Quit Smoking by Hypnosis
Jonty Smith
There is something very neat about the idea of quitting cigarettes via
hypnosis. You take yourself and your 20 year tobacco habit, you allow
your brain to be re-wired via CD’s or the a swinging medallion, and
bam! You’re cured. But is it really as open and shut as this? Is
hypnosis a legitimate method or is it pseudo-science? If it works, how
does it work? These are the questions I’ll be answering in this
article.
Hypnosis is just one of many methods that can be used to help stop
smoking. The most popular alternatives are to use nicotine gum,
patches, incrementally cutting down on cigarettes, or just stopping
cold turkey. What you should notice is that hypnosis is the only method
that is psychology-driven; the other methods outlined focus on using
physical aids or taking physical action. The supposition would be that
smoking is a physical addiction, and this is precisely why I would
recommend using hypnosis to quit smoking - because smoking is a
psychological addiction first and foremost.
There is a wealth of anecdotal evidence to show that hardcore smokers
of 30 years have been able to kick the habit overnight…with effortless
ease. In the vast majority of these cases, the ex-smoker has used
hypnotic methods to quit cigarettes. You will be hard-pressed to find
many stories where the smoker has managed to easily quit cigarettes via
a physical method such as nicotine patches.
So what makes hypnosis so special? Hypnosis essentially works by
re-wiring your brain to enable you to change your paradigm towards
certain actions, objects, situations or elements. Have you ever been in
a situation where you have to do something you have an irrational fear
of (e.g. public speaking)? Have you also noticed that as you step up to
the plate, you may have repeated affirmations to yourself (e.g. “You
can do this, you can do this”)? On a very basic level, that is a form
of self-hypnosis.
Hypnosis is still a highly-contentious issue in therapy and general
medicine. Many doctors doubt its existence at all. However, as
previously mentioned, there is plenty of anecdotal evidence in
existence to show that it can make a huge difference to people’s lives.
If we spend a lifetime developing our beliefs about the world around
us, then we can easily trick ourselves into thinking that these beliefs
are “the truth” within our existence. If, however, we can question our
beliefs and attitudes, then it is quite possible to undergo a complete
transformation in a short period of time.
We often hear the advice “It’s all in your head”, and that would be one
of the better truisms in life today. I had a 10 year smoking habit,
taking in as many as 40 cigarettes a day. I unconditionally believed
that it was impossible for me to exist without smoking, for a multitude
of sub-reasons. However, I was able to quit within four hours of a
hypnosis course on MP3 file format. What’s more, it was a piece of
cake, and I haven’t desired a cigarette since then. Is that all
baloney? I can assure you it wasn’t. All that happened in that period
of time was an untangling of all my previous beliefs about smoking,
leaving me with a new perception of cigarettes.
Nicotine is actually one of the least physically-addictive substances
out there. We can survive a 10 hour plane journey, a two hour trip to
the cinema or eight hours in bed without physically needing a
cigarette. Ironically, it is often when we think about cigarettes that
we suddenly build the desire to smoke. Rather than being a physical
dependency, it is now becoming increasingly acknowledged that smoking
is a psychological dependency.
If you wish to quit smoking by hypnosis, then I would strongly urge you
to give it a shot. You can get hypnosis courses on CD, on MP3 from
online sites, or you can even arrange a face-to-face consultation with
a professional. The benefits of using hypnosis to quit smoking are just
too alluring to pass up without investigation - no physical dependency,
no cravings, no mind games, and the possibility of quitting the habit
within a few hours of starting the session. Ultimately the only way to
find out whether hypnosis is a credible method to quit smoking or not
is to try it yourself.
Jonty Smith is a former smoker of 10 years. In 2006 he finally managed
to quit the habit and has decided to tell his story at
http://www.How-I-Stopped-Smoking.com
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