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What Works: A Proven Way to Quit Smoking for Good
April 25, 2008
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 willpower 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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