Time To Stop Smoking: Quit Smoking Therapies

Every too often I hear smokers say they will stop smoking when the time is right. But when is the right time to stop smoking? Or is this just another excuse to never ever stop smoking at all? If after this short introduction you are still reading this article, then perhaps your right time to stop smoking is now! Let me explain...

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Every too often I hear smokers say they will stop smoking when the time is right. But when is the right time to stop smoking? Or is this just another excuse to never ever stop smoking at all? If after this short introduction you are still reading this article, then perhaps your right time to stop smoking is now! Let me explain.

When I receive calls about the smoking cessation therapy, I'm usually asked, "how much will it cost to stop smoking"? Then, my honest  respond is, "A lot less than it will cost to keep smoking, and I don't just mean the money".

Getting Rid of the Smoking Habit

The question is: Do you really want to stop??? How desperately do you WANT to stop smoking? If you truly want to stop smoking, then maybe your first port of call should be your doctor's practice.

They will have trained nurses to help you with counseling, stop smoking patches, stop smoking gums and advice. This approach might work for you, but for the people who turn to their hypnotherapist for assistance, this approach obviously hasn't helped. And I see lots of them. People like you, who just find it too hard to finally stop smoking. If this is you, read on...

Before diving deeper into the details, please remember that every well trained and qualified Hypnotherapist, really, and I mean really wants you to stop-smoking.  A professional hypnotherapist knows exactly what smoking does to people. And to their entire family when they become ill and perhaps die. Not to talk about the destroying effects of passive smoking your loved ones are inevitably exposed to.

I want to make it very clear to you that one in every two individuals who smoke will die of a smoking related disease, perhaps as young as 65 years, the average age of death for a smoker. If you still believe smoking is not more dangerous than non smoking, this article is not for you. You haven´t arrived at the point yet. Go back to where you came from and wait for the things to happen. If not, read on.

Does Smoking Really Kill?

Good grief, what a question! As a matter of fact yet alone in the UK a person dies of smoking related diseases every five minutes... just think about that! This is a much higher death toll than all accidents, AIDS, drug and alcohol abuse all rolled up together. And as if that is not already enough, there are those countless numbers who need to have amputations, struggle on with breathing difficulties and wheezing and coughing for a long time before the habit finally finishes them off in a slow and painful death. I do not mention this in order not to scare you. I mention it in order to scare you! Scare you with the fatal truth about smoking. In the hope to be able to come to your rescue.

It has already been in the 60's that tobacco and cancer where first linked together. No, not the 1960's. I am talking about as early as the 1760's. Yes, you´ve heard that correctly, the 1760's. Fact is this: in 1761 a London Doctor called John Hill found that tobacco in the form of snuff caused pollypusses (small tumors) in the respiratory tract of many people who used it.

And cigarette smoke? Is it different?  Well, just take a look at what you breath in when you take a nice long drag on your cigarette.

Information on Constituents of Tobacco Smoke

Nicotine is the most widely known chemical in tobacco smoke. Most recent research has revealed that the original tobacco plant as grown by the native Indians did produce nicotine only in the instance that the plant´s leaves where attacked by caterpillars or other insects. As you may know, nicotine is a very strong and severe nervous system poison. The plant released some nicotine and the leaf eating insect would die.

The original, natural tobacco plant produced nicotine only in the instance of such insect attacks. However, during the cultivation process of the tobacco plant, the control mechanism somehow got lost and today´s modern tobacco plants as we use in our cigarettes do produce nicotine permanently. As such, it is a continuous nerve poisoning process all smokers are exposed to.

Besides nicotine most people are amazed to find out that there are more over 4000 (four thousand) other chemicals being released or produced when tobacco burns. Most of these substances are known to scientists only and have very obscure names (this is just how scientists are...). In following just a "short" list of the more familiar ones:

CADMIUM CARBON MONOXIDE CARBON DIOXIDE AMMONIA PROPANE METHANE METHANOL NICKEL COMPOUNDS BENZENE ISOPRENE HYDROGEN SULPHIDE ACREOLIN ACETONE HYDROCYANIC ACID HYDROGEN CYANIDE CREOSOL METHYL NITRATE NITROGEN OXIDE DDT PYRIDINE TAR FORMALDEHYDE BUTADIONE NICOTINE.... and so on!

Killing, isn´t it? And, seriously spoken: Yes it really is!

