| There are numbers of methods and techniques | | | | One of the major requirements before starting any quit |
| presented in order to help smokers give up cigarettes | | | | smoking program is the inner motivation and |
| for good. Amongst the many, one of the fastest | | | | determination to stop smoking. There are times |
| way and considered more beneficial is the Stop | | | | when smokers stop smoking because they feel that |
| Smoking NLP (Neuro Linguistics Programming) | | | | they should or they are pressed by close people to |
| programs. Though this isn't the total solution, NLP can | | | | stop smoking. Listing yourself in every stop smoking |
| be the major support of your endeavor in quitting | | | | programs will never give a good outcome if you don't |
| cigarettes. | | | | submit yourself seriously. You should want it for your |
| What is NLP | | | | own good or else smoking will be a never ending |
| - Neurorefers to the neural network that is connected | | | | issue. They are classified as internal and external |
| to the brain. The nerve cells which are also known as | | | | prompts. Here are the following examples: |
| neurons are the working team of the nervous system | | | | Internal Prompt: Once you are very much aware of |
| which act by sending, receiving, and storing signals that | | | | the harmful effects of smoking to your health and the |
| is converted into information. | | | | reason behind the urge to quit is the illnesses you can |
| - Linguistics are the verbal and non verbal outputs that | | | | possibly acquire. Another case is when you realize |
| passes through and across the pathway. | | | | the effect of second hand smoke that you produce to |
| - Programming works by converting signals into useful | | | | your family and friends and you have this desire to |
| information. The brain functions by directing signals, | | | | stop smoking in order to avoid the consequence they |
| arrange it, and modify it according to our previous | | | | might suffer because you love them. These |
| experiences or it can also create a connection to | | | | examples are strong enough to make stop smoking |
| other experiences stored and change it into thinking | | | | NLP program successful. One of the benefits isthe |
| patterns and behaviors that are essential. | | | | support you get from family and friends that brings out |
| The explanation may be too broad. To sum it up it | | | | the optimism in you rather than supporting the |
| simply means that NLP makes used of language and | | | | negativity by forcing yourself to stop smoking. |
| communications as an effective means to reprogram | | | | External Prompts: One very common example of this |
| your brain for a change in behaviors. Topic wise, it | | | | is a wife that nags you everyday of your life of the |
| allows to change your behavior towards smoking to | | | | consequences of smoking, of how bad your breath is, |
| not smoking. | | | | and other related issue. This becomes your primary |
| How does NLP work? | | | | reason to quit smoking and submit yourself to |
| It is a broad topic and hard to answer it in a concise | | | | therapy. Indeed the reasons are valid to make you |
| manner. The simplest way to understand NLP is to | | | | stop smoking but the reasons are not powerful |
| keep in mind that the main concern of this program is | | | | enough to fight the urge and the cravings to smoke |
| the use of communication. Communication to others | | | | cigarette. Once the desire becomes strong the |
| and in the case of cease smoking it is a | | | | smoker will definitely smoke because the cost of not |
| communication within yourself in a way that will make | | | | smoking is bearable. On the other hand internal |
| you analyze your ideas of the environment and the | | | | prompts are more effective because you put yourself |
| person with in you. You then transmit the message | | | | into a challenge and if you give in you will be failing |
| by performing a mild hypnosis to yourself through | | | | nobody else but yourself. |
| words and actions that will give you a chance to | | | | This doesn't mean that external prompts are not |
| change your emotional attachments to events like | | | | effective. By the statement above it only magnifies |
| smoking. | | | | that internal prompts are stronger motivations than the |
| This isn't a hocus focus strategy or a science based | | | | external push. |
| program but a way of influencing your own way of | | | | The last paragraph do not address directly to NLP but |
| thinking that is flexible, personal and works! | | | | it points out the essential factor that one should |
| Can NLP work for me? | | | | consider such as the desire to succeed, the willingness |
| There are a lot of positive reactions towards NLP | | | | to be flexible and to change ways in order to have a |
| program but there are some thoughts you need to | | | | successful program. |
| consider before taking the steps to a new change. | | | | |