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  • Electronic Cigarettes And Lupus

    Electronic Cigarettes And Lupus

    Head out into public and within a few minutes there’s a very good chance that you’ll see at least one or two people puffing away on an electronic cigarette. Humans have always had a fascination with smoking, it seems, and over the years it’s evolved from pipes to cigarettes and cigars and now to our modern version of smoking – vaping.

    While it’s marketed as a safer alternative to cigarettes, vaping – the use of electronic cigarettes – does still have health risks to consider, and the research is too young to accurately determine what kind of a long term impact electronic cigarettes can have on your health. Those with existing health issues will likely find that e-cigs could continue to cause them additional trouble that traditional cigarettes did. A perfect example of this is lupus, and at Joseph R. Giove Clinical Hypnosis I’ve regularly seen the impact of e-cigs on those with disorders like lupus.

    As such, I think it’s worth taking a closer look at this subject in order to show just how important it is to find alternative options for smoking cessation – and why hypnosis is a great option for doing just that.

    Electronic Cigarettes

    First, we’ll begin with understanding the basics of electronic cigarettes. E-cigs are generally shaped either like a traditional cigarette or with a larger box at the bottom of the unit with a nozzle leading upwards. One design looks like a cigarette, the other resembles a pipe in some aspects.

    No matter the design, they work similarly. Cartridges with a liquid mixture of nicotine, flavorings, and other chemicals – usually propylene glycol – are loaded into the unit. When a ‘drag’ from the e-cig is taken the chemicals are heated up and turned to vapor, which is then inhaled like a regular puff from a cigarette.

    They’re marketed as a safe alternative to traditional smoking since many of the carcinogens present in cigarette smoke are missing. But research done into them has been very minimal and still suggests numerous health risks. Additionally, the long term health risks are unknown and there is reason to believe that in the future, a wide range of additional health issues may be linked to e-cigs.

    Lupus

    Lupus is an autoimmune disease that can damage a wide range of the body. Essentially, those with lupus suffer because their body’s immune system attacks the organs and tissues within it – your body is attacking health cells and tissues. This can lead to rashes, inflammation, increased infections, fatigue, joint pain, and more. In severe cases it can cause significant health problems to occur.

    Unfortunately, lupus is a disease that still isn’t’ fully understood. Causes aren’t entirely known and treatment generally focuses on controlling symptoms instead of curing the disease. As such, it’s a serious condition and doing all that you can to manage and control it is important.

    Lupus And Smoking

    A lot of research has been done into the dangers of smoking, and some of it has focused on how it impacts lupus sufferers. The medical community agrees that stopping smoking will have the biggest positive impact on lupus possible.

    The big reason is that those with lupus are at increased risk of infections, and respiratory infections are the most common types of infections that they develop. On their own, smoking cigarettes can increase the risk of developing bronchitis and pneumonia. When a lupus sufferer smokes, that risk is only increased further.

    The other dangers are directly associated with the fact that lupus sufferers are already at an increased risk for health issues that smoking can cause. This includes cardiac disease and heart attacks – lupus patients are at a greater risk of heart disease, and smoking only makes this worse. The same goes for the circulatory system, the kidneys, and the liver.

    In short, lupus patients who smoke are increasing their risks of health conditions dramatically due to the combination of their medical condition and the health impact of smoking. It’s a dangerous connection and one that needs to be addressed.

    Quit Electronic Cigarettes With Hypnosis

    What About E-Cigs?

    The general argument for e-cigs is simple – they’re not cigarettes, and as such they provide nicotine in a much safer method of action. But the reality is that the mucus membranes of the respiratory system are incredibly delicate and easily absorb chemicals and compound that touch them. Each puff from an e-cig places a variety of chemicals within the respiratory system.

    A lupus sufferer already has a weekend immune system and are more likely to develop respiratory problems, and when a drag from an e-cig is taken it makes it more likely that those illnesses will develop. Despite the supposed ‘safety’, it’s still a risk – especially when you’re suffering from lupus.

