Stopping smoking is not as simple as deciding to change your habits. Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known to mankind. Some would say that it is more addictive than heroin. There are very good reasons for this. Nicotine is a drug that you can take and still function. As a matter of fact, until you figure out a good strategy of quitting, you can probably function even better on cigarettes. Whilst smoking, you can more easily concentrate on your work or study, you can be calm when you need calming and stimulated when you need stimulating, you can control your eating, you can relax and be sociable on social occasions, you can enjoy an alcoholic drink and remain in control, you can sleep more easily and awaken more cheerfully; no wonder so many people smoke! Smoking works, that is why you do it. However, now you have reached the stage where smoking is no longer a solution for you. Smoking has now become a problem.

So how do you prepare to stop smoking? With an open mind and a willing heart. Let me illustrate. An open mind does not mean saying that you want to quit smoking. An open mind involves acceptance that there are emotional reasons why a smoker smokes. A willing heart means the willingness to let go of these negative emotions that are holding you back.

There is a new technique called EFT which has the power to completely free you from these negative emotions. Once these are totally released from your system, you will have no desire to smoke whatsoever. But this presents some smokers with a challenge. When doing EFT, we sometimes, and only fleetingly, briefly feel an emotion as it finds its way out of our body. We may temporarily get tears or sadness, for example. And smoking is an addiction. And an addiction is a way of avoiding feeling uncomfortable emotions. So the first thing you need to prepare for is facing up to some discomfort. If you do choose to use EFT for quitting, this discomfort is very minimal.

As you may already know, if you want to accomplish something, you need to think it first. Our thoughts become our reality. So to prepare for quitting smoking, you need to stop thinking like an addict and start thinking like a non-addict. When you start thinking like a non-addict, you will start behaving like a non-addict and naturally become a non-addict. A non-addict will admit to negative emotions and find a way to get rid of them. Choose to be ready to let go. That is all the preparation you need. Really want it from the bottom of your heart. You can be pleasantly surprised how good you can feel as a true non-smoker.

More more people are becoming free from addiction each day with EFT. You can learn EFT free online and do the tapping yourself. You can purchase a script, subscription or book for more specific guidance. Or you can engage the services of an experienced practitioner.

So now you know how you can quit and how to prepare for quitting. The next step is to choose which EFT option is best for you. Enjoy becoming a non-smoker!

© Suzanne Zacharia 2010. Complementary and alternative health education and empowerment is my passion. My name is Suzanne Zacharia and I am committed to empowering people to take control of their health and wellness. A virus caught along with 5 other students at university at the end of 1986, plus medical negligence, meant that I got smokers lung at a relatively young age. In desperation for help with my symptoms and quality of life, I turned to complementary therapy, and this is beyond a decade that I have outlived one doctor’s prognosis. I am now a complementary therapist, author and trainer. My big passion is to to help others stop smoking, as in my http://www.stop-smoking-ebooks.com

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Hypnosis is about communicating with the part of your mind that stores all of your feelings as well as habitual behaviors. That is your subconscious mind. Combine that with the fact that most people smoke either because of habit or because of emotions, and you can probably see how a tool that can access both of those parts of you can be so very effective.

Let me talk about your feelings for a moment. Feelings are a way of communicating things. In fact your subconscious tells you things with your feelings. That is one of the ways the subconscious communicates with you, through your feelings.

Take something like sadness, that is your subconscious telling you that you lost something or somebody. Maybe you are asking, so what good is that? Well, it is your subconscious mind looking to rectify the situation by nudging you along to go and find what it is that you lost or replace it. Because it is something that your subconscious has figured you must need. So it is a protective measure.

Now hypnosis, being that powerful agent for communicating with your subconscious, can go in there and change your feeling responses. The mistaken previous programming or outdated responses. That would be the programming that you mistakenly installed when you decided to become a smoker.

How does that figure into the smoking habit? Well one example is, if you have been smoking for awhile, you probably have quite a number of emotions connected to smoking. Some you might be aware of and others that you are completely oblivious to. If you started smoking when you were a teenager and were hanging around with a bunch of friends that were also smoking, then you have connected all those good and exciting times of being a rebellious teen right along with smoking cigarettes. So every time you light up you get all those positive feelings along with the cigarette.

