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Rheumatoid arthritis is the most common inflammatory form of arthritis and affects approximately 2.1 million Americans. For years, it has been common knowledge that rheumatoid arthritis is more common in women than it is in men. The ratio has ranged any where from 60-70 per cent women greater than men.

Now… a new Finnish study has proposed that rheumatoid arthritis tends to affect women much more aggressively than it does men.

In the study, women tended to complain much more of symptoms like aches, pains and tiredness even when they appeared to have the same level of disease as men.

Details of their study of over 6,000 patients from 25 countries was published in the January 2009 issue of Arthritis Research and Therapy.

In this study, men and women were asked to complete questionnaires about their disease and underwent x-rays and multiple laboratory tests to assess how advanced their arthritis was.

The lead researcher, Dr Tuulikki Sokka, stated, “The level of rheumatoid arthritis appears to be pretty much the same in both sexes but the symptoms of joint tenderness and things like that appear to be worse in women. We found that women tell us they have more severe symptoms.”

While it is tempting to hypothesize it is because women are “weaker”, which is what the Finnish researchers posited, it is more likely that other factors account for this finding.

It may be that muscle mass plays a role and that damage due to rheumatoid arthritis may become much more apparent and symptomatic because of this factor.

Hormonal imbalance may play a role since rheumatoid arthritis is not only more common in women but it tends to go into remission in women who become pregnant. This is a phenomenon that still defies explanation.

Women also tend to be less reticent to voice their complaints.

Another possibility voiced by British researchers commenting on the study suggested that women may actually have more severe disease than men do.

Measurements of disease activity are not gauged according to gender. In clinical trials, measurement of disease activity is the same whether the patient is male or female. This may skew results in a study of this magnitude.

Women may actually suffer from a more severe variant of the disease.

This hypothesis is supported by another observation.

The British researchers commented that when they looked at the data, they noted that women tended to have more erosions (destruction of bone) than men did.”

Nathan Wei, MD FACP FACR is a nationally known board-certified rheumatologist. For more info: Arthritis Treatment and Tendonitis Treatment Tips

As more and more alternative medicine is becoming popular, it’s not surprising that people would shy away from drugs to ease their pain and look for something that isn’t as likely to have side effects. The TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) machine is one of the more popular methods for easing pain and can now be found easily on the market.

While TENS can aid with all types of pain relief, it is particularly popular among those who suffer from chronic pain and who are usually becoming resistant to pharmaceutical painkillers. Using stronger and stronger drugs in order to make it through the day doesn’t mesh with everyone’s philosophy and that’s why they start looking for alternatives like TENS.

How It Works

Essentially, TENS machines work by shooting electrical pulses through electrodes that are attached to the skin. These pulses interrupt the electrical signals that are sent to the brain to let it know that your body is hurting. By interrupting them, the pain is eased or even eliminated.

There are two ways the TENS machine is thought to work.

Low Frequency: The lower frequencies, 2-5 Hz, are believed to cause the body to react. The reaction creates natural painkillers, or endorphins. The endorphins block the pain naturally and while popular, this isn’t the usual method of using TENS.

High Frequency: For more intense pain, higher frequencies, 90-130 Hz, work to actually interrupt those pain signals being sent to the brain. This is the most common use for the machine and while you start slow, it’s not uncommon to need to up the frequency to find the best block.

How to Use It

Your machine should come with detailed instructions, which should be followed. However, there are some general use instructions that we can list here.

Make sure the machine is off before applying the electrodes. You can test to ensure that it’s working by turning it on while holding the pads in your fingers. If it tingles, it’s working.

When putting the electrode pads on, be sure to avoid any sensitive or irritated areas and only apply to clean skin on either side of the pain. Electrodes need to be covered in conductive gel and must be placed at least an inch apart, preferably a little further. Tape them down if you plan to be moving around much.

Turn the machine on at its lowest setting and gradually turn it up until you can feel the tingle. You will need to feel a fairly strong sensation, but not painful. If the current causes muscles to contract, turn it down. The length of the session is up to you. It will need to be at least 45-60 min. but you can safely use the machine for up to 12 hours. At the end of the session, turn it off and remove the pads.

Who Can Use TENS

This technology isn’t best for everyone. Some people get more of a benefit than others and some won’t notice much of a difference in pain levels at all when using TENS. Also, if you are pregnant, have a pacemaker, epilepsy or a heart disease, you should stay away from this type of treatment. In some cases, TENS is used during labor, but in this case, you would need to consult a doctor.

