The Quick & Easy Way to Stop Smoking

HYPNOSIS

The Quick & Easy Way to Stop Smoking

Participant’s Guide

IMPORTANT: Read this booklet as if your life

Depends on it – because it does!

The Quit-Smoking Program of

The National Guild

of

Hypnotists

QUIT SMOKING THROUGH HYPNOSIS

Congratulations! You’re about to do one of the best things you can do for yourself and the people around you: Stop smoking. By quitting smoking, you will have conquered a powerful addiction – probably the most serious, self-imposed threat that now exists to your own well-being.

You’re aware of the dangers that smoking poses to your health in the years ahead. You’re also aware that smoking is becoming increasingly non-acceptable socially. Smoking is no longer the fashionable thing to do. Where once it was considered glamorous, macho, and sexy to smoke, today there is social pressure not to smoke!

Even if there wasn’t any health risk, smoking still is an offensive, useless habit, wasteful of both time and money.

GETTING READY TO QUIT

Before you quit smoking you need to make up your mind that you really want to quit. The success of this program is based in part on the depth of your commitment to quit. You’ve got to tell yourself: I will quit smoking and there will be no circumstances in which I will ever go back to smoking. If you tried to quit before and went back to smoking, don’t worry, through hypnosis you’ll stop smoking for good. Once of the success secrets of those who have quit smoking is that they quit on a specific day. For you, that day is set. You set it when you made a decision to participate in this program. The day of your Quit-Smoking Program is the day that you will quit. Mark it on your calendar. Did you mark your calendar? Great!

You’ve made up your mind you’re going to quit smoking. Just like that. You’ve marked the date on your calendar; the day you will quit smoking forever. Regardless of how long you’ve smoked or how many cigarettes you smoke, you'll quit smoking because you’ll be doing it through hypnosis—the method that above all others, reaches and activates the subconscious mind and its tremendous power to act on suggestion. Once your subconscious is contacted and directed on a set course, it does not deviate from it.

Hypnosis is a simple, and effective method of breaking free from the bonds of your smoking habit. It is completely safe and medically approved. Contrary to what many people believe, in hypnosis your won’t go to sleep. Nor will you be unconscious or in any way out of control. Instead, you will experience a sense of well –being, safety, and comfort that you may never have known.

HOW YOUR INNER MIND HELPS YOU

Your conscious mind is relatively weak. It changes continuously. It creates many excused why you should not stop. It says to you: “You’ve been smoking too long to stop, you deserve at least this small pleasure, you don’t really smoke so much, you can cut down instead, and so on and so on”.

But your subconscious mind is strong. It has great will-power. It is the main stabilizing force you possess. Once it is set on a certain course of action, it rarely lets you vary from it. The only truly effective way to reach your subconscious mind is through hypnosis. Hypnosis will tap the great will-power of your subconscious mind. Hypnosis will convince it that smoking is bad for you. When that is done, you can stop with ease and never long for a smoke again.

Hypnosis will empower you to change your beliefs about yourself. You’ll feel a new sense of approval and self-confidence. It allows you to believe that you have the ability to stop smoking. And you will, because you can do what you believe you can do.

You will stop smoking for good, and never smoke again. The iron grip of your subconscious mind will be activated and directed, through the pleasant and relaxing method of hypnosis, to free you from all desire to smoke.

MAKE QUITTING A POSITIVE DECISION

Your commitment to stop smoking and never resume, has to be total before you commence hypnosis. This is the only requirement for participation in this Quit-Smoking Program. Merely wanting to stop smoking, is not enough. You must unreservedly commit yourself to stop smoking now. If you sincerely do that, then your victory over smoking is certain.

HEALTH BENEFITS OF QUITTING

If you still have some lingering doubts, as to whether you really want to stop smoking…it will help to review the dangers of smoking to your health. They are so serious that once fully aware of them, no thinking person will want to continue to inflict this terrible damage on one’s self.

