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How To Quit Smoking Once And For All!

By April Claeyssens
Jan 28, 2009
So what if it is really that easy? What if all your beliefs about how hard it will to be to quit are completely false? What if, after just one session of hypnotherapy you find it incredibly easy to become and remain a happy, confident non-smoker for life? So, let's learn about how to quit smoking once and for all!

The reason why hypnotherapy is so successful is because both our beliefs about smoking and our habitual smoking behaviors reside within your unconscious mind. So whilst consciously we may wish to quit, all too often our all powerful unconscious mind simply would not let us.

You see when smokers first start; they buy into years of conditioning telling them that smoking made them feel better, more confident and more relaxed. And, as a result of lighting up those first few cigarettes, smokers permanently install these extremely unhelpful beliefs directly into their unconscious beliefs that also included the concept that quitting was going to be really difficult.

At the same time smokers make a conscious decision to choose those perceived benefits of feeling better, more relaxed and more confident, over the initial physical reactions of inhaling the poisonous fumes. So as time goes on and those uncomfortable physical reactions start to subside, as a result of their newly formed nicotine addiction, they started to mistake the relief of feeding that addiction with feelings of relaxation and confidence.

So many years later, after smoking tens of thousands (possibly hundreds of thousands) of cigarettes, they have re-enforced those unhelpful beliefs about smoking and how hard it is to quit and, they have also trained their unconscious minds to wrongly associate the process of lighting and smoking a cigarette with feeling good, confident and relaxed.

Hypnotherapy allows you to retrain the unconscious mind of a smoker to disregard those false beliefs about smoking and how hard it is to quit, and to swap those unconscious benefits for something altogether more exciting and fulfilling - feeling absolutely great!

So as a result, the all too familiar withdrawal pangs of irritability, mood swings and cravings, the primary reasons why people fail to permanently quit smoking, will be replaced with feelings of relaxation, improved self confidence and overall happiness.

In addition, take a look at alternative ways to quit smoking. Instead of going cold turkey, start to limit how many cigarettes you smoke each day. Start off by smoking only half of one cigarette then put it out. Smoke the second half at least an hour later. Pretty soon your craving for a full cigarette retreats. And, one pack will last twice as long (good as the prices have gone up).

What this means is that your desire to smoke will lessen each day. I've tried to quit this way and it worked. So please consider this method also and you will be a non-smoker very soon.
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