Stopping Smoking with Hypnotherapy
Once they’ve made the decision to quit smoking, many people are able just do it. Others find they need a helping hand and turn to a hypnotherapist for help.
Here’s 5 reasons why stopping smoking with the help of hypnosis can be the difference that makes the difference.
1) Hypnotherapy is great at breaking habits
And smoking really is just a habit. At times it can feel like an addiction, but when you start looking at the cigarettes you smoke each day the pattern of the habit becomes clearer. Smoking punctuates our day, or enables us to take some out, or is what we always do when we have our first coffee of the day, or finish work, or…… However you do your smoking habit, hypnosis can help you break it.
2) Hypnosis can increase motivation
Good motivation is key to changing habits and thinking about what is motivating you to give up can be useful before a stop smoking hypnosis session.
That's because hypnosis can focus in on that motivation, amplify it and make it stronger.
So, ask yourself why are you looking at giving up now? What have you recently come to realise? Perhaps you have realised you want to be a better role model for your kids, grandkids? Or you want to live a long, healthy life. Or perhaps you're taking this decision to avoid something? May be a fear of dying early of something preventable is what's driving you?
3) Hypnosis increases your suggestibility
All this means is, when you’re in hypnosis you are open to accepting new instructions and ideas. If those same instructions are given to you in your every day life your conscious mind would likely dismiss them. Hypnosis is a relaxed, learning state where ideas that are helpful to your wellbeing can be suggested by the hypnotherapist and once accepted can become embedded.
4) Hypnotherapy can make even the idea of smoking seem disgusting to you
Imagine every time you brought a cigarette towards your mouth you experienced a very unpleasant taste and smell that made you want to gag – what would you do with that cigarette? May be it would make you stop and think, or may be you'd just throw it away?
Remember those stage hypnotists that hypnotise volunteers so they can happily bite into an onion or a lemon and enjoy the taste. Hypnosis can be used to do the opposite - by associating a foul, disgusting taste to cigarettes there's no way you'd enjoy smoking.
5) And finally – What if there’s a part of you that still isn’t ready to give up?
May be there's a small, subconscious part of you that still buys into the ideas you bought into when you first became a smoker.
People start smoking because they believe it's cool, it helps them fit in, is cool, or to rebel?
These ideas may have been true once a upon a time but they are now well past their sell by date and hypnosis can help put them firmly in the past where they belong.