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The Quickest Way To Break Your Cigarette Addiction Is With NLP and Hypnosis

By: Alan B. Densky, CH Breaking the smoking habit may be a necessity today, because smoking cigarettes has been banned from eateries and public places. And in fact, it is definitely the smart thing to do for more reasons than health alone. This commentary 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 parts to the addiction to smoking cigarettes. 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 got cranky, your mother would put a nipple into your mouth to calm you down. You would get distracted, become mellow, and often fall asleep. That sequence of events was repeated many, many 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 an adult, if you feel nervous or tense, 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 would just ring the bell, and that would make the dogs salivate.

When you associate smoking with any other action, the other action will trigger cravings for a cigarette and a feeling of urgency to smoke a cigarette. This is called a conditioned response.

For example: If you smoke a cigarette when you drive your car, you will automatically get an urge to light-up each time you drive your car.

Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your unconscious: If a person lights-up a cigarette 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 sees a cup of coffee, the mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of a cigarette, and the smoker gets a craving for one.

You may be unaware of the mental image of the cigarette, because it may only be at the unconscious level of mind. Just as you are unaware of what you are seeing through your peripheral vision until someone or 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've worked one-on-one with several thousand people who smoke and I give you my personal guarantee that the physical addiction is the weakest part of the habit. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the smoking habit. I believe that ninety percent of the addiction are the mental and emotional parts! (Parts A and B).

HERE IS WHAT THIS MEANS TO A SMOKER WHO WANTS TO QUIT.

What this means is that as soon as you eliminate the tension that pushes you to light-up a cigarette for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and when you erase the conditioned response of feeling compulsions for cigarettes when having a cup of coffee, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can quit smoking without needing willpower, and without suffering from withdrawal symptoms or weight-gain.

Hypnosis will make it easy to quit smoking because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:

Part A is where smokers smoke a cigarette for relaxation and pleasure. It's a person's thoughts which create feelings of anxiety. Moreover, people constantly create mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it causes a feeling of tension.

We can use various hypnotic methods to train the subconscious to rapidly take those stress producing mental pictures and movies, and automatically exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This creates relaxation and pleasure, and obliterates the stress that creates the oral compulsions and urges 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 light-up 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 an urge to light-up a cigarette?

There are stop smoking hypnosis, and stop smoking NLP techniques that can effectively erase those conditioned responses so that a smoker's 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

In summary, when we utilize certain hypnotic and NLP techniques, it can be very easy to stop smoking without withdrawal or weight gain. And many of these techniques do not even require post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on programming the subconscious to use the same mental processes that the subconscious is using to create the addiction to cigarettes, to eliminate the mental addiction.