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There are many options when you finally decide you want to quit smoking. Your choices range from hypnosis to prescription drugs. There are a few major things to consider when you make your decision.

What is Your Ultimate Goal? Is your reason for quitting a financial reason? Is it for health reasons? How quick do you want to quit the smoking habit.

What are You Willing to Pay? For many this is a top thing to consider. Drugs like nicotine patches can be expensive and take a long time to work. Hypnosis can work at a lower cost, and at a quicker rate for most people.

Do you want an Effective Method or One that may or may not work? There are some methods that may not work for some. Nicotine patches can be expensive and end up not working. Hypnosis can work well for many people, and have a lower cost.

You should carefully choose the best option based on cost, effectiveness, and your goal.

Fortunately Americans, smoking rates have shrunk by nearly half in three decades. Smoking is on the rise in the developing world but falling in developed nations. In the developing world, tobacco consumption is rising by 3.4 percent per year. According to the World Health Organization, between 80,000 and 100,000 kids world-wide start smoking every day. Approximately one quarter of children alive in the Western Pacific Region will die from smoking.  About a third of the male adult global population smokes and smoking-related diseases kill one in 10 adults globally, and by 2030 — if current trends continue — smoking will kill one in six people. Pretty sobering statistics, especially since smoking is the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death.

 

Don’t be a smoking statistic.  Take action now to stop smoking.  Make an appointment for a FREE consultation for smoking cessation with the hypnotist.

 

 

By JOANNE STOLEN
special to the daily

It is an unfortunate aspect of modern life that negative stress plays an increasing part in many peoples lives. Even the most laid back and chilled out people in the world experience negative stress and anxiousness once in a while.

However, it is helpful to know that your stress can be made to disappear with hypnosis. Use the following and enjoy the improvement in your stress levels.

As a starter – clarify precisely what positive change you want to make. More specifically, identify the “trigger’ for when you will feel this positive feeling This could be for example, when the boss walks into the office and you want to feel relaxed, or when you get up to deliver that crucial presentation.

It is crucial that you make sure the way you want to feel is something that you have felt previously so that you can easily recreate it.

– Tips for Going Under – Stage One

1. Maintain focus on a spot on the wall, keeping your head and eyes facing forward. Gradually allow yourself to notice the things either side

2. Ensure that you keep expanding your peripheral vision until you can see 180 degrees.

3. Allow yourself to notice any new sounds and to pay attention to the sensation of feeling your back against the chair, bed or floor

4. Now allow yourself to imagine a 360 degree picture of your surroundings whilst maintaining your focus on looking forward

– Tips for Going Under – Stage Two

5. Take a deep breath and hold, then exhale and let go of all tension. Repeat this process five times.

6. Allow your eyes and the muscles around them to completely relax. When fully relaxed close your eyes and maintain that relaxation.

7. Next – briefly open your eyes and each time you subsequently close them, instruct yourself to double your relaxation. Repeat this process five times.

8. Allow the whole of your body to increasingly relax and to become heavier and heavier.

* How to achieve your Goal

Whilst in this relaxed state you can communicate directly with your subconscious in order to achieve your desired goals.. Replay the desired scenario in your imagination and maintain a focus on the feeling of being totally assured.

Repetition is crucial – keep playing the desired scenario until it becomes second nature. See it, feel it , sense it – get a complete idea of everything that you would see and hear whilst reviewing the scenario. Visualise success calmness and competence throughout the scenario

* Waking up and coming back to base

To return to conscious awareness, begin to imagine a light on either side of the darkness accompanied by a cool breeze blowing over you. This should assist in your body beginning to gradually awaken step by step.

Now open your eyes and look around the room taking in all its details. Finish by allowing yourself a moment to really enjoy your new-relaxed attitude

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For those who would like to stop smoking, there are many methods out there. You can try laser treatment, acupressure, replacement therapy, etc. Hypnosis is, however, supposed to be the best. It does require great skill, but when used properly, it can produce wonderful results.

There are many practitioners using hypnosis to help their patients quit smoking. It is becoming a very accepted form of treatment, no longer something to whisper about or keep to yourself.

When we hear the word hypnosis , we start to wonder can I be hypnotised and would it work for me? Well, the answer is Yes!

Hypnosis cannot force you to do anything you don’t really want to do. It is simply a way to assist you in getting in touch with deeper layers of your psyche, but you are still in control of the entire process, even if you are not really conscious of it. It’s a well known fact that hypnosis can only be effective when the subject on some level (even if only subconsciously) agrees with the instructions given by the consulting hypnotist.

