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The typical person tries to stop smoking between four to six times before they are successful. If you have tried patches, gum, prescriptions or willpower alone with no 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 watch and listen to DVDs and CDs specially designed to curb your cravings to smoke, then quit smoking hypnosis will work for you.

Many smokers think that they are unable to quit smoking because of their nicotine addiction, but that simply is not true. Medical professionals maintain that after seven to ten days - even as soon as three days - all nicotine has been eliminated from the body, which leaves smokers to focus on the more difficult and far reaching emotional and psychological addiction to smoking cigarettes.

There are many ways to quit smoking, but only one method can address both the cravings and the emotional compulsion: stop smoking self hypnosis. Many people who have a strong desire to quit still end up asking themselves, "Why can't I simply stop smoking?"

For hypnotherapists, the answer is obvious. The part of you that won't let you quit smoking is your unconscious. You can't change your unconscious by force of will or with a prescription, patch or gum. You need the right kind of help.

To quit smoking, support is imperative, but many people do not realize that the best support comes from within their own unconscious. Hypnosis is the most effective method to guarantee that your entire psyche is united to help you stop smoking. That is because hypnosis provides a powerful way of communicating with your unconscious.

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 subtracted, quitting becomes a straightforward choice that you can make without difficulty. The best stop smoking hypnosis programs are effective because they address the most powerful elements of the smoking addiction.

The first part of an effective stop smoking hypnosis program addresses the need to smoke for relaxation and pleasure. This example was actually instituted when you were a baby. Most likely, when you got cranky, your mother or father gave you a bottle on which to suck. 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, the unconscious is reprogrammed to achieve relaxation and pleasure by automatically exchanging 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 part of an effective stop smoking hypnosis program will help you deal with the habituation, or the "Habit." Habituation happens when the unconscious creates an association between smoking and other behaviors, such as watching TV or driving. Perhaps the moment that you turn on the television you are overwhelmed 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 NOT smoke! This is known as, no pun intended, extinguishing a conditioned response.

Here is a news flash! The physical nicotine addiction is merely about ten percent of the addiction. Ninety percent of the addiction to cigarettes is comprised of the emotional and mental components that we've talked about thus far. And as stated earlier in this article, medical experts 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 recognize that when their smoking associations and dependence on cigarettes to relax have been reprogrammed, the physical addiction is actually such a diminutive part of their smoking problem, that it has no influence on their capacity to quit smoking without enduring withdrawal.

Now, I must tell you that regardless of the extraordinary success that clients have had with stop smoking hypnosis and NLP CDs and DVDs, you must hold the desire to quit smoking prior to undertaking a program. And besides 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 can't be used to force you to do something you do not desire to do, so no program can coerce you to give up smoking. But if you have the desire to quit smoking, and you make a determination to quit smoking, hypnosis will help you to remain at ease and not experience cravings, tension or withdrawal symptoms. 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 stop smoking. He offers both audio hypnosis CDs, and Neuro-VISION Video hypnosis to stop smoking CDs. Visit his hypnosis website for free hypnosis videos & resources.