Cigarette Smoking Side Effects - How To Easily Kick The Habit With Hypnotherapy

Smoking is a dangerous and addictive habit that affects millions of people around the world. Today, we know about the dangers of smoking, and smokers are encouraged to find ways to quit smoking for their own health. This is not an easy feat, as smokers start at an extremely young age. The average age of a new smoker is only thirteen years old.

A habit formed at that age is not easily broken. Nicotine affects many parts of the body and it is hard to break this addiction without assistance. There are many different diseases associated with smoking. Most smokers will require assistance to quit smoking and many different methods exist for this very purpose.

There are many reasons why people start smoking and develop an addiction to cigarettes. The main reason that people begin to smoke is peer pressure. Some young people believe smoking will make them seem more mature, and increase their popularity with their peers. It also is forbidden which makes it all the more attractive to teenagers, thus the low starting age for many people. This young age makes ceasing 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 harmless. Parents can wield the biggest influence over their children by setting a good example on how to quit smoking. Mothers and fathers who smoke are much more likely to have children who smoke.

Smokers begin to crave nicotine, a drug within tobacco. Nicotine can affect your mind and body in many negative 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 and cause the narrowing of your arteries. Nicotine in concentrated doses is a lethal poison, so you can imagine the damage it inflicts on your body. Nicotine is also addictive and one of the reasons many cannot quit the habit.

Smoking can impact your health on a variety of levels. Low stamina is one side effect of smoking. More serious smoking related diseases include cancer and emphysema. Strokes and heart disease are also closely associated with cigarette smoking. A person who stops smoking will greatly reduce their chances for these diseases for every year they go without smoking.

The outcome of these medical conditions caused by smoking is grim. Lung cancer is almost always fatal unless caught very early and a full 80% of lung cancer cases are caused by smoking. Heart and lung disease can subtract years from your life unless you are able to quit smoking. There is no cure for emphysema, only limited treatment options, plus the damage to your lungs cannot be repaired. Stop smoking benefits include a longer life span and a better quality of life.

There are several 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 are able to quit smoking. Another option is going cold turkey, and this works for up to 11% of the smokers who try to quit this way. 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.

Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation is a popular and effective 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. Quit smoking hypnosis 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 hypnosis is so effective is that it while the 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 smoking addiction. Hypnotherapy treats this aspect of the addiction.

In addition, 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 away from stressful thoughts, and towards more positive and relaxing thoughts. In addition, the very essence of hypnosis is that it incorporates a deep state of relaxation.

Another 45% of the smoking behavior is caused by conditioned responses. This is where smoking is associated with other activities and events at the unconscious level of mind. For example, if you smoke and simultaneously watch television, your unconscious will associate the image of a cigarette in your hand with the image of the TV. Each time you watch TV, your unconscious flashes an image of the cigarette in your hand, and you experience the compulsion to smoke.

Hypnosis for smoking cessation is regularly used to "extinguish" the conditioned responses by disassociating the unconscious connections between cigarettes and TV, coffee, driving, working on your computer, or any other situation where an unconscious association has been created.

In summary: While most smokers believe that their inability to quit smoking is due to their addiction to nicotine, in truth it is the psychological aspects of a smoking addiction that present the largest barriers. Hypnotherapy was accepted by the American Medical Association in 1958 as an effective tool. Hypnosis for quitting smoking is the second most common use of hypnotherapy today.

While hourly rates for hypnotherapists continue to skyrocket, there are effective self hypnosis programs on the market 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 programs 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 event, the fee for the very best self hypnosis CD and DVD sets equates to much less than the amount that an average smoker spends each and every month on cigarettes.

Cigarette smoking causes far too many diseases to list. The most well known are: lung disease, cancer, heart disease, and emphysema. Most smokers have a desire to stop smoking, but most find it difficult or impossible to do so. However, there are many ways to quit smoking, and this article outlines many of the options that smokers have for overcoming the smoking addiction.

Alan B. Densky, CH developed the Video Hypnosis quit smoking program that helps smokers easily quit the habit. He also created other ways to stop smoking with Ericksonian Hypnosis and NLP. Visit the Neuro-VISION self development hypnosis site for free hypnotherapy videos and MP3s.

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