To stop smoking

Stop smoking programs can also help you find a quitting method that suits your needs. They will help you be aware of problems that come up while you're trying to quit, and offer tools to cope with these problems. These programs can help you avoid making common mistakes.

To stop smoking successfully, you'll have to re-learn how to do all the same things you're doing now but without cigarettes. So before you set a quit smoking date, be sure you've completed all the preparation work. If you've already quit smoking and could just use some help staying smoke-free,  click here .

Once you stop smoking, you will experience a number of physical symptoms as your body withdraws from nicotine. Nicotine withdrawal begins quickly, usually starting within thirty minutes to an hour of the last cigarette and peaking about two to three days later. Withdrawal symptoms can last for a few days to several weeks and differ from person to person.


When you stop smoking, nicotine withdrawal may give you headaches, affect your mood, or sap your energy.  The craving for “just one drag” is tough. Nicotine-replacement therapy can curb these urges. Studies show that nicotine gum, lozenges, and patches improve your chances of success when you’re also in a quit-smoking program.

When you stop smoking, it is normal to feel moods and emotions more deeply, especially if smoking has been used as a way to blunt feelings. When you become a nonsmoker, you'll need to take a different view and learn how to cope in other ways. If you don't, you'll reach for a cigarette the first time you feel stressed, anxious, or unhappy.

People who stop smoking greatly reduce their risk for disease and early death. Although the health benefits are greater for people who stop at earlier ages, there are benefits at any age. 1,4,8,9   You are never too old to quit .

What Are Young Smokers Thinking?

Some young women in their twenties still believe that smoking will keep them thin. Sure smoking throughout the day instead of eating may result in some kind of weight loss, but bear in mind that smoking disrupts the liver's ability to operate properly and therefore process fats.

So some short term weight management will lead to weight gain over time. Plus nicotine raises blood sugar which results in more insulin being secreted which intern pulls sugar from your blood and into your fat cells, where the sugar is converted to fat!

I've seen many clients as young as 25 who realised early on that quitting wasn't going to be easy for them. My message to any young person who reads this, who smokes or is contemplating it that the best thing you can do is to think for yourself.

You don't need to care about the opinions of the authorities in your life, think about yourself, be selfish about your health, stand up for yourself and say to hell with anyone who thinks any less of you for not smoking.

Make non-smoking a form of rebellion against the multi-national companies that sucked you into their trap and want to keep you locked in until you are sick and desperate. Then some of these same companies will sell you nicotine patches.

By smoking you are not a rebel, you are a pawn of the corporate man, just another sucker handing over your cash and your life.

Quit Smoking - Small Big Changes

Going from being a smoker to being a non-smoker can seem like a giant step especially if you have struggled before in the past. And the idea of doing it in an hour or so using hypnosis can almost seem impossible.

But so many smokers wake up Monday morning and decide to go cold turkey which is like jumping into the unknown without a parachute. For most they are lighting up again that week having suffered and struggled and annoyed a lot of people around them.

There is a better way. The key is a series of small changes which lead to a big change, but this time you are lowered gently by parachute onto a mound of marshmallows when you arrive at your goal of being a non-smoker.

Step one is to make a firm decision to quit and set a firm date. It's best to set this date no more than two weeks away.

Next is to make your hypnosis appointment, and put it on all your calendars.

The time in between is important. You can cut down if that works without creating too much stress. One way is to delay each cigarette by just 10 minutes. If you smoke 20 per day you have delayed by 200 minutes.

In reality you have reduced your number of smokes by 5 by just implementing a small delay. Now you only have to deal with quitting 15. You will find this easier each day and perhaps in the second week you may cut back a little more.

It's important not to stress yourself over cutting back. It's of no benefit to you to force this.

You will be given some tasks to do before your quit session, such as watch a couple of short videos, these more small steps, the things you will discover will help ready you to quit and also to realise that some of the reasons you smoke are very much working against what you are trying to achieve.

The next small step is to show up for your appointment and be on time. This may seem obvious but thinking of your drive to your session and walking in as a part of the process is important.