    Add this to the fact that e-cigs haven’t been fully tested for long-term effects and the fact that there is no FDA approval needed and it becomes clear that lupus sufferers need to avoid e-cigs completely for the sake of their health.

    What Can Be Done?

    Stopping smoking doesn’t have to mean picking up an electronic cigarette. There are options that can allow you to break free of smoking entirely and focus your attention on coping with lupus. At Joseph R. Giove Clinical Hypnosis, I use a drug free approach to helping patients stop smoking for good.

    The key is understanding the power of the mind and using mental suggestion to rework the way that your mind thinks and works. It sounds simple, and at its basic level it is. But it’s something that is only possible with the help of an experienced hypnotherapist due to the process involved.

    Lupus sufferers need to stop smoking, and they need to do so entirely – not just by continuing to smoke in a different form. And when you consider the health impacts that smoking can have on anyone’s health, it becomes clear that hypnosis is something everyone who smokes should consider. It’s been proven to be effective, and thousands of people have been able to put down their smokes for good thanks to my help. It’s worth trying for yourself.

  • Do Your Lungs Hurt When You Quit Smoking?

    For people who are trying to quit smoking, fear of coping and functioning without the addiction can be one of the greatest challenges to success. However, it is also important to note that the better a person’s health literacy and their understanding of the impacts of behaviors on the body, the better they are also able to make conscious choices for health and wellness.

    One thing that is very important to be aware of regarding smoking is that it presents psychological, physical, and physiological dependence for most people. As a result, overcoming all these challenges at once can be overwhelming, but that does not mean that success is impossible. The use of hypnosis when quitting smoking can address emotional and some physical factors that patients face, and calling 866-863-4669 or emailing Joseph R. Giove at Stop Smoking Hypnosis Bay Area can get smokers who want to quite get started with the process.

    The actual physiological changes that happen when a person quits smoking are a series of steps that the body will need to undergo as it returns to balance and health. To this end, there can be some factors of detoxing that smokers may not realize. However, the body is very efficient and effective in wanting to return to a natural state of wellness, and hypnosis with quitting smoking can even help to facilitate this factor.

    Getting Rid of the Sludge

    Perhaps the two most important points about physiological changes are also in regards to the specific types of toxins that are being eliminated. Obviously, differences in metabolism and overall health can impact how long it takes for the body to clean out, but as long as no more is consumed, nicotine will leave the system in an average of between 5 to 10 days. This also further indicates that while the physiological addiction to nicotine is as strong as that for opiates, it not only clears the system fairly quickly, but it also does not leave a lasting damage to the nerve receptors.

    Technically, this does indicate that if a person can make it through the first week of not smoking, then they are also no longer physiologically addicted. However, this is where the emotional and physical aspects come in as challenges. These can also be further exacerbated by the actual sensations of detoxing from nicotine, which can include:

    • Chills and aches
    • Flushing
    • Excessive sweating
    • Irritability
    • Erratic heart rate
    • Blood pressure variations

    What is very positive to note is that once nicotine is out of the body, these effects subside and eventually disappear once the body has regained balance. As cigarettes also contain a number of other chemicals, this detox period will also include their expulsion, usually through the skin. Some people will experience mild blemish break-outs or an acrid body odor as this happens, but this is also a temporary state on the path to health.

    The other major issue with detoxing from smoking is the smoke itself, or more specifically, the tar that it forms in the lungs. Once a person has stopped adding further toxins to the lungs, these organs will also begin get rid of the toxins that have built up there. While this process can feel exhausting and can even evoke fear, it is always important to remember:

    • The body has an innate ability to heal
    • The mind supports this process

    Bearing these concepts in mind can also help to support the overall process of quitting.

    Regardless of how long a person has smoked, tar will begin to build up in the lungs and this both impairs the cilia in the respiratory tract and also hardens and deflates the alveoli, which is what makes it so difficult to breathe when one is a smoker. This also means that the lungs are only functioning at partial capacity, even though they may be working much harder to do so.

