Any person that ever tried to stop smoking recalls the fight between wanting to stop and wanting a cigarette. Even though your logical brain knows you’ll survive the desire and that the change is good for you, your pleasure center in the brain basically wants to breathe in the delightful toxin filled smoke and get that kick when you take the first hit off a cigarette.
A smoker that’s in the first few weeks of being tobacco free sees cigarettes and reminders everywhere. He/She notices people in their vehicles smoking and even envies the bum retrieving old smoke butts off the sidewalk. Eventually, quite a few smokers drop back into their old pattern of smoking and to make it worse, they frequently smoke more than they did before they quit.
You don’t have to encounter the continuous fight of your health vs a smoke if you use hypnosis. Naturally, the desire for nicotine happens in the first day or so while you withdraw, but after that, the craving is all in your mind, and thats’s exactly where hypnosis performs its magic. Even during the preliminary withdrawal phase, hypnosis can assist you over the hurdle to become smoke free.
When you first stop smoking, you have resolution and desire that wanes after several hours without a smoke. Stopping smoking is mastering a new life style with new associations. Hypnotherapy can assist you learn a new pattern faster and adapt to the new life of a non-smoker more quickly.
Learning is what hypnotherapy is all about. Instead of relaxing and letting go, allowing your thoughts to wander, hypnosis relaxes you but intensifies your focus. In the hands of a trained hypnotist, the “super focus” learns new methods of thinking. Instead of seeing cigarettes as your best friend, you learn to see them as disgusting and in the process, you not only change your thinking, you also change your habits.
Smoking, once you get past the craving for the nicotine, is nothing more than a habit you associate with almost everything in your life, if you’ve smoked for long. You use it as a stimulant, relaxer, method of celebrating, method of consoling and sometimes merely as something to do. You have years of ingrained memories linked with smoking and it’s a habit thats’s part of your life. In order to break the habit, you have to have a change in mindset.
By using the services of a certified hypnotherapist mixed with self-hypnosis, you can make it through the battle with cigarettes. However, even though there’s evidence that hypnosis performs to assist you cease smoking, after a year, usually people go right back to their friendly pack of cigarettes and start again. Thats’s why maintaining a relationship and periodic meetings when required with the hypnotist after you stop is important. It’s somewhat like recharging your batteries once they get low.
Filed under Quit Smoking by on Jan 26th, 2011. Comment. 
Smoking is a bad habit that is very difficult to give up. It is not only dangerous to the smoker, himself, but to the people around him as well. Once a person becomes addicted, it becomes difficult for him to stop smoking. However, despite all the reminders regarding the bad effects of smoking to health, a lot of people are still drawn into the aroma of cigarette smoking.
People should not have started to smoke. Because as you all know, once you have become dependent on nicotine, it would be very difficult for you to eliminate it from your system. Advertisements have constantly reminded people that cigarette smoking is dangerous to health, yet it is as if they have not heard a single reminder. Well, people who do not admit that they are addicted to smoking have a really big problem.
Smokers who are trying to stop smoking can attest to the difficulty of the process of quitting. Determination and will power are needed in order for one to reach his goal of being a non-smoker.
Most people would say that a gradual cutting down of the cigarette smoking is a good method for quitting. Small steps are taken, one at a time to ensure that the process is going in the direction that is more beneficial to the smoker who plans on quitting.
Preparation Necessary to Stop Smoking
Preparation is necessary when you feel like stopping. Reflect on your reasons for smoking, and take note of when you usually smoke and how you typically go about it. You may want to deviate from your usual smoking habits, and try things that you son not usually do when smoking. For instance, you may want to try new things as a replacement for smoking, like when you are urged to smoke, you may just chew a gum or munch on healthy snacks. Or, if you really want to smoke, you may do so but not with the hand that you usually use when smoking. If you are used to holding the cigarette with your right hand, you may try your left hand instead. You need to learn these things so that you can make a good plan that you can follow as you cut down the sticks you smoke.
The Beginning of the Actual Renouncement
Get rid of all the things that may remind you of smoking. You may want to keep your ash trays way from your view, or you may also, for the time being, avoid people who smoke. This way, you are not constantly reminded of your tendencies to smoke. Think of ways activities that can keep your mind off the idea of smoking. Give yourself a reward when you have not smoked for the whole day, this way your act of not smoking will be reinforced. You may also want to visit your dentist so that you can get your teeth cleaned from all the nicotine that may have stained them.
Living a Smoke-free Life
There may be times when you feel irritated or depressed; these may just be the withdrawal symptoms. You should learn to avoid smoking despite these symptoms. It may be difficult at first but as time passes by, you would realize that it gets easier and better. Think of all the benefits that you may have if you stop smoking – financially, physically and socially.
Filed under Quit Smoking by on Feb 22nd, 2010. Comment.
Hi, my name is Karen and I am a non-smoker. Having kicked my addiction to nicotine and cigarettes I am living a healthier no smoking lifestyle. If you would like to be a non-smoker, too, join me on your quest to find the best solution to help you stop smoking.