As an alternative pain treatment, you’ll find that this works best on muscle pains, or those in the joints or caused by nerves. The electrical pulses are far less effective on things like headaches, chest pains or stomachaches and intestinal issues. That being said, there aren’t any real side effects from the use of this machine, so you can certainly experiment to find out whether or not it works for you.

TENS can be a useful alternative to drugs. It’s worth trying if you suffer from chronic pain.

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People, who have serious problems with anxiety or stress and see their life falling apart because of that, may find a quick solution in pills and drugs. It really sounds great to take a medicine and feel better, but the fact is that anxiety medication side effects can be even worse than the initial problem. That’s why one needs to be very careful when turning to drugs to treat anxiety and panic attacks – although these problems may be debilitating, the safest method of treatment is through therapy although medications should not be discounted for short term relief while therapy is on-going.

The most common drugs used for the treatment of anxiety are the ones belonging to benzodiasepines, such as Xanax or Valium. Their main advantage is that they kick in really fast and they seem to help the patient deal with his problem very effectively. This is true, but only partially. Benzodiasepines are indeed popular because of their fast acting, but they are also massively associated with a series of disorders ranging from simple headaches and nausea to heavy addictions.

Actually benzodiasepines are known to trigger the development of dependency on them, which occurs normally after a period of tolerance and increased dosages. Combination of these pills with other drugs or alcohol could prove even lethal. For this reason, using medication as a long term way of dealing with anxiety is problematic. It is far better for the patient to seek therapy and deal with panic attacks psychologically.

There is an undeniable truth when it comes to those pills. The higher the dosage and the amount, the more pronounced the side effects will be. Of course not all people react the same way to drugs, so in some people even the lightest usage or small dose can have really negative results. IT is important to remember that none of us should take pills without consulting with an expert, and under no circumstances for a long period of time, no matter how severe his case might be.

People who are susceptible to depression, or have a history with psychological disorders should avoid anxiety medication as much as possible, because they are notorious for enhancing the sentiment of failure and fear after some time.

Although some drugs can be well tolerated when taken in small doses and for short time, there are some side effects that can appear. In most people anxiety medication side effects include nausea, nervousness, sleepiness, headaches, upset stomach and disturbed digestive system, lightheadness, and weight gain. Practically there is no way to avoid those symptoms except for avoiding the pills at the first place.

Sometimes cutting off pills could also be problematic, and provoke some side effects, mostly related to withdrawal symptoms. The most common is of course anxiety and stress, nervousness and even shaking or trembling and people should be aware that this is the normal reaction of the body as it is trying to detoxicate itself. Anxiety medication should not be taken without the advice of a doctor, and only if other therapies fail to succeed.

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I am a huge believer in having goals. While some people spend too much time setting goals and not enough time achieving them, most people do not put much thought into goal-setting. When it comes to weight loss, it is especially important to set realistic goals.

By realistic, I do not mean “I want to lose 30 pounds in 30 days.” Oh, I’ve seen those claims many times. I’ve seen the claims of marketers that say their products can do that for you. I’ve also seen the claims of people that have said they can accomplish that feat. Can you lose 30 pounds in 30 days? Sure, but it is not healthy at all and will almost certainly return at some point in the near future. A good portion of this extreme weight loss will be in the form of muscle and that will kill your metabolic rate. For more on this, check my article on “Weight Loss vs. Fat Loss”.

So, what is a realistic amount of fat one can lose in 30 days? I would say, stick to the mantra of 1-2 pounds per week. That would mean about 4-8 pounds per month. Now, that may not sound like much, but let’s put it into a bit of perspective. Say you were to only lose one pound of fat each week. After one year, that would be 52 pounds! What if you had started losing one pound per week a year ago? Now imagine yourself this time next year at 52 pounds lighter. You may not even need to lose that much weight.

The key to weight loss goals is patience, realism, and a constant effort toward achieving them. At two pounds of body fat per week, after 13 weeks (3 months), you will have lost 26 pounds of body fat. That is very significant. It requires a lot of effort over the course of three months, but it is definitely attainable. If you have a significant amount of weight to lose, this would be a good goal to start with. Close to 30 pounds in three months is much more realistic that 30 pounds in 30 days.

