Quitting Smoking - The Options

If you are a smoker who is looking at quitting smoking aids then you have a number of options. If you want to quit smoking you will find it extremely difficult without help:

Buy Electronic CigaretteIt is now easy to buy electronic cigarette starter packs and this might be the best way forward for you. The selling point of electronic cigarettes is that they cost less, create no harmful smoke and are cleaner. They can supply nicotine (at various levels) but this can gradually be reduced to zero. Whilst not actually helping you quit smoking the electronic cigarette allows you to satisfy the mental addiction in a way that is socially acceptable.

Physical Products To Relieve SymptomsThere are many prescription products available to help ease withdrawal symptoms and also some based on natural ingredients. Smoke Deter is an example of the latter which is a homoeopathic sublingual (applied under the tongue) spray used when necessary to control such symptoms.

Quit Smoking HypnosisOf all the methods of stopping smoking the one with the highest success rate is hypnosis. This is nothing like the stage acts where a hypnotist makes people do silly things. Here the treatment will only work if you really want to quit smoking and are prepared to do something about it.

The reason hypnosis is successful if that the major part of an addition to cigarettes is psychological rather than physiological. Of course there is a very strong physical addition to nicotine and in the first week or so the withdrawal symptoms may make it seem impossible to give up. But after that period it is the mental and emotional aspects of smoking that are the problem.

The problem is that your mind has come to unconsciously associate certain situations with smoking. This often includes drinking alcohol and many other social activities but can be simple things like settling down to watch TV. Quit smoking hypnosis aims to break these associations so that you do not crave cigarettes when they occur. It also helps to stay focused on the reasons why you wanted to quit in the first place which keeps motivation high. Hypnosis will help you train your unconscious mind to focus on the advantages of stopping smoking whilst combating the cravings to smoke and motivating you to stay committed to quitting.

Of course this cannot be achieved overnight and will require commitment from you.

Best Way ForwardAs mentioned above the key to quitting smoking is to really want to do it. You are unlikely to succeed if you are really doing it please your partner rather than yourself. However, if you are determined, quitting smoking does not have to be an agonizing process. You can use a physical product to help with the nicotine withdrawal symptoms and hypnosis to address the psychological addition. This should mean that you lose the cravings to smoke and remain a non-smoker long term.