Quit Smoking Guide

Nicotine Replacement Patches? Gum? Pills? There are many stop smoking “products” on the market that you can choose. So why should you consider hypnosis?

1) Hypnosis is a “process”, not a “product”

Hypnosis permanently changes your attitude towards smoking. Its power comes from your desire to become a non-smoker. Hypnosis literally “switches off” any thoughts of smoking.

Patches and Gum do the opposite - by using these products you are subconsciously saying “There is something that I need in a cigarette, therefore I need to substitute the cigarette with something else.” You may replace one habit with another.

2) Hypnosis is Healthy and Safe

You’re trying to rid your body of toxins … so why would you replace the nicotine in cigarettes with the nicotine in gum or in patches? Nicotine is a poison?

3) Hypnosis is Fast and Easy

Using Hypnosis you can be a non-smoker in one hour or less. Patches and Gum often require weeks or months of treatmene

4) Hypnosis is Permanent

Because Hypnosis permanently changes your attitude towards smoking you have very little chance of relapse at any point in the future. You become a non-smoker.

With other products this mental change has not taken place and therefore you are at best an “ex smoker” continually having to consciously fend off and fight the urge to smoke. Making a relapse more likely.

When the shift to becoming a non-smoker takes place with Hypnosis one no longer has to battle against cigarettes. They will simply fade away as an “enemy”.

5) Hypnosis may be Tax Deductible. Patches and Gum are not.

If you are US taxpayer, you can deduct the cost of smoking cessation programs from your taxes.

From the IRS website (http://www.irs.gov/faqs/faq-kw139.html)

Are expenses for smoking cessation programs deductible?

You can include in medical expenses amounts you pay for a program to stop smoking. Unreimbursed amounts you pay for participation in a smoking cessation program and for prescribed drugs designed to alleviate nicotine withdrawal are expenses for medical care that are deductible subject to the 7.5% of adjusted gross income limitation if you itemize deductions on Form 1040, Schedule A (PDF), Itemized Deductions.

However, you cannot include in medical expenses amounts you pay for drugs that are designed to help stop smoking that do not require a prescription, such as nicotine gum or patches.

6) Hypnosis is more effective than Patches or Gum

Hypnosis has a 70-80% success rate for those committed to becoming a non smoker. Because the burdens on the patch or gum user are so great, those manufacturers can only boast a 50-60% success rate.

Furthermore most reputable hypnotherapists will offer a guarantee (see http://www.freshstartmethod.com/guarantee.php )of effectiveness stating that if you do not become a non smoker, you do not pay.

And thats not something you’ll see on a box of nicotine replacement products!

Matt Godson, Clinical Hypnotherapist
http://www.freshstartmethod.com
Godson runs FreshStart(tm) the internet stop smoking solution

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For some time, I have been studying why some people who choose to quit smoking or lose weight succeed and why some of them don’t. To be fair, most people who want to quit smoking and then go on to make an attempt actually fail. Most people who chose to diet lose some weight then put it back on. But why is this?

In this day and age, society is always looking for a miracle cure. Two major problems in western society are smoking and obesity and so there are lots of miracle cures being peddled for these topics. Smoking takes well over a million lives a year just in North America and Europe. Obesity, whilst less of a killer is on the rise as western diets and lifestyles continue to over-provide calories whilst under-delivering exercise.

If we take dieting as a principle example, we can see new diets and health plans being launched every year. Some of these prove to be huge commercial successes whilst others do not. The commercial successes go exponential once the media get a hold of them (which is nice for whoever came up with the idea). A perfect example of this is the Atkin’s diet. But why is it that we always seem to move on to another diet or another cure pretty soon afterwards?

The reason we seem to find that one solution only works for a while and we have to move on to the next is because there is a constant stream of people wanting these cures. But of these people, many if not most of them have not made the actual decision to do what they want to do. What they have done is make a decision that they would like to have something or some outcome.

Imagine these people as the water in a lake with a stream flowing in at the top and a stream flowing out at the bottom. The people flowing in at the top have made the decision that they would like to change something such as their smoking or their weight. The people in the lake have not achieved what they want yet and then the ones leaving have succeeded.

