Forget nicotine patches and help lines because, "Our addiction theories and policies are woefully outdated" according to psychological writer Joann Ellison Rodgers. There is no reason to blame drugs and addicts are not remarkably different from everyone else. Addiction comes from our nature and all of us are addicted on a daily basis.

Addiction is a purely psychological issue and it is part of nature, whether it be a reptile, rodent, or mammal our minds work using the same system. This system is a pleasure or "reward" system that allows us to remember pleasurable or necessary acts and want to replay these feelings. This can be as simple as having a shower in the morning or brushing our teeth that has become an automatic programming in our brains that this benefits us so we must do it. This transfers across to addictions in exactly the same way because the brain processes pleasure arising from a certain actions and in this way causes us to believe that this action is good for us so we must repeat it.

This is explained by G. Alan Marlatt, Ph.D., director of the Addictive Behaviors Research Center at the University of Washington when he said, "Everyone engages in addictive behaviors to some extent because such things as eating, drinking, and sex are essential to survival and highly reinforcing. We get immediate gratification from them and find them very hard to give up, indeed. That's a pretty good definition of addiction."

This theory is again confirmed by physiologist and pharmacologist Steven Childers, Ph.D., of Bowman Gray School of Medicine in North Carolina when he said, "The inescapable fact is that nature gave us the ability to become hooked because the brain has dearly evolved a reward system, just as it has a pain system."

So how does this relate to smoking and using hypnosis to quit this addiction? Well the answer is that you do not need to "quit" smoking you have to change your "reward" system when it comes to smoking. When you smoke your brain reacts to this action in a positive way because you feel good while doing it and this memory imprints into your Neuro linguistic programming NLP. In order to change this process you must change your thought patterns so that the action of smoking translates to a bad feeling therefore you do not want to repeat this process. Although this sounds simple on paper you must realize that this will not happen overnight and to change your thought patterns you need a NLP professional.

This is where hypnosis relates to quitting smoking because hypnosis or hypnotherapy is about manipulating your thought patterns in order to change the way that you would normally react to information processed by your brain. This new technique is the best way to overcome a smoking addiction and it will give you results.