Stop Smoking Injections

Small Vitamin B shots are given at a couple of acupuncture points near the nose and on the earlobes. The injections stimulate these acupuncture sites and thereby produce their effects (which patients report as a decreased craving), thus helping you to get through the critical early phase when you’re most likely to go back to your cigarettes. If you feel squeamish about the shots hurting, we also have a topical anesthetic cream to help.

Patients have had remarkable success with some stop smoking injections, and it is generally considered a one-time treatment. However, a repeat injection can be provided later if you feel yourself gravitating back to the desire to smoke.

We request that you return to see us for a follow up visit with your doctor in two weeks, and we may call you periodically to see how you’re doing.

American pharmaceutical companies are on the phone regularly, enquiring whether the Universiteit Maastricht could do a study in the field of 'giving up smoking'.

There is one going on right now: an American company wants to work together with the UM to develop a vaccine that will make the physical addiction a thing of the past with a single injection. At the moment, a trainee assistant is investigating whether giving up smoking would be easier with the aid of antidepressants.

At the same time, there are quite a few people at the UM, such as the director of education at Arts and Culture, who regard themselves as contented chain smokers. A staff manager at Health Sciences wanted to quit, stopped, knitted until her fingers fell off, started smoking again, and gave up smoking for good last week.

Something that undoubtedly a lot of smokers would be interested in is a vaccine that would cure their physical addiction in one shot. It sounds futuristic, but (perhaps) it is not. At this moment Van Schayck is involved in negotiations with an American company concerning the development such a vaccine.

The Americans ended up with the UM, he says, because it has the greatest expertise in this field in Europe, especially in the departments of Health Information, GP Medicine, Lung Diseases, and Health Risk Analysis and Toxicology. Parties are currently working on a protocol, after which the Ethical Committee will have to agree, because healthy volunteers will be used as test subjects.

How does such a vaccine work? Nicotine is a molecule that very quickly reaches the brain once it has entered the bloodstream. Because the molecule is so small, it easily slips past the so-called blood-brain-barrier.

That is where it comes in contact with nicotine receptors, causing the release of dopamine. It is this substance that causes the feeling of satisfaction. The vaccine contains a protein that attaches itself to nicotine, making it too large to slip through the blood-brain-barrier. As a result, no dopamine is released.

American experiments on rats and guinea pigs have been successful. The first injection is followed by a second one a few weeks later; after a few months, subjects receive a so-called booster, which is like a powerful repeat. The animal tests have shown that this is enough to eliminate physical yearning for a few years.

The idea is brilliant, but it is quite a job to create a protein that does not have any side effects. We think that smokers who have been freed from the physical addiction will find it easier to stop smoking.

Hypnotic Therapy to Treat your Smoking Problem

Hypnosis Along with weight management, smoking cessation is the most popular medical use of hypnosis. Hypnosis helps a person learn to deeply relax, and then to be open to suggestions that strengthen resolve to quit, and increase negative feelings toward cigarettes. Self-hypnosis is the natural extension of these tools, allowing the person to maintain the calm state developed in a hypnosis session. Guided imagery is similar to hypnosis, and involves creating negative images about smoking and positive pictures that help bolster the strength needed to quit.

It is no new concept that the mind affects the body. As far back as 350 B.C. Hippocrates, known as "the father of medicine," stated that all feelings and emotions start in the brain, and that those feelings and emotions are the source of any disease in the body. Hippocrates reasoned that if you can influence the brain, you can influence the body.

So, if you are living in Greece at this time you might get the chance to attend the Medical School and Guild founded by Hippocrates on the Aegean island of Cos, and you might even get the chance to read one or more of the seventy impressive volumes that he wrote, known as the Hippocratic Corpus. There would find the very beginnings of the search to find the connection between mind and body.

A review of nearly five dozen studies showed that while hypnosis may have some effect as an anti-smoking treatment, it is by no means an end-all and be-all treatment for smoking cessation.

According to Green, one of the key problems in determining the effectiveness of hypnosis as a smoking cessation treatment is a lack of a standard way to conduct hypnosis. Across the studies, hypnosis treatments varied in the types of questions that were asked; the number of treatments each subject underwent; and the inclusion of other smoking-cessation interventions. At the Hypnosis therapy of Houston can help you with your smoking problems with ease.

The first step to positive change wants to change and knowing you can. Hypnosis enables you to unlock the unlimited powers of your subconscious mind and serves to empower you to make positive changes to improve all aspects of your life: business, family, sports, health and so much more.

There are a lot of websites that are designed to give you information about Hypnosis and hypnotherapy so that you can make a confident and comfortable decision about using Hypnosis to make those positive changes in your life.

