Hypnosis has been used to entertain people in night clubs and TV variety shows over the years.

But, it has also been used to help people access their inner minds ability to overcome many bad habits. And yes, it has also had some success in helping many people overcome their bad habit of smoking tobacco. There are many deep biological reasons that make it extremely difficult for a person to just stop without some extreme measures being taken.

Any long time smoker will confirm the pleasurable feelings that overwhelm them when they smoke. And to deprive them of that feeling will cause a most unfavorable response from their bodies. However, if we could trick their bodies into thinking they were NOT being deprived, then we might have a good chance of succeeding.

It seems there are mixed emotions when it comes to the subject of smoking.

While many people almost get sick or offended at the smell of tobacco smoke, there are those who can not get through a day without it. I suppose there is not a single smoker who has not thought to themselves at least once that they would be much healthier people if they could ditch the habit. But, that thought passed just as quickly as it came.

Unfortunately, the odds of a person actually succeeding is almost like the odds of winning the lottery. With odds like this, it is not hard to see why many people have turned to alternative ways to try to lick this habit.

Hypnosis will not be able to make it possible for someone to quit cold turkey.

However, it does work well when the person reduces their intake a little bit at a time. For example, if a person smoked 30 cigarettes a day, they could conceivably reduce their intake by one cigarette a day, each day for one month. By the end of 30 days they would have quit smoking.

When done in a step by step manner, this hypnosis thing can work for many people. Remember, many smokers have been smoking for ten, twenty or thirty years. Over this much time, the body has developed a physical addiction to the various ingredients within the cigarettes. Depriving a person's body of these substances well be met with much opposition in the form of uncontrollable cravings that will be extremely hard to overcome.

A habit such as that needs to be treated over a good little bit of time to wean the body off of it. The body can be tricked into thinking everything is alright, but this well not happen with just any old quick fix method.