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  • Introduction: Videos to Help You Stop Smoking the Easiest Way

    Watch the videos in the order as numbered for the best effect in helping you stop smoking today.

    My name is Joseph Giove, I’m a clinical hypnotist and I have helped thousands of people stop smoking over the last 25 years. My background in biomedical engineering  gives me a deep understanding of the neurophysiology of nicotine addiction and a powerful and very successful solution for those who want to quit smoking now.

    There are many misconceptions, even down written lies, about the process of quitting smoking. Because of this if you’ve tried to quit over and over again and have failed, it’s not your fault.

    The good news is that I’m about to reveal my secrets for helping you become free of the habit and addiction of smoking cigarettes…truly the easiest way.

    The video series that I’ve created and the video shorts that follow address most of the misconceptions, questions, and techniques that most people use to stop smoking: cold turkey; with pills, like Chantix; patches, gums, eCigarettes and other nicotine replacements; and also through hypnosis…truly the most effective way.

    So grab a pen and paper because you want to take notes.

    I help people quit smoking all over the world through phone sessions and through private sessions at my clinic in Northern California. If you need help feel free to call my office at 925-215-4017 or contact me here.

    Get set for your freedom… freedom from the control and domination that cigarettes and nicotine have had over you in the past. Now is the time for your freedom, my friend. Get ready to enjoy it!

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  • 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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  • Tip-3: Is Smoking Cigarettes Habit or Addiction?

    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.

    Is smoking cigarettes a habit or an addiction? The short answer is: it is both. Many people who smoke cigarettes do not believe they are actually addicted and the reality is that they are. You are a social smoker, of course, if you can pick up a cigarette and smoke one, then not smoke one for another 2-3 weeks, then you are not addicted. But nicotine is clearly an addicted substance, and because the process of smoking is both a habit and an addiction, you have to address both in your process of quitting smoking.

    A habit requires habit change; nicotine addiction requires detoxification. There are different approaches to an addiction versus a habit but because cigarette smoking is both you have to address both. The failures of other methods in particular nicotine replacements, the most trendy and popular ones now are E-cigarettes, perpetuate the addictive process. The addiction can trigger the habit; the habit can trigger the addiction. That is why in my practice almost everyone I see, and I mean 95{cb12661b2b7fd86e618703ac3a1bf5df9897d897450d7668a57e7745cc225577} of the people I see, have tried nicotine replacements and they are either still smoking or they have become addicted to the E-cigarette or the patch, the gum and so on.

    Let’s be straight about what it is, address it: the process of smoking and the process of quitting smoking as both a habit and an addiction, and you will greatly improve your chances of becoming free forever.

    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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  • Tip 4: Do eCigarettes, Nicotine Patches, Pills or Nicotine Gum Work to 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.

    Do eCigarettes, pills like Chantix, nicotine patches, nicotine gum and other forms of nicotine replacement… do they actually work to help people to quit smoking? The short answer is “sometimes” but here is the problem and the challenge with them. If you are looking to reduce the toxicity of smoking then an nicotine replacement can be helpful in that regard, because smoking an eCigarettes obviously you are taking in fewer toxins and same goes with patches and nicotine gum.

    You are taking in fewer toxins so many people will say “well it is better for you than smoking.” I like to say it is not as bad for you as smoking, this is a big difference. Many of people I see are addicted to these other nicotine replacements. In terms of helping quit smoking, the reason it is only partial effective is because the process of smoking is both a habit and an addiction.

    If you are keeping the addictive substance into your brain, into your body then you are perpetuating it because the way neurologically that works is the addicted substance can trigger the habit and the habit can trigger the addiction. So to really become free you have to taper off of the nicotine and that is where the replacements can become very effective, but simultaneously you need to very deliberately change the habit, because as I mentioned they can each trigger the other.

    So really the effective way is to break free of nicotine and the habit together, and that needs to be part of your decision.

    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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  • Tip-5: When You 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.

    So what happens when you quit smoking? On my website:

    You will find information from the American Cancer Society that shows what happens minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, year by year, after you stop smoking.

    The good news is they say that within ten to fifteen years after you stop smoking your chances of chronic illness from smoking reverts back to as if you never smoked. I believe you can shorten that time period considerable by becoming proactive in your recovery.

    This is more noticeable in the first few days after you quit. Within two to three days your risk of heart attack or stroke drops tremendously. Your blood pressure drops, your breath smells better, your skin smells better, numerous things happens within a very short period of time. And of course, within two to three days all the nicotine leaves your system.

    So the next question becomes: “how do you become proactive in your recovery?” It is good to quit smoking but in my view it is only going half way. The other half is becoming active in detoxifying and helping your cardiovascular and respiratory system recover. How you do this is by very deliberately detoxing after you quit: drink lots of water, get lots of exercise, sweat, do a liver cleanse, do a cellular cleanse. Lose weight because toxins are storage in the fatty tissue of your body. Replenish your body nutritionally with a whole host of minerals and vitamins. Get on a good, solid, super nutritional diet. Eat the right foods and this will help shorten that recovery time considerably.

    Shoot for, let’s say, five to seven years, depending on how long you smoked and how much you smoked, to fully recover from cigarette smoking…and you can do it! The best way to do it is to begin now, get going right now.

    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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  • 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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  • Tip-7: Will I Crave Cigarettes after I Stop Smoking?

    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.

