hello i'm Dr. Keli Henault from Henault Hypnosis and wellness and i'd like to take a moment with you to talk with you about smoking as you know smoking is really serious business according to the center for disease control there are four hundred eighty thousand people that die per year from smoking in the u_s_ and also according to the center for disease control smokers die anywhere between twelve to fourteen years premature so we're talking about smoking quitting smoking this is really serious stuff because we're talking about your quality of life this is life-threatening situation here now as you know smoking is a habit and an addiction it's a habit in that you associate with other things for instance you won't be thinking about smoking but if all of a sudden you know you have coffee and you associate it with coffee once you have coffee, you want to have a cigarette or sometime people associate it with alcohol or driving home from work that's the habit component there's also an addiction component the addition component is very very powerful now you are not technically addicted to the nicotine although most people think they are nicotine is one of the ingredients in cigarettes but there are lots and lots of ingredients in cigarettes so what you actually addicted to is the physiological changes that take place in your body from all the chemicals in the cigarette and also that belief and that's keyed up believing that information inside that corpus callosum that pleasure center of the brain says smoking is my savior and that's the psychological addiction component with hypnosis, what i do as i go in there i help you reprogram your mind to become nonsmoker not to stop smoking but to become a nonsmoker because you actually had to hypnotize yourself to become a smoker to begin with the first time that you had a cigarette you didn't have that cigarette and think oh wow this makes me feel fantastic you actually had to bypass everything that your body was telling you and you told yourself oh it's not that bad it makes me feel cool, I'm part of the in-group and then before you know if you accepted the suggestions that you're going to be a smoker and then you became a smoke. when you tried to stop, it was a challenge with hypnosis i'm going to go and help you change all that programming that you did way back when so that now you programming is that of a non-smoker thanks very much for listening my name is Keli Henault with Henault Hypnosis and Wellness and the website is w_w_w_ henaulthypnosisandwellness.com and the phone number is 51 340 0390 thanks