It's like you are ticking off boxes as you go.

Nicotine A Murder Weapon?

In a recent episode of Hawaii Five-O difficult to trace poison used as a murder weapon was liquid Nicotine. Well known as a powerful insecticide, in this case it was introduced into the victim's water bottle.

That is television but it is known that the amount of nicotine in an average cigar if injected will result in immediate death. Again bad news but unlikely to occur outside of a murder mystery.

But it's not hard to draw the obvious conclusion that smoking is just a slow way to be poisoned, it's starting to sound like another crime plot!

Except this plot has some strange twists. A poison in disguise as a social pleasurable drug was made acceptable, fashionable, cool, a symbol of toughness or sophistication.

The world embraced it, it was supported by doctors, made even more popular by Hollywood, it was in many ways the perfect product. It sold itself, it was just a question of which brand to choose.

The slow poisoning of generations had begun. As early as 1908 it was determined that smoking was harmful to health, yet the all-powerful cigarette juggernaut kept pushing the good for you line.

Well paid PHD's and medical doctors whose pockets were lined with cash would front the media and lie through their teeth.

In the early seventies researchers declared that smoking caused cancer. The American government suppressed this data until eight years later they could no longer ignore the facts.

So now the truth began to emerge yet the slow poisoning continued, and it continues until today. The difference is everyone in the western world is aware of the continued poisoning on yet another generation.

Of course as a smoker you don't think of it in those terms, you're aware of all the health problems but the truth is re-framed in a more acceptable way. No government has the courage to come and point a finger at big tobacco and state that they are poisoning their population.

Why? Because they would have to admit to being complicit in this slow poisoning. But of course they their interest is divided into promoting quit smoking and collecting huge taxes.

The good news about this particular poison is that when you quit you will start to recover quickly and within a year or so you will mostly be free from the effects of the nicotine poison.

So when you are ready to quit and you need the perfect antidote, hypnosis is the best answer, and just like the best crime stores the victim will recover just in time!

How Far Is Too Far?

When you first started smoking, it's most likely your friends did also, you were cool and grown up, part of the group and perhaps a bit of a rebel. But soon that changed. You discovered that smoking didn't make you special; you had just created for yourself a powerful dangerous habit.

Then in spite of all the warnings you continued, but for you how far is too far. Was it the first signs of loss of energy, or puffing climbing the stairs?

Maybe the cough when you wake up each day, or the more frequent colds. The slow decline of your cardio vascular health or the general feeling of being unwell, often blamed to aging, with the obvious signs of skin aging.

Through to the more serious problems, such as amputation from smoking caused diabetic complications or the long list of deadly illnesses lead by lung and throat cancers.

In my experience as a clinical hypnotist I have seen it all. From the person with the slight shortness of breath, to the emphysema sufferers, to the client who has had a limb amputated and facing the prospect of losing another.

Right through to the person who only has three months to live and has come in to quit in the desperate hope of just having a few weeks more on this planet with their loved ones.

So I ask you again, how far is too far. How much pain will you put up with, how sick will you become, how much of your body must fail or succumb to illness before you lean out of the window and shout to the world, that enough is enough.

When you weigh it up; in the blue corner you have a habit which stinks and costs you a fortune over time. A habit which has conned you into believing you are getting some benefit instead of just a ticket to a premature demise.

In the red corner you get back as many as 14 years on your life, thousands of dollars in your pocket, not having to go outside to smoke, and the security of knowing you have given yourself the best chance to be healthy.

Don't sweat over the past, it's right now and the future that counts. The sooner you book your hypnosis quit smoking session the sooner you can get on with leading the best possible life. Just do it!

How to Quit Smoking With Hypnotism

Cigarette smoking is an addiction and because of this fact, quitting is easier said than done.
According to Action on Smoking and Health, 10 million adults in Great Britain are smokers. Two thirds of those smokers started before the age of 18. Nearly two thirds of the current smokers would like to quit but only 22 per cent of the women and 27 per cent of the men have managed to do so.
October marks the official beginning of the yearly Stoptober campaign. Quitting for a full month may be the perfect opportunity to drop the bad habit for a lifetime. Stop smoking hypnotherapy may be the right possibility for you. Here's everything you need to know about how to stop smoking with hypnosis.

