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Stop Smoking The Easy Way
Chapter 2
| In this article and free video by Alan B. Densky, you'll learn
how to Stop Smoking The Easy Way. Be sure to read
Chapter One of Stop Smoking the Easy
Way. At the end of each chapter of this video, you'll learn a mental exercise that will help you break the chain tobacco has on you. Chapter One examined why people place cigarettes in their mouth for relaxation and pleasure. You learned a simple technique you can use to program your unconscious mind to help you relax. This chapter will discuss the second and third component of a smoking addiction, and give you tips to overcome those components. Conditioned Response The second component of a smoking addiction is conditioned responses. Much of your smoking is simply conditioned responses. In school you probably studied a scientist named Pavlov. As you may recall, Pavlov experimented by ringing a bell each time he fed his dogs. After repeating the experiment several times, he found that the dogs would salivate as soon as he rang the bell. The dogs became conditioned to salivate as soon as they heard the bell ring. I actually tried this experiment with my own dogs. Each time the doorbell rang, I gave my two dogs a biscuit. By the third time the doorbell rang, the dogs would run to the pantry where I kept the dog biscuits, rather than the front door. A neighbor learned about my experiment, and one afternoon he rang my bell every half hour. I had to quickly rid the dogs of that habit so I didn't spend a fortune on dog biscuits. ROUGHLY 45% OF THE SMOKING ADDICTION AND CIGARETTE CRAVINGS ARE CAUSED BY CONDITIONED RESPONSES If you smoke while drinking a cup of coffee, your unconscious mind takes a mental snapshot of the cigarette in your hand, and associates it with the picture of coffee cup. In the future, every cup of coffee you drink causes your mind to fill in the missing part of the mental snapshot. It "flashes" a picture of a cigarette in your hand, and that mental picture causes you to feel a craving for a cigarette. Consciously, you may be unaware of the mental snapshot of the cigarette, because it may only be at the unconscious level. But the mental picture is most assuredly in your mind, causing cigarette cravings and the urge to smoke. This same process occurs if you smoke while driving, smoke while having a drink, or smoke while watching television. Very quickly, nearly everything you do becomes associated with smoking and cigarettes and causes you to unconsciously flash to an image of a cigarette. Those unconscious pictures make you feel cravings and give you a compulsion to smoke. Erasing Conditioned Response Now here is the solution to this conditioned response. You must "erase" or in psychological terms - "extinguish" the conditioned responses. In other words, get your mind to stop flashing unconscious pictures of cigarettes. And even better, you want your unconscious mind to automatically flash an image of you, in the same situation or context, without a cigarette! Because if you are incapable of visualizing a cigarette at the unconscious level, then you won't have any cravings or compulsions to smoke. And if you are disassociated (in other words, you see a picture of yourself in your minds eye), then you can't feel your feelings or cravings for a cigarette. Also, when you visualize yourself behaving in a particular way, then you will get a compulsion to behave that way. So if your unconscious flashes an image of you drinking coffee without a cigarette, then you will in fact, feel a compulsion to reject cigarettes while drinking coffee! In Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP therapy, this "flash" technique is used to reverse images in your unconscious mind so that what used to trigger your mind to flash to a cigarette, now makes your unconscious instantly flash to a disassociated image of yourself in which you are NOT smoking. After imprinting this new pattern on your unconscious, you can expect to feel like rejecting cigarettes when you are in situations that used to make you crave them. Some people have trouble visualizing. Those people can benefit from the Neuro-VISION video technology, because it does all of the difficult visualizations for the smoker, totally eliminating the smoker's need to create new mental pictures. Neuro-VISION is a video technology that was granted a patent because is was so unique. Physical Addiction The third component of the smoking addiction is a physical addiction to nicotine. In my opinion, the physical addiction is only around 10% of the smoking addiction. Medical research shows that nicotine is flushed from the body after not smoking in just 3 to 7 days. If you are trying to quit smoking by using nicotine patches, gums, lozenges, or lasers, you are only confronting 10% of the problem, the physical addiction. Fortunately, when you tap into the power of your unconscious mind to quit smoking, it becomes easy to quit and stay quit, without withdrawal symptoms. That's because 90% of the smoking addiction is mental, and when you use any one of my quit smoking programs, you'll be using the amazing power of Ericksonian hypnosis, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and Neuro-VISIONAL programming so that you quickly eliminate 90% of the addiction. Your Next Quit Smoking Exercise (Be sure to watch the video above, which walks you through this exercise.)
It's time for your next quit smoking lesson. Get
yourself into a comfortable position. Take a slow,
deep breath and hold it for five to ten seconds. Then
release it slowly, and let all of your muscles relax. Take a second slow, deep breath. Hold it. Slowly
exhale. Let your eyes close and notice the
relaxation spreading throughout your entire body. When you are ready to return to a normal waking state, just count from one to five, open your eyes on five feeling rested, alert, and relaxed.
Do this exercise on a daily basis. |
If you want to quit smoking now, order Alan B. Densky's video hypnosis program, Quit Smoking in a Flash! This video program will create the non-smoking visualizations for you, without difficulty or effort, so that you can become a true non-smoker.
