Stop smoking with hypnosis and hypnotherapy
The focus of this article is on some of the aspects that makes it difficult for smokers to stop. By being aware of the different aspects about the smoking cessation makes it possible to use hypnosis and hypnotherapy. By working together with the subconscious mind you can achieve the smoking cessation much easier while at the same time having a much more pleasant experience.
As the number of studies that show bad effects of smoking increases, governments around the globe make it equally harder for their citizens to continue smoking by making cigarets harder to buy, more expensive or illegal to smoke in certain areas. All the smokers I know - who hasn't quit yet - have tried to do so a number of times. It's not just the governments attemps to stop the smoking that encourage these attemps, but it's also their surroundings and often a rational view that smoking is a waste of money. I clearly remember when I was younger, how me and be siblings would ask of our grandmother that she quit smoking. My grandmother smoked through many years, and she explained to us that she wanted to stop, but just couldn't. When she lost a sister - who also had been smoking most of her life - to lung-cancer, she realized that she needed to do something, and she has never smoked since. How can it be, that it's so hard to stop smoking when you want to?
I usually destinguish between the conscious and the subconscious mind by saying that the conscious is the leader and the subconscious is the manager. The conscious mind sets the course while the subconscious mind is the motor that makes sure that the goal will be reached. Whenever the subconscious mind has set up habits and routines it can be very difficult to break these by the use of willpower/the conscious mind. There are several aspects that makes it difficult to stop the habit of smoking. The first one is nicotin. It has been determined that nicotin is addictive, and thereby makes the bodi physically addicted to the substance, but inspite of this the nicotin will leave the body in just a couple of days after you have stopped smoking. By the way, did you know that if you extracted the nicotin in raw form from just a single cigaret, and injected it directly into the veins of a horse, it would die? It doesn't sound like a substance someone would enjoy allowing into their body.
I know many smokers who stopped smoking for weeks and even months, just to go back to smoking. When that much time has passed, it's definitely not the work of nicotin. It's rather the social aspect of smoking, which is very important. When a larger group of people gather, who has never met each other before, it's usually the smokers who first get to know each other, because they gather in the breaks to smoke. This is a very positive feature of the smoking habit, but unfortunately it's not positive enough to outweight the negative consequences that smoking has for both the smoker and his surroundings. Richard Bandler - who is the co-founder of NLP - describes in one of his books how he helped a man to stop smoking. After just one session the man had quit the habit, but he started to have problems with the relationship to his wife. Bandler called in both the man and his wife and after observing them sitting in the waiting room he thought it could be related to the cigarets. Smoking had been something the couple did together, and since he didn't smoke anymore he didn't engage in that activity. Before he would be sitting in the kitchen with her having a cigaret and chatting, but now he would rather not be arround her when she were smoking. This aspect is also very important when you stop smoking. It can be very hard on a relationship if one person stops smoking and the other one doesn't. Especially if the one that stops smoking has build new beliefs about how bad smoking is.
It also occurs that people gets pressured by their peers to stop smoking - just as me and my siblings tried to get our grandmother to stop. It can be an impossible task to stop smoking using hypnosis, if the smoker doesn't want to quit. Dispite what some people believe, hypnosis isn't manipulation. You cannot make someone do something they don't want to by hypnotizing them. If that was the case the hypnotists could hypnotize all the criminals in prison and have them stop committing crime, but it's just not possible. Hypnosis is a really effective tool when you are committed to breaking the habit. Many smokers have beliefs about how hard it is to stop smoking, some think that it will be hell both mentally and physically, but this is where hypnosis can help to ease the abstinences and remove the hypnotic suggestion you have induced in your mind about the difficulty of quitting. If you try to quit smoking with a belief that it will be very difficult, then it probably will!
The hypnotist you choose for helping you, should also help you to avoid replacing the smoking habit with another bad habit, but instead have you utilize your new situation to benefit you as much as it can. Noone would like you to quit smoking just to become depressed or irritated. If this article has conviced you to use hypnosis to stop smoking, I suggest you find a hypnotist in your area and give him/her a phonecall to find out how you can be assisted.