    Will I crave cigarettes after I quit? I get asked this all the time and the really short answer is “no.” I can say this confidently because you never have, you never will ever crave cigarettes. I know that is a bold statement but you do not crave POISON and you are not craving nicotine poison any more than you would crave arsenic or gasoline or turpentine.

    You are not craving these other things and you are not craving nicotine poison. Your body does not crave nor does it want another hit of 4000 poisonous chemicals. What your body is actually wanting, what it is actually giving you an urge on impulse for is what nicotine has stolen from your body or more accurately it is what your body had to spend to get rid of or to push out poisons from your blood stream. That is what your body is craving. And what those things are specifically you need to give your body, and what they are you will find out in other videos in this series.

    The bottom line is you never have, you never will ever crave a cigarette. You are craving something else, find out what that is and start giving your body that other thing or those other things

    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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  • Tip-8: Why is it so hard to stop smoking cigarettes and nicotine?

    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 is it so hard to stop smoking cigarettes? I am asked this question all the time. People mistakenly believe that it is harder to stop smoking cigarettes than heroin or alcohol and others, in fact many people have said I quit these other addictions but I struggle with quitting smoking cigarettes. Why is that? The reason is because people take the wrong approach to stopping smoking cigarettes.

    They fail to recognize that the process of smoking is both a habit and an addiction and both of these are neurological processes that occur in the brain and they become crossed link. So when you address the addictive part it is one approach, when you address the habitual part it is another approach, you have to do both. When you do both this is approaching it the proper way and it becomes easy because I can guarantee you there is not a cell in your body that wants another hit of nicotine poison.

    Not a part of your brain wants it, all those cravings, stress, other triggers; they are false associations created by this dual process of habit and addiction. So to break free, address both. This video series talks about this, I do not want to repeat it here, so be sure to watch the other videos in this series if you really want to break free of the habit and addiction of smoking cigarettes.

    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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  • Tip-9: Stop Smoking the Easy Way

    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.

    How to stop smoking the easy way? You know that tittle is the name of a book called “Allen Carr’s Stop Smoking the Easy Way” It’s a somewhat popular book, but I find it really comical, if it wasn’t so serious, that he misled a lot of people.

    Allen Carr actually quit smoking with hypnosis and yet in his book he says that he went to a hypnotist and quit later that day, but he does not attribute his success to what he received from the hypnotic session because he smoked a cigarette right after he left the clinic of the hypnotist. This is ridiculous. Allen Carr did not understand the power of the subconscious mind, that the bigger part of the process of smoking is the habit not the addiction.

    When you’re fighting breaking free of the process of smoking you’re fighting yourself, because the habit is within you and Allen Carr failed to recognize that. So for all of you who read Allen Carr’s book and are still smoking or quit and started, quit and started, there is a reason. It’s because you’re not recognizing the value of your own subconscious mind, which is the more powerful part of your brain and also the more powerful part of the process that got you hooked into smoking.

    To really become free you have to address the subconscious part, that automatic part of you that beats your heart, breaths you while you’re sleeping, that just divided ten thousand cells and the time it took for me to say that. This is very important if you want to quit smoking the easy way. Recognize the addictive and the habitual part and address the subconscious automatic part of you, that’s truly the easiest way.

    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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  • Tip-10: Using Hypnosis to Stop Smoking versus Other Methods 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.

    Using hypnosis to stop smoking versus other methods of quitting. Of course, I’m a clinical hypnotist I believe the most effective way is using hypnosis to quit smoking, but I recognize that many of you watching this video series are not going to be able to come into my clinic or are not going to be able to do a phone session with me. Why I am putting these videos together is for the millions of other people who need help but either cannot afford it, or have no resources, no ability to get it.

    To consider other methods of helping you quit smoking, for instance nicotine replacements (as I mentioned in other videos in this series), remember that cigarette smoking is both a habit and an addiction. If you just address the nicotine, and use a replacement to get nicotine through an eCigarette or a pill, patch or gum, you are still taking nicotine into your body and you are perpetuating the cycle because the nicotine can trigger the habit and the habit can trigger the desire for the nicotine.

    It is a reciprocal arrangement in your brain until you fully break it and the only way to fully break it is to keep the nicotine out of your body while you are changing the habit of becoming a non-smoker. Other methods like acupuncture can be very effective in reducing the cravings, however, you still have the neurological aspects of the habit and if you are using nicotine with acupuncture again you are perpetuating the problem.

    Some drugs like Chantix and Wellbutrin they dissuade you by making you feel bad or sick by if you introduce the nicotine in your body, but many people have horrendous side effects from these drugs and of course the side effects can often be worse than the process of smoking. So it is really quite a balance. The reason that hypnosis is so effective is because it addresses both. A proper hypnotic sessions is not just straight hypnosis, it is with a skilled practitioner that can help you understand both consciously and subconsciously that the process of smoking is something that you need leave behind you.

    On my website, is a link to a study that shows how 1 in 5 quit smoking. This study is probably 20 years old but it looked at other methods and showed that 20{cb12661b2b7fd86e618703ac3a1bf5df9897d897450d7668a57e7745cc225577} of the people of this study quit smoking with hypnosis. quitting smoking with hypnosis is not only the most effective way to quit but also the most sustainable way to quit because you are addressing it at the deepest level possible; the automatic functioning within you that we call the subconscious.

    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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