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The typical person endeavors to quit smoking between four to six times before they are successful. If you have tried gum, patches, prescriptions or willpower alone without success, make your final attempt stick with stop smoking hypnosis.

Of all of the ways to quit smoking, hypnosis is literally the most simple and has the most successful track record. If you are willing to consistently listen to and watch CDs and DVDs specifically intended to curb your cravings to smoke, then quit smoking hypnosis will be successful for you.

Many smokers believe that they cannot quit smoking because of their addiction to nicotine, but that simply is not true. Medical experts agree that after seven to ten days - even as soon as three days - all nicotine has been eliminated from the system, which leaves smokers to work with the more difficult and far reaching emotional and psychological addiction to smoking cigarettes.

There are countless processes to quit smoking, but just one method can address both the emotional compulsion and the cravings: quit smoking hypnotherapy. Many people who wish to quit still end up asking themselves, "Why can't I simply quit smoking?"

For hypnotherapists, the answer is clear. The part of you that will not let you quit smoking is your unconscious. You cannot alter your unconscious mind by force of will or with a gum, patch or prescription. You require the right kind of help.

In order to quit smoking, support is imperative, but the majority of people do not grasp that the best support comes from within their own unconscious. Hypnosis is the most successful method to ensure that your entire psyche is working to help you stop smoking. That is because hypnosis provides a powerful way of communicating with your unconscious mind.

Stop smoking hypnosis helps you eliminate the urge to smoke by removing the impulse to light up. When the urge and compulsion to smoke are removed, quitting becomes painless decision that you can make without difficulty. The best stop smoking hypnosis programs are effective because they address the most powerful components of the addiction to smoking.

The first component of a successful stop smoking hypnosis program addresses the craving to smoke for pleasure and relaxation. This pattern was actually instituted when you were an infant. Likely, when you were cranky, your mother or father put a bottle in your mouth. Then it diverted your attention; you relaxed and probably fell asleep. Cigarette smokers experience the same relaxing effect from a cigarette.

With quit smoking hypnosis, your unconscious is reprogrammed to receive pleasure and relaxation by automatically switching stress-inducing thoughts with calming thoughts instead, all with the use of the very same triggers that formerly made you anxious. This makes the tension almost magically disappear. In addition, the very core of hypnosis is relaxation. So by listening to a soothing hypnotherapy CD daily, stress levels will quickly diminish.

The second component of an effective stop smoking hypnosis program will help you address the habituation, or the "Habit." Habituation occurs when the unconscious generates an association between smoking and other behaviors, such as driving or watching TV. Perhaps the second that you turn on the television you are besieged with a craving to smoke.

An effective stop smoking hypnosis DVD or CD will reprogram your unconscious associations so that watching TV, for example, actually makes you want to REJECT smoking! This is called, no pun intended, extinguishing a conditioned response.

Here is a news flash! The physical addiction to nicotine is merely about ten percent of the addiction. Ninety percent of the addiction to cigarettes stems from the mental and emotional components that we have talked about thus far. And as stated earlier in this article, medical professionals maintain that the body is clear of nicotine in as little as three days.

People who use Neuro-Linguistic Programming and quit smoking hypnosis CDs and DVDs realize that when their smoking associations and dependence on cigarettes to relax have undergone reprogramming, the physical addiction is essentially such a diminutive part of their smoking habit, that it has no influence on their ability to quit smoking without suffering from withdrawal.

Now, I must inform you that regardless of the unprecedented success that clients have had with stop smoking hypnosis and NLP CDs and DVDs, you must hold the desire to quit smoking prior to commencing a program. And as well as the desire to quit smoking, you must make a sincere decision to quit. That means that you must be ready and willing to throw away your cigarettes.

Hypnosis CDs and DVDs cannot be used to force you to do something you don't desire to do, so no program can coerce you to quit. But if you have the wish to quit smoking, and you make a resolution to quit smoking, hypnosis CDs and DVDs will help you to remain comfortable and not endure withdrawal symptoms, cravings or tension. Let hypnosis and NLP give you the support you need.

Alan B. Densky, CH is a pioneer in the use of Ericksonian Hypnosis and NLP to help people quit smoking. He offers both audio hypnotherapy CDs, and Neuro-VISION Video stop smoking hypnosis CDs. Visit his self-hypnosis site for free hypnosis videos.