It seems astonishing that—46.2 million US adults smoke cigarettes according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is 22.8% of all adults (25.2% male, 20.7 female)—nearly one in every four adults. In spite of a 1982 Surgeon General’s Report that cigarette smoking is the major single cause of cancer mortality in the United States, people continue to smoke at these alarming rates.

Since cigarette smoking and tobacco use is a choice/decision, smoking is the most preventable cause of cancer and ultimately premature death in our society.

When cigarette smoking is based on race/ethnicity the statistics are:

Whites———————————————————-24.0%

African Americans———————————————22.3%

Hispanics——————————————————-16.7%

American Indians/Alaska Natives—————————32.7%

Asian Americans———————————————–12.4%

The number of younger age groups—although not the highest are alarming—almost 27% of 18 to 24 years old smoke.

440,000 people die each year in the US from tobacco use. Nearly one of every five deaths is related to smoking. Cigarettes kill more Americans than alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, homicide, and illegal drugs combined.

Cancer from cigarette smoking is at least 30% of all cancer deaths. It is a major cause of cancers of the lung, larynx (voice box), oral cavity, pharynx (throat), and esophagus, and is a contributing cause in the development of cancers of the bladder, pancreas, liver, uterine cervix, kidney, stomach, colon and rectum, and some leukemia.

With the plethora of products and services to quit smoking it would seem that in 20 years after the Surgeon General’s report everyone would quit smoking and no one would consider starting. Obviously, this is not the case. The question is—“Why?”

The answer is simple. These products and services only treat the symptoms and fail to address the root cause that prompts anyone to start smoking.

Post-hypnotic suggestions are touted as the ultimate technique for smoke cessation. However, post-hypnotic suggestions are temporary, unless the process includes accessing and healing the root cause.

Hypnosis allows you to access your subconscious mind, which makes up 90% of your brain that stores all your memories. With hypnosis, you reprogram and release thought patterns and habits to make desirable, lasting changes in your life.

The steps to accessing and healing the root cause are:

•An overview of Hypnosis and how it works. After this presentation, you will know more about the truth of Hypnosis than 99% of the general public.

•Discuss your smoking pattern, onset and rationale for smoking.

•Recommend a program which will most rapidly assist you in achieving your goal.

•Answer your questions so you are comfortable with the idea of Hypnosis and feel good about your relationship with your Hypnotist.

•Hypnosis session will begin. You will be guided into a deep state of physical and mental relaxation. You will feel relaxed, yet remain alert mentally. You will be aware of everything going on around you, while being fully focused in your subconscious awareness.

•Accessing the root cause of the reason for smoking will be processed.

•Suggestions for replacing cigarettes to fulfill your needs will be given to your powerful subconscious mind. These suggestions will be retained by your subconscious and become a part of you. The old programming, which was keeping you from achieving your goals or which was causing a problem is removed, allowing you to accomplish goals and eliminate problems.

•You will then be emerged from Hypnosis with strong suggestions of good health and positive frame of mind. You will feel better than you have for a very long time. These suggestions will continue to last, yet may need to be reinforced.

Everyone wants to know the number of sessions required. Using a systematic approach, the majority of people need four to six sessions for a specific issue. Five sessions is the average number of sessions required to create permanent and lasting results. Many hypnotists state that one one-hour session is all that is required to quit smoking. However, with only one one-hour session 95% of people start smoking again after six to eighteen months. Why? The answer is the emotional reason the person started smoking can not be removed in only one session. In order for the majority of people to cease smoking forever, the root cause that prompted them to smoke needs to be resolved, thus three to five sessions are required.

Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD, author, certified hypnotherapist, motivational speaker, inspirational leader specializes in: Mind, Body, Spirit healing and Physical/Sexual Abuse Prevention and Recovery. Dr. Neddermeyer empowers people to view life’s challenges as an opportunity for Personal/Professional Growth and Spiritual Awakening. drdorothy.net drdorothy.net

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Many people who smoke struggle through a long process of weaning themselves off of smoking. Many of them successfully quit and never smoke again, some of them continue to have the urge to smoke and still others are never quite able to give up the habit.

