Giving Up With Hypnosis.

Hypnosis, is quite simply the most powerful device for personal development and positive change. Why? Because it utilises the most powerful part of your creative potential - your imagination.
Long gone are the days when hypnosis was seen as a guy waving a pocket watch from side to side in front of you and controlling your mind.
You Don't need to see a hypnotherapist in order to enjoy the benefits of hypnosis. There are tapes, CDs, DVDs and even online mp3 downloads available. (see below for some sites that have these available).
A hypnotic state is most often compared to daydreaming, or the feeling of "losing yourself" in a book or movie. You are actually fully conscious, but you tune out most of the stuff around you. You focus deeply on the subject at hand, excluding almost every other thought.
Self Hypnosis is a wonderfully relaxed state that enables you to access the deep and powerful subconscious mind. It is a very pleasant experience and one that you will enjoy. You can listen to a pre-recorded hypnosis session in the comfort and safety of your own home, morning, noon or night.

Below are 3 sites that deal with hypnosis, and shoud between them be able to cope with all your hypnotic needs. As you will see on some of the sites hypnosis can be used for almost anything , not just smoking.

Better Living With Hypnosis .com is a great site that will cater for ALL your needs. There is an excellent FAQ section (Frequently Asked Questions), should you need to find anything out before purchasing.

Richard Mckenzie Direct .com To start the journey on this site just download and listen with headphones via your computer or MP3 player. Alternatively you can just burn the program easily to a disc and listen to it on a CD player. They also have a Full 8 week - 100% Money Back Guarantee.

Fresh Start Method.com Another site with all the info you could ever need via the FAQ section.....and again an 8 week guarentee.

Vattie

Things To Try

There are many ways one could try to kick the habit, as this blog goes on i shall be looking at other ways which one could use to give up. I went cold turkey (more on how/why this suited me the best later in the blog). Whether this is for you will depend entirely on how motivated you are to stop. Nicotine is a highly addictive drug, and most smokers will carry on smoking through addiction rather than choice. It has been said that  if 100 people stopped smoking with willpower alone, then only 3 of them would be cigarette free one year on. So stats go to prove that very few people will suceed on willpower alone, but that isnt to say it isnt worth trying this option, you may just be one of the lucky 3 out of 100. So if, after trying, willpower didnt cut it for you then we will need to look at what other options are available to you, which are proven ways of helping you become the  non smoker that you yearn to be. There are many things, patches, lozenges, tablets, chewing gum plus many many more available to assist you. Over the duration of writing about  my story of giving up i will also be looking at some of the other options that may be able to help you......One of which is Hypnosis which is the first one i will be looking at.

Vattie

So Why I decided To Give Up

In short, i felt that i had to......my body was telling me it was time, i was getting out of breath by just leaning over and doing my shoelaces up, anything energetic was out of the question. I was coughing and spluttering like a man of 80 But apart from the symptoms my body was showing i still had my wife and 2 daughters constantly reminding me what i was doing to my "insides".

After doing a little bit of research i was finding bits of useful information on what benefits would there be if i gave up smoking before i hit the big 40, obviously there are benefits to giving up at any time, but the benefits get less and less the longer you leave it. The 2 key points that gave me the incentive to stop now rather than later were:

1. If you quit by the time you are 40, you could live nine years longer than if you carried on smoking
2. If you give up smoking before the age of 35-40 your life expectancy is very similar to those who have never smoked.

So that was that, i have the big 40 coming up and i wanted the old saying "Life begins at 40" to be true, and it not to be the beginning of the end.

Vattie

My Blog.....The 1st Post

Welcome to Smokefree-Lungs

My name is Vattie, and  i am very very new to this Blogging lark, so please bear with me. This blog is, without doubt, going to look very dowdy and amateurish for awhile until i find all the buttons on how to present it with some style and charisma, which i am hoping to do within a short space of time.

The reason for writing this blog is because i am proud of myself...very proud indeed, and i want to tell everyone, well everyone that wants to listen. I gave up smoking 5 weeks ago, having smoked for 26 years, from the age of 13 to my present 39 by going Cold Turkey. This blog isnt going to tell you how to do it, nor is it going to tell you that it is easy......because it isnt. What i want to do is tell you my experiences of going from 30 a day for 2/3 of my life to nothing overnight....my feelings, my moods, how my eating habits have changed right through to things like sleep patterns ,new cravings  and how it has affected my family.

Hopefully this blog will grow into a hive of resources and backup for anyone wishing to give up smoking.....it can be done and i hope i can be of help to anyone else contemplating doing it .

best wishes

Vattie