One note that I should make is concerning detoxification diets. I am actually a big proponent of the detoxification process as long as it is done properly. I will deal with this subject in a future article, but for now you should know that it involves eliminating certain foods from your diet (while sometimes adding certain natural supplements) in order to rid your body of toxins that have been stored over time. The detoxification process can lead to a large drop in excess water weight in a short period of time. This would mean that you may lose an additional 5-10 pounds of weight on top of the 1-2 pounds per week of body fat in the first 2-4 weeks. It is not an easy process, but it is definitely healthy and certainly worth the effort.

Other than that, I would recommend sticking to two pounds per week for a short-term aggressive approach and about 1.5 pounds per week for a longer-term goal. Remember that these pounds add up over time. Don’t check the scale every day as you will get discouraged quickly. Rather, stick to checking every two to four weeks. Also, take some measurement of your body and take note of how your clothes are fitting. Often, these are better indications of how your body is changing. Take pride in these accomplishments and don’t stress over the numbers.

Set goals. Make them aggressive but attainable. Set both short and long term goals and then go take action on them. Most importantly, be consistent because your efforts really will add up all the time. That will make you very happy in the end.

Matt Maresca is a Certified Personal Trainer by the National Academy of Sports Medicine. His passion is to help rid the world of fads, gimmicks, and misinformation concerning weight loss and teach the principles of healthy weight loss. His website http://www.schoolofweightloss.com does just that.

Ideally, the food we eat is supposed to provide us with the vitamins and minerals our body requires but the diet of most people lacks many of the needed nutrients due to over processing. When people suspect their basic dietary needs are not being fulfilled they should consider taking vitamin and mineral supplements.

There is a long tradition of delivering vitamins, minerals and other nutritional supplements in the form of pills, capsules and tablets. However, in recent years it has been discovered that the most effective way to have your body absorb vitamins and other nutritional supplements is in liquid form and delivered through an oral spray or a dropper. There are various reasons why liquid supplements are more advantageous.

Liquid supplements allow a person’s body to directly absorb the nutrients into the bloodstream within seconds through the buccal mucosa (the cells of your mouth). Pills, capsules and tablets are designed to be broken down in the digestive track where absorption and benefits could take hours.

The highly respected Physician’s Desk Reference contains research that states that only about 10% to 20% of the nutrients in vitamins pills are absorbed into the human body. The rest ends up as waste. It also states that absorption of liquid supplement drinks or sprays can be 98%. Other research shows that liquid supplements can be up to 10 times more effective than nutritional supplements in pill form.

Additionally, pills, capsules and tablets are made with many “inactive” or binding ingredients that have no benefit to the body and actually inhibit absorption. All you need to do is read a few labels on vitamin containers and you’ll see a list of these “inactive” ingredients that include wax, talcum powder, sugar, yeast and starch all which make it more difficult for the body to breakdown and eventually absorb the active ingredients.

Taking pill-type supplements can be tedious and unpleasant for many people especially the elderly. They cannot stand throwing pills into the back of their mouth and forcefully trying to consume them with a glass of water. Due to the varying sizes of pill type supplements many people experience a gag reflex, and the dry and chalky after-taste becomes a barrier. All of these problems are avoided by the use of liquid vitamins and supplements.

In general, using liquid supplements, particularly delivered by a spray or dropper, is much more effective and convenient to carry about and administer. They taste good and the body does not need to work hard to absorb the active ingredients. When sprayed or dropped in the mouth and held for 10 to 20 seconds the nutrients are absorbed and enter the bloodstream in seconds or minutes not hours it takes for pills. Many health experts now believe that this delivery system is most beneficial to the body considering that it offers a quicker full delivery of nutrients. Other than having them delivered through an IV at a doctor’s office or hospital, a liquid or spray is the best most cost effective way to receive your daily vitamins and supplements.

Marshall Swerman, a successful business person, has been studying and working in the area of nutritional solutions, aging and the effects of proper spray supplements on quality of life and anti-aging. Go to http://www.renuva.net and find out about his high-grade supplements, HGH and their effect on aging.

Do you really want to make it easy for yourself to quit smoking? Hypnosis can tap into the power of your subconscious mind to cure your cravings. In order to help you quit smoking, hypnosis helps you turn negative habits into positive, healthy behaviors. So just how does it work?

Think about how you automatically drive a car. If you have been driving for any number of years, we’ve practiced every small action that goes into driving a car thousands of times. In fact, you’ve practiced them so many times that they have become automatic.

That’s why sometimes, when you’re preoccupied with something else, you can arrive at your destination and not remember driving there. You drove on autopilot, because you’ve done it so many times that your subconscious was able to take over for you.

