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How to Get Someone to Quit Smoking
Smoking cigarettes is extremely addictive and hazardous to the health of not only the smoker, but to the people around them as well. The addictiveness of cigarettes can be compared to being addicted to heroin, so getting someone to quit is not going to be an easy task.

There are several ways to try to get someone to quit smoking, all will take patience and understanding and most will likely take more than one try to be successful. This article will discuss several methods of trying to convince someone to quit smoking, including behavioral therapy, intervention, the response to the intervention, a quit plan and social factors such as public smoking restrictions.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Cognitive Behavior Therapy, or CBT, is a psychotherapy technique that focuses on negative thoughts and emotions towards smoking and developing new ways to think about them. For example; when someone says “I need a cigarette,” the habit can be altered to “I need some gum.”

Some of the more negative thoughts that people have when trying to quit are related to the anxiety of relapse. CBT teaches the smoker to think of a relapse as a good first try on the way to the next attempt. This strategy basically takes the negative feelings about failing (relapse) and turns them into a positive.
There are other techniques that use CBT in order to help change the ways that smoking is perceived in the mind.
Some of these are:
- Education – Being educated on the dangers of smoking and all of the methods available to quit can help the person realize their different options and how necessary quitting is.
- Using a Diary – This action will allow people to remember when, where, or with whom they felt like having a cigarette and then avoid those situations in the future. The same can be done when they felt good and did not want a cigarette so those situations can be repeated.
- Environments – Realizing the certain places and times when a cigarette is wanted can be helpful in avoiding them in the future.
- Social Situations – By having friends and family that smoke, it makes it harder to quit. Being surrounded by nonsmokers in nonsmoking places greatly reduces the chances of a relapse
- Exercise – Exercising can take the focus off of quitting smoking. Changing exercise into a positive will keep the mind busy and also helps cleanse the body of nicotine
Keeping a positive attitude on the journey of quitting smoking is an integral part to leading a smokefree life permanently.

Intervention

Intervention involves “one on one” interview type sessions with a doctor or nurse. They will discuss the reasons for the person smoking, benefits of quitting, effects on friends and family, and other factors related to smoking cessation. This method is similar to CBT in that the smoker has the same options but can consult with a qualified medical professional. The doctor will make a series of decisions for the smoker based on how they are responding to group therapy, individual therapy, or starting Nicotine Replacement Therapies (NRT’s). A doctor can also prescribe medication if they see fit. The doctor will judge the best method to be used for each individual smoker based on their unique needs.

Response to Intervention

The response to intervention will depend on each individual. What happens after the intervention is up to the smoker. The individual must choose to follow the doctor’s instructions or risk relapse.

The doctor will take every step to ensure that the individual will remain smoke-free. Some of these steps include:
- Does the smoker want to quit? – The answer must be yes in order to proceed with a medical doctor’s consultation
- Start with an intensive support program – Group or individual counselling sessions
- Does the smoker want pharmacological assistance? – If no, continue with counseling. If yes, they can start on NRT treatments such as patches or gums
- Are they remaining smoke-free? – If yes, periodical reviews with the doctor. If no, offer pharmaceutical options
Creating a Quit Plan

For smokers who know they want to quit but are scared or just not sure how, creating a quit plan is a very useful tool to assist in quitting smoking. Some of the items that should be on a quit smoking plan include:
- Quit Date – Setting a quit date is the first step in a quitting plan.
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy – Using CBT to change everyday habits of the smoker is an essential start to quitting smoking.
- Support – Making a list or plan of people who will be supportive is also a great way to keep the individual focused on the end goal of being smoke-free for life.
- Professional Help – Keeping an open mind about using a professional, such as Clinical Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy, should also be in the plan.
- NRT – Using Nicotine Replacement Therapy is a very common way to quit smoking. NRT’s such as patches and gums gradually reduce the nicotine level ingested into the body with the hope that eventually none will be needed.
Public Smoking Restrictions

With all of the restrictions now in place on smoking in public places (bars, restaurants, casinos, and most public areas) there is no better time to convince people to quit smoking. Not being able to join in certain social situations or having to go outside several meters away from any door for a smoke break and miss out on conversation, is a motivation to smoking that can be used to get someone to quit.

The same goes for the workplace. Productivity goes down if the employees have to go down 16 floors and stand outside for 10 minutes every 2 hours. Any or all of these factors can be used as an influence to help someone decide to quit smoking.

