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Stop smoking with Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is a clinically proven method which helps to undo the years of daily positive associations with smoking. It helps to reduce future psychological cravings for cigarettes.
The Desire for Smoking is Mental
Your mind is like a computer that runs many programs. These programs run on autopilot and help you do things quickly and automatically.
Most of those programs are helpful and useful – like opening doors, eating, reading, or walking.
Some programs, aren’t.
Smoking is a destructive program installed in your brain.
It runs automatically because it’s been part of your daily routine for many, many years.
All this time, you’ve been smoking while socialising, to relieve anxiety or boredom and concentrating.
So now, all those situations trigger your cravings and make you feel that if you quit, you will lose your ability to enjoy life or cope with challenges.
As you can see, all these reasons are mental. Not physical.
For most addicted smokers, the addiction is about half mental, half physical. Studies show that the ratio varies with each individual. The physical portion of the addiction is to nicotine. As to the mental or psychological aspect, a smoker’s conscious mind says, ‘I will stop smoking — no problem.’ But the unconscious mind has been conditioned for years that cigarettes give pleasure, and that’s all it can focus on. The unconscious mind says, ‘Gimmie a cigarette — now!’ It only recognizes what feels good. It demands a cigarette, without regard to right or wrong, and ignores the conscious mind’s intentions. Hypnotherapy is one way to help counteract this.
During the process of quitting, the new habit of being a non-smoker forms. The ex-smoker’s unconscious mind gradually gets used to being a non-smoker, as the urges to smoke slowly fade away.
It’s the mental addiction
In fact, 80% of the smoking addiction, is made up of the mental dependence on smoking, which is how much you believe you enjoy or need smoking.
And only 20% of smoking, is the physical addiction to nicotine; the tobacco substance that first hooked you to this habit.
That’s what nicotine products and tobacco companies don’t want you to know.
You don’t need hypnosis to quit smoking. Try this quick urge-reset whenever a craving hits:
Say: “This is a craving, not a command.”
Take 5 slow breaths, making each exhale longer than the inhale.
Wait 10 minutes before acting. Drink water, walk, or brush your teeth.
Tell yourself: “Smoking won’t relieve this craving; it will restart the cycle that caused it.”
Remove cigarettes, lighters, and ashtrays from reach.
