Wednesday, February 13, 2013

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Smoking Cessation through Hypnosis

Smoking is not just a habit. It is an addiction, and like any addiction, it is very hard to break. If you are a smoker, you need to understand that very few people are able to break the addiction without any help whatsoever. To ensure that you are able to break your smoking habit for good, you need to learn options that have high success rates. One of those options would be hypnosis. In fact, the success rate for using hypnosis for smoking cessation is more than 80%. Are you ready to quit smoking? If you are not, there are some things that you need to know. Consider the following:

The Effects of Smoking

You have most likely heard all of the speeches about the danger of smoking. It can lead to heart disease, lung cancer, emphysema, and more health problems that can actually be fatal. You most likely know all of that, but there are some other things you need to consider. Perhaps, when you hear it all, you will understand the full impact that smoking is having on you.

Consider this. If you smoke a pack a day, do you realize how much money you are spending a year on your habit? For the average pack of cigarettes smoked one a day, you are spending about $2,500  a year. That is a lot of money, and chances are, you did not realize how much you were spending on smoking.

You are causing problems to your health and to your budget by choosing to smoke. However, you can immediately eliminate the cost and slowly improve your health once you choose to quit. If you have tried to quit before and you just have not had much luck, then you may be thinking that quitting is impossible. This is why you will want to consider smoking cessation through hypnosis.

How Quickly Does Hypnosis Work?

You may be wondering just how often you will have to go through hypnosis sessions. After all, you have to take time out of your day and pay for those sessions, and that can become difficult. Here is some good news. On average, a person is able to give up smoking with just one hypnosis session.

In this session, you will spend about 2.5 hours with the hypnotherapist. During these hours, you will be put under hypnosis and you will learn an aversion to smoking. In other words, the hypnotherapist will implant in your mind that smoking tastes or feels horrible. Once this has been placed into your subconscious, you will find cigarettes disgusting even if you crave one. This makes it all the easier to put them down for good.

For the vast majority of smokers, only one of the sessions is needed. However, if you have never been hypnotized before, it can take some work from the hypnotherapist, and that means you may be asked to come back for one more session. However, hypnosis sessions are not like counseling. You do not have to continue going just to beat your smoking addiction. Once you are able to put the cigarettes down, you will most likely not ever touch them again.

Smoking is a difficult addiction. Like any other addiction, it can be very hard to beat on your own. You cannot expect to be able to put down those cigarettes and have any success. However, you can get the help you need in order to break the habit. Hypnosis has proven to be extremely successful at ending a smoking addiction. If you have discovered that your smoking habit is affecting your health as well as your budget, consider the option to quit with the help of a hypnotherapist.

Valerie Johnston is a health and fitness writer located in East Texas. With ambitions of one day running a marathon, writing for Healthline.com ensures she keeps up-to-date on all of the latest health and fitness news.

Editor's note: Please understand that although the success rate for hypnosis for smoking cessation can be as high as over 80%, it can also vary depending upon a participant's hypnotic susceptibility and motivation to be smoke-free. You can also find additional information on hypnosis for smoking cessation (in addition to psychologist's FREE hypnosis for smoking cessation MP3 audio download) at www.QuitForFree.com.