Preparing to Quit with Hypnosis
Like many thousands of others, you've probably tried to quit smoking several times. Someone once said, "It's easy to quit. I've done it hundreds of times."
You probably tried to quit cold turkey using "will power" and perhaps you've tried "chemical" products. But, each time you tried to quit you felt embarrassed that you relapsed and started smoking again.
So, now you're getting desperate. What can you try next?
Hypnosis Helped Others
Many people have quit using hypnosis. You've probable heard about hypnotherapy and perhaps even know someone who quit using hypnosis.
Hypnosis helps you overcome years of thinking along the same habitual pattern. Hypnosis can help you reprogram you mind to learn new habits and help eliminate old habits.
Your thinking about when to smoke, how to smoke, what it's like to smoke have been burned into your subconscious mind. Perhaps after a meal you automatically reach for a cigarette. When you go outside after work you probably automatically light up and smoke a cigarette. These are habits you've developed over the years.
Hypnosis can help change your habits. Hypnosis can even help you think negatively about smoking.
Not only that, but, hypnosis can help you deal with the feelings of withdrawal from nicotine. Withdrawal symptoms often cause people to desire a cigarette in order to restore normal feelings. Hypnosis can help you reduce and overcome these withdrawal feelings.
You're ready to try hypnosis. You've heard that hypnosis has helped others. And now, perhaps, it can help you to successfully kick the addiction of smoking.
It takes courage to admit that your own effort is inadequate. But, smoking is not simply an addiction to nicotine. Some people claim that only 10% of smoking addiction is physical addiction to nicotine. The rest, 90% of smoking addiction, is psychological.
Subconscious Mind
If your previous efforts have not addressed the most important part of the smoking addiction, then you can see clearly that there are good reasons while you failed to kick the addiction.
Your subconscious mind has been programmed over many years to look for pleasure in ways that are sometime destructive. Your subconscious mind tells you to relieve stress through nicotine delivered by smoking. This destructive behavior does cause pleasurable sensations, but the long term results are damaging and dangerous.
Hypnothearpy can help reprogram your subconscious mind to find alternative ways to relieve stress. This can quickly reduce or eliminate your psychological addition to smoking.
Develop a Case History
A hpynothearpist will work with you to develop a "case history" about your smoking. Part of the case history involves the reasons why you started smoking, when and where you are most likely to smoke today, and your continuing reasons for smoking. You'll also want to note the reasons you now want to quit. You can also list your concerns about becoming a non-smoker such as weight gain. And, finally, you'll need to note what alternative behaviors can replace smoking to relieve your stress.
Using Your Case History
While in a relaxed state, the hypnotist can deliver suggestions that communicate directly to the subconscious mind. New ideas can be planted about the benefits of being a non-smoker, alternative ways to relieve stress, thought that help you overcome your concerns about quitting, and reinforcements that build up your desire to quit. These new ideas directly relate to your case history and eliminate your excuses for smoking. Because these are, in fact, your ideas, they are more easily accepted and retained by the subconscious mind.
Sometimes aversion therapy is also used to associate smoking with ideas that are repulsive. Some disgusting associations include associating smoking with smelling a pail of old cigarette ashes and butts, chewing on old cigarettes, or smoking when you ache all over with the flu.
Once your unconscious mind thinks like that of a non-smoker, it will be increasing difficult to yield to the temptation to smoke. As a non-smoker, with new ways of coping with the stress of life, you will succeed in your new non-smoking ways.
Reinforcement
You will also learn how to relax and communicate further with your subconscious mind to reinforce your initial hypnotic session. You can do this through self-hypnosis or through audio CDs. This can help you reinforce your new ideas and strengthen your non-smoking mind set.
Now that you understand how hypnosis can help, you should read more about hypnosis to become more familiar with what you expect.
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