You’ve created your habit of autopilot smoking the same way you’ve created your pattern of autopilot driving. You’ve smoked so many times, in so many situations, that most of the time you reach for your cigarettes and lighter without even thinking about it. You have actually trained your subconscious mind to make you smoke on autopilot. Your subconscious is performing the actions that it has been trained to do. But the actions are killing you.

The good news is, you weren’t born with a cigarette in your mouth. As a child, and maybe even as a young adult, you spent several years of your life as a non-smoker. That means your subconscious mind has a solid memory of “not smoking”. That’s really good news.

Even though you smoke on autopilot right now, you also know how to “not smoke”. You have direct experience being a non-smoker. So you don’t really have to learn a new behavior. You just have to unlearn a more recent (and deadly) behavior. And that’s what hypnosis can help you do.

Hypnosis can help your subconscious mind connect with your earlier experiences of “not smoking”. And it can help you practice being a non-smoker… over and over again. A good quit smoking hypnosis program helps you reconnect with the automatic part of your brain that knows how to “not smoke”.

Yes, it sounds kind of strange at first. But if you think about it for a moment, it makes a lot of sense. Connecting with that part of your brain that knows how to “not smoke” is especially powerful if you really want to stop smoking. Your strong desire to quit will act like fuel to ignite your motivation.

Many people have success the first time they use a quit smoking hypnosis program. But a lot of people have to try a second, third, or fourth time (or more) before they quit smoking for good. If you’re one of the people that has try to stop more than once, don’t be hard on yourself. Everyone’s situation is different.

Some people are lucky enough to start their quit smoking program during a calm time in their lives. Other people, even with the best intentions and motivation, quit smoking right before an unexpected life changing event happens. They get laid off, or their daughter announces she’s getting married. Even good things can be stressful.

A wedding or a new baby on the way can be wonderful news, but they still create stress. And stress is the number one trigger for most people to start smoking. That’s why self hypnosis has such a great long term track record with ex-smokers. Self-hypnosis is based on learning relaxation techniques. And if you practice them often enough, they turn into healthy new automatic habits that you can use for the rest of your life.

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Do you really want to quit smoking? Hypnosis is the most painless method you can possibly choose. Compared to using patches, pills, other drugs or cold turkey methods to quit smoking, hypnosis techniques are extremely gentle, easy to use and easy to learn.

If you’ve ever known anyone who has tried to quit cold turkey, you probably steered yourself clear of them for several weeks or months. At the very least, they’re cranky and grouchy. At worst, cold turkey quitters can be just plain mean and completely unpleasant to be around.

And they can be very short tempered. They’ll shout about silly things like who ate the last chocolate chip cookie, when there’s a full, fresh box sitting in the cupboard. Sometimes they’re so overly sensitive they’ll cry if you burn the toast.

If you’ve ever tried to quit cold turkey before, you may have even done some of those things yourself. Quitting smoking is a tough process, and cold turkey is anything but painless and gentle.

But when you quit smoking using hypnosis, you learn easy ways to handle your temper and emotions. When a strong nicotine craving grips your gut, you won’t need to grit your teeth to force yourself not to reach for a cigarette. Instead, you’ll have gentle mental techniques you can use to ease your way through.

And have you ever known anyone who tried to quit using nicotine replacement gum? Or have you ever tried it yourself? The gum tastes like the floor of a pub after closing on a busy Saturday night.

Even if you’re desperate to quit smoking, it can get really difficult to force that nasty-tasting gum into your mouth.

It gets to the point where you feel like you’re punishing yourself for quitting, instead of rewarding yourself. Chewing nicotine-laced gum is definitely not a pain-free and gentle approach to stopping smoking.

Hypnosis, on the other hand, has no disgusting after taste. And it doesn’t get harder and harder to do the longer to try it. In fact, just the opposite it true. It gets easier and easier the longer your use it.

The mental techniques you use when you quit smoking with hypnosis actually begin to become new habits themselves. You’ll find that you begin to use them automatically when nicotine cravings arise. But instead of reaching for your cigarettes and lighter, you’ll be able to just start mentally running through your hypnosis routine.

And have you ever had to stop in the middle of whatever you were doing (watching the play-off games? visiting at a friend’s house?) just to drive to the nearest store to pick up a fresh nicotine patch? When your patch runs out of juice, the nicotine cravings are just as strong (and painful) as when you were smoking.

Does that really surprise you? It shouldn’t. Stop and think about it for a minute. There’s only one difference between using a cigarette or cigar to fill your body up with nicotine and using a patch to do it: the patch doesn’t create smoke.

