Hypnotherapy-Quit-Smoking
Smoking: Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy and Hype.
Is there anyone in the world who isn’t aware of the link between smoking cigarettes and early mortality and a range of deeply unpleasant and devastating illnesses?
Come on. We’ve known about the link between smoking and lung cancer since 1950. Now, 60 years later and not even the tobacco industry denies the harm that cigarettes cause… and yet, and yet. We still smoke. Children start smoking because they think it’s cool. It looks cool in movies, right? And all the grown-ups tell you you shouldn’t do it, but THEY do it, so it must be great, right?
Then they’re hooked. And even as adults we lie to ourselves that we could quit if we wanted to and that we actually enjoy smoking. And then there’s that first time when you really decide to stop, because it’s making you feel bad, and you smell like an ashtray and you just can’t afford it anymore.
And you discover what every nicotine addict discovers when they try to quit. They can’t!
We manage a few days of irritable abstinence, scowling at other smokers who seem to be enjoying what you are denying yourself. We snap at our friends and scold them for not quitting too… and then some friend offers you one from their pack just with the immortal words YOU KNOW YOU WANT ONE!
You Know You Want One!
And you realise that it’s true. You do want one. You like smoking. You haven’t smoked for 3 days and suddenly that filter between your lips, and the smap of the lighter, and the sound of the sizzling tobacco and the deep red glow of the tip as you pull that hot dirty drug down into your lungs and the nicotine you’ve been craving is delivered in seconds to your aching brain… and suddenly everything is all right again. And you’re back.
Sound familiar? Perhaps you’ve tried nicotine patches, or gum, or sprays. Or perhaps you’ve been desperate enough to go to your doctor for Zyban or Chantix. And those two quit-smoking drugs are actually based on anti-depressants… which gives us a clue to the only quit smoking method that actually works. The only way to quit smoking permanently and become a total non-smoker instead of an irritable craving complaining miserable ex-smoker is to change the way you think about smoking.
Changing your subconscious mind is the only way.