The good news is that you are not locked into those responses. And you can change them so that you feel differently when you light up. And you can use all those good feelings in a much more effective manner. The only thing that you are lacking is the knowledge of how to change. And that is because nobody ever taught you about your emotions. In fact you were probably told to avoid feeling a certain way. The typical response to a boy child crying is to grow up…become a man! And a girl child that gets angry is told that being angry is unladylike. What is that telling you? That your feelings mean nothing and you can control them with just your thoughts. Well that just is not so.

So with hypnosis to quit smoking you will learn how to really control your emotions properly and develop the healthy habits of a nonsmoker.

Are you tired of the quitting and smoking cycle and are you now ready to quit for good? I invite you to learn how to use hypnosis to quit smoking for free. All the information you need to regain control is in my free ebook, stop smoking hypnotherapy. There are techniques that could help you to use self hypnosis to stop smoking on your own. It’s available at HypnoticState.com.

It’s the same information that was published in the book I co-wrote, Real World Hypnosis, Insider Tips From Leading Hypnotists, that’s for sale on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other booksellers.

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Please consider the following list as an outline for an argument against those who think the ill-effects of smoking are just made-up diatribe used to take a person’s right away from them.

1. Lung Cancer

An estimated 90% of all lung cancer is related to smoking. One would think, that should be enough to convince someone to stop smoking. But many may hear this message for the first time after they’ve already smoked for 40 years. They may think they are past the point of stopping smoking. However, studies have shown a reduced risk for lung cancer when people stop smoking. For those who quit smoking for 10 years, the risk is 30-50% less than current smokers. Also, if you have quit for 15 years, the risk may be 80-90% less than current smokers.

2. Cardiovascular

A literature review found a reduction of coronary heart disease risk by 36% in people who had stopped smoking.This is a slightly better risk reduction for the heart than is seen with other heart disease interventions such as taking cholesterol lowering medications or aspirin. So, for those who smoke and take a statin drug, why not lower your risk another 30% or so and stop smoking?

3. Lung Disease

Studies also show the progression of lung disease (COPD/emphysema) is slowed after someone stops smoking. The earlier the smoker quits, the less damage they’ll have. This translates to a better quality of life with less dependence on medications and therapy. This would include using inhalers, nebulizers, oxygen and perhaps even non-invasive ventilation (CPAP). The key here is the debilitating lifestyle seen in people who suffer from COPD. Often they do not leave their house, rely on others for activities of daily living like bathing, cooking, etc. Interestingly, for those who smoke and cough a lot, former smokers also report less coughing and phlegm (mucous) after one year.

4. Pregnancy

Nicotine has extremely negative affects on the baby as it is easily transmitted through the mother’s bloodstream. It is also carried in the breast milk of a nursing mom. Their unborn child gets the best stop smoking benefit. Women who smoke typically have lower birth-weight babies (less than 5.5 lbs), and those babies are 2-3 times more likely to die from SIDS than babies born to non-smokers. When babies are born too early, they may be developmentally and physically challenged. Finally, smoking can double your risk for bleeding too much during delivery. This puts both you and your baby at risk.

5. Oral Hygiene

Everybody wants that Hollywood smile; perfectly white teeth, healthy gums and a winning set of chompers. Isn’t life great when you don’t have to worry about your teeth. Who dreads going to the dentist when they know a lot of work has to be done? I know I do. Well, smoking can have tremendous affects on periodontal health. Oral lesions can quickly turn cancerous if not detected early. Oral cancer is a growing concern for many dental professionals and has become a priority for the American Academy of Periodontology. Smoking also worsens tooth decay and periodontal disease, as well as, causes stains and offensive breath. Treatment plans that involve periodontal surgery are exacerbated by the slow healing times found in smokers. Luckily, smoking and other tobacco cessation results in immediate oral health benefits, such as reduction in oral cancer rates and periodontal disease.

Here are just 5 benefits to stop smoking. We haven’t even touched on the many other benefits. In fact, we have 66 reasons to stop smoking listed on our website for those who are still not convinced.

Don’t be a statistic, get the stop smoking help you need to make the best decision of your life. Find information on all the stop smoking aids, how to stop withdrawal cravings and maybe even find other resources that will help you to finally stop smoking.

Tim Frymyer is a licensed respiratory therapist who is dedicated to keeping the public up-to-date on the latest stop smoking information at his website stopsmokinghelper.org.

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* 90% of all lung cancer deaths in men

* 80 % of all lung cancer deaths in women

* 90% of deaths from chronic obstructive lung disease

So what! You can live your life in comfort until you get one of those diseases. No big deal right? I know that’s probably not really you talking, at least right now. You’re reading this so you’re searching for solutions and answers. But you might have had that kind of cavalier attitude at one time. Stick with me here because there’s a happy ending.