Let’s find out more about it, then. What is hypnosis? It is a way for us to relax our mind and focus on the one thing that is a problem to us, on our goal and the result we want to achieve.

Hypnosis helps us to relax and sink down to our unconscious, where the driving forces behind our habits lay. It helps us reprogram all the associations and beliefs, often totally irrational, which nevertheless have been directing our behavior for years.

Hypnosis can be done in two ways. We can either hypnotise ourselves or go to a professional. It is best if we first consult a professional consulting hypnotist, because self hypnosis requires a great deal of practice and patience. A consulting hypnotist will most likely suggest multiple sessions to help us stop smoking.

One of the fears people have when contemplating quitting smoking is that it will be terribly difficult and that the withdrawal symptoms will be hard to endure. And yet I have heard many stories where people quit from one day to the next and never even thought about it again. Their decision was so strong that there was no thought of cravings . This would suggest that the mental part of both smoking and quitting smoking is the key. And that the body will just follow. If the mind is undecided, the body will be torn by urges and withdrawal symptoms or cravings . And if the mind is very clear in what it wants, the body will suffer very minimal effects. Nicotine should leave the body within 3 or so days and there are many things you can do to minimize discomfort during that period.

Hypnosis helps us clear the mental pathways to making a clear and unequivocal decision. And once that decision is made, we don’t even need any external help. Many people have quit at this point without any external aids, and they have never gone back to smoking. Why? Because they didn’t want to. But that didn’t want to has to go all the way into the subconscious. It cannot be a shallow wishful thinking .

So give it a try! Quitting smoking does not have to be traumatic! It can be the beginning of a wonderful period in your life. Start looking forward to it already! Many people admit that going without nicotine for 72 hours is very doable. And that’s really all it takes for the physical side to not be a challenge anymore. And once the mental challenge has been met, you will be on your way to freedom.

Can you really “permanently” stop smoking? Yes you can if done properly.

There is a profound difference between a smoker who has stopped smoking and a non-smoker. The smoker courageously resists with their willpower having a cigarette, but the non-smoker can’t think of anything worse than putting poison in to their body by smoking.

You’ve probably heard people who have quit smoking 10 years ago still say “Every time I have a beer or coffee I still want a cigarette” – if you are trying to stop smoking those are very disheartening words to hear! But what method did they use to stop smoking.

It simply means they only quit smoking at a conscious level – that is, they deliberately and consciously decided to stop, and stopped, and their abstinence is sustained only through their will power. However, subconsciously, smoking is still an attractive prospect for them, and that is where smoking needs to be tackled.  When you stop with the subconscious mind it is much easier to maintain being a permanent non smoker vs. someone who stopped smoking and who still has the cravings and potentially the emotional desire to continue.
If you’re going to quit smoking, do it right!

There are a million and one ways to stop smoking – from nicotine patches and chewing gum, to tablets, lozenges, inhalers, stop smoking drugs. In addition, there are plenty of people out there willing to tell you how to stop smoking – how to stop smoking tips are everywhere. But they all miss one vital component – the subconscious mind.

If you are going to make the effort to free yourself from the terrible effects of smoking, why not do it right? Use a proper smoking cessation program that will leave you free of the desire to smoke.
Our Hypnosis Smoking Cessation Program

This program will help to gently move your mind from its current craving state to complete freedom from cigarettes.

You will no longer be controlled by the need to smoke. No more planning your day so you can smoke, no more running outside at work or at parties, no more worrying whether you have enough cigarettes left.

Smoking-cessation methods that treat smoking as an habit (nicotine patches, nicotine gum, and so on) have a very low success rate, acknowledged to be around 23%.

An effective treatment of smoking dependency must take into account this fact – that the smoker is not really an addict.
Yes, you heard right!

When many smokers are told during their smoking cessation program that they can keep smoking they are quite surprised:

“You continue to smoke while you progress through the program. You stop on the last session or when you don’t want to smoke anymore.”

Now, isn’t that easier on the smoker? Definitely! Does the smoker need to have extraordinary will power to break the habit? Of course not! By connecting the smoker with his/her sub-conscious he/she can identify the source of their habit, acknowledge it and then make the choice to stop smoking.
Consult Our Professional Hypnotist

For effective and permanent results, it is best that you consult and work with a qualified Professional Hypnotist. Such a professional is well trained in helping you with your smoking dependency.

Hypnosis Helps Stress Levels –

It’s been reported that Mel Gibson was treated by hypnotist Rick Collingwood about two weeks ago to help him deal with the recent stress he has been facing.