Clinical Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy

Getting someone to quit smoking can be an arduous task. Someone who has smoked cigarettes for some time will most likely be highly addicted to them and will have a hard time letting go of this dangerous habit. Using the techniques in this article, there will be a higher chance of getting someone to quit smoking.
If that person does decide to quit smoking, Clinical Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy is one of the most effective ways to do it.

Joseph R. Giove is a certified Clinical Hypnotist with over 30 years of experience in his field. He uses no chemicals or carcinogens to help quit smoking, only the power of the mind. By gently altering brain patterns, the individual will no longer crave cigarettes and may even come to despise them. After convincing someone to quit smoking, advise them that Clinical Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy is one of the safest and best options for a smoke-free life.
June 16, 2016
How to Quit Smoking Cold Turkey
Smoking nicotine is very dangerous to a person’s health in a variety of ways. Cigarettes can cause emphysema, bronchitis, stroke, heart disease, many types of cancer, and other fatal diseases. They are also extremely addictive, comparable to being addicted to heroin. This makes quitting smoking very difficult, but it can be done.

This article will discuss the origins of the phrase “cold turkey,” the side effects, tricks and tips for quitting, and how Joseph R. Giove and Clinical Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy is the best option to assist in quitting smoking cold turkey.

Quitting Cold Turkey and Other Options

There are many different options to quitting smoking. Most involve a means of slowly weaning the smoker off nicotine in incremental doses over a period of time. These products include patches, gums, lozenges, and prescribed pills. All of these products have a marginal success rates and are dependant on the individual and how hard they are willing to work. If a person believes they have this work ethic and strong will they might try a method called the ‘cold turkey’ method.

The official definition of cold turkey is “the abrupt and complete cessation of taking a drug to which one is addicted.”

This is one of the more popular methods of quitting smoking, at least for the first time quitters, because it is free and many people are certain they are able to simply stop.

The Origin of “Cold Turkey”

There have been a couple of people throughout history who have been credited with coining the phrase “cold turkey”.

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and the Thesaurus, the first use of the phrase ‘cold turkey’ was in 1921 in the Daily Columnist in British Columbia, Canada referring to ‘pitiful’ patients who voluntarily surrendered themselves to a doctor for an ailment and then “are given what is called the ‘cold turkey’ treatment.”

Another reference to “cold turkey” comes from from a book published in 1978 called ‘Cop Speak: The Lingo of Law Enforcement and Crime’, using it to describe when a person goes through withdrawals their skin becomes cold and clammy like that of a refrigerated turkey.

Whatever the actual etymology of the phrase, it has come to be known in the smoking and drug world as stopping a habit immediately and facing whatever consequences may come.

Side Effects of Quitting Cold Turkey

The cold turkey method is one of the most popular for quitting smoking. However, it can also be the most uncomfortable in terms of withdrawal symptoms. People give their brains a certain amount of nicotine when they smoke and if they decide to quit cold turkey, the sudden drop causes nicotine withdrawals. Depending on the person, these withdrawals can be mild to quite severe. Some of these symptoms include:
- Depression
- Fatigue
- Headaches
- Irritability
- Constipation
- Sweating
- Coughing
- Increased Appetite
- Intense Tobacco Cravings
Tips and Tricks to Quitting Cold Turkey

While quitting smoking is hard using any method, the cold turkey method can be one one of the hardest and most uncomfortable in terms of withdrawals. That is the bad news. The good news is that these withdrawal symptoms are usually short lived. Even the longest lasting of all symptoms are shorter than when using other methods such as patches or gum.

There are some tips and tricks that smokers trying the cold turkey method can use to make the journey less painful:
- Pick an end date – Set a firm date and smoke up until then, then stop
- Choosing a date – Try to pick a day such as the last day of work or school, any day before a break in a schedule
- Avoid any place where people are smoking – The cravings will be starting to get more intense and avoiding smokers will be key
- Keep the mind positive – Indulging in books, TV shows, etc will keep the mind off of smoking
- Try to sleep more – Sleeping relaxes the mind and body, while also being a time when smoking is not an option
- Keep the hands active – The hands are familiar with the action of putting a cigarette to the mouth. Keeping them active will help remove the need make the motion
- Keep the mouth active – As with the hands, the mouth and lips are used in the repetitive action of smoking. Chewing gum is usually the most effective
- Keep lots of non-alcoholic drinks around – Thirst is part of the withdrawal process and the more fluids consumed, the faster the nicotine is flushed from the system
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The reason that an end date for quitting smoking should be close to time off from work or school is that irritability is a large factor for smokers who quit cold turkey. Finding a place of comfort to spend some time away from frustrating situations and people is essential for the first few days.

