How To Quit Smoking Using Hypnosis

This article clarifies some of the aspects which makes it problematical for smokers to quit smoking. By paying attention to the different characteristics of smoking cessation, it’s possible to use hypnosis to work with the unconscious mind, to facilitate get a straightforward and more pleasant smoking cessation.

All the smokers I know - who have not quit smoking yet - has again and again tried to quit smoking. It is not only the different smoking laws that persuade smokers to quit, it is also their friends and their wallets. I recall very well, when I was a kid how my brothers and I again and again asked our grandmother to quit smoking. My grandmother smoked for many years and she told us that she wanted to quit but she could not. When she lost a sister to lung cancer, who also had smoked most of her life, my grandmother stopped and she has not smoked since. How can it be that it is so easier said than done to quit smoking even if you want to?

I tend to distinguish between consciousness and sub consciousness by saying that consciousness is the leader and sub consciousness is the manager. Consciousness sets the goals, and sub consciousness is the engine that makes sure that the targets are reached. When that the sub consciousness sets the routines and behavior it can be tough to transform them with will power and the power of consciousness alone.

There are several characteristics of smoking, that makes this more demanding than other routines. The primary is nicotine. It has been documented that nicotine is addictive and makes your body dependent, but notwithstanding that, the nicotine is rather quick to leave the body if you can stay smoke-free for only a a small number of days. Did you know that if you derive the concentrated sum of nicotine that is in just one cigarette, and injected it directly into the veins of a horse, it would kick the bucket. It is not a substance I would like to fill my body with even in the lowest amount.

I know numerous smokers who have stayed smoke-free in several weeks or even months and then returned to cigarettes. After that long, it is not nicotine addiction that is the obstacle. The social aspect of smoking is also an central aspect. When a large group of people who have never met each other for the first time, it’s often smokers who gets familiar only since they have this joint vice. I find this quality of cigarettes quite positive, unfortunately, is not positive enough to make up for the risky consequences smoking has on both the smoker and his or hers acquaintances. Richard Bandler - co-creator of NLP - describes in one of his books a meeting he had with a man who wanted to stop smoking. After a single treatment, he was a non-smoker, but he started to have trouble in his marriage. Bandler called both the man and his wife in, and after having observed them in the waiting room, he perceived that it had something to do with cigarettes. Smoking had been a joint thing they had, and since he no longer smoked, he did not participate in the shared activity. He preferred not to be anywhere near her when she sat in the kitchen and smoked her cigarettes, which they had done previously and talked during the smoking. This facet is most important when you need to quit smoking. There is not much fun in stoping smoking, if your partner continues to smoke, neither for you or your partner.

It happens also that people are being pressured to stop smoking - just like we tried to push my grandmother. It may prove an unachievable mission to use hypnosis to stop smoking, if it’s not your own desire to stop smoking. Hypnosis is not manipulation as someone still thinks. You can not get people to do something they would not, otherwise we could just hypnotize all the criminals to quit crime, but unfortunately it is not that straightforward. However, hypnosis and hypnotherapy is a great tool when you are ready to stop smoking. Loads of smokers thinks that it will be a hell both physically and mentally to stop smoking, but hypnosis can be used to ease withdrawal symptoms and remove the beliefs you have learned yourself, about how it is to stop smoking. If you imagine that it will be very complicated, then it will probably be very challenging.

Your hypnotherapist should also help ensure that your habit of smoking is not replaced by another bad habit, but instead results in a greater comfort for you and your acquaintances. Nobody would like you to be a non-smoker who was irritable or depressed.

If you after reading this article want to hear more about stopping smoking and hypnosis, so I suggest that you contact a hypnotist in your area or on the Internet and give him or her a call.