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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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  • 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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