Stop Smoking Programme
Why is hypnosis more effective than 'will power' to help you stop the smoking habit?
Smoking is a habit, like compulsive gambling or shopping. Habits are not conscious choices, they are patterns laid down in the unconscious mind. Since hypnosis allows us to access the unconscious directly, habits and compulsions can be tackled directly and effortlessly.
You don't struggle to avoid chewing your shoes, do you? Why? Because it never occurs to you to do such a ridiculous and disgusting thing. After the smoking habit is broken by hypnosis, you would no more want a cigarette than you would want to chew your shoes.
If the unconscious patterns have been changed, then there is no struggle between your will (conscious) and your urges (unconscious).
Why is hypnosis more effective(1) than nicotine replacement or other drug therapies?
Nicotine is an addicting drug and so the nicotine in cigarettes helps to reinforce the habit. However, nicotine is not the main thing causing you to smoke. Very similar urges and uncontrolled behaviours occur in addictions where there is no chemical involved, like compulsive gambling. Addictions can occur due to purely psychological factors.
If cigarette addiction was mainly a nicotine addition, then nicotine replacement (patches or gum) would be really successful. In fact, most people who use nicotine products fail to quit long term.
The links which your unconscious mind has created to smoking are much more important than nicotine. Links like "Fun with friend and smoking" or "Break from work and smoking".
Of course, you didn't form all these links on your own, tobacco advertising helped (
Did you know that Wayne McLaren, who played the 'Marlboro Man' died at 51 from lung cancer?). Peer pressure helped - when you wanted to fit in with the cool kids, be 'grown up' and rebel against your parents.
All these unconscious patterns are still there, perhaps decades after they were first formed.
What have you got to lose?
Many people fear the unknown, and if you've smoked for a long time, returning to being a non-smoker can seem frightening.
These questions are all driven by FEAR. Fear is a normal emotion. It is a normal part of your unconscious, and as such is addressed in hypnosis. Most of the fears around stopping smoking are about coping with a struggle between conscious and unconscious.
If you quit smoking using 'will power' - attempting to overcome your unconscious patterns using your conscious mind - you may succeed. But the unconscious drives will still be there. For example, seeking comfort by placing something in your mouth, may lead to you replacing one comfort habit (smoking) with another (overeating).
Quitting with hypnosis allows the unconscious processes to be altered directly, so there is no conflict, no struggle. Nothing to fear.
What will you gain?
Stopping smoking seems like a negative step - stopping doing something. However, it is in fact a positive choice, which can be the first step in making other positive changes in your life.
Firstly, you need to make a commitment. You need to decide that you are going to become a non-smoker. Once you have done that, and carried it through, you will look back on your achievement, and ask yourself "If I could do that, what else can I achieve in my life?"
By becoming a non-smoker (not an ex-smoker, who struggles against continuing urges), you regain power over one area of your life, which was out of your control. And if you can control one area of your life, why not another, and another?
Of course, you'll get tangible benefits too:
Are you ready to become a Non-Smoker?
If you want to stop smoking, hypnotherapy can help you achieve this goal quickly and easily. I see smokers arrive at my clinic - stressed, tense and worried; and non-smokers leave my clinic relieved, proud, calm and often elated.
And you have to do is sit back in a comfortable chair, and relax. No drugs, no needles, no gimmicks. What could be easier?
Free Back-up Support
I am confident in what I offer. So much so that I offer free back-up support.
This means that if for any reason you are not ready to stop at your session, or if you start again after the session, just give me a call, I will book you in for a free back-up session.
Imagine how much better your life could be without the burden of smoking.
You can make that choice today. You can choose to become a non-smoker.
All you have to do is pick up the phone, and make an appointment.
Once you walk into my clinic, your smoking problem is solved!
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