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With more and more emphasis
being placed on leading a healthy lifestyle and
the increasing cost of living it’s no wonder so
many people are trying to kick their smoking
habit. Not to mention the inconvenience of
having to leave a restaurant to smoke outside,
having to dash out between meetings to have a
quick smoke or generally feeling ostracised
because of your smoking
habit.
There are so many options for
smokers who want to quit. The nicotine patch,
nicotine gum as well as many other smoke free
aids are widely available so why try
hypnosis?
The addiction to nicotine is
not the only factor in stopping smoking. The
chemical in cigarettes will be out of your
system within 4-5 days of quitting. In order to
successfully quit smoking you need to break the
psychological habit. Hypnotherapy concentrates
on breaking the psychological addiction and
your ‘need’ to smoke. Once you no longer
believe that you need to smoke, you won’t look
to satisfy that
need.
Hypnosis is
concentrated relaxation and is based on
the premise of moving past your conscious
mind and targeting your subconscious mind
to create an ‘imagined reality’. If you
can imagine yourself as a non-smoker,
your subconscious mind will accept this
as a reality. Hypnosis therefore seeks to
reprogram your subconscious mind and
change your actual behaviour. Certified
hypnotherapists either offer once off
programmes or multiple sessions to result
in smoking cessation.
Although there is a
high reported percentage of success with
hypnosis with the cessation of smoking it
must also be said that the participants
must be ready to quit smoking and be
committed to the process for it to be
successful. In any event hypnosis helps
with reducing and controlling stress as
well, so it seems well worth a try in the
quest to quit smoking.
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