Stop Smoking With Hypnotherapy
So you think you are addicted to nicotine? Hypnotherapy can help.
Don’t worry – it’s an easy addiction to cure. What’s not easy is getting rid of the habit. The routine of reaching for the cigarette packet, taking one out, finding the lighter, lighting the fag and taking in air (and smoke, tar and other carcinogens) through that little tube.
Try an experiment; take out a cigarette, take out your lighter, light the lighter – but don’t actually light the cigarette – put the lighter out, put it away, put the packet away. Draw air in through the cigarette, blow it out through your lips just as you would if the cigarette were lit. Do you feel calmer? Take a few ‘puffs’. You might even find that you enjoy this as much – or almost as much – as a lighted ciggy!
It has the advantage that it is perfectly legal to do anywhere … although you will probably get a few odd looks. It is also cheaper – the cigarette could last for weeks before it starts to look a bit bedraggled. What will happen, if you can keep this up for a couple of weeks, is that you will lose your dependency on nicotine. It won’t do anything for the habit, the routine, the ritual; that is much harder to break.
Still think you are addicted? Ask yourself this; if it is a true addiction, why does the NHS recommend that you apply nicotine patches to your skin? These patches just feed more nicotine into your system – if you were chemically dependant on nicotine, how would this help? It wouldn’t and it doesn’t. It keeps you supplied with nicotine while you break the smoking habit … sadly, the success rate is only about 15%, but it is at least an attempt to break the habit.
The quickest way to break it is with hypnotherapy. It goes straight to the subconscious mind and changes the habit. Self-hypnosis can achieve this in about three weeks. A competent Hypnotherapist can do it, for 95% of people, in an hour.
If you intend to do it yourself, you need to set things up logically.
The first step is to decide what you want to achieve in hypnosis. Your goals should be; 1. Stop smoking 2. Refuse any offered cigarettes (people will try to tempt you even when they know you have given up!) 3. Not feel any cravings and 4. Not put on any weight.
The subconscious mind is like a small child, it really does need things spelling out clearly. You have to define your objective precisely. Then decide, again realistically, WHEN you should achieve your goal. In this case, you want to stop NOW.
DEFINITE PLAN = DEFINITE ACTION.
So, you’ve decided on your goals, you’ve decided on the time factor involved. Are there practical steps that you need to take to achieve your goal? Getting rid of all the cigarettes in your possession would be a good starting point.
BE POSITIVE. If you write down “I will stop smoking” Your subconscious mind is going to latch onto the word “smoking” – therefore you need to rephrase the sentence to a more appropriate one. “I will be a non-smoker”. This is better – BUT . . . If you say “I will” then the word implies (and correctly so) that this is something that is going to happen sometime in the future. And we all know that tomorrow never comes. So you need to envisage this activity as already taking place.
“I am a non-smoker.” Good. Just one more thing though. Add some emotion to it . . . for example “I enjoy the healthy life of a non-smoker.”
Now we have the goal; to stop smoking, and we have the first step, which is to get rid of all the cigarettes in your possession, and we have written down the first step; so stating our intention.
Once you’ve taken that first step, you’re on your way to becoming the person that you want to be; a non smoker – once your subconscious mind has ACCEPTED the new idea, it will propel you towards behaving in such a way as to attaining, and then retaining your goal.
Have your second step ready, as well; you are going to want to move on to this as soon as the first step is achieved. Your list will look something like;
a) I enjoy the healthy life of a non-smoker
Don’t read any further UNTIL you have your steps written down. Then, all you need to do is:
Have your ‘FIRST STEP’ written down, and in front of you.
Your ULTIMATE GOAL is to be a fit and healthy non-smoker, with no cravings and without putting on weight. Visualise or imagine that you are just that; standing tall, not coughing, not wheezing. Refuse the cigarette offered by a “friend”, and feel good about it. You don’t need any chemical prop; you are walking confidently into a healthier future. You ARE a non-smoker. You will still be a fit and healthy non-smoker in the months and years to come.
Quieten your mind for 5 minutes or so, whilst your subconscious mind reprograms itself towards achieving your ultimate goal.
Self-hypnosis requires some discipline, but is a very powerful tool once you have mastered it. Many other things can be achieved with it, from anger control to stress management, from weight loss to self-confidence. All you need is to persevere.
-Smoking Cessation , Weight Loss and Stress Reduction. Based in Somerset, UK.Article Source
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