Many different kinds of change can be addressed using this method. It is usually used for people who have bad habits including stop smoking, weight loss, nail biting, and much more. There is a great chance of success in using this way of quitting.
Shyness, anxiety, workplace problems, academic skills, stage fright, and relationship difficulties are other common issues that this can help people resolve using hypnosis.

There are also many other beneficial ways to improve yourself, say for example, you Want to perform better as an athlete or public speaker? Hypnosis can help you achieve your problem.

The emphasis in my sessions is to give you tools that you can use, on your own, to help make your life more enjoyable, successful, and relaxed. With our one-on-one sessions we can show you how to unlock the power of your subconscious mind. It is that untapped resource, along with your true desire to want to change, that will be the key to your success.

At Hypnosis Therapy of Houston we are results oriented. We focus on your issues at hand and every hypnosis session is designed specifically for you. Give us a call and let us guide you down the path to a healthier more positive life. The new you is waiting.

Stop Smoking Hypnosis

When it is all in the mind, then it is all about stop smoking hypnosis

The saying. “ It is all in the mind”, is exactly what stop smoking hypnosis sessions are all about.

The dangers of smoking have been studied and analyzed for years. The detrimental effect of smoking on people’s health and their activities is now public knowledge. Because of this awareness, many people who have become addicted to smoking are now looking for ways to quit.

Every medium of treatment has been tried and tested to help people stop the smoking habit. As technology evolves, so does the treatment. The newest addition to the “stop smoking campaign” is hypnosis.

Hypnosis to stop smoking works at eliminating the desire to smoke. It is believed that the need to smoke is only present in the mind and people have the capacity to control them.

In this hypnosis therapy, smokers are divided into two kinds of categories; the identification and the replacement smokers.
Identification smoking is the most common and the easiest to eliminate in the stop smoking hypnosis therapy.

This is one of the most common factors attributed to smoking. It is when the smoker indulges in the habit because he admires or associates with others who smoke. It can be parents, peers, or celebrities.

Replacement is when smoking takes the place of a previous habit. It is used to replace something that is missing. It fills a void created by anxiety or boredom.

Replacement smokers often receive sensual gratification from smoking. They enjoy the feeling of the cigarette in their mouth or the taste of the tobacco. For cigar and pipe smokers, the act of lighting often becomes a ritual.

Most stop-smoking programs work at increasing the individual’s strength to resist the desire to smoke. They rely on willpower, and for most people that is the worst method for quitting smoking. Willpower fluctuates like moods and emotions. One day it may be strong, the next day it may be weak.

For both types of smokers, smoking is both a physical and mental process. So to be effective, the stop-smoking program must address both aspects through hypnosis.

To address the psychological aspects of smoking, the hypnotherapist may include an evaluation of why the person started smoking.

What purpose does it serve in their life? Why is it hard to stop?
For the identification smoker, suggestions can be given to help strengthen a person’s perception of the individuality; example, not needing to smoke to be accepted.

For the replacement smoker, a more detailed analysis of their motivation is required.

The hypnosis therapy to stop smoking may include suggestions that change the perception of the taste from pleasant to unpleasant. The individual can imagine cigarettes as unappealing, bad tasting, foul smelling and revolting in every sense of the word. This makes quitting easier.

Hypnosis takes advantage of the mind’s natural ability to imagine and visualize. The client pictures themselves free from the habit, filled with new health, energy and vitality. They can see themselves as looking healthier, more attractive, and being more active.

Once a smoker has achieved success in a stop-smoking hypnosis program, it is necessary to reinforce the programming that led to quitting.

Smoking is a habit that is acquired and built over time. It can rarely be completely eliminated in an instant. Even though they may have stopped smoking, the behavior pattern still remains.

Hypnosis conditioning to stop smoking can be used to reinforce the changes until they become permanent.

Stop Smoking Herbs

One of the difficulties in trying to quit smoking is that smokers become physically dependant on nicotine. Smoking affects the parts of the brain that relate to reward and pleasure.

Short-term smoking cessation, that is, stopping smoking at the end of a stop-smoking program, is easier to attain than long-term smoking cessation.

Regardless of the method used to stop smoking, once the stop-smoking treatment method is withdrawn, a variety of factors can affect the individual so as to induce re-initiation of smoking.

Generally, if a person has stopped smoking for a full six months, the chances of starting smoking again are very low. Therefore, six month cessation rates, one year cessation rates, and two year cessation rates are similar regardless of the method employed.

Short term smoking cessation success may depend on the extent to which the intervention provides regular reinforcement of the stop-smoking effort. A person left to his or her own is more likely to resume smoking than a person who daily encounters someone who reinforces the stop smoking attempt.

Those who take up smoking in their teens and maintain the habit for many years have more difficult time quitting smoking than those who take up smoking later in life.