    Once a person has quit cigarettes, the lungs will begin to heal, but there can be several steps to this. An initial experience that nearly all people who have quit will have is that coughing and the expulsion of sputum will increase considerably for up to several weeks. This is a combination of the lungs beginning to strengthen and rebuild capacity, as well as the cilia regaining mobility in order to move mucus and debris out of the respiratory tract.

    For some people, this part of the healing process can be uncomfortable, especially as increased coughing will create a sensation of soreness, throughout the chest and core region. More often, people will feel a greater amount of pain in the diaphragm than in the lungs, as this is a foundation for clearing the lungs. However, once this stage has passed, there can be other healing factors that will be felt.

    Once an excess of mucus and some of the tar has been expelled, the alveoli are also able to re-expand. What happens is that smokers have grown so used to shallow breathing that once the body begins to regain balance, and have the ability to expand the lungs more fully, a sensation of pain may be felt in the organs. Although this can be a disconcerting feeling, and can even leave people “feeling” that they are out of breath, these individuals are actually breathing better, getting more air, and expanding the lungs to their actual capacity.

    It can be helpful to think of the lungs hurting when you quit smoking in the same manner that you would regarding starting to work out after a period of inactivity. The muscles will hurt because they are actually being used, and this is the same for the lungs. This also means that the more you work your lungs out, the less the pain will be present.

    Knowing more about quitting and what to expect can greatly facilitate the ability to finally be able to stop smoking. Calling 866-863-4669 or emailing Joseph R. Giove at Stop Smoking Hypnosis Bay Area will also provide more information on healthy solutions, and can get you started on rebuilding your body from the inside out.

  • Trying to Quit Smoking

    Trying to Quit Smoking

    Although there are many times when people lack the necessary awareness to make the decision that will be the most beneficial to wellness and health. This is not uncommon, and can often depend upon a number of demographic factors as well as personal experiences. In these cases, the hoped for outcome is always one that will lead to greater clarity and the ability to make a more educated choice in the future.

    However, there are also many times when people already have a sense of the healthier behavior, but they still choose to follow a path that may be familiar, but far less safe. This can frequently be seen as the case with smoking, especially when what is thought to be a choice is actually a negative habit that has been learned and reinforced over time.

    Knowing the Consequences

    The above pattern is common to anyone who smokes, and it is unlikely that any smoker does not realize the risks they may be causing to health. This also means that non-smoking friends of the smoker can sometimes have a very difficult time in understanding why their loved one “will not” quit. Unfortunately, this attitude is not one of support, and can actually be detrimental to the person who is trying to quit.

    The fact that foreknowledge of consequences is not sufficient to keep people from picking up a cigarette in the first place also gives some further insight into the nature of the addiction and why it can be so difficult to quit. Exploring these regions of motivation can also help smokers release their attachment, especially through the use of hypnosis. Smokers can call 866-863-4669 or email Joseph R. Giove at Stop Smoking Hypnosis Bay Area to take that step in the direction of the informed choice, instead of the habit.

    Quitting Makes You Want to Smoke?

    It is also important to realize that people who are trying to quit smoking can also be under extreme pressure regarding the endeavor. This can apply to loved ones or friends who are trying to be supportive, but to the person who is trying to quit, this care can sometimes feel like a burden of expectations. Should the person who is trying to quit smoking have a slip up, it can feel as though that individual has let others down, and the stress and anxiety then further triggers a craving.

    This pressure can still be true for individuals who are trying to quit smoking for their own personal motivations. Internal evaluations can often be harder on the self than external ones, and in these cases as well, the stress of trying to quit can actually generate less successful outcomes. However, understanding that this pressure is being placed on an individual who is already searching for coping tools can also allow for a better means of trying to quit smoking.

    Accepting the Process

    Perhaps one of the most beneficial means of trying to quit smoking with any approach is that smokers understand that they are going through a process of unlearning what could be decades of habitually learned behaviors. In this way, smokers can also understand their initial motivations for smoking much better, and this can also lead to a more streamlined process of re-framing these motivations.

