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The decision to quit smoking and the resolve to carry it through is one of the tougher decisions you’ll ever be glad you made.  Nicotine is both physically and psychological addictive.  Many studies show that using hypnosis to quit smoking can be very effective.  Whether used alone or in combination with medication, hypnosis as a quit smoking tool has been highly successful.

First of all, don’t be so hard on yourself.  Nearly everyone who has successfully quit smoking has relapsed at least once—the average ex-smoker relapsed three to four times, before they achieve success. Hypnotherapy helps you quit smoking by dealing with all the elements that addicted you in the first place.

Confidence, Strength, and Motivation

Cigarette smoking is one of the hardest addictions to overcome. If you have ever tried to quit smoking and relapsed, you now have a built-in tape telling you that you failed once, so you’ll probably fail again.  Hypnosis changes those internal tapes.

Using hypnosis to quit smoking also boosts your self-confidence; it reinforces your inner strength to stay tough, and keeps you motivated through the hard times.

The nicotine in cigarettes promotes the release of dopamine to the reward pathways of your brain. Dopamine encourages the brain to repeat pleasurable activities.  In other words, it ignites the addiction.  Nicotine makes you feel happy and calm, and the dopamine released from brain as a result of the nicotine, tells the brain: “Hey let’s do that again.”  Hypnotherapy assists with quitting smoking by providing healthy non-chemically induced ways to release dopamine into the reward pathways.

Nicotine also triggers the release of the neurotransmitter glutamate that stimulates learning and memory.  Glutamate strengthens the connections between sets of neurons. The release of glutamate aids in your addiction to nicotine by strengthening the memory of the good feelings achieved from smoking.  Hypnotherapy to quit smoking breaks the connections and helps build new connections to healthy activities.

A study by University of Washington researcher, Dr. Joseph Barber, found that stop smoking hypnotherapy had been particularly effective.  Dr. Barber found that for a single session of hypnotherapy to quit smoking 25% of the participants remained non-smokers after a 6-12 month period.  Of the participants who had multiple sessions of hypnotherapy to quit smoking, 66% were non-smokers after a 6-12 month period.

Another way to gain access to hypnosis for quitting smoking is to order self-hypnosis tapes or CDs from a reputable company.  Again, you physician may be able to recommend some.

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