Maybe you started smoking when you were very young or maybe it is
a more recent habit. Maybe you can’t remember what motivated you to start this
habit. Maybe you can. The point is, is that you were not born a smoker and you
were a non smoker for a number of years of your life before starting the habit
and during that time you dealt with the ups and downs of life completely
nicotine free. As a non smoker you did not think about cigarettes or the next
pull on a cigarette. In fact as a non smoker you can chose to stay in a smoke
filled room with your friends or you can decide to step outside into the fresh
air.
Do you want to be a non-smoker and join the ranks of non-smokers who
.....
• can be in the company of smokers without
thinking about the desire for cigarettes.
• don’t reach for a
cigarette when they feel stressed or don’t take a cigarette when it
is offered to them.
wake up each morning without needing a first
cigarette.
• are not addicted to nicotine and therefore don’t
need to calm down a drug addiction.
• are not immune to the
disgusting taste of cigarettes because they never smoked.
• don’t
have to stand outside in the cold outside pubs, their places of
work, outside their own back doors smoking.
• can say ‘no’ when
offered a cigarette and not feel deprived or guilty.
• deal with
the ups and downs of life using their own natural coping mechanisms.
• don't crave cigarettes or feel deprived, because they never ever
smoked; they are not missing anything.
• breathe in fresh air,
not 600 irritants.
• don’t have any regrets about all the money
wasted on cigarettes.
• don't think about cigarettes, the next
drag.
• are free. |
I know a lot of smokers who have serious health problems such
as cancer and lung disorders and have been advised strongly by their GPs to give
up cigarettes and yet continue to smoke. We all know about the increased risk of
reduced immunity, lung cancers, lung disease, gangrene, high blood pressure,
infertility, decline in mental and physical performance due to smoking
cigarettes. Sometimes people try to give up smoking, usually around Lent or New
Years and within days are back on the cigarettes. The whole process of giving up
has been too stressful for them and they feel that a cigarette will calm them
down. Sometimes they have managed to give up cigarettes for a long time and then
some stressful event like a funeral or problems at work gets them back on the
smokes again. What they don’t realise is that the drop in nicotine levels in the
body creates stress and smoking keeps the addiction alive. The next puff feeds
the illusion that cigarettes make them stress free. Because knowledge about the
dangers of cigarette smoking is not enough to change people’s behaviours, it is
important to consider a new way of breaking self defeating habits and that is
hypnosis.
This method does not need willpower.
Many people use the will power method for giving up smoking. Unfortunately this
method has a low success rate, mainly because it implies deprivation. If you are
told you can’t have something, you crave it even more. This sounds like a
childish response, but this is how your subconscious mind works, i.e. it works
on a child like level. This is also the reason why hypnosis can be successful
for helping to quit smoking as hypnosis speaks directly to the subconscious.
Hypnosis is a way of reprogramming the mind and with my method you learn to
reprogram your subconscious mind to fully accept yourself as a non smoker. You
leave the session with the positive attitudes of a non smoker. This programme
does not rely on will power, only your commitment to adopt the attitudes of, and
become a healthy non smoker.
So how do you become a non-smoker?
Let me restate the question. How do you go back to
that natural state (being a non-smoker) you were born with and had for a number
of years of your life? The answer is simple and twofold:
1. On a physical level, the minute you take that last puff of
smoke and stub that cigarette out you become a non smoker. Within 20 minutes of
that last pull your body is starting to physically recover starting with an
improvement in your blood pressure. 24 hours later the carbon monoxide in your
body created by the nicotine is completely removed. You can now start imagining
the improvements a month after this key moment, a year from that moment when you
took the last pull.
2. On a mental and emotional level, in order that you don’t revert
to this obnoxious habit, you will learn how to use hypnosis to reprogram your
mind to accept your new self as a non smoker and to adopt a new behaviour and
attitude of the successful non smoker and to break this habit. Hypnosis helps to
reinforce your commitment to your continued success as a healthy non smoker. You
will also learn how to use hypnosis as a relaxation tool which will help you
cope with the everyday ups and downs in a natural way.
Outline of the program
This program consists of one two hour session where I take a history of your
smoking habits, teach you a quick and effective self hypnosis routine and do a
hypnotic induction. A free back up one hour session is also provided within 6
months of your first session should you need further support. You leave your
first session with some back up CDs.
This is an all or nothing approach to quitting smoking. You go from
smoking so many cigarettes to no cigarettes at all or you stop using nicotine
patches as a support. The reason for this is the importance of not feeding the
addiction for one second longer than necessary.
What is required of you?
To give yourself every chance of success I recommend the following:
1. 100% commitment to becoming a non smoker.
2. To make a decision that the day of the hypnosis session is the day you are
quitting.
3. That the decision to quit is your decision and that you are doing this
primarily to improve yourself and not just to please someone else. Obviously
making the decision to quit is going to benefit your family who may be worried
about your health.
4. In advance of the session, think about what quitting means to you. Be proud
of yourself for taking this step.
5. A commitment to listening to the CDs which are given to you at your first
session at least once a day for two weeks. |
