Can’t stop smoking? Hypnosis may just be the answer you need. Hypnosis can address the deeper issues in the conflict around quitting smoking. The hypnotherapist is well skilled in dealing with smoking cessation and has treated this issue many times before with great success and accomplishment. Hypnosis can be the answer for those who have tried other methods to stop smoking.
Hypnosis addresses the three major components of smoking cessation and, in one or more sessions, can help you get through those particular issues. The first issue is that of trying to avoid the acute triggers that cause you to smoke, like smoking after a meal, smoking on work breaks, and smoking at a bar when drinking. The hypnotist will put you in a deep and peaceful hypnotic trance and will give you suggestions like “You will not smoke the first thing in the morning” or “You will not smoke in bars or restaurants” or “You will have no urge to smoke after a meal.”
When you want to stop smoking with hypnosis, you must address the issue of nicotine addiction. Nicotine addiction gives you restlessness, irritability and shakiness when you are low on nicotine. Nicotine patches or gum only partially treat these symptoms. The hypnotist will put you in a deep hypnotic trance and will give you specific suggestions related to nicotine addiction like “You will learn to be calm when withdrawing from nicotine” or “You will not feel any untoward symptoms after being off of nicotine” or “The shakes will dissipate as soon as they occur when you withdraw from nicotine.” These are thing that directly affect how on responds to nicotine withdrawal and will make the process easier to tolerate.
There are long term issues to consider when dealing with smoking cessation. One can stop smoking with hypnosis if these particular issues are addressed. Often when a person has quit smoking, they still have long term triggers like being around others who smoke, having a spouse who smokes and simply feeling the urge to smoke under certain circumstances that can get in the way of long term success.
The hypnotist addresses these long term issue and can continue the process of stopping smoking. After putting the client in a hypnotic trance, the hypnotist gives suggestions like “You will not have the urge to smoke around your spouse” or “Other people’s smoking won’t bother you”. This will lead to long term success in smoking cessation in a susceptible individual.
People have different susceptibilities to hypnosis. When trying to stop smoking with hypnosis, it may take one or several sessions to seal the message to the brain to allow the recipient to think, feel and act differently around smoking. Certainly there are those that can quit after one session and they do well afterward. Others need several sessions to deal with the different issues involved in smoking before the procedure “sticks” and the client can finally quit smoking. It is a very successful method of smoking cessation, especially when used with thing s like the nicotine patch or nicotine gum.
For anyone who has struggled with weight loss, hypnosis may just be the answer. Hypnosis has a good track record for helping those who need to lose some excess weight. To begin the hypnosis process, the recipient is placed in a deep, peaceful and calm state in which they are receptive to suggestions about weight loss. Hypnosis works by giving suggestions that are integrated into the brain of the subject who then awakens with a renewed sense of purpose in losing weight.
Hypnosis as a process is done by a hypnotherapist who, after putting the subject into a trance, then says things like “I am a thin person inside” after which the subject repeats it. He or she also says things like, “I have no desire to eat fatty foods” or “I have no desire to overeat at all.” The subject takes these things in and assimilates them into their thinking.
When it comes to weight loss, hypnosis can provide post hypnotic suggestions that help the person change their behavior after they awaken from the hypnotic trance—even changes in their behavior they are not aware of where they come from. It can take a single session of hypnosis to affect weight loss or it can be several sessions, depending on the susceptibility of the subject and the effectiveness of the hypnosis.
One of the more positive effects on weight loss, hypnosis can do no harm to the client and can bring about a change in the eating and exercise behavior of the client. It is rare for hypnosis to go overboard and result in an eating disorder. Most hypnotherapists try not to use statements that could lead to an eating disorder.
Most people who try hypnosis for weight loss have tried several other methodologies to lose weight, from Weight Watcher’s to medically supervised diets, and it is not until they get into their minds with hypnosis that long lasting and positive changes are made.
In the struggle with weight loss, hypnosis arises as an answer to the mental portion of what makes people eat too much. Hypnosis can also address the issue of exercise, giving suggestions like “You like to exercise an hour each day” or “Exercise makes you feel good about yourself.” This can provide the added component of getting enough exercise in order to lose weight. Hypnosis can also provide posthypnotic suggestions on exercise saying things like, “I will feel myself wanting to exercise every day,” or “Exercise makes me feel energized when I do it.”
Through the combination of exercise and weight loss, hypnosis can direct itself at all aspects of the weight loss process. An individual can often lose a hundred pounds or more after just a few hypnosis sessions. They feel better about themselves and they begin to feel the power of the hypnosis as the pounds are shed. At some point they may see the hypnotherapist to maintain their healthy habits rather than to keep losing. This represents the maintenance phase of weight loss and is also very important.
