Smoking: What Continuing to Smoke Really Does To Your Body

Smoking Causes Your Health to Decrease and Impacts Your Quality of Life

Smoking causes your body to be attacked by poisons and toxins that have a real impact on your body. Your body responds by:

• Ears: hearing loss
• Throat: cancer, voice deepening
• Lungs: wheezing, trouble breathing or shortness of breath, pain and tightness in the chest, frequent coughing or heavy chest colds, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or asthma, lung cancer
• Stomach: ulcers
• Blood: high blood pressure, increased white blood cell count, weakened immune system, causes your entire body to take longer to heal
• Brain: stroke
• Eyes: Cataracts, blindness, loss of night vision
• Mouth: oral cancer, cavities, bad breath, sores in the mouth
• Heart: heart disease, heart attack, bad circulation, tingling in hands and feet, feeling cold all the time
• Bones: bone disease, bone density loss, more broken bones, easily broken bones

Smoking Increases the Risk of Many Types of Cancer

• Lung
• Stomach
• Throat
• Kidney
• Mouth
• Bladder
• Esophageal
• Cervical

If you smoke you are 10 times more likely to get cancer than a person who has never smoked.

What Happens To Your Body After You Quit Smoking?

• 20 Minutes Later: Heart rate and blood pressure drop to more normal levels
• 12 Hours Later: Carbon monoxide levels return to normal
• 48 Hours Later: Nerve endings begin to regenerate — you can smell and taste better
• 2 Weeks Later: Lung function begins to improve
• 1 Month Later: Coughing and shortness of breath decrease
• 1 Year Later: Risk of coronary heart disease is cut in half
• 5 Years Later: Risk of stroke decreases to that of a non-smoker
• 10 Years Later: Risk of dying from lung cancer is about half of a smoker

By quitting smoking, you reduce your disk of diabetes, lower your cholesterol, improve muscle strength and add YEARS to your life.

After being smoke-free for 10 years, your disk of all smoking-related cancers decreases by up to 50%.

There are so many benefits to being free of smoking.

Hypnosis Helps You Quit Smoking Naturally

Hypnosis has been used to help millions of people quit smoking around the world.  Studies show hypnosis has the ability to make powerful change in peoples lives — not only helping them to initially stop smoking, but to remain smoke free.

If you have tried other methods and failed, hypnosis is the way to reach your goal of being smoke-free.

Hypnosis helps you relax, reducing the need for a cigarette

Our hypnosis practitioners guide you into the trace state, where you are deeply relaxed and we access the subconscious mind. A new, smoke-free state of mind is introduced.  We help you to relax and simply allow peace and calm to flow through your body.  Many of our clients report their first session is life changing, saying they have not felt this way before.

Click here to learn more about hypnosis and its high success rate.

Click here for additional studies showing the effectiveness of smoking cessation hypnosis

Click here for results of a study conducted by the American College of Chest Physicians that show hypnotherapy’s results on smoking cessation

You’re Ready to Quit Smoking and Reclaim Your Health Today

You already decided to be smoke free — and you’re ready to use hypnosis to make the change you desire and deserve in your life.

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We can work with you in-office, via phone, via Skype or via Apple Facetime worldwide. Scheduling is fast and easy online. We are happy to answer questions at anytime by calling our office or send an e-mail to: questions@meridianpeakhypnosis.com.

Our Practitioners Are Committed To Your Success - Click to Schedule

Marc Holm, CHt Initial Visit (90 mins) Follow-Up Visit (60 mins)

Jodi Grubman, CH Initial Visit (90 mins) Follow-Up Visit (60 mins)

Lisa Murphy, CH Initial Visit (90 mins) Follow-Up Visit (60 mins)

Additional Information:

• Wikipedia - Hypnotherapy
• Wikipedia - Self Hypnosis
• National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH)

More information on the costs of smoking:
• Smoking Can Cost You $1 Million to $2 Million in a Lifetime | Money.com