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What Works: A Proven Way to Quit Smoking For Good
According to recent statistics from the American Lung Association, smoking is the number one source for preventable deaths and premature mortality than any other drug or substance. Yet, despite these grim statistics, smoking is still a huge problem for many people. The problem is that the willpower in overcoming this addiction seems powerless. But according to George Wissing, the author of Stop Smoking For the Last Time: You Can Unlock the Power to Quit Struggle-Free, your wilpower has nothing to do with it. With hypnosis and neuro-linguistic programming, Mr. Wissing has helped countless smokers quit in about an hour. The following is an excerpt from his book which I think can provide some fascinating insight on how you can gain power to break your smoking habit for good this year.
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Nothing can make you do what you truly do not want to do. This is a universal law: nothing can force you to change your will. As you believe you’re receiving benefits from smoking or overeating, you will resist stopping. While you hold onto the desire behind your addiction, there will be an internal struggle that stirs up internal conflict. Willpower against inner desire is a poor strategy. Willpower seems to disappear at times of stress, tragedy or worry. The willpower struggle can be summarized like this:
My addiction may kill me, so I should stop,
But I enjoy it or it can serve me well right now,
So deep inside, I still prefer my addiction (I’ll take my chances).
So, smokers and overeaters do not lack willpower, the problem is they currently will to smoke or eat because of inner belief system built up over a lifetime.
The Better Way Than Willpower
Jim was driving his pregnant wife, Jill, to the hospital. Jill was urging him to hurry because the baby was definitely on its way. As Jim sped down a single-lane country road, he spotted a mule up ahead, blocking his way. Jim honked his horn, to no avail. He jumped out of the car and started pushing and pushing and grunting and grunting. The mule would not move. Jim came back to the car, defeated. Jill said, “Maybe I can help.” Jim laughed, “How could you possibly help? You can hardly move.” She replied, “Reach into my lunch bag there and grab a carrot.”
Jim finally got the mule to move with no effort at all. The carrot was a better plan. Effort is not always the best solution. Using willpower is like pushing the mule—you can keep pushing and pushing, but failure usually occurs, and you get exhausted and frustrated. Is it hard to move a mule? If you do it the willpower way, it certainly is!
One of the most common reasons I hear when I ask smokers why they want to stop is, “I have to stop.” My immediate response is, “You do not have to do anything.” Let’s face it—you can depart this world in any way you choose. Nobody has to stop smoking even if it is killing him—we have the right to choose cigarettes over life. It’s a free world.
People will tell you it is impossible to move a mule because they are so stubborn, yet a better plan is all it takes. When you DECIDE fully to stop smoking, with every part of your mind, you will no longer need strong willpower. When you truly DECIDE, there is an Energetic Finality, and the conflict subsides. When you DECIDE to change your mind about smoking and realize it does nothing for you, then you no longer have to stop. Instead, you really want to stop. When you realize that bingeing does not serve you and only hurts you, you can also begin to curb your eating problem. Sheer willpower says, “I will stop doing something that I really want to do.” A shift in perception says, “I just don’t want to or need to anymore.” In other words, you can smoke or overeat if you choose to, but you now just choose not to. This is a much more powerful position than, “I have to”. This shift in perception overrides the willpower struggle. It is an Energetic Finality that ends the conflict completely.
What is willpower, anyway? In my opinion, the word “willpower” has gone quite awry. My favorite definition is the one found in the 2003 edition of Webster’s Dictionary: “energetic determination.” The same dictionary also defines the word “determination” as “ending a controversy” or the “resolving of an argument—this is exactly what needs to happen to end addiction, both an argument and a controversy needs to end. The way to end a conflict is with finality—a final DECISION that cannot be reversed. Too bad this definition of willpower was replaced with “self control”.
It takes guidance to reach such a change in perception and it also takes some good change techniques. To reach a level of DECISION that releases the power to quit struggle-free is attainable and happens spontaneously but this is also where a good hypnosis professional can help.
An Energetic Finality to end smoking or overeating can be assisted by Hypnosis and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). When you use hypnosis, the experience of shedding your addiction can literally be struggle-free because the willpower battle becomes unnecessary. You can reach a conflict free state called congruence, and your your brain will rush to your assistance with an energy that frees you from your old thought patterns.
One scientific explanation for this is top-down processes of the brain discovered in 2005 by neuroscientists. Both overeating and smoking are conditioned, or learned, behaviors. And scientists have discovered top-down processing power in your brain 10X stronger than your learned behaviors. Hypnotic suggestion has been proven to activate these powerful processes in the brain, so hypnosis can be very useful in breaking addiction instantly and struggle-free.
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George Wissing, author of the book, Stop Smoking for the Last Time, is a Hypnosis/NLP Professional, Inter-Faith Counselor and Life Coach who is very focused on getting results for his clients. To hear about other’s successes or to get more information call 914-937-5460 or go on his website at www.QuitStruggleFree.com. He also has tools online to help anyone, virtually anywhere.
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