    Another important thing for people who are trying to quit smoking to think about is their actual goals, both in quitting and in long-term lifestyle changes for health and wellness. The more inherent motivation that an individual is able to tap into, the more they will be able to sustain their better behavioral choices. Thus, in starting with goals that are specifically related to smoking, the person can truly evaluate their own rationale in quitting. With the inclusion of long-term health goals, people can also start to see how their choices and their health are interrelated.

    The personal goals list can also provide the person who is trying to quit with insights into how the behavioral pattern became reinforced initially. This allows individuals to begin to work the actual process of letting go of their attachment to smoking and to the initial behavioral reinforcement that led to addiction in the first place. Further, it gives people who are trying to quit smoking positive tools that are based in personal goals as a means to truly connect the intent to quit with the motivation.

    Taking the First Steps of the Journey

    Along with setting long and short term goals when trying to quit smoking, it can also be helpful for individuals to go through a pre-quitting phase in order to prepare for life as a non-smoker. This can also be helpful because it allows the person to begin to visualize a life without cigarettes, and this can be particularly beneficial with hypnosis to stop smoking. Essentially, before actually going through the actions, people can still prepare themselves in a way that makes success likely.

    Plan On Quitting Smoking

    Part of the pre-quitting phase should also be having a plan. This can include:

    • Looking into resources to try to quit smoking
    • Deciding an approach to quitting
    • Setting a timeline for quitting goals
    • Having healthy alternatives in place for behavioral adjustment
    • Finding a positive support network, which can include groups of other non-smokers

    Although each of these factors can greatly contribute to facilitating trying to quit smoking, they can also become synergistically supportive, especially when hypnosis is used for smoking cessation. This is mainly due to the fact that the above points are considering the removal of blockages to success in a manifest way, while the hypnosis provides a means of releasing blockages in an emotional and mental way.

    The result is that trying to quit smoking can become a more streamlined and easier process when people take the proper measures to enact this change. Emailing or calling Joseph R. Giove at Stop Smoking Hypnosis Bay Area is an ideal first step, as it will also begin to get people who are trying to quit smoking in the right mental, and even physical, space for the pre-quitting phase.

  • Using Hypnosis to Quit Smoking

    Using Hypnosis to Quit Smoking

    With a stronger focus on preventive health trending in our society, it is no wonder that more people are taking the time to examine their lifestyles and make healthier choices. The decision to quit smoking can be a major one, not just because of the health benefits that it represents, but also due to the emotional factors that are also involved. What is unfortunate is that when a person does not reach first time success in quitting, the individuals around that person will often take it as a sign that there is no real commitment to health or change.

    Of course, this could not be further from the truth, but the problem is that while the intent to quit may be fully present, the actual motivation is being internally sabotaged. What outside observers fail to see is that the struggle in quitting has a basis in the initial trigger to pick up the habit. This is also where hypnosis to quit smoking can become a powerful tool to success.

    Understanding The Human Condition

    Although it is appropriate to state that smoking is both a physical and an emotional addiction, it is also important to understand the basis of any addiction. From a holistic perspective, every being gravitates towards that which brings comfort, and shuns that which causes pain. When pain does occur, that which brings comfort can become a crutch that is used to the point of reliance. Once a person has established this reliance, they have also given power to whatever that substance or behavior is.

    This is very similar to the way that children learn as they develop, in that reinforcements of certain behaviors will lead to the continuation of that behavior. If a person has a cigarette every time they take a break, they will also begin to crave a cigarette every time they need a break. In a person’s mind, the relationship is both reciprocal and interchangeable. In this manner, the emotional dependence is initially established.

    The second important point relates back to reactions to pain, as at its core all addictions are a facsimile to fill whatever wound or lack exists as a result of the pain. Of course, while the intent to quit can still be present, the fear of how to manage pain without the crutch can also generate a means of mental sabotage. This concern over the unknown can then create further pain, which simply restarts the cycle of smoking addiction.