So what exactly is going on inside the mind of a person who smokes? They associate a lot of pleasure to smoking. We all create pictures in our mind of various things. If you were to think of a certain food that you really don’t like, you will find that the picture in your mind is not as nice as the picture of your favorite food. In a similar way, if a non-smoker we to think of themselves smoking, they will have a not so nice picture. If a smoker were to look at the picture in his or her mind of smoking, he or she would have a nicer picture.

The secret to instantly becoming a non-smoker is very simple. It’s so simple in fact that most people don’t believe it really works. The secret is to change the association that you have to smoking. Take that positive association and turn it into a very, very negative association. Let’s walk through the process:

Step 1: Look at the image in your mind of cigarettes. Quickly determine the attributes of that image. Is it bright or dim, large or small, fuzzy or clear, near or far, black and white or color, 3D or flat? Is it a still image or a movie? Is it panoramic or is there a frame around it? What about noise? Are there any sounds associated with the image? Is it an internal sound or an external sound? Where are the sounds coming from? What is the sound? Where is it directed toward? Is it loud or soft? Are there any feelings associated with the image? Where are the feelings coming from? Is there any heat or pressure? Is it an internal feeling or an external feeling?

Step 2: Think of the food that you absolutely hate the worst. Close your eyes and look at the image of this food in your mind. Answer the same questions as in step 1.

Step 3: Switch the attributes of the image of the cigarettes to the attributes of the food that you hate. Make the image just as dreary.

Step 4: Look into the future and see if you are going to want to have a cigarette in a similar situation where you would have, in the past, had a cigarette.

In my career as a coach, I have used this process, among others, to help people quit smoking with fantastic success. The underlying rule behind this secret is that you must absolutely be committed to quitting right now. If you want to quit and you just aren’t committed yet, look into the future and see what your life might be like if you never quit. Make this future as a smoker as negative as possible to be able to get some leverage on yourself. I promise that if you have a strong enough reason to quit and you now know how to do it instantly, there is nothing holding you back from being a non-smoker with this process.

Phillip Woodson is the president of Transformational Results, a peak performance coaching company dedicated to helping individuals live their lives at their absolute best. Phillip coaches individuals on stress management, freedom from fears and phobias, eliminating habits and addictions, and weight loss. For more information about Phillip or his services, or to sign up for his monthly newsletter full of helpful life tips and strategies, visit his website at transformationalresults.com transformationalresults.com or email him at mailto:mail@trcoaching.com mail@trcoaching.com

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When you quit smoking it is almost certain you will encounter nicotine withdrawal urges. When a person quits smoking they deprive the body of the nicotine it has grown accustom too. Nicotine is considered one of the most additive substances on the Earth and it takes time to rid the body of its presence and effects. So if you are in the market to quit smoking, which you should if you are a smoker, you need to be aware that there will be obstacles and one of these obstacles is overcoming nicotine withdrawal urges.

Before you actually quit smoking you should have a plan on how to deal with many of the common nicotine withdrawal urges you will encounter. Some common nicotine withdrawal urges include:

Trouble sleeping Anxiety Difficulty concentrating Depression Irritability Cravings to smoke a cigarette Increase in appetite By knowing common nicotine withdrawal urges you may encounter you can develop a plan on how you are going to deal with the nicotine withdrawal symptoms. If you are concerned about not being able to overcome and cope there is still help. Nicotine cessation products such as; nicotine gum and patch can help you quit smoking by breaking the habit of smoking. Remember, you still will have to quit whichever product you choose and you will still need to overcome the nicotine withdrawal urges. Over time you can begin to wean yourself off the nicotine cessation product. Then you will be free of the drug completely.

If you are concerned about dealing with depression after you quit smoking there are prescription drugs such as Zyban or Wellbutrin that can help. These types of medications have also shown to be effective towards many of the other symptoms associated with nicotine withdrawals. Talk to your doctor for more information.

Nicotine withdrawal urges will come and go throughout the day. The longer you make it without smoking the less intense they will be. When you quit smoking you will begin to encounter urges to smoke as your body rids itself of the nicotine. Wait it out, the urge will pass. Find ways to distract yourself and try to relax. Change your daily routine if you possible and stock up on healthy food to munch on. Inform those close to you that you are quitting smoking so they understand why, at times, you start to act a bit touchy. Keep reminding yourself why it is important to you to quit smoking. You can quit and if you slip quit again.

