Quit Smoking Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy, therapy performed in hypnosis, is the smartest way to stop
smoking, and has incredible success rate. More than just quit smoking, it
removes the habit of smoking for complete smoking cessation, it helps to remove
the psychological reasons for smoking, so you will stop addiction and you will
become a real non-smoker. It is important to check the hypnotherapist skills and
experience to make sure that psychological reasons for smoking are eliminated.
Because it works! Have you tried to stop smoking?
The average ex-smoker tries to stop seven times before he succeeds. If he
succeeds.
Hypnotherapy is the smartest way to stop smoking. It has incredible success
rate - far more than with any other method. It is also simple, convenient and
pleasant. You will enjoy your relaxing sessions. And as result, you will became
a real non-smoker. You will never want to smoke again.
No withdrawal symptoms.
No unwanted weight gain.
No patches, pills and gums.
No cravings and no relapse.
- It can help you to decide to stop smoking. It may be that you feel
guilty about smoking and you know you would like to quit, but somehow you
cannot make a decision.
- Hypnotherapy will boost your motivation. Motivation is the most
important part of any achievement.
- It will help you to find your own way of quitting, the option which your
subconscious mind will accept and support.
- It will diminish the withdrawal symptoms. For this the hypnosis is the
most powerful tool.
- It will free you from cravings (the urge or desire to smoke).
- Hypnotherapy will deal with the habits which lead to smoking. Often the
quitting smoker successfully manages to handle the carvings and withdrawal
symptoms, and then some old learned habit (like a night out with friends)
will make him smoke again.
- You will become a true non-smoker, and as a true non-smoker you will not
think about smoking.
- Hypnotherapy will help to avoid the unwanted weight gain and any other
unwanted effects of quitting smoking (like gaining another addiction)
- Hypnotherapy will help you to remain a non-smoker.
Addiction to nicotine is most often both psychological and physical. The
physical addiction is easier to overcome, and the standard medical approach
can be used, like patches and lozenges, or medication decreasing the addiction
or physical pleasure from smoking. With strong desire to quit, the physical
addiction is not that difficult to overcome. Very often it can be done by the
client without any therapy, or if somebody chooses comfort to struggle, in just
one hypnosis session.
Habit of smoking is sometimes more difficult to overcome than physical
addiction. When somebody smokes for many years, very often from early teens, the
habit of smoking becomes very deeply rooted, and it seems to be the part of the
person. There is this automatic reaching out for cigarette with a cup of coffee,
when having a drink, after a meal, chatting over the phone or driving a car
(especially on red light). It is possible to work out all the situations which
lead to smoking and become very aware of yourself, watching yourself all the
time and consciously stopping yourself when the habit kicks. Sometimes clients
choose to introduce some new habit instead of the old one, for example chewing
the gum. But sometimes the new unwanted habit forms, like excessive
eating of sweets.
It is much easier to overcome habit of smoking with hypnosis, because
habits operate on the subconscious level. In most situations, this can be
done in one session or even with hypnosis CD. However, it may not prevent the
formation of unwanted habits, like overeating. A qualified clinical hypnotherapist would assist
you to use your own resources to remove/replace habit of smoking safely. In my
opinion for this to happen there are at least two sessions needed, because after
quitting smoking and not smoking for a week the new habits can be detected and
corrected.
I will also help you to overcome the psychological addiction to
smoking. The psychological addiction is never helped with the medical approach,
medical approach usually treats only the physical addiction. The psychological
addiction is usually deeply rooted in the past, or has reasons in insecurity, or
general anxiety, or very strong stress levels, just naming the few. Sometimes
clients call cigarettes "their only friends" or even their identity is connected
with smoking. Hypnotherapy offers the best solutions for dissolving the
psychological addiction. You can talk about you psychological addiction with a
psychologist for long time, but when you want to solve it, you better see an
experienced and well trained hypnotherapist.
Over years I've developed a unique, three sessions quit smoking program,
suitable for most of the smokers. The program uses hypnotherapy, not just simple
hypnosis, so it is tailored for the specific needs of each client, as everybody
has different reasons to smoke and to quit.
The standard quit smoking program consists of initial 30 minutes
FREE
consultation, followed by three one-hour sessions. The first session is to
prepare for quitting smoking. The client quits on the second session, and the
last one is to make the changes permanent and to learn how to deal with special
situations (like a night out).
The sessions are usually 3 to 7 days apart.
Almost every client who qualifies for the standard there sessions quit
smoking program stops smoking successfully after the second session.
The most difficult to overcome is a psychological addiction to
smoking. The most common psychological reason for smoking is just dealing with
stress or difficult situations. Most smokers automatically reach for cigarettes
when stressed. This is why I use the first session to teach relaxation and
methods to deal with stress. Sometimes there are other
deep rooted psychological reasons to smoke. They could be very personal; I had a
client who smoked because his beloved older brother, who died in car accident in
his early twenties introduced him to cigarettes and on the subconscious level
smoking was his connection to his brother. The other client's parents separated
when she was three years old. Her subconscious mind has connected the smell of
cigarettes with her early memories of her father, when he was caring and loving.
