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Using Hypnosis To Quit Smoking
- By John Hubert
- Published 10/27/2008
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John Hubert
John Hubert is a professional Hypnotist and author of a number of hypnosis articles and guides. You may learn about hypnosis by visiting his website which contains comprehensive information on self hypnosis, covert hypnosis and neurolinguistic programming.
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Smoking is an addiction that many people aren't able to break. It plagues all countries around the world, from America to Europe to all the other regions, and no matter how hard some people try, they just can't kick the habbit.
What many people don't realise however, is that they can use hypnosis to quit smoking, and it's a lot easier than some people may think. Just what do you know of hypnosis exactly? Is it based on fact or preconceptions, word of mouth or beliefs that are unsubstantiated? If you answered that you didn't know, then allow me to explain just what hypnosis is.
Hypnosis you see is a form of treatment and psychological deepening technique that has been around for many hundreds of years. It's only been recently that hypnosis has started to gain such a wide acceptance by the public, and also an understanding from the scientific community. So how can one actually use hypnosis to quit smoking however, you might ask? The answer is, through the same techniques as you'd use hypnosis in any other way.
Hypnosis works by placing our mind into a deeply relaxed and tranquil state, known as a trance. When it's in this state then we can give our subconscious certain suggestions, which it will subsequently act upon. If you just can't quit smoking, you can give yourself a suggestion such as 'I will have no desire to ever pick up another cigarette again'. Whilst you're in hypnosis, this suggestion will seep into your subconscious.
When you awaken yourself from trance, don't be surprised if you do in fact end up quit smoking, as that is precisely what the hypnosis session was supposed to make you do.
Lots of people will automatically dismiss hypnosis as not working, even though they haven't tried it. The thought of running around the room doing odd things that some mad stage hypnotist suggests isn't what hypnotherapy is really about. Hypnosis can be therapeutic just as it can be entertaining, perhaps even more so. For this reason it's important to try and understand that hypnosis can help you quit smoking, if you put your mind to it. Now no one is saying it will happen immediately, it may take a couple of missions, but using hypnosis to quit smoking has a very high success rate.
If you're tried every other method under the sun to kick your addiction, from nicotine patches and gum right through to trying to quit 'cold turkey', and none of these methods have work, then in all honesty and seriousness, why not give hypnosis a go? It can't hard, and the worst that will happen is that you'll experience a relaxing state of warmth without any affects. So at the very least, you'll become relaxed whilst in the state and enjoy it, even if it doesn't help you. But odds are however that it will do something for you and your smoking addiction.
So don't be one of those people that says 'you can't use hypnosis to quit smoking', be one of those people that actually gives it a go and sees for themselves just how well hypnosis can work. What we don't try we will only end up regretting, so why not give hypnosis a go today? You never know what may happen.
What many people don't realise however, is that they can use hypnosis to quit smoking, and it's a lot easier than some people may think. Just what do you know of hypnosis exactly? Is it based on fact or preconceptions, word of mouth or beliefs that are unsubstantiated? If you answered that you didn't know, then allow me to explain just what hypnosis is.
Hypnosis you see is a form of treatment and psychological deepening technique that has been around for many hundreds of years. It's only been recently that hypnosis has started to gain such a wide acceptance by the public, and also an understanding from the scientific community. So how can one actually use hypnosis to quit smoking however, you might ask? The answer is, through the same techniques as you'd use hypnosis in any other way.
Hypnosis works by placing our mind into a deeply relaxed and tranquil state, known as a trance. When it's in this state then we can give our subconscious certain suggestions, which it will subsequently act upon. If you just can't quit smoking, you can give yourself a suggestion such as 'I will have no desire to ever pick up another cigarette again'. Whilst you're in hypnosis, this suggestion will seep into your subconscious.
Lots of people will automatically dismiss hypnosis as not working, even though they haven't tried it. The thought of running around the room doing odd things that some mad stage hypnotist suggests isn't what hypnotherapy is really about. Hypnosis can be therapeutic just as it can be entertaining, perhaps even more so. For this reason it's important to try and understand that hypnosis can help you quit smoking, if you put your mind to it. Now no one is saying it will happen immediately, it may take a couple of missions, but using hypnosis to quit smoking has a very high success rate.
If you're tried every other method under the sun to kick your addiction, from nicotine patches and gum right through to trying to quit 'cold turkey', and none of these methods have work, then in all honesty and seriousness, why not give hypnosis a go? It can't hard, and the worst that will happen is that you'll experience a relaxing state of warmth without any affects. So at the very least, you'll become relaxed whilst in the state and enjoy it, even if it doesn't help you. But odds are however that it will do something for you and your smoking addiction.
So don't be one of those people that says 'you can't use hypnosis to quit smoking', be one of those people that actually gives it a go and sees for themselves just how well hypnosis can work. What we don't try we will only end up regretting, so why not give hypnosis a go today? You never know what may happen.