Quit Smoking - The Fake Smoking Mirage

The Hidden Enemy

If you are a smoker, you are probably already aware that your life is conditioned by your smoking habits. And as with any other habit, you are probably finding hard to quit.

Quitting any habit requires time, exercise and willpower; furthermore, you have to win the hidden enemy: the desire to continue with your beloved habit.

How does this work? Well, trying to quit will expose you to two big temptations?

The First Temptation: Relax After Withdrawal

If you persist in your quit smoking purpose, you?ll experience soon withdrawal symptoms.

These symptoms may not last long, but they will get enough of your resources to let you exhausted. This will make you restless and exasperated and will trigger your desire to be calm again.

The Trap

Of course your mind will address you towards your cigarettes, just to feel at ease. Well, you will feel at ease if you smoke, and this will trigger the trap: you?ll think that trying to quit smoking has a negative effect on you and smoking is going to restore your feeling of control.

The trap is now done: you increase your psychological dependence on smoking, and your next trial will be harder.

The Second Temptation: Easiness After Failure

After a few of such kind of experiences, you?ll start thinking that smoking is helping your survival. At this stage you start to develop excuses to retain it.

The point is that you find so hard to quit that you find much easier to not quit. If you start failing in your purpose to quit smoking, you are going to build a few reasons to have the easy road taken instead of the difficult one.

In a short time you are going to surround yourself of some excuses to not quit.

The Vicious Amplifier

Nicotine will be this temptation amplifier. It will act as the vicious circle engine. As any addictive drug, you?ll have to get more to experience the same level of effects of the previous time.

You?ll have to smoke more to have the same relief you got the first time smoking after the first or the second temptation.

The game is now complete: nicotine will hold you in such a way that you?ll begin craving for more and more of your dose.

Your Ally

If you are trapped in these games, the simple way is to use your resources to come out from the same game.

Taking with your subconscious mind is one of the best effective ways. Discover how to Stop Smoking With Your Mind at my website.

Mark Tern is the author of the Quit Smoking Special Report you can get for free, where you can discover How to Leverage Your 5 Resources to Quit Smoking.

Check also his quit smoking blog for more articles about quit smoking.

How To Quit Smoking With NLP and Hypnosis For Motivation

There are two mental states that must be satisfied before a person will voluntarily quit smoking. These elements are called ?Desire,? and ?Decision.?

Desire: A want, crave or a wish for
Decision: Making up of one?s mind / a verdict or judgment

In order to quit smoking, you have to desire to quit. You have to want to quit. You probably want to quit, at least some part of you does, or you wouldn?t be reading this article.

In order to quit smoking, you have to decide to quit. Since you haven?t quit smoking, it simply means that you have not decided to quit . . . yet. So what you need is to feel motivated to make a ?decision? to quit smoking.

Motivation, we all need it. The source of each of our motivations is a belief. Think about it, if you did not believe that you could get hurt if you walked in front of moving traffic, you would not feel motivated to be careful. If you did not believe that the gnawing sensation in your stomach meant that you were hungry, you would not feel motivated to eat.

When it comes to giving up the smoking habit, people need to feel a great deal of motivation to make the decision to quit. Motivation is based on the ideas that we believe. So you will need to figure out what ideas will motivate you (when you start to believe them). Because when you feel powerfully motivated, you will quit smoking.

Thanks to NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and hypnosis for motivation, it?s a lot easier to learn how to believe these new ideas than you probably think it is. However, you do not believe the ideas that will motivate you to quit smoking at this point, or you would have already broken the smoking addiction.

For the purpose of this discussion, we need to define a few words.

Doubt: Uncertain/distrustful/dubious - ?maybe it?s this way, and maybe it isn?t.?

Belief: Trust/faith/tenet - A state of mind devoid of all doubt. In other words, belief means, ?this is the way that it is.?

Highly valued criteria: What is most important to you, as an individual.

When you totally believe that if you continue to smoke, your highly valued criterion is in jeopardy, you will feel the motivation that you require to stop smoking. We call this is a negative motivator, because it?s a belief that motivates you by giving you bad feelings. Negative motivators are very powerful.

When you believe that if you do quit, your highly valued criteria will become enhanced, you will also feel the motivation that you require to quit smoking. This is a positive motivator, because it motivates you by promising good feelings if you stop smoking.

The first task is for you to figure out what the most important things in your life are? Your most highly valued criteria are usually intangibles. For example: Money would not be highly valued criteria, but the freedom, fun, or security that money can provide would be. Write your list of highly valued criteria down on a piece of paper.

Next you need to figure out what you need to believe to feel motivated to quit. Here is the good news, sort of: Logic has nothing to do with belief. Things don?t have to be logical for you to believe them. As a matter of fact, they rarely are. So forget logic!

The format for your negative motivator beliefs will be: "I believe that if I continue to smoke, something bad will happen to my most highly valued criteria.?

Make sure that you frame your motivators in the positive. In other words, always state what you want or what will happen. Never state what you don?t want or what won?t happen. Eliminate the ?not? word from the beliefs.

In this example we will say that your children?s welfare is your most highly valued criteria.

Wrong: ?I believe that if I continue to smoke, I won?t be doing my kids health any good.?

Correct: "I believe that if I continue to smoke, my secondhand smoke will ruin my children?s health.?

