Frequently one session with a professional hypnotist followed by a self-hypnosis recording is all it takes to quit. You can increase the odds that you will change permanently with a combination of outside and self-help. This will give you better odds for winning long term health.
There are more than a dozen schools of hypnotherapy (NLP) so be sure to do your research and choose the one that appeals to you most. You can also mix and match techniques to create an effective path to your ultimate goal of permanent smoking cessation.
One very popular technique is known as hypnosis. This therapeutic method has been in practice since the late 1800s. In the olden days, hypnosis was thought to be a hoax. Today, many health professionals recognize it as a very powerful way to change behavior. Understand that physical addiction is just one aspect of the smoking habit. You must adjust your mind if you want long term change.
When you use hypnosis, suggestions are introduced that will stay with you on a sub-conscious level. Once you have identified the hidden triggers that cause you to choose smoking, you can replace them with new triggers that are in opposition.
It is also very desirable to use very conscious efforts. With MLP, you can understand and focus on the ideas and thoughts that you have control over. When looked at with care, it is possible to influence them with logic and facts
You can create a list of all of the objects and events that you associate with smoking. This will enable you to use this approach. Whenever you start to reach for a cigarette, make a note of the time and the reason. Do you light up automatically as soon as you wake up in the morning? When your boss gives you some odious chore, do you immediately take a smoke break?
When you find the triggers, you can move them into your conscious awareness. Here you can use conscious thought to control them. Like old-fashioned psychoanalysis, hypnosis draws thoughts and issues out of the depths of the subconscious mind.
However, according to NLP these may not come from past events or childhood trauma. They may be the result of past thought processes. For this reason, it is possible to replace the old thoughts with new thoughts for good. It requires some conscious effort, though!
This process is neither automatic nor unemotional. Instead, one must harmonize thoughts and feelings.
If you want to succeed in the long term, you must be willing to put in the effort. If you know what motivates you when it comes to smoking, you are halfway there. It is just as important to take action to resolve the problem.
For example, you could redirect your thoughts to some other activity.
If you feel stressed, choose to exercise rather than smoking. This is twice the favor! If you just give up one cigarette, it is a step toward giving up your life threatening habit. You are building yourself up to a healthy body when you exercise. If you are having a glass of wine or a beer, choose to have some fruit, bread, chocolate, nuts, etc. with it instead of a cigarette.
Either way, the technique you are using is redirection. You must focus that desire to smoke a cigarette on something else. Then it becomes a situation that not only negates one episode of smoking, but also introduces a wanted and healthy alternative activity.
The only way to institute behavior modification on the long term is to reform old habits. Once upon a time you did not smoke. Go back to that time by developing a plan and following it step by step.
Wil Dieck is the founder of Total Mind Therapy, a highly successful method that helps people to stop smoking that uses NLP and hypnosis. In fact, hundreds of people, just like you, have used Total Mind Therapy to help them quit smoking. His office is located in the middle of Mission valley in beautiful San Diego. Wil is also the author of the e-Course ““Quit Smoking Secrets the Tobacco Companies Don’t Want You to Know”” that you can have at absolutely no charge. CLICK HERE to receive your FREE copy of “Quit Smoking Secrets the Tobacco Companies Don’t Want You to Know”.