The patch is definitely easier on the environment. And the people around you will breathe more easily because you’re using it. Technically, you may have quit smoking when you use the patch. But you haven’t quit your nicotine addiction. And those killer cravings will keep coming back to haunt you.

But with a hypnosis program, when you get a gut-wrenching craving for nicotine right in the middle of your best friend’s wedding, you won’t have to grit your teeth in agony. Instead, you’ll only have to remember your hypnosis cues and mentally put them into play. Nice and easy. They’ll be available for you to use whenever and wherever you need them.

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Quit smoking hypnosis programs address behaviors that quit smoking drugs don’t. Drugs might help you get through the physical nicotine withdrawal symptoms more easily than quitting cold turkey. But if you really want to quit smoking, hypnosis programs do a better job long-term

One of the reasons for the low success rate of non-smoking drugs long-term, is that they don’t address your “smoking rituals”. If you’ve ever tried these stop smoking drugs yourself, you’ll know what I’m talking about

Sure, you slap a patch on your arm or your hip, and it takes the edge off of the nicotine cravings. but you still have the feeling that you should be smoking when you’re sitting in that favorite chair and where you see that cut crystal ashtray sitting on the table, or when you finish a meal.

And you actually feel physically uncomfortable when you don’t perform the smoking rituals that you become used to. When you reach into your pocket and you don’t pull out a pack of smokes, or when you reach into your purse, and you don’t pull out that fancy lighter, it feels like there’s something missing. You just feel uneasy.

Now, if you’re a long time smoker, what you do to make yourself feel better whenever you feel anxious or uneasy? Right. You have a smoke…or two or three…and you calm down and feel much better.

But if you’re trying to quit, now you’ve got a real dilemma. If you used to smoke one pack a day, that’s 20 cigarettes, you are now feeling uncomfortable and anxious at least 20 times a day. But you can’t have a cigarettes to make you feel better!

But wait, there’s more. How about all of those other times during the day that you feel anxious or upset, when you couldn’t have had a cigarette anyway. You know, like when your boss is yelling at your about the report that’s overdue, or a nicotine craving hits in the middle of church service.

You used to at least be comfort yourself by the thought of having a smoke as soon as you got out of the office or the church. But now you can’t even take comfort from looking forward to your future smoking time!

That’s exactly where a good self hypnosis program to help you quit smoking comes in. You can think of it as a training program to help you learn to become a non-smoker again. After all, there was a time way back in your past when you didn’t smoke.

There was a time, at least when you were a child, when you didn’t smoke when you felt nervous. You might have sucked your thumb or chewed your nails. But you didn’t smoke. So you know you can successfully live without smoking.

A lot of people use the smoking cessation drugs, like the patch or nasal sprays, to help them get through the physical nicotine withdrawal. They are designed to wean you gradually off of nicotine. Over a period of several weeks, you get smaller and smaller amounts, until you finally don’t use them at all.

But many people also use hypnosis to help them get through the mental withdrawal of losing their smoking rituals. They combine hypnosis with the quit smoking drugs. They take advantage of all the help they can get.

Smoking cessation hypnosis programs can also help you develop healthy new habits to replace your old smoking rituals. So when you feel uncomfortable or restless during the day, you can use a healthy response to make yourself feel better, instead of smoking.

Over time, the healthy techniques that you learn during a quit smoking hypnosis program replace your old bad habits. And that’s the way people successfully stay off of cigars or cigarettes forever.

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You already know you want to buy a quit smoking hypnosis program. But there are so many to choose from! How can you tell which one is best for you?

First you have to decide whether you want your hypnosis program to be live-in-person, or if a print or audio version will suit your needs. Here are three things to consider: your personal learning style, your available time, and finally…how much will it cost?

First, what is your personal learning style? Some people learn better when they can talk to another person. They like to ask a lot of questions, they like to get feedback or they simply want reassurance. If that sounds like you, you might want to consider a one-on-one and hypnosis counseling program to help you quit smoking.

Or you might want to consider a group counseling, setting. Many people benefit from interacting with other people who are going through the same experiences. Peer support can be useful if you like using the “buddy system”, or if you like doing things in a team environment.

Next, you have to consider how much time you have available, and how flexible you can be with that time. Individual and group hypnotherapy sessions require scheduling. You have to make a commitment to show up in person at a given time, on a regular basis.

For people who have routine schedule already, it may be just a matter of putting another date on the calendar. But if you’re one of those people who already has so many things on your calendar that it’s overflowing, it might be difficult for you to squeeze another commitment in.

