are able to:

A. Address and remove the tension or anxiety that compels you to use smokeless tobacco
B. Cancel the conditioned responses to chew in particular situations

But how does one surmount those issues?

Self-hypnosis offers a way to deal with the emotional and psychological factors of the addiction while eliminating impediments, which will eliminate the withdrawal symptoms. When we comprehend how self-hypnosis works, it makes the decision to quit dipping much easier to assume.

When people dip for relaxation and pleasure, it’s to soothe anxious feelings. People often play the same images over in their minds, like a bad film, which leaves them feeling very stressed. Using self-hypnosis and different Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques, you retrain your brain to instantaneously and naturally stop stress-inducing images and replace them with calming images and mental movies. This generates relaxation and satisfaction while eradicating cravings and oral compulsions. You lose the inclination to put the chew in your mouth, and you do not get any desire to substitute food in its place. This controls weight gain.

In order to resist the conditioned response of chewing smokeless tobacco, the NLP Flash technique erases the associations of dipping during certain activities or situations. This means your subconscious won’t trigger the craving. Further, the Flash can even be used to create a compulsion to reject smokeless tobacco.

Using specific and strategic NLP procedures makes the decision to quit dipping very easy and painless by avoiding cravings, withdrawal and weight gain. The method depends on retraining the unconscious mind to follow the same thought patterns that create your mental addiction to smokeless tobacco in the first place, to eliminate the compulsion.

Your brain is a powerful instrument, far more powerful than an addiction. With steadfastness and the help of self-hypnosis and NLP, you can quit smokeless tobacco forever.

Alan B. Densky, CH is a leader in the use of hypnosis stop smoking methods. He offers a powerful Stop Dipping Tobacco program based on the same methods. See more at his Neuro-VISION self hypnosis site where you can use Free hypnosis videos and articles.