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Smoking Is Both A Physical And Mental Addiction
Most smoking cessation programs fail to address both forms of addiction. Smoker after smoker will tell you their version of the “I’ve tried gum, pills, shots, patches, etc., and none of it worked” story. All of these are designed to address the physical cravings that come from nicotine withdrawal. But they completely fail to address the psychological reasons that someone started and remained a smoker.
This is really very simple to understand. People smoke because they associate smoking with some positive emotional outcome. Unless they eliminate this association, quitting will be very difficult. Some examples:
If you smoked as a method of stress reduction, when you quit you may sometimes feel overwhelmed without a cigarette.
If you smoked because smoking is cool, when you quit you may feel the urge to light up to feel good (cool) about yourself again.
If you smoked as a way of bonding with friends, when you quit you may feel that your friends are drifting away or that you are losing emotional closeness with them.
Logically you might say that these are silly reasons, but feelings are not logical. All of the reasons that you smoked are powerful emotional motivators that will keep trying to get you to light up again while you are trying to quit!
Popular Ways To Address The Emotional Issues
1) Hypnosis has been used successfully by a number of ex-smokers. The problem is that not all hypnosis is equal. The suggestion to “see yourself without tobacco” will not eliminate the emotional pull from the belief that “smoking is cool”. A successful hypnosis program must address and break your emotional bonds with tobacco.
2) Counseling can be very useful. This can take the form of support groups or private sessions. Just as with hypnosis, your specific emotional bonds with tobacco must be broken.
3) Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a psychotherapeutic method for communicating in a way that allows beliefs to be altered. NLP can be used with counseling and hypnosis for improved results. The biggest benefit to NLP is that it directly addresses the emotional issues deep within the mind itself.
Does NLP Really Work?
Absolutely!
Whenever you are able to communicate with the mind in a way that it most readily understands and accepts the message, you are able to change beliefs and ultimately behavior. Psychotherapists have successfully applied NLP by to a wide range of emotional and behavioral problems for over 30 years.
There is a stop smoking program that uses NLP very successfully. Over 97% of its participants have remained smoke free 6 months after the start of the program! What is even more incredible is that the program takes only 38 minutes and 13 seconds.
This shows that profound change doesn’t have to take a lot of time or effort. NLP is a wonderful tool that can be used to help you eliminate your emotional addiction to tobacco quickly and easily.
Here is the best tip to stop smoking. Whatever method you decide to use to stop smoking, make sure that it includes a process for addressing the psychological addiction as well as the physical addiction. Quit Smoking Today will work for you today. Stop smoking this minute! Order yours right now!
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