Because the average person makes approximately ten attempts over many years to quit smoking before he is successful, many smokers will eventually stumble upon or at least consider hypnosis as an option in their quest to kick their smoking habit for good. Usually by the time a smoker is considering hypnosis, he’s tried willpower, nicotine patches, nicotine gum, or pills/supplements to stop smoking. And he wonders how hypnosis is different from the other things he’s tried. The short answer is that unlike other stop smoking methods, which work in a physical ways, hypnosis works on your subconscious mind in a few different ways.
To Understand Stop Smoking Hypnosis, You Must Understand That Smoking Is More Of A Mind Addition Than A Nicotine One: Most people assume it is the addiction to nicotine that makes quitting smoking seemingly so hard. But, most experts say this is just not true. Most nicotine is cleared out your system within less than a week of stopping smoking. Many many people clear this hurdle only to begin smoking again weeks, months or even years later. Why? Because it’s the emotional and psychological addiction to cigarettes that is so hard to overcome. The nicotine addiction is much easier to beat.
Without question, most smokers associate smoking with relaxation, pleasure and a release of tension. All of these associations are unconscious. Almost no one who takes a smoke break is thinking “Well, I’m going to smoke now because I’m seeking pleasure or tension release.” What happens instead is that by both habit and unconscious thinking, a smoker has conditioned himself to want to smoke when he has unconscious feelings of tension or pleasure seeking.
Stop Smoking Hypnosis Programs Address Unconscious Thoughts: One selling point of stop smoking hypnosis is that it can allegedly train your unconscious mind to replace stress-related thoughts with calming thoughts instead - bypassing the stress/tension/pleasure-seeking compulsion to smoke. By this mechanism, the hypnosis also induces more relaxation, less tension and stress, weakening the intense cravings to smoke.
Stop Smoking Hypnosis Programs Address Unconscious Smoking Associations: The second way hypnosis works is by training your unconscious mind to break habitual associations with smoking. Most all smokers have unconscious habitual smoking associations - like at a certain break time, you will smoke. Or, while driving at a certain time, you will smoke. Or, when experiencing certain feelings, you will smoke. Hypnosis allegedly can reprogram these unconscious and habitual associations with other associations that do not involve smoking.
Any Stop Smoking Hypnosis Programs’ Success Is Based On The User’s Level Of Commitment: Some hypnosis advertisements make stop smoking hypnosis sound overly simple - you listen to some tapes or DVDs and suddenly all cravings are turned off. This is oversimplifying the process. No matter how good the hypnosis DVD or hypnotist is, the smoker has to be absolutely committed to quitting smoking.
Despite the high stop smoking hypnosis success rates that we hear about, in order for any stop smoking program to be successful, rather it is hypnosis-based or not, the smoker must be absolutely willing to part with both the physical cigarettes and the emotional and psychological issues that go hand in hand with smoking and replace both of them with something more positive.
The bottom line is, if you have an honest and strong desire to quit smoking, stop smoking hypnosis programs do have the potential to make you more comfortable by helping with cravings and tension. But stop smoking hypnosis can not create the desire to quit. That must come from you
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