Open rhinoplasty is one of the two basic types of “nose job,” the other being closed rhinoplasty.
In open rhinoplasty, the surgeon creates a small incision in the column of skin that is between the two nostrils (the columella). The reason for this incision is that it lets the surgeon lift off the skin from the tip of the nose. Many other incisions will be made inside the nose, whether the procedure is open or closed rhinoplasty. But the extra incision across the columella gives the surgeon easier access to the structures inside the nose. For most people, the scarring from this incision is minimal to unnoticeable after healing.
The open rhinoplasty technique allows the surgeon to operate on the cartilage in the nasal tip while it is in its natural position. It is easier for the surgeon to visualize exactly what to do to reshape the tip and to accomplish it more easily.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both open and closed rhinoplasty techniques, and some cosmetic plastic surgeons are strongly devoted to one technique over the other. If you’re considering rhinoplasty, you owe it to yourself to find out what the advantages and disadvantages to the two techniques would be in your specific situation. Some surgeons are skilled and experienced in both, and use whichever procedure he or she feels will benefit the individual patient most.
Reasons for choosing open rhinoplasty over closed include the following:
- the tip of the nose is excessively wide or asymmetrical
- the tip of the nose projects out too far from the face
- the tip of the nose does not project far enough from the face
- the nose is excessively long or has a drooping tip
- the nose is very crooked.
The extra incision used in open rhinoplasty does not make a significant difference in recovery from the procedure. That is because the skin will heal faster than the cartilage and bone anyway. The underlying question in each case is whether the cut gives the surgeon access that is superior enough to warrant the tiny scar left on the columella by the open rhinoplasty procedure.
One factor patients should consider is that open rhinoplasty is (according to some surgeons) easier to learn and easier to teach. In other words, open rhinoplasty is the technique that most practicing nasal plastic surgery specialists today learned. But some of the advantages are inarguable. For example, the cause of an asymmetrical or twisting tip can be more easily found with open rhinoplasty. The surgeon can also place structural grafts such as tip grafts by using the open technique. The open procedure is particularly favored when reconstruction of the tip of the nose is necessary.
Disadvantages of open rhinoplasty include the fact that the operation will take a little longer, and that there will be more swelling at the tip of the nose after open rhinoplasty. For those prospective patients who need no tip work at all, open rhinoplasty creates a little more risk and unnecessary trauma.
Mike Brains is the editor and owner of www.cosmeticsurgeryguru.com you can find other nose job articles on his site.
There was a time a couple of years ago when I was a major fitness freak – I would wake up at the insane hour of 4.45, be at the gym by 5.30, and work out for an hour or so. Then later on in the evening, after putting in at least 6 hours of work, I would be on the racquetball court, raring to have a go at as many games as I could. And unless I was out of town or on vacation, this was my iron-clad routine every single day of the week.
I thought I was being diligent and dedicated to my fitness goals, but it took just a few short months to show me that I was being a fool by not providing my body with adequate rest. It was only after my body started aching and I began suffering one injury after the other that I slowed down and realized the mistakes I was making, the biggest of them being that I was not allowing my body enough time to rest. Rest is important when you want to become fit because:
- It helps rejuvenate and relax your muscles and joints: If you work out with weights or strength-train to build and tone your muscles, it’s important to take a day off to allow your muscle tissue to heal from the damage and miniscule tears it suffers. Repetitive cardio exercises cause strain and stress on your joints, and if you don’t take adequate rest, you could end up with a serious and chronic injury. Rest helps rejuvenate your aching and damaged muscles and joints.
- It keeps exercise fresh and appealing: When you allow yourself a day or two of rest every week, you look forward to getting back to your workout the following day. If it’s going to be exercise day in and day out, day after day, there will come a time when you’re going to be disillusioned with your workout. You hit a plateau, both in terms of weight loss and enthusiasm, and are in danger of giving up altogether. So keep your workout routine fresh and appealing by providing your body and mind with adequate rest.
- It prevents injuries and accidents: Unless your muscles, joints and limbs get enough rest, you’re bound to slip up, suffer accidents, and cause injury to yourself. You must listen to the warning signs your body is sending out and act accordingly. If you fail to exercise caution when you exercise and push on in spite of all the pains and aches, you’re going to suffer a serious and potentially debilitating injury.
When you take the road to fitness, you must remember to make the right stops too so that you’re not too tired and drained to go any further. In general, it’s best to take two days off exercise every week, not necessarily together. Also, you must sleep soundly every night for at least 7 hours if you want to remain in peak condition. And finally, supplement your workout with the right diet – lean proteins, good carbohydrates, wholegrain, nuts, and fruits and vegetables.
Note: This guest post is contributed by Amy S. Cook, who writes on the topic of LVN to RN. Amy welcomes your comments about this article.
