Stop Smoking Through Hypnosis How to Quit Smoking Using Hypnotism
Smoking is the biggest single preventable cause of death in most western countries and a major cause of heart attack, stroke and vascular disease.
The National Heart Foundation says that by the year 2025 – if the existing smoking trends continue – the world will see about 10 million deaths annually from tobacco, 3 million in developed and 7 million in developing countries. To put that in perspective, that’s about three times the population of New Zealand, or half the population of Australia.
Dramatically Improve Your Health
The good news is that by stopping smoking, a person can halve their chance of suffering a heart attack – the act of quitting nicotine is the most fundamental thing a smoker can do to dramatically improve their health.
It’s not your fault if you are a smoker – nicotine is a highly addictive substance. It has a grip on you both physically and psychologically. Some say that giving up smoking is harder than giving up heroin.
An analysis by New Scientist Magazine back in 1992, found that hypnosis, in one session, had a success rate of up to 60 per cent in helping people stop smoking. Acupuncture came in second at 24 per cent, followed by nicotine replacement therapy (10 per cent) and pure willpower alone; ‘cold turkey’ (6 per cent).
Become ‘Fully Committed’
Research by the American Journal of Preventative Medicine has found that, on average, less than seven per cent of smokers who attempt to quit smoking on their own, are successful in being nicotine-free a year later. A massive 93 per cent fail, because they only used their conscious mind in their efforts and were therefore not ‘fully committed’.
What this means is that while a smoker may say to himself that he, or she, wants to quit, this is only the conscious mind thinking. If the subconscious already has an ingrained belief that ‘I can never give up smoking because I’ve tried before and it is just too hard’ then this will override any conscious thinking to the contrary.
Hypnotism can help convince your subconscious mind to install a new belief that you are really a non-smoker and to then to guide you to live your life that way.
Hypnotism is Painless
Under a hypnotic trance your subconscious can be convinced that you have a strong aversion to the taste, smell and sight of cigarettes. You need both conscious and subconscious will-power to kick the nicotine addiction and hypnosis can strengthen your motivation and help you sustain this will power. Under hypnosis you can overcome fears of gaining weight and change your habitual reaction to situations when you automatically reach for a cigarette.
Hypnosis can be used to discover the underlying needs that smoking attempts to satisfy for an individual, such as to justify taking a break or as a reward.
It can be used to reinforce someone’s motivation to quit, to strengthen their resolve to make healthier lifestyle choices, to lessen feelings of anxiety, to reduce cravings, or to enable them to be less affected when around others who are smoking.
Hypnotism Audio – A Great Tool
Hypnotism is no ‘quick fix’ and many experts advise that it should only be one tool from the toolbox – including diet, exercise and developing a more positive outlook – that a smoker needs to use to quit the habit. The number of hypnotherapy sessions needed depends on the individual, their personal history and current situation. Some believe that quitting smoking with the use of hypnosis requires two to five sessions, and the cost can be allayed by using hypnosis CDs or tapes, with recordings of the hypno-therapist’s voice.
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Ways to Investigate Hair Loss
There are many reasons why you can be losing your hair. There are many causes of hair loss that include stress, poor diet, ALOPECIA or genetically related. Male pattern baldness is a popular term used where you can see a man’s hairline go back. Often experts state that this is an inherited state. How this begins is often with a receding hairline and thinning on the top of the head. Depending on the severity of hair loss, there are definitely treatments out there.
Certain types of medicine are known to slow down the process and even help with some form of hair re-growth. Often this is in the form of MINOXIDIL or Rogaine which is applied to the scalp and get be bought with a prescription. It is normal to lose approximately 50 to 100 hairs per day. What makes hair interesting is the rate at which it grows. There are three phases of growth. One of the phases is ANAGEN- this is where the hair actually grows. CATAGEN phase is shorter about two to three weeks when the hair stops growing. Finally the third phase is TELOGEN when the hair is resting. A follicles resist to DHT they say is genetic – thus why some people go bald and others do not. Hair loss prevention can begin with proper nutrition. You definitely want to absorb the right foods, vitamins and minerals to help you keep your hair shiny. There have been reports and tips on just washing your hair a few times a week to allow the natural oils in your body to stay there. They say proper brushing will allow you to strengthen up your existing hair.
Doctors believe that excess DHT is an apparent cause of hair loss The causes of hair loss aren’t well defined; however, researchers have uncovered that men with male pattern hair loss have increased levels of DHT in the balding area of their scalps. Individual hair usually follows a cycle of expansion, falling out, and new expansion. However increased levels of DHT are believed to contribute to the shortening of the expansion phase and a shortening of the time it takes for the hair to fall out. This results in thinning of the hair on the scalp. There are things that you can do to prevent or stop hair loss. First of all, get some help via knowledge and research.
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Shifting Paradigms In Hormonal Therapy Of Breast Cancer
Until recently tamoxifen occupied the central stage in adjuvant (post operative) hormonal treatment of breast cancer. Tamoxifen has been the unchallenged hormonal therapy of choice for adjuvant treatment of early stage breast cancer for over two decades.
Things have changed now. A new group of hormonal drugs that has been introduced few years ago has almost replaced tamoxifen as the treatment of choice for early stage breast cancer. This new group of drugs known as aromatase inhibitors has been shown to be more effective than tamoxifen over and over again.
This new group of drugs however is not effective in premneopausal women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. Tamoxifen still remains the hormonal treatment of choice for women with breast cancer who have hormone receptor positive early stage breast cancer.
This new group of drugs known as aromatase inhibitors acts by inhibiting an enzyme called aromatase, which is responsible for production of small amounts of estrogen in post-menopausal women. Estrogen production from the ovaries in premneopausal women is not depended on aromatase hormone, and that is the reason why this drug is not effective in premneopausal women.
Three drugs belonging to the group of aromatase inhibitors are currently FDA approved and available for treatment of breast cancer. These drugs are anastrozole (Arimidex), letrozole (Femara) and exemestane (Aromasin). All these are active drugs are generally considered to be equally effective.
Aromatase inhibitors may be useful even if a woman has already been started on tamoxifen. Aromatase inhibitors can be taken for five years after completion of five years of tamoxifen. A clinical trial (MA-17) has shown that if Femara is taken for another extra five years after completion of five years of treatment with tamoxifen, this would result in improved outcome. Other trials (ABCSG trial, ARNO trial 95, and ITA trial) have shown that it is beneficial to switch from tamoxifen to aromatase inhibitors after two to three years of treatment with tamoxifen.
Aromatase inhibitors have already shown to be superior to tamoxifen in the treatment of hormone receptor positive metastatic (cancer that has spread to distant organs) breast cancer. In this situation Femara is currently the drug of choice and tamoxifen have moved to second or third position as an option for hormonal therapy.
One thing is clear. The very foundation of tamoxifen as the hormonal treatment of choice is shaking and the aromatase inhibitors are here to stay.
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