    This is also why many people may succeed at quitting for a while, but find that the full severing of ties with cigarettes is not a possibility yet. However, people should also know that the use of hypnosis in quitting smoking works at the heart of these issues and with self perception in order to generate change. Smokers who have the intent to quit can start the journey of healthy transformation by taking the Quit Smoking Vulnerability Quiz.

    Tapping Into Deeper Causality

    Using hypnosis to quit smoking addresses these deeper emotional causes that can generate blockages to change within the personality. Although there can certainly be an attached therapeutic effect that is also positive for other healthy lifestyle choices, hypnosis for quitting smoking is not actual psychotherapy. However, the impact is still that it facilitates the ability to move beyond these internally generated challenges and achieve the success that is desired. This is particularly important in breaking the cycle of addiction, because it helps to break the attachment that a person has to smoking, and this can allow inherent motivation to have a stronger impact.

    This can also be highly applicable since one aspect of attachment is the manner in which people see behaviors and habits as an innate part of the personality. As previously mentioned, individuals will develop perspectives of the self which are based on external feedback or reinforcement. As habits become more deeply ingrained, it is also the result that the person begins to simply accept the habit as who they are.

    Unfortunately, this can also be a part of the challenge to quitting smoking in general, as the “smoker” personality facet becomes more ingrained. This also results in part of the fear of change that can be an obstacle, as people become concerned that they will lose a part of themselves in making this wellness transition.

    Ready To Quit Smoking

    Becoming More Of The Self

    By starting the healthy transformation, smokers can find that they will be able to make this transition, while also discovering that they can be more complete individuals as a result. This is also important to realize, as one of the common mis-conceptions about hypnosis is that it can make people do things against their will. However, the truly powerful aspect of hypnosis in quitting smoking is that it simply supports people in doing something for which they already have the intent.

    What hypnosis can do is to tap into that part of self which is ready to change and desires to quit smoking. By subtly reinforcing this intent, the sessions also help to quiet the obstacles that arise from inner feelings of doubt, fear, and uncertainty of the unknown. By providing the positive reinforcement for beneficial change while also lessening the impact of internal blockages, the person will gain the emotional tools and resources to stay true to their work towards personal change.

    In this manner, it is also important for candidates who are interested in quitting smoking through hypnosis to also understand that the process is collaborative. Both the willingness of the smoker to quit, and the support provided through hypnosis become the basis for actions which are change. This concept also further reinforces the fact that clients are never out of control of themselves, but rather, they are actually learning how to stand more firmly in their own personal power. This makes the use of hypnosis for quitting smoking a powerful resource that makes use of individual motivation and acceptance for change as the foundation for success.

  • Why You Should Stop Smoking

    Why You Should Stop Smoking

    Everyone is aware of the explicit warnings on cigarette packets, which give warnings such as:

    • Cigarette smoke contains carbon monoxide
    • Smoking by pregnant women may result in fetal injury, low birth weight, and premature birth
    • Smoking may be hazardous to health
    • Smoking can cause cancer

    Each of these missives is quite clear about the potential risk outcomes that are associated with smoking, although other countries will even go so far as to state “Smoking causes Death” on the side of the packets. It would seem as though the concerns of picking up this habit should outweigh the desire to smoke, but many people still make that choice.

    Although the Surgeon General’s warning does act as a viable means of informing the population and raising awareness as to the dangers of smoking, every person does have free will to make decisions about their own life. The more pressing concern is that while the awareness of the danger of smoking is present, people still do not consider the cumulative effect that smoking has on the body.

    One of the reasons that hypnosis can work so well for smoking cessation is the fact that even the physical impacts of smoking are all about creating blockages. For people who have tried to quit but have yet to succeed, the reason behind it can be the emotional blocks that keep them from truly breaking free from smoking. On a physical level, smoking also keeps people from breaking free and being able to life a healthy life. Taking the Quit Smoking Vulnerability Quizcan not only help in overcoming the challenges of quitting, but also in understanding why you should stop smoking.