Many people find themselves getting upset and irrational at things that they normally would not be and projecting that anger on co-workers, friends, and family is not going to be good for anyone. However, a close friend who understands and that can be yelled at can be beneficial too!

Clinical Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy

The aforementioned tricks and tips act as guidelines to help smokers who quit cold turkey get through the withdrawal symptoms. However, it takes more than just a few things to play with and drinking water to quit smoking for life.

Cravings will be the most difficult factor going through the first few weeks or months after that last cigarette. Changing behaviors that were used when smoking will also be key to achieve being smoke free. Clinical Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy can help with both.

Joseph R. Giove is a certified Clinical Hypnotist who has more than 30 years of experience helping people quit smoking. Using Clinical Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy, the brain patterns are gently altered so that a person no longer craves, and even dislikes cigarettes, which will also change the behaviour towards smoking cigarettes. Clinical Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy is the perfect accompaniment to quitting smoking cold turkey and being smoke free forever.
May 30, 2016
Quit Smoking and Live Your Life!
It should go without saying that quitting smoking has immense benefits for improving your overall health. Whether you have been smoking for 20 days or 20 years, as soon as you can break your smoking habit, your life expectancy will lengthen and your health will improve. No matter what age you are now or how long you’ve been smoking, the health benefits of quitting smoking increase every day that you do not smoke.

In this article we will discuss the act of quitting smoking, health benefits and other immediate improvements that come with it such as:
- Non-Life-Threatening Conditions: Smoking can cause serious issues with fertility as well as bone and optical health.
- Life-Threatening Conditions: There are many serious conditions that can be minimized by quitting smoking.
- The Immediate Improvement of Your Outward Appearance: There will be substantial positive changes to your appearance as soon as you quit smoking.
- Smoking By the Numbers: Statistics on quitting smoking.
- Clinical Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy: We speak with qualified clinical hypnotist, Joseph R. Giove, who talks about how hypnotherapy has helped thousands successfully quit smoking.
Non-Life-Threatening Conditions

There are numerous health risks that go along with smoking. The conditions that are most talked about are the more serious problems related to smoking, such as terminal cancers. However, there are also many, many non-life-threatening conditions that can be caused or accelerated due to smoking. The following are just some of the health problems that can occur from smoking:
- Impotence and fertility problems
- Cataracts and optic neuropathy
- Tooth loss and gum disease
- Osteoporosis
While these conditions are not life-threatening, contracting any or all of these can become a major problem in your life and could worsen over time, becoming serious health issues. These conditions, while not immediately life-threatening, can lead to a shorter lifespan and a more distressing lifestyle with hefty medical bills. Quitting smoking can drastically reduce your chances of contracting or exacerbating these conditions.

Life-Threatening Conditions

Aside from the aforementioned ‘side-effects’ that can develop from smoking, there are far more serious conditions that you can contract. Smoking is extremely dangerous to a person’s health. The previously listed non-life-threatening effects pale in comparison to what can happen to the vital organs of the human body. The heart, lungs, and other internal organs all are damaged with every cigarette that is smoked. Here are some of the conditions that can affect both quality and length of life:
- Most Cancers
- Heart Disease
- Peripheral Vascular Disease
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema
You will notice that ‘cancers’ is pluralized. Smoking causes cancer in the lungs, mouth, throat, esophagus, larynx, bladder, kidney, pancreas, stomach, liver, colon, cervix, and rectum. It can also cause acute myeloid leukemia, which affects the blood. In addition to heart disease and COPD, smoking greatly increases your chances of a stroke or aortic aneurysm, which is a balloon-like bulge in an artery near your heart.

Quitting smoking has immense benefits to your overall health. Chemicals and toxins will cease building up in your heart, lungs, stomach, and other vital organs, allowing you to breathe easier, exercise longer, and eat healthier. By quitting smoking you are greatly improving your quality of life, health, appearance, and longevity.

The Immediate Improvement of Your Outward Appearance

As we can see, quitting smoking will greatly improve your overall health. These improvements happen not only internally (heart, lungs, etc.), but outwardly as well. There are several immediate improvements to a person’s physical features, which continue to improve the longer they go without smoking. Some of these items are:
- Improvements around the mouth and teeth
- Sense of smell and taste return
- Everyday activities become less taxing
As soon you quit smoking, even only after a few days, your physical features will begin return to normal. Smoking causes the teeth, fingertips and fingernails to turn to a yellow-brownish color, but soon after you quit smoking your teeth will be white again and your fingers will return to their normal color. Along with staining, smoking causes bad breath, which will also subside the longer you refrain from smoking.

