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  • Tip-11: How to Minimize Withdrawals After You 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.

    How to minimize withdrawals after you quit smoking? The first part is understanding that a withdrawal after you stop smoking does not mean that your body wants more nicotine. As I mentioned in another video, you never have and you never will ever crave a cigarette; you are craving what smoking has stolen from your body.

    So a withdrawal is an impulse from your body to get back to homeostasis, back to internal balance. Your body is giving you an impulse for B vitamins; nervous system balance; numerous minerals like calcium, magnesium, potassium; it is asking for detoxification. So drink lots of water, sweat, breathe deep, smooth, and rhythmic. Breathe deeper, exhaling longer that you normally would.

    All of these processes become part of quickly recovering from nicotine addiction and minimizing any withdrawals. As I keep mentioning: smoking is both a habit and an addiction, so often the habit is confused with an urge to smoke a cigarette. But it is just a habit, it’s the time of the day, it’s the thing that you are doing, getting in the car, waking up, having your coffee. These are the habit not the nicotine calling to you. So be deliberate about changing the habit as well.

    One last note is that often the withdrawal is a false association created by this body change, which creates low blood sugar. So another way to minimize withdrawal is to snack on high protein, low fat, low carb foods. Probably the best would be something like salmon jerky, beef jerky, etc. I’m not talking about making a meal out of it; just a bite of jerky once an hour or every other hour or so.

    Avoid nuts, they are protein, but they are also loaded with fat. You want to set the tone for your nervous system and your endocrine system after you quit, to be clean, clear and balanced. Move forward without the dependency on nicotine or food or other replacements.

    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-12: How To Avoid Gaining Weight After You 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.

    How to avoid gaining weight after you stop smoking? Getting weight after quitting smoking is really a myth. Some people gain weight; some people lose weight other people there is no change whatsoever.

    The people who gain weight don’t quit properly. What they do is that they replace one bad habit with another. If any of you go to AA meetings you can see someone will stop drinking alcohol and then pick up smoking cigarettes. Some people if they stop smoking cigarettes, they pick up over eating. So that is not properly and effectively quitting an addiction or a habit.

    What you want to do is listen to my other videos in this series. Listen to every single one of them and make sure that when you stop smoking you very deliberatelychange to a positive habit to fill the space in your life that was previously taken up with cigarettes. And be real about it: smoking 20 cigarettes a day takes about an hour-and-a-half to two hours depending on how fast you smoke a cigarette. So you can’t leave a vacuum in your life; you have to deliberately fill that time with other activities, other healthy, constructive activities; not overeating, not over drinking, not smoking pot. Be deliberate about it and fill that time up with positive, healthy and constructive activities. This is how you quit smoking and stay healthy, and not gain weight.

    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-13: Celebrities Who Quit Smoking Cigarettes With Hypnosis

    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 this important? Why do we look up to celebrities in the first place? But what is more important is that very famous people have quit smoking with hypnosis. I have helped quite a few of them. Because my sessions are always confidential of course I cannot tell you who they are. Let me read you a short list.

    On my web site there is a much longer list. Some of them are:

    • Ellen DeGeneres  
    • Tiger Woods
    • David Becham
    • Matt Damon
    • Ben Affleck
    • Mozart
    • Albert Einstein
    • Kevin Costner

    These people have all quit smoking with hypnosis because these people are successful and smart enough to recognize that you need to address both the habit and the addiction. Hypnosis is very effective and if you choose to do this on your own, there is self-hypnosis. There is very deliberate habit change. There is affirmation. There is going to sleep every night with what you desire change to take advantage of the sub-conscious process through dreaming. So begin dreaming you can be free and soon enough you will be.

    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-14: Benefits of Quitting 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.

    What are the benefits of quitting smoking? The list is so long I am going to have to read a partial list to you. The bottom line is that you have nothing to lose. quitting smoking cigarettes is a pure gain; you lose absolutely nothing. You are not losing a friend; you are not losing the ability to cope with stress or anxiety or boredom. Cigarettes do not accomplish those things. You do. Here is a partial list of the benefits to quitting smoking.

    • You will smell better. Dating will become easier and you will have more intimacy.
    • You will have less of a cough or your cough will disappear entirely.
    • You will have more energy, more vitality and a smoother complexion.
    • Deeper sleep, nicer breath.
    • Less concern about long term health.
    • You will save thousands of dollars a year.
    • You will avoid getting to death. I tell my clients death is not the worst thing can happen from quitting smoking. It is getting to death that really is the problem. Avoid all of that.
    • Clearer thinking and a stronger heart.
    • Greater endurance as you lose weight.
    • Less stress and anxiety.
    • You will no longer be a social pariah; you will fit in in your social circles.
    • You will be able to stop planning your life around smoking cigarettes and when you can smoke.
    • You will have more time…and who would not love to have more time nowadays?
    • You will have less of a chance of cancer, heart disease, stroke and infections.
    • More time with friends, children and grandchildren.

    I could go on and on. The bottom line is that now is the time to be free. Now is the time start enjoying all this benefits of being 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-15: Stop Smoking Cigarettes Cold Turkey

    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.

