Can You Stop Smoking in 30 Days using Hypnosis?
If you are a smoker, you probably want to stop. And you would rather stop without any side effects. And, like your favorite TV programs, you want to stop in the next 30 minutes, or at least the next 60 minutes.
Stopping within 30 days seems like a long time. But, consider how long you have smoked. Consider how many times you have tried to quit and failed. Even hypnosis is not a magical switch that can turn your desire for nicotine from on to off. Quick fixes often only last short times.
If you are addicted, you not only have a psychological dependence, you also have a physical dependence. These addictions need to be dealt with together, over a period of time.
You probably know that it takes around 21 days to develop a new habit. As you start to practice a new set of behaviors they at first seem unnatural. Then, the begin to appear somewhat normal. Eventually you'll wonder how you ever got along without performing the new behavior patterns. You develop a habit over time.
In stopping smoking, you will not just be developing a new habit. You will be overcoming the psychological and physical dependence that you have know for years, sometime decades. Your subconscious mind wants a cigarette at certain times. It would be nice to have a magic wand and, presto change-o, you're a new person. But, that isn't going to happen.
Subconscious vs. Conscious Mind
Consciously, you've decided to stop smoking. But, subconsciously your mind is calling upon the old practice of smoking after a meal. There is that subconscious pull to smoke as you watch TV. There's that strong desire for a cigarette when you have a cup of coffee. These smoking "cues" activate the old smoking memories.
You conscious mind is at odds with your subconscious mind. You have a conscious desire to quit, but you often cannot overcome the subconscious pull of years of habitual performance. Whenever a you encounter a situation in which you normally smoked (a smoking cue) you will remember the smoking behavior and be pulled into smoking.
Hypnosis help you reprogram you subconscious mind. Hypnosis allow you to get your subconscious mind in sync with your conscious mind. That way, when you encounter a typical smoking cue you will being to mind new behavior patterns that do not include smoking. You will not smoke because both your conscious and subconscious mind are synchronized to regard you as a non-smoker.
How is this possible?
Hypnosis presents new imagery to your subconscious mind. You may remember some happy times during a recent vacation. When you recall those moments you feel happy. Even though you may be in a traffic jam, by recalling an enjoyable experience, you can rise above the traffic jam and actually be happy.
In the same way, hypnosis can help guide you to imagine pleasant experience associated with being a non-smoker. During hypnosis you may be guided to imagine yourself, after a mean picking up a flower and taking a deep, full breath and smelling the wonderful aroma of the flower. And, you'll imagine how pleasant it is to fill your lungs with clean, fresh air.
When the memories of your subconscious mind work in your favor you can increasingly exclude old smoking memories. Instead, you'll recall new thoughts about health, the wonder of breathing clean, fresh air, the great taste of foods, the beautiful aroma of a bouquet of flowers.
Once your subconscious mind starts working in your favor, your thought can concentrate on all the benefits of being a non-smoker. Every day you are a non-smoker your subconscious mind will have all those images of health reinforced.
Hypnosis works, but it take some time. Usually a single hypnotic session is not enough to overcome years of smoking memories. You will usually need to listing to hypnosis tapes or CDs for a period of time. You may also want to learn self-hypnosis so you can use guided imagery that is directed especially at your background.
You may need to use hypnosis several times a week at first. Then, as the new images of being a non-smoker come increasingly to mind as you encounter smoking cues you can practice hypnosis once a week, or once a month.
Using a trained hypnotherapist in your local area is also an option. While this may be more expensive, is could produce somewhat faster results. Even so, it is often beneficial to have a hypnosis tape or CD to use between sessions.
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