    Multiple Effects of Smoking Cigarettes

    One reason that the danger of cigarettes is so high is because of the large amount of natural and synthetic chemicals that are in them. Tobacco itself contains nicotine and tar, as well as many trace minerals that can be picked up from the soil itself. As a result, even additive free cigarettes can still contain poisons like arsenic, simply from the soil.

    Regardless of the other chemicals that may be added to tobacco products, the biggest concern is actually the nicotine itself. In large doses, it is a deadly poison, and this is why some smokers will feel nauseous or need to vomit if they have smoked many cigarettes in rapid succession. The queasiness is actually the body beginning to react to being poisoned.

    Nicotine is also both a stimulant and a sedative, which causes the body to react in two very different manners at once. The stimulant effect causes a rise in blood pressure as adrenalin begins to course through the body, but the sedative effect is more pronounced on muscle fibers. This also means that while the heart is beating faster to accommodate the faster blood flow, it is also straining more against the contrary sedative effect. As a result, heart attack and coronary disease become the result of this action.

    Further, nicotine acts as a vasodilator, which is another aspect of the high blood pressure that can result from smoking. However, when blood vessels are consistently dilated, they also become stretched and worn.   The result of this can become:

    • Stroke
    • Blood clots
    • Aneurisms

    Although the combustion of carbon in smoking cigarettes greatly contributes to the occurrence of lung cancer, nicotine also plays a part in this disease. Bladder cancer is directly linked to cigarette smoking as are gastro-intestinal cancers. The combustion and tar build up in the body also produce outcomes including:

    • Emphysema
    • COPD
    • Cystic Fibrosis
    • Chronic respiratory disorders

    All of these manifest outcomes are obstructions in some way or another, whether they are direct physical obstructions or ones that result in obstruction of a quality lifestyle. This can make the behavior of smoking and the outcomes very telling regarding a person’s psychology.

    Reasons Why To Quit Smoking

    It’s Time to Quit smoking

    Although the medical facts about what smoking does to the body and to health should be sufficiently illuminating for people to want to quit, this does not always impact the actual motivation. For many people, statistics and health risks are just facts that seem in no way attached to any personal or experiential foundation for the smoker. This is not an insensitivity in any way, but is simply a factor of how people learn through being able to relate information to a practical and familiar perspective.

    This is also why some of the strongest reasons for why you should stop smoking will always have to come from yourself. When the situation is viewed from this perspective, you are also able to examine your willingness, intent, and personal goals, which can result in some of the greatest reasons to stop smoking. People often find that these reasons can also be a part of the release of emotional blockages that facilitate with quitting through hypnosis.

    Learning to take care of one’s self can be difficult, especially if there are family demands and obligations, as well as a plethora of outside stressors that also contribute to wanting a cigarette. However, a person can not help their loved ones or live a full life if they are not healthy and well within themselves. This makes the biggest reason to stop smoking not only about caring for your health, but about caring enough about yourself to want to stay healthy.

    Accepting this ability for self love can be a major step in finally taking the action to stop smoking, since it rejects the suppression of health and embraces the concept that change generates positive opportunities. With the use of hypnosis during the process, greater blocks can be released, while the healthy aspects are reinforced. For smokers who are ready to take hold of this chance to truly care for self by making the decision to actually quit.To begin a journey of release that can lead to greater wellness, take the Quit Smoking Vulnerability Quiz.

  • Best Way to Quit Smoking

    Best Way to Quit Smoking

    One of the truly impressive and beneficial outcomes of new health care trends is the raising of health literacy for the nation. Several decades prior, an initial shift in the health care system moved people into what had been the prevalent trend of personal disempowerment in wellness based on deference to medical professionals. Unfortunately, the reason that so many people have given away their own say in health is because less questions are asked about care protocols and preventive measures, which can also lessen the understanding of the actual impact of risk factors on health.

