Quitting smoking may be the most difficult addiction to break. Harder than quitting heroin, some believe.

If stopping cigarettes was a New Year’s resolution, did you succeed? Why not?

Every smoker I have questioned describes the first experience identically: With the first puff, all reported they became lightheaded, dizzy, sweaty, short of breath. Many coughed.

The taste of cigarettes was unpleasant.

Similarly, drinkers agree they did not like the taste of alcohol the first time. Gradually, they cultivated a taste.

Our bodies are amazing. They can adapt to almost anything. In essence, whether or not it is agreeable at the outset.

Think about actions you take  on a daily basis, how much is by rote, how much is necessary.

We create our routines. When we want to change, it is difficult because we have programmed ourselves to enjoy what we do.

The biggest problem in self- change is that consciously we want to change but our subconscious resists because the resources of the subconscious are significantly greater that the conscious. 

Our conscious mind is only 10 percent of the brain power available to us, the subconscious 90 percent. Anyone wanting to change needs to understand ot must come from the subconscious.

Hypnosis is a tool that will help a smoker quit. The process is twofold, eliminating the nicotine and presenting a strong image of a nonsmoker to the subconscious, which does not know bad from good.

Our conscious mind decides these things. With a new image and corresponding reduction of nicotine, you can be an ex-smoker in a short time.

Try hypnosis if you want to break your smoking habit. You will be surprised how fast it happens.

A few advantages of quitting smoking:

When Smokers Quit – What Are the Benefits Over Time?

* 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, circulation improves and your lung function increases.
* Six to nine months after quitting, coughing and shortness of breath decrease.
* After one year, the excess risk of coronary heart disease is half that of a smoker's.
* After five years, stroke risk is reduced to that of a nonsmoker.
* After 10 years, lung cancer death rate is half that of a smoker.
* After 15 years, the risk of coronary heart disease is that of a nonsmoker's.

(Data is from the U.S. surgeon general’s report.)

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