Stress is an increasingly common problem. The management of stress levels is vital for good health and hypnosis is a recognized approach in the management of stress.

Book your Free Consultation with Tamara for a stress assessment and to find out how hypnosis can help you lower your stress level significantly.

 

Many people wonder if hypnosis can work for pain control. Let’s discuss the nature of pain first. Being able to feel and sense pain is essential to our everyday survival. Pain alerts our brain to bodily insults and injuries, which may be internal (such as appendicitis or a sprain) or external (such as getting too close to fire). Our pain responses evolved to keep us out of harm’s way, to stop the actions that lead to bodily injury, and to preserve good health and our lives.

Since these physical injuries could be life-threatening, our pain signals send different levels of intensity so we can quickly recognize, assess a situation, and take immediate action as needed.

There are two types of pain:

Acute or new pain warns you that your body received an injury so you can stop doing whatever activity that caused the pain.

Chronic pain continues long after the pain signal has given the warning. Chronic pain lingers long after the physical problem has been treated medically, and the warning is no longer needed.  Arthritis or serious back Injuries are examples of chronic pain conditions.

The perception of pain has two parts:

First, there is the sensation of something uncomfortable happening to a specific part of your body. Second, there are your physical and emotional reactions to the signals of discomfort.

When we experience chronic pain cycle, we also begin to react emotionally to the stress. This leads to feelings of anxiousness, frustration, a sense of hopelessness, and fear that the pain will never stop. Over time, chronic pain leads to feelings of helplessness and sadness.

The pain cycle is like a mini-tornado spinning up out of control. The sensation of pain causes you to begin feeling stressed, and the increased stress causes you body to tighten up. In turn, this causes you to feel more stress, fear and anxiousness, which produces even more stress and tension. Pain becomes a vicious cycle, often affecting our ability to sleep, which further affects our energy and our ability to cope and recover.

Hypnosis allows you to enter a state of profound mental and physical relaxation. The pain cycle is interrupted, and your body and mind returns to a more relaxed state. You can regain control of your life.

My approach to using hypnosis for natural pain control and pain relief is initially to guide you into a pleasant and comfortable state of comfort. With hypnosis and its deep relaxation, you’ll learn exercises in self-hypnosis and self-relaxation that will meet your individual needs. Together, we can explore different methods and techniques of coping with your discomfort that can lead you to feeling more pain free.

 

Medical Referral Needed for Physical and/or Mental Illness or Disease.

 

 

The holidays are a wonderful time of year that can also turn into stress related issues like financial worries, sleepless nights, anxiousness, fear, and sadness. Between the joyous times with friends, you also have a list of holiday decorating, planning parties, family get-togethers, shopping and exchanging those perfect gifts. Do you wish there was a natural way to effectively stop the stress and anxiousness and enjoy the holidays. There is – through hypnosis.

Hypnosis is something we all experience, though we don’t call it by that name. Think to a time you were deeply involved in a TV program and didn’t hear the phone ringing or people around you. That is similar to what you would experience in hypnosis. It’s a state of relaxation and focused concentration.

It is a highly effective method for reducing emotional issues, such as stress, anxiousness and fear. Hypnosis helps to relax your mind and body by reducing the effects of the emotional stressors from past holiday experiences. Your hypnotist will guide you into a deep trance state of complete relaxation.

You will also learn self-hypnosis to learn how to handle these difficult situations. In between sessions, you can use it to help yourself reduce overwhelming feelings. The more you practice, the more effective and easier it becomes.

Think about your list of things to do this week. What tops your list? Most of us plan our week by packing the extra holiday activities amid our regular must-do things, like work, school, housework and family. It becomes overwhelming. Your thoughts might turn to how you’ll get everything finished. You start worrying about money for gifts or dreading the obligatory office party.

When you think of your holiday plans, what makes you instantly stressed? Everyone experiences stress, and a little of it motivates us to complete tasks. If you feel continuing stress over a prolonged period, your body continues to react. Instead of inspiring you to finish tasks, you feel overwhelmed. Extended stress puts your physical and mental well-being at risk. The good news is that you can reduce it so you feel better.

It’s important to put yourself at the top of your to-do list. Make your well-being a priority. Find a trained hypnotist to help you reduce stress. Practice self-hypnosis on a daily basis. If you can manage the stress, you will have more energy and a positive mindset. Isn’t that a better way to experience the holidays? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to enjoy this time of year?

If you’re overwhelmed right now, visit St. Petersburg Hypnosis Center for free information on how hypnosis can reduce holiday stress.