The addictive agent in tobacco, nicotine, works through one of the body’s major neurotransmitter systems. It thus quickly impairs nerve signal conduction, memory and other critical functions of this system. It also binds rapidly to the disease-fighting white blood cells which carry it to practically all of the body tissues. And along with it are carried the over 200 toxic substances that have now been identified in tobacco. A number of elements in tar are carcinogenic – that is, they produce cancer. These substances permeate your body and adversely affect its ability to deal with any physical condition.

The Surgeon General’s Report states: Cigarette smoking is the major single cause of cancer death in the United States.

The large increase in women smokers in recent years has been reflected in a tragic rise of lung cancer in women. Since 1986 it has replaced breast cancer as the leading cancer killer of women. Smoking during pregnancy greatly increases the chances of miscarriage and premature birth. More of their babies die soon after birth than those of nonsmoking mothers. A woman on contraceptive pills who also smokes, has a 10 times normal risk of heart attack and 20 times normal risk of a disabling stroke.

Lung cancer, which has a cure rate of less than 10 percent, and emphysema, which cripples the lungs and is irreversible it its effects, are diseases directly linked to smoking. Heart attacks and hardening of the arteries with resulting strokes, are other conditions caused by the continuous poisoning of your body by smoking. On the average, a two-pack-a-day smoker shortens life expectancy by 8 years; a one-pack-a-day smoker by 4 years. Smokers develop chronic coughs, wheezing, discolored skin and teeth, inability to taste food flavors, and a whole series of neurological disorders, even if they escape the more severe killing or disabling effects. And for the means of inflicting this damage on themselves, they pay several thousand dollars a year; money that would otherwise be available to meet needs or to buy healthy pleasures.

Why, in heaven’s name, does ANYONE want to keep on doing this?

It is because nicotine is one of the most addictive substances in existence. You may have started smoking on a whim, or because you thought it made you look grown-up and smart, or because you believed what the tobacco advertisements said about its relaxing and soothing you in moments of tension. (The tobacco companies haven’t the slightest interest in your health, or what you do to it. Their only interest is in bigger sales and making more money). You may have thought you could stop whenever you wanted to. Only to find out that you couldn’t because nicotine instills in your body cells a craving for it.

That is a very important thing to understand. If you’ve tried to quit smoking on your own, and failed, it does not mean that you are a person of weak will, a wimp, unable to take charge of your own life and destiny. The fact that you have made a commitment to participate in this program is clear evidence that you do have both determination and the will to turn things around – to free yourself from addiction to nicotine and to achieve a smoke-free, healthy life. But you need help to do it – and hypnosis will give you that help. And if you are sincere in your commitment to quit, through hypnosis you will be free forever from any relapse into the grip of smoking.

IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO QUIT SMOKING

No matter how long or how much you’ve smoked, when you stop smoking, the body starts regenerating. Even if you are a heavy-smoker of long standing, it is still possible to undo much of the damage that smoking had done to your body. After one year of not smoking, the risk of heart attack for the average person drops to about the same level as that for an individual who has never smoked. After five to ten years of abstinence from smoking, the risk of lung cancer drops to approximately the same as that of a life-long non-smoker. The overall death rate for people who have abstained for ten years or longer, is only slightly higher than that of people who have never smoked.

So you would be foolish to throw up your hands and say “It’s too late to change now, it wouldn’t improve my chances of survival any.” It isn’t too late and your odds of survival are still all in your favor if you make the commitment to stop smoking. Make it as firmly and irrevocably as you know how. You must come to the session prepared to quit. If you are truly committed to success, you will succeed. That is an absolutely essential step. And then hypnosis will make it easy, freeing you from cravings and anxiety.

Hypnosis has been widely and effectively proven over the last thirty years, as a means of empowering people to stop smoking quickly and permanently. Hundreds of companies sponsor hypnosis seminars for their employees who want to quite smoking. Over a million persons have already freed themselves from slavery to smoking, through the help of hypnosis.

Decide now to join them. Be happier and healthier for the rest of your life, which your decision will help to lengthen. With hypnosis you’ll fulfill that commitment, and quit smoking easily and comfortably.

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