Most smokers are imperceptive to their own bad breath because they have a diminished sense of taste and smell. These senses gradually begin to regenerate when someone quits smoking. They often find that food tastes better and everything smells better than they can even remember.

Simple activities like exercising, walking or even doing simple chores will be much easier after quitting smoking. Everyday things that would normally have smokers out of breath can now be completed with ease. People who have been smoking for a long time have had to go outside for a cigarette break since most buildings and facilities are now smoke-free. After quitting smoking, people will no longer have to go outside every hour.

Smoking by the Numbers

These are obviously very serious and life-threatening conditions that smokers risk contracting at a much, much higher rate than non-smokers. Not only will these conditions drastically reduce your life expectancy, Here are some of the statistics about quitting smoking:
- If you quit smoking before the age 35, your life expectancy will return to that of a non-smoker
- If you quit smoking before age 50, your risk of acquiring cancer or disease decreases by 50{cb12661b2b7fd86e618703ac3a1bf5df9897d897450d7668a57e7745cc225577}.
Every day that you continue to smoke, your risk of getting one or more of these cancers or diseases increases dramatically.

Clinical Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy

Quitting smoking is extremely beneficial to a person’s health. There are physical factors that can be reversed, such as yellow teeth; and then there are the internal factors that may not be so reversible, but can certainly be lessened by eliminating cigarettes. Heart disease, cancer and respiratory issues are just some of the harrowing risks that accompany a smoking habit.

Many people who have been smoking for some time want to quit. If you are a smoker you have many reasons not to quit, but you only need one reason to stop smoking. Perhaps you have started to see some of these symptoms; maybe it is for a loved one. No matter what the reasons are, quitting smoking can be very difficult. We spoke with Joseph R. Giove is a certified Clinical Hypnosis specialist, who said that hypnotherapy is one of the easiest and most effective methods available to help quit smoking. In his 25 years of experience in the smoking cessation industry, he has seen first-hand how effective this treatment has been with his patients, and the low recidivism rate. If you are thinking about leaving cigarettes behind, it is time to consider hypnotherapy.
April 14, 2016
Tip 2: Stop Smoking Timeline

My name is Joseph Giove. I’m a biomedical engineer and a clinical hypnotist. I’ve helped thousands of people stop smoking over the last twenty five years. I created this video series to help you become free of the habit an addiction of smoking cigarettes.

Once you have made the decision to quit smoking cigarettes, what is the most effective stop smoking timeline?

There are a number of factors that influence this. If you smoke a pack a day or less pick a day, wrap your head around the process of quitting and your commitment to quit and then just do it on that day.

If you smoke more than a pack a day is very helpful even safer to taper down to under a pack before you actually quit.

So if you are between a pack and two packs, take a week to two weeks to taper down under a pack a day and then quit. Of course pick a day before you start tapering, pick a day you will be quitting on that day.

If you are between a pack and two packs or more than two packs take two to three weeks to taper down and a good way to do this tapering is just to eliminate every other cigarette. If you smoke three or four cigarettes in the morning, smoke two cigarettes in the morning for example. Then once you are under a pack a day then that is your quit day.

If you have other addictions it becomes a little bit more complicated. Addictions such as alcohol, cocaine, meth, I suggest you quit those other addictions first. Most people don’t like hearing that, but the problem is these other addictions can often create triggers to smoke cigarettes , so you can end up going back and forth if you don’t quit these other addictions first like alcohol, meth, cocaine.

If you have a food addiction I suggest you quit smoking first because the process of quit smoking changes your metabolism and you want that metabolism to normalize over three, four weeks before you address the food addiction.

Some people have a concern about gaining weight once they quit, and it is not true that you automatically gain weight when you quit smoking. You will if you replace one bad habit with another, for instance smoking with over eating. So get your system to normalize and if you are going to be going on a weight reduction or weight loss program or even a healthier eating program, quit smoking first, wait three to four weeks, and then address the food or the carbohydrate addiction.

The reason you want to use the stop smoking timeline is because quitting smoking too suddenly if you smoke more than a pack a day is not a very safe thing to do. Smoking that much nicotine, puts a tremendous load on your heart and your nervous system and it can be quite a shock to stop that too suddenly. That is why I recommend people taper it down. So make a commitment to yourself, pick a day, follow this timeline and just do it.

