Cigarette Smoking Side Effects - How To Instantly Beat The Addiction With Self Hypnosis
Smoking is a dangerous and addictive habit that affects millions of people around the globe. We now know the perils of cigarette smoking and smokers are urged to stop smoking for their own health. This is not easy to do, as smokers start at an extremely early age. The average age at which many people begin to smoke is thirteen years old.
A habit formed at such a young age is not easily broken. Nicotine affects the body in many ways and it is hard to break this addiction without assistance. There are many different diseases which can be caused by smoking. Most smokers require assistance on how to quit smoking and many different methods exist for this very purpose.
There are many different reasons why people start smoking and develop a smoking habit. The main reason that people try smoking is peer pressure. Some young people believe smoking will make them seem more mature, and be popular with their peers. It also is forbidden which makes it all the more attractive to rebellious teenagers, thus the low starting age for many people. This young age makes quitting smoking more difficult in your later years.
Media can also have an impact on the decision to start smoking. Smoking portrayed in movies or on television can lead someone; especially a younger person to believe that smoking is a harmless activity. Parents can wield the biggest influence over their children by setting a good example and discussing smoking, its dangers, and expressing their desire for their children not to smoke. Mothers and fathers who smoke are far more likely to have children who smoke.
Smokers begin to crave nicotine, a drug within tobacco. Nicotine can affect your body and mind in many different ways. Nicotine, once inhaled into the lungs reaches the brain in a mere eight seconds. Once in your brain, nicotine affects your blood pressure and heart rate. Over time it can increase your bad cholesterol levels and narrow your arteries. Nicotine in concentrated doses is a lethal poison, so you can imagine the effects on your body. Nicotine is also addictive and one of the reasons many people cannot quit the habit.
Smoking can affect your health on many different levels. Getting winded playing a game is one side effect of smoking. More serious smoking related diseases include cancer and emphysema. Heart disease and stroke are also closely associated with cigarette smoking. A person who stops smoking will greatly reduce their risk of developing these diseases for every year they can go smoke free.
These smoking-related medical conditions often have grave consequences. Lung cancer is almost always fatal unless caught very early and 80% of lung cancer cases are caused by smoking. Lung and heart disease can take years from your life unless you learn how to quit smoking. Emphysema cannot be cured but only managed, plus the damage to your lungs cannot be repaired. Stop smoking benefits include a longer, healthier life and a better quality of life.
There are many different ways to quit smoking, and you must choose the best method for you as an individual. Nicotine patches and gums are designed to help you slowly withdraw from the nicotine addiction. Only about 10% of the people who use them will actually quit smoking. Another option is going cold turkey, and this is effective for up to 11% of the smokers who choose this option. Other popular methods to quit smoking include an herbal kit that can show you how to quit smoking. It has a success rate similar to that of nicotine patches and gums.
Stop smoking hypnotherapy is a very popular option for those who want to quit smoking without weight gain or withdrawal. Hypnotherapy has a high success rate with smokers who are trying to quit smoking. Hypnotherapy might sound like an extreme solution but it delivers positive results up to 70% of the time. This success rate is far greater that of other methods.
The reason hypnotherapy for smoking cessation is so effective is that it while the physical addiction to nicotine makes up only about 10% of the cigarette smoking addiction, the emotional and mental aspects of the habit make up a full 90% of the cigarette smoking addiction. Hypnosis treats this aspect of the addiction.
About 45% of the smoking behavior is caused by stress, and hypnosis has proven to be a powerful tool that can help reprogram the mind to divert it from stressful thoughts, and towards relaxing, positive thoughts. In addition, the very essence of hypnosis is that it incorporates a state of deep relaxation.
Another 45% of the smoking behavior is prompted by conditioned responses. This is where smoking is associated with other situations at the unconscious level of mind. For example, if you smoke while watching television, your unconscious will associate the image of a cigarette in your hand with the image of the TV. Every time you watch TV, your unconscious flashes an image of the cigarette in your hand, and you experience an urge to smoke.
Hypnosis therapy is regularly used to "extinguish" the conditioned responses by disassociating the unconscious connections between cigarettes and TV, drinking coffee, working on your computer, driving, or any other environment where an unconscious association has been formed.
In summary: While most smokers believe that their inability to quit smoking is based on their addiction to nicotine, in truth it's the psychological aspects of a smoking habit that present the largest barriers. Hypnotherapy was accepted by the American Medical Association in 1958 as an effective tool for quitting smoking. Hypnosis for quitting smoking is the second most common use of hypnotherapy today.
While hourly rates for hypnotherapists climb higher and higher, there are some effective self hypnosis programs available that can greatly reduce its cost. Since everyone is unique, there are no specific "magic" words or post-hypnotic suggestions that will work for everyone. So when choosing a self hypnosis program, look for those that incorporate a broad variety of hypnotic and NLP techniques in a series of at least six or more sessions to enjoy the best possible outcome. In any case, the cost of the very best hypnosis CDs & DVDs equates to far less than the amount that an average smoker spends every month on buying cigarettes.
About the Author: Alan B. Densky, CH created the Video Hypnosis quit smoking technology that helps smokers easily quit the habit. He also created many ways to stop smoking using Ericksonian Hypnosis and NLP. Visit the Neuro-VISION self help hypnosis site for free hypnotherapy videos and downloads.
http://www.neuro-vision.us/
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