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Five ways to increase your stop smoking success

It’s that time of year when many people decide to stop smoking for good – only for their healthy intentions to go up in a puff of smoke a short time later.

Actually stopping smoking is something that most smokers intend to do. Yet it can seem quite daunting to actually stop smoking. After all, you’ve probably tried and failed before and you may be surrounded by others with similar tales of failure and frustration.

If you really want to stop smoking and you want to start feeling healthier, happier and wealthier right now, then here are five things that will help give you that push and increase your chances of success.

Ending Anxiety and Panic Attacks

Recently I was working with a client who told me she was suffering with anxiety and panic attacks. Even as she told me she was clearly on edge, anxious, and even a bit desperate to end the cycle of anxiety she now found herself in.

The anxiety had been creeping up for a while and then seemed to explode into all areas of her life. She had been signed off work and she felt many of the symptoms that go with anxiety and panic:

• Feeling restless and on edge
• A loss of confidence to do things she used to do
• Avoiding crowded places and preferring to stay at home
• Constant worry and anxious thoughts and feelings
• Hot and cold sweats
• Sleeping very little or not at all
• Worrying if she would ever ‘feel better’
• Worrying whether she would have another panic attack

Yet a few sessions later she strolled into my room with a spring in her step, a sense of calmness and a smile on her face.

She told me she felt good, happy and confident and was looking forward to going back to work. She’d been doing all the things she used to do and was happy going out for the day or being in crowded shops. She was looking forward to feeling better and better into the future.

Overcome Your Fear of Spiders

Do you struggle with a fear of spiders?

Recently I’ve helped a number of people conquer their fear of spiders. One of the first things that nearly all of them told me was that they knew it was irrational – but they still couldn’t stop their fear and panic around spiders.

One of my clients would visibly physically flinch at just the thought of a spider. She told me she couldn’t even look at a picture of one without getting that panicky feeling, and she had countless examples of times she had needed to call for help to get a spider out of the room. She even had times she dreamt about them and woke in a panic.

Other clients check places in their houses where they had seen them before, and the sight of a spider on TV, especially a moving one, can start that feeling of fear.

No more fear of spiders

Yet after just a few sessions, you can soon be free of your fear of spiders.