Quit Smoking by Hypnosis
Hypnosis is found to be the most effective method in
stopping smoking easily and quickly.
Despite the images we are bombarded with by the media, stopping smoking is actually a easy thing to do! I am sure most people reading this will assume that I do not know what I am talking about! However, it really is a very simple thing to do – you merely stop smoking! You stop putting cigarettes, or cigars, or whatever your choice of nicotine delivery, into your mouth and stop inhaling the smoke. Unfortunately without proper mental preparation this does not work, or if it does they can suffer from depression, anxiety, become short-tempered with people and crave nicotine constantly, usually leading to them lighting up again ‘for their sanity’s sake’ or ‘for their family’s sake’.
You can stop smoking, without any of the above horrors which we ‘know’ accompany stopping, just by making the decision to and then never lighting another cigarette, providing your thoughts about stopping are correct.
If you knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that you do not need cigarettes, that they do nothing for you, that you are already a non-smoker and that you are, in fact, very happy about the situation then you would not put another cigarette in your mouth again!
Using hypnosis, we will strengthen your inner resolve. We will remove all the wrongful thinking surrounding smoking and cigarettes. When your unconscious mind accepts the suggestions that you have become a non-smoker, there will be no withdrawal symptoms or strong cravings. In fact, any cravings you have you will meet with “Wow! I’m a non-smoker! This is the last time I will feel this craving!” rather than “Oh no, I’m craving a cigarette… maybe I’ll just have one” and falling back into the trap.
To help me tailor the session specifically to your thoughts and attitudes around smoking, and therefore make a stronger, lasting impression on your subconscious please consider the following questions carefully. Please write down your answers and bring them to your stop smoking session.
- What is your motivation to stop? Why now?
- Why did you smoke?
- What do you expect?
- Imagine yourself being a non-smoker. What do you look, sound, feel like? How much more energy do you have?
- What do you like about smoking? What do you think you receive from it?
- What do you dislike about smoking? In what ways does it negatively affect your life?
There are a few things you must consciously understand before we start:
Before the session you must throw away or smoke all cigarettes. Do not leave an "emergency supply" hidden away as this is indicating to your self that the session won’t work. You may feel anxious about this, but instead start thinking how great it is that you no longer need cigarettes! Once the session is complete, you will already be a non-smoker – so why would you have cigarettes at home?!
After the session:
Sometimes people are very surprised about how easy it is and they start to believe that they can have ‘just one’. ‘Just one cigarette’ is fiction. Do not worry that you will never get that little fix again – rejoice that you have beaten the drug addiction! If you were to light that cigarette you are a smoker again! Your body, having received nicotine, will start to crave for more – this is the very nature of drug addiction!
Do not avoid social situations just because there may be smokers there. Fortunately, there are less and less public places where smoking is permitted. If you do find yourself in the company of smokers and they offer you one, politely decline and think how wonderful it is that you are no longer dependant. Take notice of how fidgety they are. Notice the yellowed teeth and fingers. Look at the greyish skin. Get out and enjoy your life as a non-smoker, do not hide from situations where there may be smokers present. They are the ones with the problem – you are now free!
Set yourself a stop date that you are comfortable with, and obviously one that coincides as close as possible with your hypnotherapy sessions. You should stop completely, even if that last cigarette is just before the session.
There is no evidence to suggest that giving up gradually is easier. In fact, it is quite the opposite! How can you remove your addiction to a drug by giving yourself little hits of that drug? You are actually making it worse by making that hit seem much more valuable! People who wish to stop but continue to smoke occasionally will begin smoking again regularly sooner or later. At best they will stick to those occasional cigarettes, spending the whole time in-between wishing that they could have a cigarette and the whole time they are smoking wishing they didn’t ‘have’ to. Allowing any nicotine into your system, including patches, gum or other nicotine replacement therapy, will get your body craving nicotine again!
- Don't panic, you will have the occasional notion for a cigarette, this is perfectly normal, and even people who have been non smokers for years experience this. When this happens, don’t mope or let yourself think that you are failure and that you ‘want’ or ‘need’ a cigarette. Instead, remind yourself that you are a non-smoker and REJOICE in the fact!
- Focus on the reasons that you became a non-smoker. Think back to the amount of time spent as a smoker and wishing that you were not one.
- Reward yourself! Spend some of the money you now have in your pocket on treating yourself to things that make you feel really good. Do something active and feel how much more energy you have, how much easier breathing is.
Enjoy your life as a non-smoker!