In addition to these chemicals that are released purely as a result of the dried tobacco leaf burning - there are various additional unfortunate substances that may be present as a result of the plantation environment and the conditions in which the harvested tobacco leaves are stored and shipped.

Ok, that's the bad news... but if you can make it and you do stop smoking... here are the benefits:

After 20 minutes:
Already after 20 minutes of your LAST cigarette your blood pressure drops to normal and temperature of hands and feet returns to normal. Reason is, that direct additional input and exposure of the nerve poison nicotine is now cut off.

After 8 hours:
Carbon monoxide levels in the blood drop back to normal and oxygen levels in the blood return to normal. Be reminded, this is already after 8 hours!

After 24 Hours:
One day after you´ve stopped your smoking habit, the chance and risk of heart attacks already begins to decrease. You´re not off the risk yet, but time starts working for you.

After 48 hours:
This is one of the phantastic miracles of our body, Already 2 days after you´ve stopped smoking, nerve endings (that have been destroyed by nicotine!!!) start to re-grow and the ability to smell and taste improves. But there is also a bad news and it is entirely up to you´re own will to overcome and manage this: your addiction to nicotine strongly starts to try to drive you back to your habit. No excuses! You MUST resist!

After 2 weeks:
2 weeks after you´ve stopped smoking your blood circulation starts to improve. Physical exercise including walking start becoming easier. Your lung function can increase by up to one third. Amazing to see and feel, how your body repairs itself. And what destruction the cigarettes had already done to your body!

Be careful and remain strong! Nicotine addiction will keep coming, and sometimes this can be very intense. Keep on going, do not take even a single cigarette. You have now processed so far, that it just makes no sense to look back. Note that your addiction will most probably continue to offend you for the next 2 - 4 month, depending on your previous smoking habits, the quantity of cigarettes you used to smoke and the time in years that you used to be a smoker.

And if your really want to stop smoking there is even more good news for you. If you have the desire, why not contact your local hypnotherapist. However make sure they are qualified, insured and experienced in smoking cessation therapy. Smoking therapies are not just easy going and I suggest you look for membership of at least one of the main UK Institutes and Associations, which include:

- British Institute of Hypnotherapy

- General Hypnotherapy Register (The Registering arm of the Hypnotherapy Standards Council)

- National Council for Hypnotherapy

- Association for Professional Hypnosis

- and the Psychotherapy Hypnotherapy Association

Ensure that your therapist has got a founded knowledge of the health risks to smoking as well as the relevant skills and experience to offer you a first class stop-smoking session. If you know anyone who gave up with Hypnotherapy, ask them for the details of their therapist.

If you live outside the UK, you should look for similar associations in your country. In case you prefer to try a home based therapy or simply cannot afford the therapy sessions, there are also some good courses and valuable ebooks available that can assist you to stop smoking.

Some of the good and comparably successful ones are:

Stop Smoking Right Now! 
Quit smoking courseware with an astonishing 90% success rate (success means, people using this guide who stopped smoking for good, which is what really counts). It´s nearly 200 US$, but it´s more than worth the price and I can definitely recommend this one.

Hypnosis to Change Your Life 
Self Hypnosis CDs and MP3 downloads. Available courses are Stop Smoking, Stop Drinking, Loose Weight, Confidence and Motivation and others. For some people this works and I must admit, the courses are nicely and professionally made and set up. If in the end this will work for you, you´ve to find out. However, be reminded these are online courses and you will have no real hypnotherapist available round the corner.

All of these are available for immediate online download directly after purchase!

If you prefer going for stop smoking patches I would recommend you to try to use Nicocure. Nicocure is very effective and has got a very high success rate. Another big advantage is, that it is a nicotine-free stop smoking patch. Therefore unless with many other stop smoking patches, Nicocure provides cut off from nicotine right from the beginning.

Use these patches, and most probably you simply will stop smoking within about 30 days. It is also a good idea to use Nicocure patches in order to support one of the above mental stop smoking therapies. Nicocure is made by a reputable US based company and delivers to every place all over the planet. Check out the Nicocure Home Page for details! 

Whatever method you prefer, in the end never forget the major player in the stop smoking final match will be you. You yourself. All to your success!

Allan Crisp

Alan Crisp DHP, is a Clinical Hypnotherapist in the UK. He is specialised in Stop Smoking Therapy, Stress Management and Trauma Resolutions. He is also a Motivational Trainer working with individuals as well as companies and organisations to help them detect and remove barriers and blockades to learning and growth.
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