The “early-onset” smoking addiction may correlate with genetic and behavioral patterns that lead to addiction, while “late onset” smoking is more often a habit of choice. About 80% of U.S. smokers begin their habit by age 18.

Nicotine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter and dopamine. The nature of nicotine is that it creates a cycle of positive reinforcement within your brain that makes you want more.

Scientists have found that when you withdraw from chronic nicotine use, it results in changes in these neural pleasure pathways. And the effect on the brain is similar to what someone addicted to cocaine, opiates and other drugs experiences. Hence, depression and anxiety are common.

Fortunately, some resourceful modern herbalists began applying traditional knowledge to a modern problem. In Ayurvedic medicine, common garden variety oats is used to treat opium withdrawal.

The herbalist Anand, using a tincture applied this same reasoning to nicotine withdrawal, with significant results.

In a group of 26 heavy smokers, he gave an oat tincture, and in another group of 26, he gave a placebo.

The group who took the oat tincture smoked less cigarettes, and this effect remained for two months after they stopped treatment.

The herbalist Weiss theorizes that it is the sedative effect of oats. Oats contain as active constituents the indole alkaloid, gramine, and the alkaloids avenine and trigonelline. Oats are described in herbal medicine texts as helping create a feeling of well-being whilst simultaneously acting as a tonic to the nervous system. But unlike narcotics, these are mild, non-habit forming effects.

The following formula has been formulated for those trying to stop smoking. In a 50ml bottle, mix the following herbal tinctures:

• 15ml green oats
• 10ml white horehound
• 10ml mullein
• 5ml golden seal
• 10ml peppermint

Take 6 drops on the tongue whenever the craving to have a cigarette is felt.

Acupuncture is also an excellent support option. HerbMed offers the following herbal option, to be used on appropriate acupuncture points.

Mix oil of cloves, oil of wintergreen, an extract of evodia fruit, an extract of sichuan lovage rhizome, and msg, and apply to specific acupuncture points.

Unfortunately, they don't say which acupuncture points, but this may be determined by what each person presents with.

Why do you need immediate help to stop smoking?

Because of those you care and love you very much. Will you be alive long enough to see that they will be well off?

How do you go about seeking help in order to stop your smoking habit?

1. You can check out some of the programs that your local hospitals or health centers are organizing. These people only want to give you all the help they can give to make you stop smoking.

Enroll yourself. A program called "Breathe Easy" that was started in the US in 1985 has claimed a high success rate. You might like to check if it is available up to now.

2. Learn to play a musical instrument or pick up a hobby. Anything that will distract you from picking a stick every now and then.

3. Seek the support of your family, friends or colleagues. Find someone who has the same habit. Oftentimes, it helps to stop smoking with someone whom you know is going through the same turmoil as you.

4. Avoid situations where you will get to smoke. When you are pressured or anxious, cigarette is one way of getting distracted from those emotions. Try to do something else instead.

5. Distract smoking urges with exercise, manual tasks, making phone calls, or by eating fruits or munching on carrots or fruits.
Help yourself fight the urge to smoke. Try some distraction.

6. To stop the urge to smoke, help yourself by drinking lemon-infused water. Add 2 tablespoons of lemon juice to a glass (300ml) of water and drink it 4 times a day.

7. Get a piggy bank and put in the money you will use to buy cigarettes. Be amazed how much is collected. Just think of all the money you could have saved if you would only stop the smoking habit.

8. Women with PMS should try not to quit before their menses as it can increase nicotine withdrawal.

9. Commercial products like nicotine gum, nicotine inhaler, nicotine patch, nicotine nasal spray, and nicotine-free pill can help you stop smoking gradually.

Visit a doctor or pharmacist to ask for help about which stop smoking product will suit you best. Giving up is difficult because of nicotine addiction. This is the substance that is not cancer-causing.

10. According to the experts in the medical field, xeronine is an alkaloid synthesized in the body and plays a key role at cellular level. When we take in foreign alkaloids like nicotine, cocaine, heroin and caffeine, which mimic xeronine's natural function, the body's proteins adapt to them and alter the need for xeronine to an unnatural need for foreign alkaloids. To overcome this addiction, flood your body with xeronine just like you originally flooded the body with foreign alkaloid.

At present noni is known to be the best source of proxeronine, a precursor to xeronine.

To treat this addiction, place a few drops of noni juice under the tongue every hour. This will release proxeronine straight into the bloodstream from the soft tissue under the tongue to the brain. Repeating this procedure every hour will help flood the brain with this useful compound and allow the brain to subsequently prefer xeronine than nicotine.

The body does not get addicted to xeronine and thus noni is not addictive.

From among the choices given above, choose one that will help you stop smoking now.