How can Hypnosis Help me Stop Smoking?

Smoking is a behavior you engage in because it provides something you need in your life and which has become a habit.

But using hypnosis to quit smoking can help you break free. But why do you do it? Why do you engage in a habit you know threatens your health?

Perhaps it is relief from stress or the comfort it brings you when you feel anxious, sad or angry. Maybe it’s a learned behavior you picked up from watching family members and friends.

Perhaps you enjoy smoking because you think it helps you to keep your weight at a reasonable level. Whatever the reason, smoking has become a friend you cling to for support. but now you’re wondering if hypnosis will help you quit smoking.

 

The Repetitive Nature of Smoking:

Imagine sitting for hours at a time and watching the same television program over and over again. Or watching the same movie over and over again. Or what about listening to a song, the same song, many times throughout the day. Take that day and then stretch it into the next and the next. Before long that program, movie or song, will become a part of your subconscious because it has become a repetitive action. It has gained a foothold in your subconscious and it is not going anywhere. That is the same for smoking.

Hypnosis is a practice that brushes past the surface of the conscious mind and goes further. It probes what is in the subconscious where your smoking habit has built roots and created neural pathways. It is the level of concentration that hypnosis takes on and the heightened awareness that serves to benefit the patient of hypnosis.

Hypnosis is able to retrain the brain to no longer crave the desire for nicotine. It can take the enjoyment of smoking and turn it upside down. It helps the person to learn how to live without the presence of cigarettes.

 

Re-Training the Brain:

The job of the hypnotist is to alter the way the subconscious mind approaches the subject of smoking. The subconscious mind needs to begin to see life as a non-smoker is much more appealing than life as a smoker. The re-training of the brain to adopt a healthier smoke free attitude involves erasing smoking thoughts and images and replacing them with thoughts and images such as how much better the heart and lungs will work once tobacco is no longer in the system and how much more money the individual will have to put towards other things.

Using hypnosis to quit smoking is a beneficial form of treatment that can be used to figure out why a person began the smoking habit. The negative smoking pattern of thought can be taken away and then a positive mindset put back in its place.

Another uplifting aspect of hypnosis is it helps to improve the self-confidence level of smokers and allows them to feel better about themselves. Many individuals who wish to give up smoking need all of the encouragement they can get. It is also a motivation booster that promotes feelings of empowerment. All of these things spell success for those who choose hypnosis treatment to help them to give up smoking.

 

Erika Slater, CH
Director
Free At Last Hypnosis