Hypnosis To Quit Smoking Cigarettes
Do you want to quit smoking now? Hypnosis is an effective and permanent way to achieve smoking cessation.
Cigarette smoking is a habit. There may be specific activities with which you
associate smoking. Some people wake up in the morning and the first thing
they do is reach for a cigarette. Others smoke while drinking their morning
coffee, talking on the phone or when behind the wheel. And some people use
smoking to reduce stress - they say it relaxes them. These are all habits which
hypnosis can eliminate once and for all. Hypnosis makes quitting smoking a
breeze!
Smoking cigarettes is also an expensive habit. One Hypno-therapy session only
costs about 2 cartons of cigarettes -- and results are often achieved in just one
session. So you can't afford not to quit.
Most people have an awareness of hypnosis as a way to make someone do something funny in front of an audience, such as purring like a kitten or roaring like a lion. That's the well worn and often unfortunate view of the extent of what hypnotism can do.
Hypnosis is more than just a stage show, more than just a parlor trick. Hypnotism is practiced by many professional hypnotherapists, and has been used to help millions of people to overcome fears, conquer difficult problems, and to relax and reduce stress.
What Is Hypnosis?
Hypnosis is concentrated relaxation. In other words, hypnotism allows a person to relax, while focusing on a particular problem or desired result. It's not just relaxing or falling asleep. During hypnotherapy, you relax your mind and body, moving past the guard of your conscious mind, to the sub-conscious mind. Your conscious mind constantly edits and grades and judges your thoughts and inputs. Your subconscious mind is a sponge waiting to absorb whatever you give it. Your subconscious mind doesn't know the difference between reality and imagination. Therefore, if you can get past the locked gates of your conscious mind to your subconscious mind, you can feed the subconscious "imagined reality." So if you can imagine yourself as a non-smoker, your subconscious mind will accept that as reality.
By reprogramming your subconscious mind you can change your actual behavior. Hypnosis is the key to removing the barrier your conscious mind places in front of you, and reaching the subconscious.
Can I Be Hypnotized?
The short answer is Yes! Hypnotism isn't some magical, mystical trance that someone places on you by swinging a watch back and forth. Instead, it is a natural state of your most amazing brain. When you access your subconscious, you are basically using self-hypnosis. Probably the most obvious example of this is when you are driving a car and begin to relax your mind and think about something other than the road in front of you. Five, maybe ten minutes later, you arrive at your destination and suddenly realize you are there, but you don't consciously remember driving yourself there! You entered your subconscious mind. This is very similar to self hypnosis.
Should I Go to a Hypnotherapist to Quit Smoking?
Today, there are so many options for smokers who want to quit. The nicotine patch and nicotine gum are widely available, as are so many other helpful quite smoking aides. Hypnotism to stop smoking is an excellent way to end your smoking habit because the success rates are possibly double that of the patch and gum. You can also use hypnosis together with other stop smoking programs like the patch to achieve even better results.
There are a couple of ways that you can use hypnosis to stop smoking:
- Self-hypnosis
- Hypnotherapy by a certified hypnotherapist
Self-hypnosis involves using techniques to relax yourself, and guide yourself through the images that can make quitting smoking work. This technique can take practice and time to master.
A hypnotherapist is typically certified (or should be) and has specific training and expertise to help you relax and guide you using specific images and words that work to help a person quit smoking. Some hypnotherapists will offer a one-session program, while some may suggest multiple sessions to make sure you succeed.
A third alternative is really a combination of these first two methods: a recorded program produced by a professional, that you listen to in the comfort of your own home or office. This option is far less costly than visiting a hypnotist in person, and it gives you flexibility and repeatability in your program.
Bottom Line: Can Hypnosis Help Me Quit Smoking?
Multiple studies have shown that using hypnosis to quit smoking works in a high percentage of cases-as high as 66%. While hypnosis may not be for everybody, it can aid in reducing stress, which is one of the reasons many smokers report that they smoke in the first place.
Hypnosis for smoking provides two main benefits:
- Reduced stress and/or learning techniques for controlling stress
- Effecting change in attitudes, beliefs and associations towards smoking, thus enabling elimination of the smoking habit.
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