How To Quit Smoking Easily and Permanently.

It is a sad fact that most of the common quit smoking techniques offered today either do not work at all or they only work for a limited time. The reason for this failure is that many methods such as patches, the various pharmaceutical drugs, nicotine gum etc focus solely on the physical side of the smoking addiction. In reality this is but an extremely small part of the whole smoking problem, and it is accepted by many researchers into the smoking problem to be as little as 5% of the whole issue.


A lot of people try going down this physical product road and fail to quit smoking and beat themselves up about it saying things "I am just weak" or "I just don't have enough willpower to stop". Don't beat yourself up about your failure to stop smoking using these methods. It is not your fault that you have not succeeded, you have just not been going about quitting smoking the correct way.

The real reason why so many people can't stop smoking is not the physical addiction to nicotine at all, it is actually psychological. The problem is really caused by a conflict between the two parts of the human mind, the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. On a conscious level you want to quit smoking, you have had enough of it, it doesn't fit in with your lifestyle anymore, you know how detrimental it is to your health, you don't even enjoy it any more, yet for some reason despite all these very compelling reasons to stop smoking, you just can't do it, it's too hard, and you just do not have the willpower. The reason you are unable to quit smoking is in the subconscious part of the mind.

The subconscious part of the mind is the more powerful part of your mind by far, it is also very stubborn and does not like change. Unfortunately in this stubborn and dominant part of your mind you have beliefs about smoking, and those beliefs are that smoking gives you something, a positive benefit of some kind. The most common perceived benefits that many smokers can relate too are stress relief, relaxation, relief from boredom, help to focus, and help to feel more confident socially. Many smokers also see smoking as a reward, an excuse for some much needed time out and even as an old friend that is always there for you.

Because subconsciously you hold one or more commonly a number of these beliefs, this causes a battle of wills between the two parts of the mind, when you try and quit smoking. A lot of smokers describe this conflict as like having a good angel sitting on one shoulder and a little devil sitting on the other, or like having two conflicting voices having an argument inside their mind. There is no good or evil involved, this is simply a battle between your conscious willpower and your subconscious programming and unfortunately because your subconscious mind is the dominant of the two minds it will win this battle of wills every time.

So what is the solution? Well the only really permanent way to quit smoking is to effectively reprogram your subconscious mind, and get it working with you rather than struggling against you, which is what it is doing currently.

This can be best achieved by a combination of hypnosis and NLP which if done correctly will eliminate the beliefs from your subconscious mind which are sabotaging you and effectively "reprogram" your subconscious thinking so that you "think, act feel and believe as a non smoker".
The good news is that once you "think, act, feel and believe as a non smoker" guess what... you are a non smoker, and when you make change at that core subconscious level those changes are permanent, and you can get on with your life free of the smoking habit forever.

The best way to find someone who can assist you in quitting is to find a trained hypnotherapist who is also a Neuro Linguistic Programming practitioner. It is this joint skillset that offers the smoker the best chance of success in quitting smoking permanently.