Hypnotherapy helps you QUIT SMOKING.

Usually there is no amount of willpower that can overcome deep seated beliefs, but hypnosis can.

Hypnotherapy stops smoking by:

• Removing the desire to smoke
• Motivating and enhancing your own inner power
• De-hypnotizing false beliefs about smoking
• Removing triggers
• Giving you positive images about yourself
• Hypnotherapy works by using the same pathways that your smoking habit uses.
• Hypnotherapy works on your habitual mind to stop smoking
• Cancels out the source of the urge that makes people want to start smoking again.

Did you know why it is easy to stop smoking?

Hypnosis can stop you smoking, The physical effects are not what keeps you smoking (these are gone in 2 days). Somewhere in a smokers past a belief has formed in the mind that you cannot function without a cigarette. Hypnosis works by altering those deep seated beliefs, applying simple life changing hypnotherapy to change a belief that giving up smoking is simple, easy and right now. The instant you accept those positive beliefs you can throw those cigarettes away forever.

Why do some People who find it hard to give up smoking? Because they have been brainwashed about smoking by social pressure, other smokers, cigarette advertising – all these influences have been telling you things about smoking that you have come to believe. After years of misinformation people believe the myths of smoking – smoking calms them down, smoking gives them something to do, smoking is impossible to give up. None of these is true, but as long as your brain believes them to be true then no amount of wishing or trying is going to work.

Hypnotherapy attacks the smoking where it resides – inside your belief system. Hypnosis allows the hypnotherapist to ‘get behind’ your conscious mind. Under hypnosis the hypnotherapist can address your deepest beliefs about smoking and change them. Let Hypnotherapy transform your thoughts about smoking that were put there years ago by somebody else ? by tobacco companies, teenage friends, role models ? these can be challenged and replaced.

With hypnosis you can give up smoking easily and effortlessly. Thousands have.

The STOP SMOKING Action Plan

To stop smoking you need to address three separate areas. There is the addiction of the tobacco and the physical habits of smoking, the false beliefs about smoking, and the situations that act as triggers to remind you of smoking. Figure 1 The physical addiction of smoking is actually quite mild. People often have self fulfilling beliefs about how powerfully addictive tobacco is and how difficult it will be to give up. Therefore the first part of the therapy is aimed at correcting the client’s beliefs about how easy it is give up, and instructions about how they will feel after they throw away their cigarettes.

This is often strengthened by teaching a replacement behaviour. If an existing behaviour is associated with a new physical behaviour, the old behaviour rapidly disappears, and the desire to do that behaviour fades away. So a part of the Hypnotherapy consists of teaching you a new physical response to use any time you want something to do with your hands, it takes the place of the cigarette until the link between stress and reaching for a cigarette is broken, and then the behaviour fades away with disuse.

The therapy focuses on your beliefs about the role that smoking plays in your life. Smokers often tell me that they feel cannot relax without a cigarette and in a few acute cases some clients believe that smoking defines who they are, and that stopping smoking somehow will lessen them. These beliefs are removed with a mixture of direct hypnotic suggestion and modern psychotherapy.

Most smokers tell themselves that they enjoy a cigarette after a meal, after sex, with a drink, to give themselves a break. These are all highly charged situations and as people commonly do in life the smoker has created for themselves some powerful conditioned responses to support what they do.

While conditioned responses seem strong they are relatively easy to defeat. Most smokers are OK most of the time after giving up, but feel an urge to smoke at particular times, at the end of meal for example, the meal just doesn’t feel complete without it. It is good to know that that feeling actually has nothing to do with addiction. For example, other people get the same powerful urge to eat something sweet at the end of a meal. It is simply a conditioned response, the result of thousands of associations of one thing with some other thing.

For a person who has had numerous of meals, and the meal finished with something sweet. So the person expects, wants, must have, something sweet. It is a powerful trigger but is based on nothing more than habit, there is no real craving.

Hypnosis is used to create new mental associations with meals, breaks, coffee, driving – whatever it is that the ex-smoker associates with smoking.

By using a Hypnotherapeutic approach smoking gets banished for ever.