| Breaking the smoking addiction is a necessity today, | | | | tobacco. I believe that ninety percent of the smoking |
| because smoking cigarettes has been banned from | | | | habit are the mental and emotional parts! (Parts A and |
| eateries and public places. And in fact, it is definitely the | | | | B). |
| smart thing to do for more reasons than health alone. | | | | HERE IS WHAT THIS MEANS TO A SMOKER |
| This commentary explores the very best | | | | WHO WANTS TO QUIT. |
| Neuro-Linguistic Programming methods that can be | | | | If you can eliminate the feeling of tension that causes |
| used to make it as painless as possible to break the | | | | a smoker to light-up a cigarette for relaxation and |
| addiction to cigarettes. | | | | pleasure (Part A) . . . and when you erase the |
| There are three distinct parts to the addiction to | | | | conditioned response of feeling a craving for |
| tobacco. Two of the parts are mental/emotional, and | | | | cigarettes when having a cup of coffee, driving, or |
| only one part is physical. | | | | finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can break the |
| Part A: YOU SMOKE FOR RELAXATION AND | | | | addiction to tobacco without needing willpower, and |
| PLEASURE. | | | | without having to experience withdrawal symptoms or |
| When you were a child and you got cranky, your | | | | gaining weight. |
| mother would put a pacifier into your mouth to distract | | | | Self Hypnosis can help encourage a smoker to stop |
| you from that upset. You would get distracted, | | | | smoking. Self-hypnosis will make it easy to break the |
| become calmer, and often fall asleep. That sequence | | | | addiction to tobacco because it takes care of Parts A |
| of events was repeated thousands of times so that | | | | & B! Here is how: |
| your unconscious mind was programmed: When | | | | Part A is where people smoke for relaxation and |
| something goes into your mouth, you get relaxation | | | | pleasure. It's our thoughts which create feelings of |
| and pleasure from it. | | | | stress. More specifically, people constantly run mental |
| Now that you are fully-grown, if you feel tense or | | | | movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it |
| nervous, you crave something in your mouth for | | | | brings about a feeling of stress. |
| relaxation and pleasure - a smoke! | | | | We can use some very powerful NLP or Hypnosis |
| Part B: SMOKING IS A CONDITIONED RESPONSE. | | | | techniques to program the unconscious mind to quickly |
| Remember Pavlov? He rang a bell every time that he | | | | take those stress creating mental movies, and instantly |
| fed his dogs. After a few repetitions, all he had to do | | | | exchange them for relaxation producing mental |
| was to ring the bell, and the sound of the bell would | | | | pictures and movies. This instills relaxation and pleasure, |
| trigger the dogs to salivate. | | | | and obliterates the stress that triggers the oral |
| When you link smoking a cigarette with any other | | | | cravings for a cigarette. |
| behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings for a | | | | Because of the elimination of feelings of tension, the |
| cigarette and a feeling of urgency that makes you feel | | | | smoker who is quitting doesn't feel the compulsion or |
| compelled to smoke. This is called a conditioned | | | | need to substitute food in place of the cigarettes. So |
| response. | | | | quitting without weight gain is possible. |
| For example: If you smoke when you drive your car, | | | | Part B is where people get cravings for cigarettes |
| you will automatically get an urge to light-up each time | | | | because smoking becomes a conditioned response to |
| you drive your car. | | | | many different activities and locations. Remember in |
| Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets | | | | the earlier example how smoking became |
| programmed into your unconscious: If a person | | | | unconsciously associated with other activities and |
| smokes and simultaneously drinks a cup of coffee, the | | | | environments so that each time people get into that |
| mind takes a picture of the cigarette in the hand, and | | | | activity or environment, the mind flashes an image of a |
| associates it to the cup of coffee. Thereafter, every | | | | cigarette, and the image of the cigarette triggers an |
| time the person has a cup of coffee, his unconscious | | | | urge to light-up? |
| mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an | | | | There are efficient hypnosis technologies that can |
| image of the cigarette, and the smoker gets a craving | | | | quickly extinguish those conditioned responses so that |
| for one. | | | | your unconscious will lose the cravings for cigarettes, |
| You may not be consciously aware of the mental | | | | and the compulsion to smoke. As a matter of fact, |
| picture of the cigarette, because it may only be at the | | | | you can even get a compulsion to reject the |
| unconscious level of mind. Just as you are unaware of | | | | cigarettes. |
| what you are seeing through your peripheral vision until | | | | IN SUMMARY |
| someone draws your attention to it. But the image is | | | | To summarize, by utilizing certain NLP techniques, it |
| there, creating a craving for a cigarette. | | | | becomes very easy to stop smoking without |
| Part C: THERE IS A PHYSICAL ADDICTION TO | | | | withdrawal or weight gain. And many of these |
| NICOTINE, BUT . . . | | | | methods don't even depend on post-hypnotic |
| After having worked with several thousand smokers, I | | | | suggestions. They depend on training the mind to use |
| give you my personal guarantee that the physical | | | | the same mental processes that the mind is using to |
| addiction is the weakest part of the addiction. In fact, I | | | | create the smoking habit, to eliminate the mental |
| believe that it is only ten percent of the addiction to | | | | addiction. |