Use Hypnosis To Quit Smoking

Stop struggling. Use hypnosis to quit smoking. It is the easy way to quit smoking because hypnosis is a tool for eliminating the triggers for smoking at their source, the Subconscious Mind.

A common approach to stop smoking evokes willpower. Willpower is the work of the Conscious Mind. The Conscious Mind controls only about 10% of brain power, compared with the Subconscious Mind which controls 90%. Whenever willpower is in opposition to the more powerful Subconscious Mind, the Subconscious Mind will prevail.

The job of the Subconscious Mind is to manage and operate all learning, automatically, under the radar of conscious awareness. All learning has two components, identification and association. For example, cigarette is the identification. Smoking is the association. Over time, as cigarettes are smoked over and over again in different contexts, more associations, such as feelings, behaviors, events, locations, mental states, and so on, are associated with them. Moreover, either the cigarette itself or any of its associations trigger the act of smoking, outside of conscious awareness, automatically.

Consciously, there is no way to know the triggers to smoking behavior. For example, a person may begin a trip to the dry cleaners but return home, inexplicably, with a pack of cigarettes and a coke, but no dry cleaning. The Subconscious Mind often acts independently and is quite capable of overriding conscious decisions resulting in perplexing behavior. No doubt, this is a familiar experience.

Furthermore, the Subconscious Mind is not receptive to change. It will only accept new information that aligns with identifications and associations already present. It simply rejects unknowns. For many smokers, not smoking is an unknown as the behaviors for smoking are so well ingrained.

A habitual smoker may consciously decide to stop smoking, of course, and even be successful at overriding smoking triggers for a little while. However, the triggers keep firing again and again as behaviors associated with smoking are very deeply intertwined with daily activities. Inevitably, conscious awareness will be diverted and the Subconscious Mind will take over. He / she will smoke.

To stop smoking successfully, smoking must be extricated from the Subconscious and its associated behavior patterns must be rebuilt and reinforced. For most, this occurs gradually, not instantaneously. Hypnosis, a tool for working directly with the Subconscious Mind, can greatly accelerate this process. Hypnosis is also a useful tool to uncover hidden triggers. It is the easy way to quit smoking.

However, hypnosis is not magic a magic bullet. Working to change subconscious patterns takes skill and experience. A qualified hypnotherapist is trained to uncover the most effective methods to alter smoking triggers of a particular individual. This is very important as each person’s smoking habit is unique to him / her. Most experienced hypnotherapists will use conscious behavior modification methods as well as hypnosis to quit smoking.

For results with hypnotherapy, plan on about 2-6 structured sessions. The hypnotherapist will also provide other support necessary to sustain a status as an ex-smoker – without withdrawal, weight gain, stress, or struggle.

Take caution in choosing how to use hypnosis to quit smoking. Hypnosis can be induced by someone with only 15 minutes of training, or it can be self induced. While being in hypnosis induced this way is safe, it is not likely to be in any way helpful. Smoking is a complex habitual behavior. Do use hypnosis to quit smoking. It is the easy way to quit smoking. Use it seriously, with respect, and with a qualified professional.