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Smoking is a dangerous and addictive habit that affects millions of people around the globe. We now know the dangers of cigarette smoking and smokers are encouraged to find ways to stop smoking for the benefit of their own health. This is not easy to do, as most smokers begin at an early age. The average age of a new smoker is only thirteen years old.
A habit formed at such a young age is not easily broken. Nicotine affects many parts of the body and it is hard to break this addiction without help. There are many different diseases which can be caused by smoking. Most smokers will require assistance to quit smoking and a variety of different methods exist for this very purpose.
There are many different reasons why people begin smoking and continue to smoke. The main reason that people try smoking is peer pressure. Some young people are led to believe that it looks 'cool' when portrayed on TV, in movies, and in advertisements. It also is forbidden which makes it all the more alluring to rebellious teenagers, hence the low starting age for many people. This young age makes quitting smoking more challenging in your later years.
Media can also influence the decision to begin smoking. Smoking portrayed on television or in movies can lead someone to believe that smoking is a safe activity. Parents can wield the biggest influence over their children by setting a good example and not smoking, or quitting smoking. Mothers and fathers who smoke are far more likely to have children who start smoking.
Smokers begin to crave nicotine, a drug within tobacco. Nicotine can affect your body and mind in many negative ways. Nicotine, once inhaled into the lungs reaches the brain in a mere eight seconds. Once there, nicotine affects your heart rate and blood pressure. Over time it can increase your bad cholesterol and narrow your arteries. Nicotine in concentrated doses is a lethal poison, so imagine the effects on your body. Nicotine is also addictive and one of the reasons many smokers cannot quit the habit.
Smoking can affect your health on a variety of 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 go without smoking.
These smoking-related medical conditions often have grave consequences. Lung cancer is almost always fatal unless caught very early and a full 80% of lung cancer cases are caused by smoking. Lung and heart disease can subtract years from your life unless you learn how to quit smoking. There is no cure for emphysema, only limited treatment options, plus the damage to your lungs cannot be repaired. The benefits of quitting smoking include a longer, healthier life and a better quality of life.
There are many different ways to quit smoking, and you must select the right method for you as an individual. Nicotine gums and patches are made to help you slowly withdraw from the nicotine addiction. Only about 10% of the people who use them will successfully quit smoking. Going cold turkey is another option and this is effective for up to 11% of the smokers who choose this option. Other frequently used methods to quit smoking include an herbal kit that can guide you through quitting. It has a success rate similar to that of nicotine gums and patches.
Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation is a very popular option for those who want to quit smoking without experiencing withdrawal symptoms or weight gain. Hypnotherapy has proven to be highly effective with smokers who are trying to quit smoking. Hypnosis might sound like an extreme solution but it delivers positive results up to 70% of the time. This success rate is many times that of other methods.
The reason hypnotherapy 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 about 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 safe and effective tool that can help reprogram the mind to divert it from stressful thoughts, and towards relaxing, positive thoughts. In addition, the practice of hypnosis incorporates a state of deep relaxation.
And about 45% of the smoking behavior is caused by conditioned responses. This is where smoking is associated with other situations at the unconscious level of mind. For example, if you smoke and simultaneously watch TV, your unconscious will associate the image of a cigarette in your hand with the image of the TV. Every time you see the TV, your unconscious flashes an image of the cigarette in your hand, and you experience the compulsion to smoke.
Hypnotherapy is regularly used to "extinguish" the conditioned responses by disassociating the unconscious links between cigarettes and TV, drinking coffee, working on your computer, driving, or any other situation where an unconscious association has been formed.
In summary: While most smokers think that their inability to quit smoking is due to their addiction to nicotine, in truth it is the mental aspects of smoking that present the largest barriers. Hypnotherapy was accepted by the American Medical Association in 1958 as an effective tool for quitting smoking. And hypnosis for smoke cessation 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 the cost of obtaining hypnosis treatment. Since everyone is different, 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 results. In any case, the cost of the best self hypnosis CD and DVD sets equates to far less than the amount that an average smoker spends each and every month on buying cigarettes.
