Hypnotherapy to Quit Smoking
When you started smoking, you knew it was addictive but you probably didn’t realize how addictive it truly was. Now, if you’re trying to quit, you have a good idea. Quitting smoking is probably the most difficult task you’ll ever try to accomplish. You can quit, though, it’s not impossible, you just have to want to quit.
To assist with quitting, some are trying hypnotherapy to help them put down that nasty habit for good. To learn more about how to quit smoking with hypnotherapy, contact a hypnotherapist near you. By going under hypnosis, a hypnotherapist is reprogramming your brain to think like a non smoker. The idea is to combat the craving you feel every time you want a cigarette, thus causing you to quit. You can also learn how to quit smoking with hypnotherapy by asking others who have gone under how the experience worked for them. After all, the best resource to help you quit smoking is talking with others who have quit the habit themselves. (more…)
March 12, 2008
Herbal Appetite Suppressant to Reduce Appetite
That a food addict cannot help but eat without real cause, or cannot even exercise restraint, is quite well known and what was originally just a liking for particular foods may have developed into uncontrollable and binge eating without any regard to the consequences which will only lead to a not so magnificent obsession. And, when such food is not available, then withdrawal symptoms set in, including chills, dizziness and headaches as well as inability to concentrate and also nauseous and lethargic feelings. What’s worse, food addiction can lead to other addictions and unless suitable means of treating the food addiction are found, the problem could even turn life threatening. (more…)
March 8, 2008
Food Addiction Therapies
If you have come to the point where you recognize that you need help with your food addiction, you are probably wondering what food addiction therapy means. Food addiction therapy is similar to other addiction therapies in that it is meant to educate you about your food addiction, help you to overcome the food addiction and to support you during the time of transition to a healthier relationship with food.
The goals of food addiction therapy are to help you lose weight safely while returning to a healthier eating routine and to help you to recognize and deal effectively with the emotional triggers for your symptoms while offering long term support. (more…)
March 6, 2008
Combating Those Fast Food Addictions
Although there is still debate in the scientific community as to the causes of fast food addictions, many people willingly admit that fast food addictions exist. This is because you can become addicted to anything – shopping, your lover, checking your e-mail, video games, let alone fast food. This is due to the nature of the human brain. That’s the bad news. The good news is that you can fight fast food addictions with your brain, as well.
Go To the Doctor
If you suspect that you might have any kind of addiction, talk to your doctor as soon as you can. He or she will not be shocked. They will have heard everything. They might say there is no such thing as fast food addictions, but that is meant to calm you down and not chide you. Doctors can help point you in the right direction for any kind of dieting problems. Even so. it will still be up to you to actually do something about your fast food addictions.
It Will Not Be Pretty
Withdrawal symptoms from fast food addictions, or any kind of addiction, can be painful and powerful enough to take over your life. You may feel ashamed that something has such a hold on you that you start to devote most of your time and money into planning and getting hold of the fast food. Everyone has their crosses to bear – so don’t waste time pitying yourself. Turn that energy into anger and MOVE.
Keep yourself distracted while your body is going through any pains, shakes, headaches or any other kind of withdrawal symptom. Don’t sit still, unless your doctor has prescribed you tranquilizers to help you get through this often exquisitely painful time. But since many doctors believe that fast food addictions are urban legends, you will probably not have the crutch of tranquilizers.
One of the best things you can do is clean. Clean anything, even if it’s only one coffee cup. Many people find they get a sense of accomplishment turning dirty things into clean things. You can point to the cleaned object and prove that you did something constructive. You can also walk, swim, do needlepoint, play with the dog, write articles for web sites or do just about anything else to keep your mind and your body from its pain. You want to exhaust your body so you won’t stay awake longing for a burger or fries all night, which can be a miserable feeling.
