If you are looking to stop smoking, then you can be reassured that youre doing the right thing and have come to the right place.
Your ability to stop smoking permanently depends of a number of very important factors:
Question 1: Are you physically addicted to smoking?
If you really can stop smoking by using willpower alone, you are one of the lucky ones. If not, then you have a physical addiction to nicotine, which is why your previous attempts to stop smoking have created withdrawal symptoms. Part of the method that you choose to help you stop smoking must work on this physical level.
Question 2: Are you psychologically addicted?
If you reach for a cigarette with a cup of tea or coffee, if you light up after a meal or if you smoke more when you are socialising or drinking or when you are stress, the answer is 'yes'. You rely on cigarettes in certain situations, and associate smoking with certain activities. The choice to smoke is no within your conscious control, so when you try to give up it is extremely difficult. The method to help you stop smoking must address the psychological habit.
There is an enormous difference between a smoker that has stopped smoking and a non-smoker. The smoker may have quit and resists having a cigarette, but still want it, while the non-smoker couldn't think of anything worse than smoking.
They stopped smoking only at a CONSCIOUS level, but they miss the unconscious mind. Unconsciously, smoking is still an attractive prospect for them. So you need a technique that tackles both aspects with equal power.
Question 3: Do you want to stop smoking?
The question is not can I stop smoking? but do I want to stop smoking?
In your mind must be the DESIRE that you want to stop smoking or you have at least one very good reason to stop smoking. Do you hate smelling of smoke all the time? Are you sick of coughing and wheezing? Are you worried about heart disease or cancer? If the answer is yes, then you are already half way there, and you can learn how to make the switch' from smoker to happy non-smoker if the answer is no, then the time is not yet right for you!
So that's it! A tricky few days and then a lifetime of freedom. So why hasn't it been that easy previously? Simple - you didn't deal with the psychological addiction of smoking. In fact, you probably put cigarettes up on some kind of a pedestal.
Wrong Believes:
If you think that stopping smoking is depriving you of something, then it is just a matter of time until you start again. Hypnotherapy is ideal for this. Using hypnosis, you can deal with all of the emotional and psychological aspects of giving up smoking.
Once upon a time you were a healthy non-smoker who could engage in any activity, any situation, without even the slightest thought about cigarettes. As long as you have the desire to give-up, then this anti-smoking therapy will enable you to become a non-smoker again. The aim is simply to reprogram your subconscious mind back to the non-smoker you used to be.
The anti-smoking Programme:
The treatment for smoking cessation involves two sessions with any follow-up one if necessary. Hypnotherapy for stop smoking deals with both the habit and the addiction. It addresses the real reasons why you smoke and its also a tool to learn relaxation and positive thinking techniques.
The first consultation will generally involve gathering information into your personal reasons for wanting to quit smoking, an explantion, hypnotherapy and stop smoking tips.
To stop smoking in a positive and easy way, we will give your subconscious mind lots of good reasons to be a non-smoker.
How about starting right now by making a list of all of the benefits you will enjoy as a non-smoker? Imagine yourself in the future, say six months time from now.
Some good reasons to be a non-smoker:
-You will experience the freedom of realising that you just dont need to smoke any more.
-It will give you a tremendous feeling of satisfaction and achievement.
-Youll begin to have a greater respect for your body.
-You'll feel a great increase in your levels of willpower.
-Good health, energy, fitness and freedom will be part of your life.
-You'll feel more relaxed in everyday life.
-Youll feel positive about yourself when someone offers you a cigarette and you find yourself saying no thanks.
-You'll feel confident in yourself and happy as a non-smoker.
-All your senses (taste, smell) and your skin will rejuvenate.
-You will be a real non-smoker, someone with a healthier and less stressful future, who can't imagine why they ever smoked.
-Youll look and feel more attractive without the smell of smoke in your hair and clothes.
-You will change the way you breathe, adopting a deeper and easier breathing patterns that will bring deeper happy feelings. You will feel more strong and live more passionately. Every time you breathe this way you will be BREATHING LIFE.
-Giving up will save you more than £1.800 a year if you were a 20 a day smoker.
The cost of a hypnotherapy session for stopping smoking will be minimal compared to the financial and health costs incurred during a lifetime of smoking.
You will also choose a personal colour that means to you YOU ARE NOT A SMOKER. And when you visualise that colour for a few seconds repeating to yourself Im not a smoker you instantly remember that Smoking is not Sane Behaviour and its not part of who you are.
Smoking Facts:
-Nicotine may be as addictive as heroine and cocaine.
-Nicotine takes just 7seconds to get into your bloodstream after you inhale it.
-Every puff of smoke introduces more of 4000 different chemical compounds in to your lugs, many of them deadly poisons (Nicotine, Tar, Ammonia, Benzo-pyrene, Carbon monoxide, Arsenic
). Then they are absorbed into the tissues of your body.
-Each cigarette reduces life expectancy by 6 minutes.
-Smoking robs your body of antioxidants, vitamins A and E, which causes cell damage, leading to osteoporosis, arteriosclerosis or clogging of the arteries, pneumonia and even breast cancer.
-The heart of a smoker has to beat up to 10.000 extra beats every day.
-In Clinical studies smokers looked 5 years older than their real age.
-Smoking cuts 10 years from Fertility.
-It causes Macular degeneration (loses your eye sight).
-The clear-thinking and concentration abilities of a smoker diminish by up to 23% because of the deprivation of oxygen to the brain.
-A smoker is 50% more likely to contract cancer.
-There are 450.000 heart attacks each year from smoking.
-500 people die an early death each day through smoking. (Its the Nations biggest killer).
-Half of smokers die prematurely, with an average of 16 years of life lost.
-More than 17,000 under-fives end up in hospital, every year, because of passive smoke.
-A pack a day habit adds up to an incredible £180 a month.
-It takes just 48 hours to break the physical addiction to nicotine and to free your body of it.
-After the body stops needing nicotine, it is the mind that plays tricks, telling someone he/she still needs a nicotine fix, but It doesnt.
By stop smoking you are choosing health over sickness, strength over weakness, possibly life over death, and this gives you a tremendous feeling of satisfaction.
What happens when you Stop Smoking:
-After just 20 minutes your blood pressure and pulse return to normal.
-In 8 hours your nicotine and carbon monoxide levels will reduce by half and your blood oxygen levels will have returned to normal.
-In just 24 hours the toxic carbon monoxide gas in your blood will be eliminated and your lungs will start to clear.
-After just 48 hours your sense of taste and smell will become more acute, food and drink will taste better and the world will smell sweeter. There is now no nicotine in your body.
-After 3 days breathlessness and wheeziness ease and energy levels increase.
-After 14 days your energy levels will go up and you will feel fitter and more physically active as your circulation begins to improve.
-After 12 months you will have halved your chance of heart disease.
-After 1 year youll be financially better off, having saved enough money to enjoy a good holiday.
-After 5 years, the possibilities of suffering a heart attack are the same than people that never smoked.
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