What about respiratory problems. You know you might not immediately die from a respiratory problem. You might be inconvenienced. So when your kids or grand kids are running around you might not be able to keep up. Maybe you won’t be able to walk up a flight of stairs to use the bathroom because you can’t breath from the exertion.

So what are the respiratory problems you get from smoking? Well I did mention that smoking causes lung cancer. Smoking also causes:

* Emphysema

* Bronchitis

* Chronic airway obstruction

And these problems will stay with you. We need to breath in order to survive. When you develop a respiratory problem it stays with you all the time. Think about how many times a minute you breath in and breath out. Right now you probably don’t have to be conscious of it. It happens 12 – 20 times per minute. And when you have trouble breathing your focus becomes forced to your breathing. You will have difficulty focusing on anything else. And if you have to lug around an oxygen tank with you everywhere, well that’s a whole new level of involvement in your breathing.

Now compare that to the side effect of withdrawal that’s reported by some smokers who quit:

* Irritability

* Difficulty concentrating

* Insomnia

* Restlessness

I think if you are forced to focus on your breathing 12-20 times a minute, you will have extreme difficulty concentrating, wouldn’t you? And how can you sleep if you can’t breath? Do you think that would make you irritable? Do you think you’d be restless if you couldn’t breath? You probably wouldn’t be able to take much action if you were restless though.

So if you are putting off quitting smoking because you don’t want to experience the side effects of quitting, think about the side effects of not quitting. You aren’t going to escape the side effects by avoiding quitting. You’re just going to put them off until there’s nothing you can do about them and they won’t go away until you’re dead.

Here’s the happy ending. First off, not every smoker goes through the withdrawal and I’ll tell how some people don’t have withdrawal in a moment. Even if you tried to quit and felt the withdrawal you aren’t locked into feeling it every time you quit. And even if you do have a withdrawal feeling it’s only temporary. It lessens and goes away in time. Unlike the problems you’ll have if you develop a disease as a result of your smoking.

People who don’t feel the withdrawal have associated the early onset of those withdrawal sensations with a pleasant feeling of some kind. Every feeling we have develops over time. As the first inkling of that feeling starts, even before we are consciously aware of the feeling, we can develop a more positive response. And that’s how to avoid feeling withdrawal altogether.

And I invite you to learn how to use hypnosis to quit smoking for free. Avoid withdrawal from smoking completely. All the information you need to regain control is in my free ebook, stop smoking hypnotherapy. There are techniques that could help you to use self hypnosis to stop smoking on your own. It’s available at HypnoticState.com.

It’s the same information that was published in the book I co-wrote, Real World Hypnosis, Insider Tips From Leading Hypnotists, that’s for sale on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other booksellers.

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Just about every smoker on the planet has managed to quit smoking for days, weeks and months. But how do you stay quit from smoking for good? How do you manage to go that stage further than the last time you tried to stop.

I have quit smoking on four occasions now but I have finally managed to stay quit for 13 months and I tell you, it feels great. I have not thankfully become one of those annoying anti-smoking ex-smokers because I understand the mind of a real smoker, understand the pleasure a person gets from smoking and so I cannot possibly criticize anyone who smokes. What I can say though is that once you have stayed quit for over 6 months it becomes much easier and you actually don not think about it as often.

So how did I quit and stay quit once and for all? Well I took some advice of a friend who quit about three years ago.

He recommended that I detox my lungs as soon as possible. This is not pleasant and lasts about a week. The detox is not painful or anything but if I were to say that you actually see what a mess is inside your lungs first hand, then I think you get what I am talking about.

What it does is fast track the breakdown, and removal of toxins that have collected in your lungs over the period of time that you have been smoking. Once you are rid of these toxins then your body removes the physical cause of craving for a cigarette and just leaves you to cope with the mental side. Stopping smoking is a much easier thing to deal with once the physical cravings have been removed and you will find that even after a few days your getting a more positive outlook on life and a belief that you can stay stopped.

The funny thing is I actually remember hearing about this remedy many years ago, probably in my teens, so it has clearly been around for a while so I imagine many people have stopped and managed to stay quit from smoking over the years using this method.

Good luck with quitting smoking and I hope you begin feeling the benefits very soon.

Here is the lung detox plan I used. As I said, it is not very pleasant for few days at the beginning so make sure you have plenty of tissues at hand. It does work though: LUNG DETOX

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