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The Effects Of Smoking And How To Easily Kick The Addiction

Smoking is an addictive and harmful habit that affects the lives of millions of people around the world. Today, we know about the dangers of smoking, and smokers are urged to find ways to quit smoking for the benefit of their own health. This is not easy to do, as smokers begin at an early age. The average age at which many people begin to smoke is thirteen years old.

A habit formed at such an early age is not easily broken. Nicotine affects the body in many ways and it is hard to pull free without some assistance. There are many diseases associated with smoking. Most smokers will require assistance on how to quit smoking and a variety of different methods exist for this very purpose.

There are many reasons why people begin smoking and develop an addiction to cigarettes. The main reason that people try smoking is peer pressure. It is deemed cool to be able to smoke. It also is forbidden which makes it all the more alluring to teenagers, hence the low starting age for many people. This young age makes ceasing smoking more challenging in your later years.

Media can also have an impact on the decision to begin smoking. Smoking in movies or on television can lead someone to believe that smoking is a safe activity. Parents can wield the biggest influence over their children by setting a good example and not smoking, or quitting smoking. Mothers and fathers who smoke are far more likely to have children who start to smoke.

Nicotine is the drug within tobacco that smokers crave. Nicotine can affect your body and mind in many harmful ways. Nicotine, once inhaled into the lungs reaches the brain in a matter of just eight seconds. Once in your brain, nicotine affects your blood pressure and heart rate. Over time it can increase your bad cholesterol and narrow your arteries. Nicotine in concentrated doses is a lethal poison, so imagine the effects on your body. Nicotine is also addictive and this is why many people cannot quit smoking.

Smoking can affect your health on a variety of levels. Low stamina is one side effect of smoking. More serious smoking related diseases include emphysema and cancer. Strokes and heart disease are also closely linked to cigarette smoking. A person who quits smoking will greatly reduce their chances for these diseases for every year they go without smoking.

These smoking-related medical conditions often have grave consequences. Lung cancer is almost always fatal unless detected very early and a full 80% of lung cancer cases are caused by smoking. Heart and lung disease can take years from your life unless you learn how to quit smoking. There is no cure for emphysema, only limited treatment options, plus the damage to your lungs cannot be repaired. Stop smoking benefits include a longer life span and a better quality of life.

There are several different ways to quit smoking, and you must pick the right method for you as an individual. Nicotine gums and patches are made to help slowly release you from the nicotine addiction. Only about 10% of the people who use them will successfully quit smoking. Going cold turkey is another option and this works for up to 11% of the smokers who choose this option. Other popular methods to quit smoking include an herbal kit that can show you how to quit smoking. It has a success rate similar to that of nicotine patches and gums.

Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation is a popular and effective option for those who want to quit smoking without experiencing withdrawal symptoms or weight gain. Hypnotherapy has a high success rate with smokers who have decided to quit smoking. Hypnotherapy might sound like an extreme solution but it delivers positive results up to 70% of the time. This success rate is many times that of other methods.

The reason stop smoking hypnosis is so effective is that it while the addiction to nicotine makes up only about 10% of the smoking addiction, the mental and emotional aspects of the habit make up about 90% of the cigarette smoking addiction. Hypnosis treats this aspect of the addiction.

About 45% of the smoking behavior is caused by stress, and hypnosis has proven to be a safe and effective tool that can help reprogram the mind to divert away from stressful thoughts, and towards relaxing, positive thoughts. In addition, the practice of hypnotherapy incorporates a deep state of relaxation.

Another 45% of the smoking behavior is prompted by conditioned responses. This occurs when smoking becomes associated with other activities and events at the unconscious level of mind. For example, if you smoke while watching TV, your unconscious will associate the image of a cigarette in your hand with the image of the TV. Each time you see the TV, your unconscious flashes an image of the cigarette in your hand, and you experience an urge to smoke.

Hypnosis therapy is routinely used to "extinguish" the conditioned responses by disassociating the unconscious connections between cigarettes and TV, coffee, driving, working on your computer, or any other environment where an unconscious association has been created.

In summary: While most smokers believe that their inability to quit smoking is due to their addiction to nicotine, in truth it's the psychological aspects of a smoking addiction that present the largest barriers. Hypnotherapy was accepted by the American Medical Association in 1958 as an effective tool for quitting smoking. And hypnosis for smoke cessation is the second most common use of hypnotherapy today.

While hourly rates for hypnotherapists climb higher and higher, there are excellent self hypnosis programs on the market that can greatly reduce the cost of obtaining hypnosis treatment. Since everyone is different, there are no specific "magic" words or post-hypnotic suggestions that will work for everyone. So when choosing a self hypnosis program, look for those that incorporate a broad variety of hypnotic and NLP techniques in a series of at least six or more sessions to enjoy the best possible outcome. In any case, the fee for the best self hypnosis CD and DVD sets equates to far less than the amount that an average smoker wastes each and every month on cigarettes.

Article Source: http://articlekarma.com

Alan B. Densky, CH created the Video Hypnosis quit smoking technology which helps smokers easily quit the habit. He also created many ways to stop smoking using Ericksonian Hypnosis and NLP. Visit his Neuro-VISION self help hypnosis site for free hypnotherapy videos and MP3s. www.neuro-vision.us/

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