Or what if your schedule is unpredictable, or changes every week? Even if you really have your heart set on joining a quit smoking group, or having a weekly face-to-face meeting with your smoking cessation counselor, it just might not be practical for your lifestyle.

Last, there’s the matter of cost. Of course, if money is no object for you, you can just skip reading this paragraph! But for most people, money is a consideration. And even though your cash flow will improve when you stop buying cigarettes or cigars, you might still have to think about your budget.

In-person hypnotherapy programs for smoking cessation are not cheap. They can cost $100 per session or more. Now multiply that by the number of sessions that you’ll need to quit smoking. Now you have a good estimate of how much smoking counseling might cost you.

If that’s more than you want to or can afford to spend, there are still really good options available. You can purchase a quit smoking hypnosis program in print or in audio for a one-time cost of less than $100. You can buy stop smoking books or CDs, or downloadable e-books or MP3 files that you can play on your iPod.

These quit smoking hypnosis programs are just as effective as the in-person approach for many people. And they’re especially good for people who like to be able to review their lessons. If that sounds like you, then you’re in luck. There are a lot of great products to choose from.

You’ll have to decide whether you want a product that you can read, or if you would prefer a product that you can listen to. Sometimes you can even find both options in one product.

But even if you have to be concerned about your budget when you buy a program to help you quit smoking, make sure that you don’t make your purchase based on price alone. Sometimes the cheapest really is the best. But if it’s not, you deserve the best that you can afford. After all, it’s your life.

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You’ve already decided to quit smoking. Hypnosis is just one of the methods you’ve heard about. You know someone who’s using nicotine gum to quit, and he says it tastes like dirty socks. And you’ve already tried cold turkey a couple of times and remember every agonizing minute of it. So the quit smoking hypnosis program sounds pretty good. But aren’t those programs really expensive? Won’t they cost more than nicotine patches or pills?

Of course, if you’re really concerned about the expense of quitting smoking, there’s no need to tell you that your smoking habit is already costing you a small fortune. You already know that your money is literally going up in smoke. And if you didn’t already know it yourself, your friends and family are more than happy to tell you how much money you’re wasting…over and over again. It’s one of the many reasons you want to quit.

So, as long as the quit smoking method you finally choose costs less than what you’re spending on cigarettes or cigars, you’ll be coming out ahead, right? Maybe not.

Do you know how much those other quit smoking methods really cost? Nicorette gum can cost you more than $100 a month. Using a nicotine patch can also cost you more than $100 a month. And how about those nasal sprays and inhalers? Well, they’ll cost you anywhere from $100 to $400 per month or more. And prescription pills? There’s another hundred dollars per month, at least.

And that’s just the beginning. Smoking cessation programs that use these methods usually plan for you to be on them for two to six months. So you could be looking at a cost of anywhere from $200 to more than $2400 to quit smoking

Of course, double or triple that amount would still be worth it if you really quit smoking for good using those programs. But 8 out of 10 people who use quit smoking drugs end up smoking again after spending all that money. And if they want to try quitting again, using those same methods, they’ll need to spend that same amount of money or more the next time around.

Now compare those costs with the cost of learning how to use hypnosis to quit smoking. Depending on the program you use, hypnosis for quitting smoking can cost anywhere from $40 to $500. Of course, it’s more expensive if you choose to find a hypnotherapist and go to one-on-one, in-person counseling sessions . And it’s less expensive when you buy a book or CDs, and learn to use self-hypnosis.

But whether you learn the techniques in person from a therapist, or from a book or from an internet download, the hypnosis tools you use to quit smoking are just as effective . That’s because what you’re really learning is how to use self-hypnosis to cure yourself from both your physical addiction to nicotine, and from your mental and emotional smoking habits.

When you use gum, patches, sprays, inhalers or pills you’re spending money to address your physical addiction to nicotine. Yes, the nicotine replacement drugs address the physical cravings. But they don’t help one bit with changing all of your day to day smoking behaviors, habits and rituals.

That’s probably the biggest reason why drug approaches alone aren’t very effective for quitting smoking in the long run. When you really want to quit smoking for good, you’ll need to learn how to handle all of the cravings that come up…physical, mental and emotional.

Hypnosis has the best track record for long term success for smoking cessation. You’ll learn effective methods to handle the physical cravings of nicotine withdrawal. And you’ll learn techniques to deal with those slippery mental and emotional triggers that can get you off track on any given day if you’re not prepared.

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