    I get this question asked all the time. Is it ok to stop smoking cold turkey? Yes, if you smoke a pack a day or less. If you smoke more than a pack a day or have other addictions you need to watch one or two of the other videos in this series to address how to taper down before you quit cold turkey.

    The way to do cold turkey of course is to set a date, document or write down all your triggers, your habits and the routine you have around smoking. Very deliberately make a list of how you are going to change those routines and go to sleep every night, wake up every morning with your own self-hypnosis intention and your own meditation or visualization about seeing yourself living your life in that new routine the new habit as a non-smoker.

    The bottom line for quitting smoking cold turkey is making a decision…a commitment to yourself…and just do it, 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-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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  • Tip-17: Can I 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.

    Yes. And is not hard when you approach stopping smoking the proper way. I know you have probably tried over and over again to quit smoking and have failed. That is only because you have not approached it the proper way. The proper approach is given in this video series and let me tell you straight up that you have not failed because you lacked will power or you are trying to kill yourself and any of that nonsense. You have not succeeded because you have not approached quitting smoking the right way.

    You have not recognized the power of your sub-conscious mind and habit-contribution to the process of smoking cigarettes. Recognize that belief and expectation are physiological. Your belief about quitting smoking becomes part of the physiological process of quitting. So first, before even you pick your quit day, adjust your belief so that you do believe you can quit smoking. You can do that because not a cell in your body wants another hit of nicotine poison.

    Your body has been trying to make you a non-smoker between every cigarette you have ever smoked. Just get over the fear, get over the fear of losing a so-called friend. That is it. You are not losing a friend. If a cigarette was ever a friend it is the worst kind of friend you could possibly have. One that told you it could do all these good things for you: help you get going in the morning, help you deal with stress and anxiety, help you deal with boredom. All that is the lie of addiction. Those are false associations.

    Just make up your mind to do it, get over the fear, believe you can and 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-18: Five Most Common Myths about Quitting 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.

    Five Myths About Stopping Smoking:

    quitting smoking is hard. Not! quitting smoking is easy when you approach it the proper way.

    I am not addicted. Bull. If you are smoking more than 2-3 cigarettes a week you are addicted. If you cannot stop; if you cannot put them down; then you are addicted. Nicotine is a habit and it creates the addition.

    I will gain weight. No, you will not gain weight when you quit smoking properly, i.e., where you do not replace the habit of smoking with the habit of eating. So gaining weight is not an automatic assumption once you quit smoking.

    I am losing a friend. No, you are not losing a friend; in fact, you are not losing anything at all. You are gaining everything. It is pure gain to quit smoking. If nicotine was a friend it was the worst possible friend you could ever have: it lied, cheated and stole from you. Cigarettes, smoking and nicotine are not your friends.

    How will I deal with stress? You will deal with stress in a more healthy and constructive way because nicotine is a stimulant. When you get stressed out do you think about going to Starbucks and doing a triple shot of espresso? Of course not; that sounds silly to address stress with a stimulant, doesn’t it? Nicotine is a stimulant. The fact that you think it reduces your stress is actually a false association. When you stop putting that stimulant in your body you actually find it easier to deal with stress. You will learn a different way to deal with stress rather than putting a cigarette in your mouth, toxifying your body and adding a stimulant.

    Take action now to be free. If you need assistance, I help people all over the world through the 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-19: How to Quit Being a Closet Smoker

    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.

    “I am a closet smoker. How do I quit?” I am seeing more and more closet smokers as time goes by and there is a very good reason for that. Smoking is becoming less and less socially acceptable. Further, many people are closet smokers because they are hiding it from their spouses, their children or their parents. Closet smoking creates its own unique challenges. Probably one of the most significant one is that sneaking away to have a cigarette feels somewhat rebellious, which is why many people started smoking in the first place when they were children.

    It is also a way to get away. If you have a family you have a busy life, and sneaking away for a few minutes on your own can be a real nice get away…and then the getaway then becomes associated with smoking. That is a very dangerous combination. You still need to be able to get away. You still need to be able to take breaks. Just do it in a constructive way. And if you have that rebellious spirit then find some other way to get out of the box.

    A very important part of quitting smoking is to honor that nature, that creative, rebellious part of you that needs to get away and take a break from the stresses of life. On the other hand many people who are closet smokers just hate it because of the very reasons I just mentioned. In either case the way to break free is to listen to every video in this series, in the order I have numbered them. Make your decision, address both the habit and the addiction 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-20: Quitting with COPD

    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.

    COPD is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease like emphysema, is a process of degradation, deterioration in the little air sacs in your lungs called alveoli and you lose the ability to take up oxygen and eliminate carbon dioxide through the process of breathing. It is a irreversible disease so if you have that I strongly suggest you find the reason and quit now, if you still smoking with COPD that means you probably need professional help because I suspect you have tried to quit by your own, it is important that your process of quitting includes respiratory repair methods, now because its degenerative and ones you destroyed the alveoli they are not coming back, but you have over three hundred million of them on the inside lining of your lungs, so it’s a process of scale or magnitude the sooner you stop the sooner you can begin eliminate the tar from your lungs and the carbon deposits that are destroying the linings within the cells of the alveoli, so the bottom line is if you have COPD quit now, get help if you need to.

    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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