How does It Work?
Many smokers need just a single hypnotherapy session to get on the road to quitting. Follow-up sessions will usually be needed to extend the longevity of the results and to help the former smoker lead a happy, cigarette-free life for years and years to come.

After initial assessment, a therapist will put you in the state of hypnosis. This is when the real work begins. For many smokers, lighting up a cigarette is associated with pleasurable experiences. These experiences could include having an aromatic cup of coffee, ending a delicious meal or even intimacy with a partner. The job of the therapist is to "break" these positive associations.

Sometimes, smokers who undergo stop smoking hypnotherapy will have these positive associations replaced with facts about smoking - that it ruins health, that it makes clothes smell bad and that second hand smoke is a real danger for loved ones. These new sub-conscious patterns help patients overcome the addiction and kick the bad habit with relative ease.

Additional Benefits
Are you still wondering about how to stop smoking with hypnosis? Talking to a therapist and getting all of your questions answered is going to put your mind at ease. There's no harm in giving the technique a try, even if you are sceptical about it.

When performed by an experienced therapist, hypnosis can have a very high success rate. Some reports suggest that nearly 80 per cent of the smokers that have tried hypnotherapy have managed to quit.

Hypnosis is very effective because it simplifies change and introducing healthy modifications to your lifestyle. It has nothing to do with being sub consciously "forced" into doing something that you don't want to do. Hypnotherapy is all about breaking destructive patterns of behaviour that have been connected to something positive and desirable.

Hypnotherapy for smokers is safe, efficient and affordable. Nicotine addiction can be an extreme challenge and many find it impossible to quit cold turkey. If you have tried other methods and you have failed, the time may be right to have a hypnotherapy session. Going through the experience is the best way to figure out whether it's the perfect method to quit and to enjoy a cigarette-free life.

David Samson is a regular advisor to BBC Radio London. His work has been featured in The Times, Huffington Post and OK! Magazine. Using gentle & sympathetic techniques developed over 10 years practicing successful stop smoking Hypnosis treatments.

What Does It Really Mean To You?

Generally when asked, what quitting smoking means the answer is off the cuff and superficial, such as "I will feel healthier."

But what does this really mean? And does this answer provide the emotional power required to quit smoking for good. I have to say an emphatic no. If an easy answer is the best you can offer then I seriously question your real commitment to stopping cigarettes.

I guess at this point the less than serious will opt out, but I encourage you to take a long hard look in the mirror and find a powerful reason.

Given that you have seen hundreds of grisly images of dying smokers on cigarette packets and countless television commercials of people in sad smoking induced situations, you are most likely quite jaded and a little fatigued by fear based quit programmes.

So how can you access those deep powerful reasons which will be your guide to stopping cigarettes for life.
Perhaps you could take yourself to a quit place, and allow yourself to remember the important times in your life. To recall times when you felt healthy and well.

Now think about the things you still want to do in your life. Things that will work much better if you have your health and energy.

Really concentrate on seeing yourself doing those things, notice how you feel, how good that will be. Allow yourself to completely be immersed in those feelings and enjoy seeing your life unfolding.
Now quickly switch your mind to the same future if you don't quit smoking. Your health has declined; your energy is low, see and feel how things would be different. Maybe you have had a serious diagnosis.

Now think about oranges or cows or anything else. No one wants to dwell on thoughts like these, but that imagined future is likely to happen and you know it.

So I'm sure you are beginning to gather a list of powerful reasons to quit. Each limitation of your future smoking life will add to the list. Keep looking at that list then make an appointment for a hypnosis quit smoking session.

A good therapist will take all those reasons and weave them into your session. But more importantly they will filter all those future healthy events into your unconscious mind and make it easier than you could imagine to walk away from cigarettes forever. Start planning for your life today.