March 2, 2008
Hypnotism for Curbing Sugar Cravings
If the thought of hypnotherapy freaks you out of your gourd, you don’t have to do it. In fact, you CAN’T be hypnotized if you don’t want to be. If you are going through a food addiction or are morbidly obese or need help curbing sugar cravings to improve your health, then you can feel safe knowing that there are natural and non-surgical options open to you. You can get hypnotized either by a hypnotherapist or by yourself.
Dog Drool
Pavlov’s infamous experiments in proving that associations exist will explain how hypnotism works. In his experiment, Pavlov rang a bell before feeding a dog. Dogs drool at the sight of food. After a few feeds, the dog began to drool as soon as the bell was rung. The dog had associated the sound of the bell with yummies. Hypnotism works in the same way in curbing sugar cravings. (more…)
February 10, 2008
Food Addiction Recovery, or Aiming for Abstinence
Food addiction is always a very unpleasant situation, not only for the sufferer, but for his or her family and friends as well. For that reason everyone involved and affected will be on the lookout to help the sufferer treat the addiction as early as possible, since, the longer it lasts, the more difficult it becomes to reverse. Food addiction recovery can consist of many different things, including a plan outlining exactly what to eat and when - and when not to eat anything.
Physical and Psychological Aspects of Food Addiction
In most cases, it is a good idea to try to give up entirely the food you are addicted to - in fact it is probably the surest way to succeed with your food addiction recovery. Food addiction brings with it both physical and psychological problems and some people cannot return to their normal, healthy life, both physically and mentally, until they succeed in achieving total abstinence from the foods they crave for. (more…)
February 8, 2008
How Can You Reduce Sugar Cravings?
Sugar cravings are probably much more common than most of us realize. It would perhaps come as a surprise to you to hear that the average American consumes as much as 160 pounds of sugar a year. This is a big increase on the amount consumed even only 15 or twenty years ago and while consumption in less developed countries is obviously lower, it is also on the rise even there. But perhaps the worst thing is that, for some reason, sugar is perhaps the one food that it is easy to develop cravings for - and difficult to then get rid of those cravings. Which brings us to the question in our title - how can you reduce sugar cravings? (more…)
February 6, 2008
Learn How to Overcome Food Addictions
If you are a sufferer, you’ll probably be well aware that making the effort to learn how to overcome food addictions will be well worth it, both for your physical and mental health. We will see in this article how the most important thing you can do is to begin identifying your problems as a first step to be able to combat them. You need to learn to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy relationships with food, to understand the causes of food addictions and the triggers that can make your craving appear. And, finally, you need to put into practice what you learn from observing other people who also suffer from food addictions.
Once you have become aware of your problem, the next step is to take a conscious, active attitude towards it and towards your relationship with food - make sure you learn to recognize the danger signs and do not give in to them. At first, this process will be wholly conscious, but after some time it should become habit. As with many addictions, half of the battle is actually realizing that you are a sufferer. The other half is perhaps equally divided between will-power and action. (more…)
February 4, 2008
Are Food Addiction Treatment Centers the Answer?
According to some medical opinions, food addiction can be just as damaging for a person’s health, both physical and mental, as drug or alcohol addiction. Food addiction can be defined as not being able to control a constant craving for a particular type of food. If the sufferer cannot get the food he craves for, he might experience withdrawal symptoms. Obviously, when the problem has got this far, the person suffering it needs treatment – and the sooner the better. The problem is – what types of treatments are available and what are the best? Is a food addiction treatment center the answer in these cases? (more…)
January 31, 2008
Natural Cure for Chocolate Cravings
We have come on a little since the time when chocolate cravings – or even simply eating chocolate – were associated only with negative results. How many times have you been told that your teeth will rot, or that your blood sugar level will shoot through the roof, if you eat too much chocolate? However, some recent studies have found that eating chocolate can, in fact, have positive effects on our body and mind. But the overall balance is still negative, so perhaps we should be looking to see if there is any chance of finding a natural cure for chocolate cravings. (more…)