    However, the current shift is not only back to education and raising awareness, but also to regaining personal power over health matters. An understandable result of this is also a greater focus on smoking cessation in communities and organizations, which also means that individuals are beginning to adopt this focus more strongly. Another result is that there are many resources a person can consider when choosing to take control of health and quit smoking.

    As a result of both the better wellness awareness and the intent to make positive health changes, people will often further research options to find the best way to quit smoking. Accessing Joseph R. Giove’s Quit Smoking Online Virtual Clinic can provide a very strong option for success, and many individuals do find that using hypnosis to quit smoking can achieve goals, even when other methods have failed.

    This does also bring up a pertinent point regarding perspectives on the best way to quit smoking, and the truth is that there is not necessarily a definitive answer. Just as every individual has their own reasons for initially starting to smoke and wanting to quit, every person will also have a different response to a variety of interventions. This can also make it important to look at several methods to quit smoking and compare benefits and response in order to achieve the best fit.

    Quitting Cold Turkey

    Although this is possibly the most difficult manner of quitting, it does not mean that it is not effective. This is partially due to the simplicity of the method, which is simply to no longer smoke. The reason that this can be a more difficult method for success is because there is no transition time, especially on a psychological level, to adjust to the change in behavior. Unfortunately, for many people who try to quit cold turkey, positive results may only last as long as a few days to a week.

    However, it should be noted that there are a fair number of former smokers who have permanently quit simply by getting up one morning and making the choice to not have a cigarette. For certain personalities, this determination is sufficient to quit, but the majority of people feel extreme pressure with the cold turkey method, since it is a distinct all or nothing approach.

    The Reduction Method

    This approach to quitting smoking has fair success, and a number of former smokers find that it is effective, so long as individuals stay regimented in their process. With this form of quitting smoking, the person basically reduces the number of cigarettes that they smoke each day by a set amount, until they are no longer smoking. What is positive about this method is that it does give a span of time for physical and emotional detoxing, which can make the final transition into not smoking easier.

    The negative points to this approach are usually regarding motivation and will power, which can also represent emotional blockages that are interfering with success. Further, it can be easier to “cheat” on the reduction method, as many people can begin to rationalize that they need a longer transition, especially as actual quitting draws nearer. Just as with the cold turkey method, this can be smoking cessation approach that may only be ideal for certain personalities.

    Medications to Quit smoking

    The use of drugs to quit smoking has become quite popular, and just like other methods, there are positives and negatives that are associated with this. First, it is important to note that smoking cessation drugs can be either nicotine or non-nicotine based. Nicotine based drugs are often just acting as cigarettes that are not being inhaled, and there can be some concern that the addiction is still present, just in a different form. Some nicotine drugs will use a step-down system to actually wean the person physically, but these drugs can become dangerous if the person decides to still have a cigarette, and they do not really address actual behaviors.

    Non-nicotine drugs reduce the urge to smoke by interfering with the receptors in the brain that crave the nicotine. This can be more positive for breaking the actual addiction, but there can be unpleasant side effects for these drugs, including mood changes and dissociative events. However, there is success with these medications, although many people who are choosing to quit may not wish to add further chemicals to their body. These medications do at least take transitioning into consideration, and that can be a vital point for many people trying to enact behavioral change.

    Hypnosis Can Help You Stop Smoking

    Hypnosis to Quit smoking

    For some smokers, this choice is a last resort, while others may find that it is an ideal fit from the start. One of the big draws for many individuals is that hypnosis is non-invasive and non-medication, as this already supports lifestyle choices for wellness, which helps to further generate inherent motivation. With hypnosis for quitting smoking, the practitioner works with the client in order to release the mental and emotional constructs that lead to the continuation of smoking. The result is that the aspect of addiction becomes more fully addressed, but also that the individual gains better self-knowledge and empowerment in the process.

    Taking the Quit Smoking Vulnerability Quiz will not only give smokers who want to quit a better picture of what hypnosis can do for them, but it can also be the first step towards a smoke-free life of wellness.

  • 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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