For another client smoking when a teenager was a rebellious act against her
controlling mother, so smoking was making her feel strong and independent.
Sometimes people smoke because they are so afraid of smoking, so guilty of
smoking that they are absolutely obsessive and it makes them smoke even more. It
may seem ridiculous, but the subconscious mind has very specific ways to deal
with anxiety, so when you are very afraid of smoking, it plays on your mind and
you smoke more in result, becoming even more anxious.
I strongly believe that it is very important to clear the psychological
reasons for smoking before or just after quitting. Especially it is very
important to learn to deal with stress and anxiety and any strong emotional
issues. Smoking, like most other addictions, is a successful coping mechanism in
those cases and when removed the other coping mechanism may form. Very often it
is excessive eating and weight gain, it could be even compulsive eating and
bulimia (especially if there was some tendency already). Sometimes it could be
more drinking or some compulsions, especially if there is anxiety present. It is
also easier to start smoking again if the psychological reasons for smoking
remain. For example, if somebody was smoking as a way to cope with relationship
issues, the person is very likely to start smoking again even years later if
there are similar relationship issues with somebody else, unless the original
issue is cleared on the subconscious level.
The three sessions program is enough for most clients to completely remove
smoking habit and addiction, both physical and psychological, and to learn new
skills to replace the benefits of smoking, if any. The time between the sessions
allows to notice any additional help or reinforcements needed. Sometimes it
may be cravings in particular situation, sometimes it could be that the pattern
of smoking is different during weekend. And it is generally easier to stay a
week without cigarettes if you know that next week all the difficulties will be
addressed.
This is a special program for clients who have to quit in one single session.
The program consists of one two-hour session.
This program is made for clients who live outside Sydney and travel takes a
long time. The clients need to be already very motivated.
I would recommend it for the clients who already stopped smoking and
need some reinforcement, because they feel cravings or withdrawal symptoms.
Sometimes smoking has some benefits. For example,
it may be a way to deal with stress or anxiety, or even depression. Smoking is deadly for your health, but so is stress.
If you are depressed or
anxious, quitting smoking can be extremely difficult and even dangerous. In this
situation it is beneficial to use hypnotherapy first to reduce stress and to
deal with other problems before quitting smoking.
It is quite common that people decide to quit smoking in some difficult life
situations, like broken relationship or feeling very low and depressed. They
reason that they will feel better when they quit smoking, because they will be
back in control. This is the truth, it works very well, it really boosts self
esteem when you are in control of your habits. It also makes you feel great
physically, and you can start physical exercise, as you are more fit, so you
feel even better, because the physical exercise makes the body produce
endorphins, natural antidepressants. However, if the smoking was the only way to
make you feel good, the only pleasure in the black hole of depression, it is
almost impossible to stop, you will try and fail, feeling guilty and even more
depressed. It is really essential to deal with the issues first, and
hypnotherapy will help you to get out of the black hole of depression and to
find new pleasures before you give up smoking.
In the situation when the client is under very high level of stress, or there
are some other problems, like anxiety or depression, I recommend 5 to 6
sessions, after the initial 30 minutes free consultation. I usually use
the first 2 or 3 session to deal with the stress and anxiety, then one session to
prepare for quitting smoking, client quits on the next session and the last
one or two sessions are to reinforce the changes and to make them permanent.
Major depression or strong anxiety may need a few more sessions.
- It can help you to decide to stop smoking. It may be that you feel
guilty about smoking and you know you would like to quit, but somehow you
cannot make a decision.
- Hypnotherapy will boost your motivation. Motivation is the most
important part of any achievement.
- It will help you to find your own way of quitting, the option which your
subconscious mind will accept and support.
- It will diminish the withdrawal symptoms. For this the hypnosis is the
most powerful tool.
- It will free you from cravings (the urge or desire to smoke).
- Hypnotherapy will deal with the habits which lead to smoking. Often the
quitting smoker successfully manages to handle the carvings and withdrawal
symptoms, and then some old learned habit (like a night out with friends)
will make him smoke again.
- You will become a true non-smoker, and as a true non-smoker you will not
think about smoking.
- Hypnotherapy will help to avoid the unwanted weight gain and any other
unwanted effects of quitting smoking (like gaining another addiction)
- Hypnotherapy will help you to remain a non-smoker.
It is important that you understand your own smoking.
- First make a list of reasons why you want to stop smoking. Write the
reasons that are important to you, from the most important to the least
important. You may lookup
www.quit.org.au for the clues, but make sure that you have your own
reasons
- Recognize the patterns of your smoking. Find out at what time you are most
likely to smoke, what situation and what feelings make you smoke. When do you
smoke most? Are there any situations when you automatically reach out for the
cigarette? You may keep a smoking record for about a week, just recording each
time you had a cigarette and why.
- Think why do you smoke. Is it a social pressure, stress, pleasure, habit, addiction?
Anything else?