From time to time, a solution is presented and it helps many people get out of the lake. That is a wave running from the top to the bottom of the lake and it lets more water out than is coming in. However, it is just a wave and with time the lake fills up again.

As an ex-smoker and a former fatty (arguably!), I have found what I believe to be the solution to the problem. It is all to do with the decision. We may decide that we would like to quit smoking or that we would like to lose weight, but have we decided to commit to doing it? Most people when they quit smoking decide to try to quit. Most people when they choose to go on a diet decide to try and lose x many pounds. The problem is, as Yoda out of “Star Wars” would say; “Do, or do not, there is no try.”

To quit smoking, I had to decide that I was no longer going to kill myself. Moreover, I was not going to pay a tobacco company for the pleasure of killing me either, nor the government! It was the same with weight loss. You have to commit to undertaking a diet and then permanently changing the way you are. You cannot diet until you reach you chosen weight, then start eating cakes and pies as your staple diet. You must choose to change from being a smoker to a non-smoker and from living on an inappropriate diet to an appropriate diet. There isn’t much difference between the two situations - it is about deciding to do something rather than deciding to try and do something.

Pete Howells owns the website http://easyquitsystem.com and has devised a simple system that will help any smoker quit by giving them the instructions they need to follow to achieve their ambition to quit. Please visit http://easyquitsystem.com to find out more about his incredible formula for quitting smoking.

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Millions of people smoke, and to many, particularly those that
have been smoking for some time, the prospect of stopting seems
daunting. An addiction to nicotine is a serious one, and is
multifaceted: there is a physical component, in that your body
craves the nicotine the cigarettes contain, and a psychological
one, in that many habits and situations become associated with
cigarettes for the smoker. For these reasons it is important
that you come up with a plan of attack in order to stop smoking:
although the cold-turkey technique works for some people, the
vast majority of smokers will have success only with a more
comprehensive plan.

When you first consider the prospect of stop smoking, it’s
probably going to seem far fetched, but keep in mind that
thousands of people - people that are no different from you -
stop smoking every year. If they can do it, there’s no reason
that you can’t. Many smokers also feel that after a certain age
it is “too-late” to stop smoking. Simply put, this isn’t true,
and should not be used as an excuse to avoid an attempt to stop
smoking: the health benefits of stop smoking begin the very day
you stop.

Before you actually have your last cigarette, begin to build up
your willpower. Your willpower is going to be your most
important tool in stopting, and it’s very unlikely that you will
be successful without it. Spend some time thinking of the
reasons you want to stop smoking. Learn about the health
benefits of stopting, for both yourself and the people around
you. Do some math and come up with some figures for the amount
of money you’ll save by not buying cigarettes, and think of
something you’ll use that money for.

Once you’ve built up your willpower, it’s time to have your last
cigarette. To keep your spirits up, understand that the human
body is incredibly resilient, and your health will improve as
soon as you stop smoking - literally. 8 hours after your last
cigarette, carbon monoxide levels and oxygen levels in your
blood stream will return to normal. At 24 hours after your last
cigarette, you statistically reduce your chance of a heart
attack. Only 48 hours after your last cigarette, your sense of
taste and smell will improve as your nerve endings start growing.

As you continue to stay smoke free, think of the longer-term
benefits to stopting in order to keep your willpower up: even
after 2 weeks your lung power will begin to increase, and
continue to do so over time. Other aspects of your health will
continue to improve in different ways. The ultimate motivator
should be the knowledge that 15 years after stopting, your risk
of death is almost the same as someone who has never smoked - a
remarkable fact that illustrates our the human body’s surprising
ability to restore itself.

By coming up with a concrete plan to stop smoking help you will
greatly increase your chances of success. Crucial is
understanding the important role that your willpower will play
in the process, and planning to build up this willpower weeks
before you attempt to stop. Once you’ve stopped you have to keep
the strength of this willpower up, and to do so, remind yourself
of the health benefits you will be privy to immediately after
butting out that last cigarette.

Ren

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