Stop smoking with hypnosis. Hypnotherapy for smoking attacks your smoking where it lives - inside your mind. Hypnotherapy for smoking works the same way your smoking habit does. The stop smoking hypnotist works on your inner mind and cancels out the source of the urge to start smoking again. With hypnotherapy for smoking there are no cravings, no willpower needed, no weight gain.

Hypnosis allows the hypnotist to 'get behind' your conscious mind. Under hypnosis the hypnotist can address your deepest beliefs about smoking and change them. Ideas about smoking that were put there years ago by somebody else - tobacco companies, teenage friends, role models - can be challenged and replaced. The result is you that you no longer believe that you need tobacco, you no longer believe that smoking helps you relax, or that you can't get through the day without one - once these beliefs are gone then stopping smoking becomes merely how to get through the first two days, and hypnosis will change your beliefs about that too.

With hypnosis you can give up smoking easily and effortlessly. Thousands have.

 

It is actually easy to stop smoking.

The physical effects are not what keeps you smoking. After two days all physical craving is gone. Totally gone. If you start smoking again it is not because you need the nicotine. It is because some part of your mind believes that you cannot function without cigarettes and actually doesn't want you to stop smoking.

It is your own mental beliefs that are the problem.

No amount of willpower can overcome deep seated beliefs, but hypnosis can. Hypnosis works by altering those deep seated beliefs, changing the belief that giving up is difficult, to a belief that giving up smoking is simple, easy and right now. The instant you accept those positive beliefs you can throw those cigarettes away forever.

Hypnosis stops smoking by:

• Removing the desire to smoke
• Energizing your own strengths
• De-hypnotizing false beliefs about smoking
• Removing the triggers
• Giving you positive images about yourself.

How does Smoking Hypnotherapy work?

People who smoke are not weak, or lacking in character, or natural addicts. People who find it hard to give up smoking are people who have been brainwashed about smoking - by social pressure, other smokers, cigarette advertising - all these influences have been telling you things about smoking that you have come to believe. After years of propaganda people believe the myths of smoking - smoking calms them down, smoking gives them something to do, smoking is impossible to give up. None of these is true, but as long as your brain believes them to be true then no amount of wishing or trying is going to work.

You can go 'cold turkey' - people do. You can grit your teeth, go live in a tent somewhere without cigarettes and after a week or so you are no longer smoking. But as soon as you get back to your familiar surroundings all the triggers are there waiting. As soon as you hit the first bit of normal stress your own beliefs can betray you. If you believe that you cannot handle stress without a cigarette then the pressure will build until you take one. Going cold turkey gets rid of the physical addiction, but it does nothing about the belief system that surrounds the act of smoking.

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The STOP SMOKING Action Plan

To stop smoking you need to address three separate areas. There is the addiction of the tobacco and the physical habits of smoking, the false beliefs about smoking, and the situations that act as triggers to remind you of smoking.

 

 

The Physical Habit

The physical addiction of smoking is actually quite mild. People often have self fulfilling beliefs about how addictive tobacco is and how difficult it will be to give up. Therefore the first part of the therapy is aimed at correcting the client's beliefs about how easy it is give up, and giving the client post hypnotic instructions about how they will feel after they throw away their cigarettes.

This is reinforced by teaching a replacement behaviour. Psychology studies show if an existing behaviour is associated with a new physical behaviour, the old behaviour rapidly goes into extinction, and the desire to do that behaviour fades away as well. So this part of the treatment consists of teaching you a new physical response to use any time the desire to smoke occurs. This new response gives you something to do with your hands, it takes the place of the cigarette until the link between stress and reaching for a cigarette is broken, and then the behaviour fades away with disuse.

Beliefs about smoking

The second part of the therapy focuses on your beliefs about the role that smoking plays in your life. Smokers often are convinced that they cannot relax without a cigarette, or that their best ideas only come when smoking, and other self justifying beliefs. In extreme cases clients believe that smoking defines who they are, and that stopping smoking somehow will diminish them. These beliefs are removed with a mixture of direct hypnotic suggestion and metaphor therapy.

Situational Triggers

For the long term smoker, all sorts of situations have become associated with smoking. Most smokers tell themselves that they enjoy a cigarette after a meal, with a drink, to give themselves a break. These are all highly charged situations and the smoker has created powerful conditioned responses to these.

Conditioned responses seem strong but are easy to defeat. Most smokers are OK most of the time after giving up, but feel an urge to smoke at particular times, at the end of meal for example, the meal just doesn't feel complete without it. That feeling actually has nothing to do with addiction. For example, other people get the same powerful urge to eat something sweet at the end of a meal. It is simply a conditioned response, the result of thousands of associations of one thing with some other thing. For thousands of meals, the meal finished with something sweet. So the person expects, wants, must have, something sweet. It is a powerful trigger but is based on nothing more than habit, there is no real craving.

Hypnosis is used to create new mental associations with meals, breaks, coffee, driving - whatever it is that the ex-smoker associates with smoking.

 

By using a three-part approach smoking gets beaten for ever.

 

 

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