Next, create a list of positive motivators. ?I believe that if I quit smoking: (something very important will be enhanced).?

Wrong: ?I believe that if I stop smoking, I won?t harm my kids health.?

Correct: ?I believe that if I quit smoking, my children will be healthier because I?ll eliminate their exposure to the dangers of my second hand smoke.?

The next step is to modify the computer codes in your brain to make yourself actually believe these motivational ideas. Now for a shocker: Belief has nothing to do with logic or reality. But it does have everything to do with your perception of reality. In other words, it has a lot to do with the way that we see things.

Our belief systems are based in our unconscious mind. The unconscious is like a computer. Computers don?t reason. The input controls the output. To demonstrate, I want you to think of anything that you already believe without the slightest bit of doubt. Make it a belief that makes you feel good.

For instance, it?s easy for most people to believe that they love their children. If that is true for you, make a mental image that makes you feel that love.

I?m going to ask some questions, and there aren?t any right or wrong answers. Is your mental image a moving picture, or a still?

Is it in color, or in black and white?
Is it close or far?
Is it focused or fuzzy?
Is it normally bright, overly bright, or dim?
Is there a border on it?
Is it borderless?
Is it a panorama?

Whatever your answers are, write them down. These are the computer codes that your unconscious uses to indicate your feelings of belief. In this case they are the codes for positive belief because you?ve chosen a belief that gives you a good feeling. You have just calibrated your positive belief.

All positive belief pictures are bright and focused. If yours aren't, you probably don?t really have total belief. You probably have an element of doubt. So find another belief from which to calibrate.

If you think of something that you doubt, and you make a mental image of it, one or more of these computer codes will probably be different. Similarly, if you have a belief that gives you a bad feeling, (a negative belief): one or more of those codes will be different.

In NLP we call these particular computer codes visual submodalities.

Now you will need to calibrate a negative belief. So repeat the same exact process, but do so using an idea that you already believe, that makes you feel bad.

Once you have calibrated your positive and your negative beliefs, it?s a simple matter to manipulate what you believe so you can motivate yourself to decide to quit.

So, to summarize, using the above example: "I believe that if I continue to smoke, my secondhand smoke will ruin my children?s health.?

1. Sense how motivated you feel to quit smoking.

2. Make a mental image that illustrated the above belief.

3. Adjust the computer codes (visual submodalities) of the image to match the submodalities from your calibrated negative belief.

4. If you are right handed, move your eyeballs (and your image) up to your left and hold it there for five seconds. If you are left handed, to the opposite. This will help you to quickly memorize the belief.

5. Now sense how motivated you feel to quit smoking. Do you feel more motivated? Less motivated? Or the same?

Using this technique you can make yourself believe almost anything by making a picture in your mind that illustrates your new idea and then adjusting your mental image to match your calibrated belief pictures.

And if you have a belief that is holding you back, you can use the same technique to change that belief to doubt by changing one or two of the submodalities and memorizing it that way.

Now that you can motivate yourself to decide to quit, you will quit smoking. A decision to quit means: I?m quitting no matter how much it hurts. If you are like most people, you won?t want it to ?hurt,? and it doesn?t have to. There are several hypnotic techniques that can greatly reduce, or even completely eliminate the discomforts of withdrawal from the cigarette addiction.

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Can Chinese Medicine Help You Quit Smoking?

Addiction is now the biggest preventable killer in Britain, causing 150,000 deaths a year (120,000 tobacco related, 33,000 alcohol related and 1,700 drugs related).
How can Chinese medicine help with addiction?

Chinese medicine has beneficial effects on addiction to various substances. The most commonly treated addictions at AcuMedic clinics are smoking and alcoholism.

Smoking has a detrimental impact on all major systems of the human body, in particular, the circulatory, respiratory and digestive systems. In Chinese medical theory, smoking weakens the Lung?s function of commanding the overall movement of Qi, Blood and Meridians, by creating Heat in the Lung and Stomach, which in turn will cause Fire in the Heart and/or stagnation of Liver Qi, hence withdrawal symptoms such as nausea, palpitations, mood swings and restlessness occur.

Chinese medicine can reduce the craving for cigarettes. Studies show that patients after treatment often report a dislike for the smell of tobacco and that the craving stops when they press ear points with herbal seeds on (This is called ear acupuncture where either herbal seeds or metal studs are plastered on to certain points on the ears).

Alcoholism, like smoking, can cause irreversible damage to all major organs in the human body, although a moderate amount of alcohol under certain circumstances can be beneficial for health. Chinese medicine treats any withdrawal symptoms and reduces the craving. It has no side effects.

Acupuncture stimulates detoxification, promotes a heightened sense of relaxation, and encourages endorphin production, which makes it an excellent tool for overcoming addiction. Herbal medicine helps the body to cope with stress, improves circulation and promotes mental and physical alertness.

Treatment for addiction can be effective only if the patient is determined to change. The length of treatment depends on the patient?s response and on the severity and duration of the addiction. Drug addiction can also benefit from Chinese medical treatment.

 The Author 'Acumedic' has over 30 years of experience developing and enhancing all aspects of Chinese medicine, Acupuncture and traditional herbal treatments. With an extensive range of Products and Services Acumedic is one of the most comprehensive suppliers in Europe. Visit http://www.acumedic.com/ for more info.

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