It may prove an unfeasible task to use hypnosis to quit smoking

How To Quit Smoking Using Hypnosis

This article clarifies some of the characteristics which makes it complicated for smokers to quit smoking. By paying attention to the various reasons of smoking cessation, it’s possible to use hypnosis to work with the unconscious mind, to get a straightforward and more satisfying smoking cessation.

Every smoker I know - who have not quit smoking so far - has frequently tried to quit smoking. It is not merely the different smoking laws that persuade smokers to stop, it is also their friends and their finances. I remember quite precisely, when I was a kid how my brothers and I constantly asked our grandmother to stop smoking. My grandmother smoked for many years and she said that she wanted to stop but she could not. When she lost a sister to lung cancer, who also had smoked most of her life, my grandmother quit and she has not smoked since. How can it be that it is so problematical to quit smoking even if you want to?

I tend to make a distinction between consciousness and sub consciousness by saying that consciousness is the leader and sub consciousness is the manager. Consciousness sets the objectives, and sub consciousness is the engine that makes sure that the goals are reached. When that the sub consciousness sets the routines and way of life it can be challenging to end them with will power and the power of consciousness alone.

There are more than a few characteristics of smoking, which makes this more difficult than other routines. The primary is nicotine. It has been documented that nicotine is addictive and makes your body dependent, but despite that, the nicotine is somewhat quick to exit the body if you can stay smoke-free for just a a small number of days. Did you know that if you derive the concentrated amount of nicotine that is in only one cigarette, and injected it directly into the veins of a horse, it would die. It is not a substance I would like to fill my body with even in the slightest amount.

I know many smokers who have stayed smoke-free in many weeks or even months and then returned to cigarettes. After that long, it is not nicotine dependence that is the problem. The social aspect of smoking is also an central factor. When a large group of people who have never met each other for the first time, it’s often smokers who gets acquainted only since they have this joint vice. I find this quality of cigarettes quite constructive, sadly, is not positive enough to compensate the injurious effects smoking has on both the smoker and his or hers acquaintances. Richard Bandler - co-creator of NLP - illustrates in one of his books a meeting he had with a man who wanted to stop smoking. After a single treatment, he was a non-smoker, but he started to have problems in his marriage. Bandler called both the man and his wife in, and after having watched them in the waiting room, he realized that it had something to do with cigarettes. Smoking had been a joint thing they had, and since he no longer smoked, he did not participate in the common activity. He preferred not to be anywhere near her when she sat in the kitchen and smoked her cigarettes, which they had done previously and talked during the smoking. This aspect is very important when you need to quit smoking. There is not much fun in stoping smoking, if your partner continues to smoke, neither for you or your partner.

It happens also that people are being pressured to quit smoking - just like we tried to push my grandmother. It may prove an unachievable task to use hypnosis to stop smoking, if it’s not your own desire to stop smoking. Hypnosis is not manipulation as someone still thinks. You can’t get people to do something they would not, otherwise we could just hypnotize all the criminals to stop crime, but sadly it is not that easy. However, hypnosis and hypnotherapy is a terrific tool when you are ready to quit smoking. Lots of smokers believe that it will be a hell both physically and mentally to quit smoking, but hypnosis can be used to ease withdrawal symptoms and remove the beliefs you have learned yourself, about how it is to quit smoking. If you imagine that it will be very strenuous, then it will probably be very challenging.

Your hypnotherapist should also help make sure that your habit of smoking is not replaced by another bad habit, but instead results in a greater comfort for you and your acquaintances. Nobody would like you to be a non-smoker who was irritable or depressed.

If you after reading this article want to hear more about stopping smoking and hypnosis, so I suggest that you contact a hypnotist in your area or on the Internet and give him or her a call.