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Are you one of the billion smokers in the world? Are you a slave to tobacco addiction with only chronic debilitating illness and an untimely death to look forward to? Have you resigned yourself to the idea that quitting smoking is just too difficult? You've tried the nicotine gum, and the inhalers and the books and even those powerful pharmaceuticals with the dangerous side-effects? Perhaps you've even tried hypnosis and that didn't work for you either. Maybe the hypnotist's voice wasn't quite right, or you just couldn't relax and get into the session. And you're still smoking?
You're in good company. If current trends continue there'll be around 1.6 billion smokers in the world by the year 2025
Does it help if I tell you that as a long term smoker there is a 50-50 chance you'll die a tobacco-related death? How about if I told you one of the by-product compounds in cigarette smoke is hydrogen cyanide, a colourless poisonous gas once used under the name of Zyklon B by the Nazis as part of their "Final Solution". Smoker's voluntarily inhale a second world war poison gas every time they smoke!
The fact is that smokers try to quit, and can't. The two-fold force of nicotine addiction keeps them puffing away at their cigarettes. Firstly the physical addiction of nicotine in the bloodstream, producing a cycle of withdrawal and symptom satisfaction, and secondly the psychological addiction where the smoker's own mind is convinced that smoking is a great help dealing with stress or discomfort, whilst ignoring the known long-term horrors that await the addict.
So how can it be that even when a smoker is fully aware of how harmful smoking is, and the evidence of every painful lungful is telling them to quit, they carry on smoking the poison, and paying through the nose to do so?
The reflex and the involuntary instinct to smoke comes from the unconscious mind. The unconscious mind has no concept of the long-term and is only interested in finding immediate solutions. It recognises the signs of nicotine withdrawal and commands you to light up a cigarette. And as far as your subconscious mind is concerned that is a great solution, because it works in alleviating immediate discomfort.
This is why so many people fail to quit smoking. They fail to realise that it is something deep within themselves that they need to change in order to flick the switch, and turn off the smoking impulse. All the horrific tobacco death statistics in the world and all the gruesome pictures of patients with smoking related diseases have no effect on the unconscious mind. In fact, they make the long-term smoker distinctly uncomfortable, a stressful situation that the unconscious mind will want to counter immediately by commanding the smoker to light-up!
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Drew Charleson uses Hypnotherapy to help smokers quit. His program uses elements of Hypnosis, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Neurolinguistic Programming to change the subconscious movies that keep smokers addicted. If you're ready to quit click here, Quit Smoking Cigarettes
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