Can’t stop smoking? Hypnosis may just be the answer you need. Hypnosis can address the deeper issues in the conflict around quitting smoking. The hypnotherapist is well skilled in dealing with smoking cessation and has treated this issue many times before with great success and accomplishment. Hypnosis can be the answer for those who have tried other methods to stop smoking.
Hypnosis addresses the three major components of smoking cessation and, in one or more sessions, can help you get through those particular issues. The first issue is that of trying to avoid the acute triggers that cause you to smoke, like smoking after a meal, smoking on work breaks, and smoking at a bar when drinking. The hypnotist will put you in a deep and peaceful hypnotic trance and will give you suggestions like “You will not smoke the first thing in the morning” or “You will not smoke in bars or restaurants” or “You will have no urge to smoke after a meal.”
When you want to stop smoking with hypnosis, you must address the issue of nicotine addiction. Nicotine addiction gives you restlessness, irritability and shakiness when you are low on nicotine. Nicotine patches or gum only partially treat these symptoms. The hypnotist will put you in a deep hypnotic trance and will give you specific suggestions related to nicotine addiction like “You will learn to be calm when withdrawing from nicotine” or “You will not feel any untoward symptoms after being off of nicotine” or “The shakes will dissipate as soon as they occur when you withdraw from nicotine.” These are thing that directly affect how on responds to nicotine withdrawal and will make the process easier to tolerate.
There are long term issues to consider when dealing with smoking cessation. One can stop smoking with hypnosis if these particular issues are addressed. Often when a person has quit smoking, they still have long term triggers like being around others who smoke, having a spouse who smokes and simply feeling the urge to smoke under certain circumstances that can get in the way of long term success.
The hypnotist addresses these long term issue and can continue the process of stopping smoking. After putting the client in a hypnotic trance, the hypnotist gives suggestions like “You will not have the urge to smoke around your spouse” or “Other people’s smoking won’t bother you”. This will lead to long term success in smoking cessation in a susceptible individual.
People have different susceptibilities to hypnosis. When trying to stop smoking with hypnosis, it may take one or several sessions to seal the message to the brain to allow the recipient to think, feel and act differently around smoking. Certainly there are those that can quit after one session and they do well afterward. Others need several sessions to deal with the different issues involved in smoking before the procedure “sticks” and the client can finally quit smoking. It is a very successful method of smoking cessation, especially when used with thing s like the nicotine patch or nicotine gum.
