One reason quitting smoking is one of the hardest tasks in life is that longer you smoke, the more ingrained is your harmful habit.
We all learn habits, but we can unlearn them, too. Takes time and determination.
Stopping is difficult because of the chemical addiction, the imagined addiction to ingesting nicotine through inhaled tobacco.
The smoker is trying to get his or her nicotine fix. Nowadays, there are many more ways to ingest nicotine — by chewing tobacco, smoking tobacco, smoking e-cigarettes, chewing nicotine gum.
I do not recommend nicotine substitutes on the way to quitting. Although you may no longer be smoking, you still are satisfying your addiction by ingesting nicotine, just a different way. Stopping smoking means stopping nicotine.
Smokers are no better than addicts we look down on, the heroine or crack users, the prescription pill abusers, even alcoholics.
You Are Not That Bad
Smoking does not make us as bad as them, does it? They are doing illegal substances, we are not. The issue is not what is ingested but admitting you are as much of an addict as any other drug user. Once admitted, you will have a better chance to quit because of your candor.
No matter how long you have smoked, nicotine will be entirely out of your system within 72 hours. That quickly. You are left with the physical sensation of the nicotine leaving your system and the mental reminders to smoke.
When I help someone quit smoking, I try to make the experience withdrawal-free by having the client reduce his smoking over a period of a few weeks. By the target date to stop, he should have been smoking only three cigarettes a day. By quitting time, the nicotine in the system is so incidental almost no withdrawal symptoms are felt.
You cannot blame the subconscious for repeatedly offering the unwanted urge, because you alone have taught it to do that.
What Desire?
Urges to smoke really do dissipate. When a client no longer is having those urges, it means he has retrained his subconscious to enjoy life without smoking.
Benefits to being an ex-smoker, according to the Surgeon General’s report:
• Twenty minutes after quitting: Your heart rate drops.
• Twelve hours after quitting: The carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal.
• Three or four days after quitting: Nicotine is out of your system.
• Two weeks to three months after quitting: Your circulation improves and your lung function increases
• Six to nine months after quitting: Coughing and shortness of breath decrease
• One year after quitting: Excess risk of coronary heart disease shrinks to half that of a smoker's.
• Five years after quitting: Your stroke risk is reduced five to 15 years after quitting.
• Ten years after quitting: The lung cancer death rate is half of a smoker's.
• Fifteen years after quitting: The risk of coronary heart disease is that of a nonsmoker's.
• Hypnosis makes it easy.
Stopping smoking through hypnosis makes it so easy that you will leave with a strong feeling that you are becoming a happy non-smoker. You will not feel deprived, as if you have made a sacrifice.
Instead, you will experience a huge sense of relief, elation that at last you are achieving the goal of many smokers.
With methods other than hypnosis, people may suffer misery, depression caused by a feeling of deprivation of a pleasure. Hypnosis removes any feeling of deprivation. Useless aids, gimmicks, substitutes are not needed.
With hypnosis, sit comfortably in a chair and relax. It doesn’t get any easier.
Do not hesitate to contact me by telephone, 310.204.3321, or by email at nickpollak@hypnotherapy4you.net. See my website at www.hypnotherapy4you.net
