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Quitting smoking really is a necessity today, because smoking has been banned
from eateries and public places. And in fact, it is the smart thing to do for
more reasons than good health alone. This article explores the very best NLP
techniques that can be used to make it as painless as possible to break the
addiction to cigarettes.

There are 3 distinct factors to a cigarette smoking habit. Two of the elements
are mental, and one part is physical.

Part A: You Smoke For Relaxation And Pleasure.

When you were a little baby and you started crying, your mother would put a
pacifier into your mouth to calm you down. You would get distracted, become
mellow, and often go to sleep. That scenario was repeated hundreds of times so
that your unconscious mind was programmed: When something goes into your mouth,
you get relaxation and pleasure from it.

Now that you are a grownup, if you feel tense or nervous, you crave something in
your mouth for relaxation and pleasure – a smoke!

Part B: Smoking Is A Conditioned Response.

Remember Pavlov? He rang a bell every time that he fed his dogs. After a few
repetitions, he could just ring the bell, and the sound of the bell would
trigger the dogs to salivate.

When you pair smoking a cigarette with any other behavior, the other behavior
will trigger cravings for a cigarette and a feeling of urgency that makes you
want to light up. This is called a conditioned response.

For example: If you smoke a cigarette when you see someone else smoking, you
will automatically get an urge to smoke a cigarette each time you see someone
else smoking.

Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your
unconscious: If a person smokes and simultaneously drinks a cup of coffee, the
mind takes a snapshot of the cigarette in the hand, and associates it to the cup
of coffee. Thereafter, every time the person has a cup of coffee, her
subconscious mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image
of a cigarette, and the smoker gets a craving for a cigarette.

You may be unaware of the mental picture of the cigarette, because it may only
be at the unconscious level of mind. Just as you are not consciously aware of
what you are seeing through your peripheral vision until something draws your
attention to it. But the image is there, creating a craving for a cigarette.

Part C: There Is A Physical Addiction To Nicotine, But . . .

I have had the experience of working with several thousand people for smoke
cessation and I give you my guarantee that the physical addiction is the weakest
part of the addiction. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the
smoking habit. The strongest parts of the smoking habit are the mental and
emotional parts! (Parts A and B).

Here Is What This Means To A Smoker Who Wants To Quit.

If you can eliminate the anxiety that makes a smoker light-up a cigarette for
relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and if you can extinguish the conditioned
response of feeling urges for cigarettes when having a cup of coffee, driving,
or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can break the addiction to
cigarettes without needing willpower, and without having to suffer from
withdrawal symptoms or weight-gain.

Hypnotism can help motivate a smoker to quit. Hypnosis will make it easy
to break the addiction to cigarettes because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is
how:

Part A is where smokers light-up a cigarette for relaxation and pleasure. It’s a
person’s thoughts which create feelings of tension. More exactly, people
invariably run mental movies in their mind’s eye. If the movie is negative, it
creates a feeling of stress.

We can use different hypnotic methods to train the unconscious mind to
automatically take those stress producing mental pictures, and instantly
exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This produces
relaxation and pleasure, and obliterates the stress that causes the oral
compulsions for cigarettes.

Because of the elimination of tension, the smoker who is quitting does not feel
the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the cigarettes. So
quitting without weight gain is possible.

Part B is where smokers get cravings for cigarettes because smoking becomes a
conditioned response to many different activities and locations. Remember in the
earlier example how smoking became unconsciously associated with other
activities and environments so that each time smokers get into that activity or
environment, the mind flashes an image of a cigarette, and the image of the
cigarette causes cravings for a cigarette?

There are efficient and powerful NLP methods that can effortlessly erase those
conditioned responses so that a smoker’s subconscious mind will lose the
cravings for cigarettes, and the compulsion to smoke. As a matter of fact, you
can even get a compulsion to reject the cigarettes.

To Summarize.

To summarize, by using certain NLP methods, it becomes very easy to quit smoking without weight gain or having to suffer from withdrawal . And many of these hypnotic methods do not even require post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on training the subconscious mind to use
the same mental processes that it is using to create the addiction to
cigarettes, to eliminate the mental addiction.

Alan B. Densky, CH created his practice in 1978. He offers
Neuro-VISION Video Quit Smoking Self Hypnosis Programs and
Audio Quit Smoking Self Hypnosis CDs. Visit his repository of original hypnosis & NLP
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