Take action now to be free. If you need assistance, I help people all over the world through phone sessions and private sessions at my clinic in Northern California. Feel free to call my office at 925-215-4017 or contact me here and get ready to enjoy your freedom.

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September 13, 2014
Tip-6: Why Stop Smoking Cigarettes

My name is Joseph Giove. I’m a biomedical engineer and a clinical hypnotist. I’ve helped thousands of people stop smoking over the last twenty five years. I created this video series to help you become free of the habit an addiction of smoking cigarettes.

“Why should I quit smoking cigarettes?” Most people understand that smoking cigarettes is not good for them and they really don’t want to look all the negative aspects of smoking cigarettes because they already know them. But it is worth it, right now, to spend about a minute just hearing what is in cigarette smoke. Not because you don’t already know it, but because the process of becoming addicted negatively influences the reward center in your brain.

The bottom line with most addictions is they create a cross-wiring in the brain that causes us to feel reward for damaging or harming ourselves. That is a very risky proposition. So understand what is in cigarette smoke, the estimate is that there are over 4,000 poisonous chemicals in every puff of a cigarette.

On my website there is a list of the six hundred legally allowed additives in a cigarette. There are processing chemicals; and flavoring enhancers, which make the cigarette burn better, smell better, taste better, burn longer. In addition to that you have herbicide and pesticide residues on the tobacco leaves, processing agents in the factory, bleaching agents for the paper, and then all this is wrapped together and then lighted on fire. This is what creates the smoke, and is how they come up with the estimate of 4,000 poisonous chemicals. Even if you smoke so called organic tobacco like American Spirit you are still getting probably over 2,000 poisonous chemicals instead of 4,000, still not good for you.

You want to detoxify yourself that is why it is important to understand what you have been doing to yourself so the when you quit you can rapidly detoxify yourself, and revert, relatively quickly, back to as if you never smoked.

Let’s stop separating the consequence of smoking from the action of smoking. Understand what it is that you are doing to yourself at a very deep level and then make the decision right now, today, to quit.

Take action now to be free. If you need assistance, I help people all over the world through phone sessions and private sessions at my clinic in Northern California. Feel free to call my office at 925-215-4017 or contact me here and get ready to enjoy your freedom.

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September 13, 2014
Tip-16: Why Hypnosis Works to Quit Smoking Cigarettes

My name is Joseph Giove. I’m a biomedical engineer and a clinical hypnotist. I’ve helped thousands of people stop smoking over the last twenty five years. I created this video series to help you become free of the habit an addiction of smoking cigarettes.

Why hypnotherapy and clinical hypnosis works to stop smoking cigarettes. This is an easy one. Hypnosis works because the bigger part of the process of smoking is the habit not the addiction. In 48 hours your body is going to push out all the nicotine from your body whether you smoke 1 cigarette a day or 50 cigarettes a day.

Your body is already expert at making you a non-smoker. It is the habit that hooks most people combined with, of course, the nicotine, as the addictive process that perpetuates the cycle. Hypnosis works in the same area of the brain where habits reside. The subconscious is the domain of hypnosis and the domain of habit in the brain and the body and that is why hypnosis works.

Whether you see a hypnotist or a hypnotherapist or do it on your own, do not ignore the power of your own sub conscious mind.

Take action now to be free. If you need assistance, I help people all over the world through phone sessions and private sessions at my clinic in Northern California. Feel free to call my office at 925-215-4017 or contact me here and get ready to enjoy your freedom.

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September 13, 2014
How 1 in 5 Quit Smoking

31 October 1992 by ROBERT MATTHEWS
Magazine issue 1845, The New Scientist

Hypnosis is the most effective way of giving up smoking, according to the largest ever scientific comparison of ways of breaking the habit. Willpower, it turns out, counts for very little.

Smokers are coming under increasing pressure to quit. Earlier this month the Institute of Actuaries published the results of a study it commissioned which showed that the mortality rate for smokers is twice as high as for nonsmokers, and that, on average, a smoker dies 6 years earlier than a nonsmoker. Surveys suggest that three in four smokers would like to give up, according to the antismoking campaign Action on Smoking and Health (ASH).

To find the most effective way to give up smoking, Frank Schmidt and research student Chockalingam Viswesvaran of the University of Iowa carried out a meta-analysis, statistically combining the results of more than 600 studies covering almost 72 000 people from America, Scandinavia and elsewhere in Europe. By combining the results from so many separate studies, the meta-analysis enables the real effectiveness of each technique to be picked out from the statistical ‘noise’ that often blights studies involving smaller numbers of subjects.

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September 22, 2013

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