Jason D is an ex-smoker and publisher of a

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There is a whole raft of quit smoking pills available on the market these days. Most of them are advertised as being a ‘cure-all’ for your woes as a smoker and will alleviate all of your concerns about quitting smoking. They come in two main forms - pharmaceutical types made by the big drug companies or ’snake oil’ types made from ‘magic’ ingredients. However, I have my doubts about the need for pills at all.

Unfortunately, smokers are a pretty desperate bunch when it comes to trying to quit and anyone offering quit smoking pills has got a fair chance of making a sale. Having said that, one of my own edicts for people trying to quit smoking is to just keep trying and try as many methods as you can until you succeed.

Why do I advocate such a stance you may ask? Well, whether it be through sheer willpower, quit smoking pills, hypnosis, acupuncture, laser treatment or my own cognitive behavioural therapy approach, the benefits of quitting smoking are just so extensive, I implore all smokers to keep trying to quit.

I know most smokers are reluctant to spend money on products to help them quit, but from a logical point of view, it makes a lot of sense. Spending money on products may seem tedious but even if it costs $1000 to find ‘the cure’ that works for you, it is still less than half of a years smoking costs. And you get all the benefits of quitting smoking which are worth years of extra life!

However, whilst I think smokers should persist in finding ‘a cure’ that works, I am somewhat reluctant to recommend using medication and ‘herbal’ remedies. Why is this?

Well, smoking is an addiction to nicotine and smokers only smoke cigarettes to get at the nicotine. Despite cigarette smoke being so toxic, smokers are ‘conditioned’ to enjoy smoking because of the nicotine buzz that comes with it. The cigarette is not pleasurable at all, but the nicotine is because of the way it has established itself as a part of a smoker’s brain chemistry.

Quit smoking pills are generally thought to interfere with the brain chemistry in smokers heads. Brain chemistry in smokers is different from that in non-smokers and that is why smokers smoke. Their brain chemistry is different, and it was made different by smoking! It is a chicken and egg, egg and chicken kind of thing!

The pharmaceutical quit smoking pills most commonly known to aid in quitting smoking are Zyban and Chantix. Zyban is also traded as wellbutrin or bupropion and Chantix is also marketed as Champix and varenicline.

Whilst the exact processes that go on to discourage smoking with these products are not known, there is obviously some activity because both Zyban and Chantix are known to improve a smoker’s ability to quit smoking. The downside is that they also have side effects, as is common with many pharmaceutical drugs. Zyban and Chantix should only be considered after consultation with your doctor.

The effectiveness of both of these drugs has been studied extensively although as drug companies fund drug studies, there is a pre-disposition to find in favour of the effectiveness. Despite the pharmacological effects these drugs have, they are always prescribed alongside some form of counselling or advice. If they were capable of achieving great results without the support, I would believe in them - but they do not work without counselling help.

Alternative quit smoking pills are marketed on the internet and elsewhere. These generally make lurid claims about their effectiveness at quitting smoking. They are often described as herbal remedies and may contain ‘proprietary’ substances. This in my opinion, is all snake oil!

Again, like the pharmaceutical quit smoking pills available, snake oil solutions are sold with quit smoking guides to change the way you think about your relationship with cigarettes. This is the crux of quitting smoking though. People think they need a pill or a magic potion to achieve their goal but they don’t. I believe people just need to focus their minds on the problem at hand and they can overcome it.

If you start out trying to quit smoking thinking that you need the support of a drug, you already think that quitting smoking requires ‘outside help’. It doesn’t. If you stop thinking it is going to be difficult to quit smoking, do you realise it just might be a bit easier to quit?

Finally, whichever method you use to quit smoking, my most important piece of advice is that if a ’solution’ fails, try something else. There are over 50 ways of quitting smoking and quit smoking pills is just one of them. Never stop trying to quit.

Why do people try to quit smoking before they know how to quit smoking? Pete Howells is the author of the EasyQuit System available only online at easyquitsystem.com easyquitsystem.com. He also blogs, post articles and videos at easyquitsystem.com/blog/ easyquitsystem.com/blog and at quit-smoking-motivator.blogspot.com quit-smoking-motivator.blogspot.com

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