History Of Hypnosis For Quit Smoking
Hypnosis has been used as an effective tool to stop tobacco smoking since approximately 1850. If you look at the website of just about every hypnotherapist in the world, you’ll find a section on using hypnosis for quit smoking.
Over the past one hundred and eighty or so years since clinical hypnosis was first used in relation to smoking, there is enough evidence of an anecdotal nature to take the effectiveness of hypnosis seriously.
So how can the use of hypnosis benefit you? Whether you go for an actual hypnotherapy session with a trained hypnotherapist or you decide to download a self hypnosis recording, both target your subconscious mind to convince you of the following:
- You are really disgusted by the thought of cigarettes
- The attractiveness of an alternative (eg. taking three deep breaths), is much more appealing to you
- You’ll love the fact that your physical health improves
- Your breathing will become so much better
- It’ll excite you that you’ll have longer life-expectancy
- You’ll love having healthier skin and looking younger
- You’ll feel less stress every day
What Is The Success Rate Of Hypnosis For Quitting Smoking?
Success rates are difficult to establish because hypnosis is performed by human beings. For instance, you could go to see one hypnotherapist and he / she could be fabulous. You might like the person, their voice might suit you just perfectly and when you are in the hypnotic state, you can accept their suggestions instantly.
Or, you could go to see a different hypnotherapist and, for some reason, you don’t like them as a person. You think their voice sounds like a cheese grater and maybe, because of this, you have problems experiencing an altered state of awareness.
The same goes for self hypnosis audios. If you like the person’s voice, the suggestions can be very soothing. If the hypnotherapists voice is really irritating to you, that can be a reason why it may not work. I always recommend to my clients that they listen to a sample of the hypnotherapists voice first before choosing to purchase a recording.
You can get a free “Deep Relaxation” hypnosis recording here on my website just by going to the home page and entering your name and email address in the FREE GIFT section.
By comparison, pharmaceutical companies have it much easier when they conduct a randomized trial for their latest pill. The reason is that their pill doesn’t differ depending on the trial. It’s still the same pill. This is why running a clinical trial for a quit program using hypnosis has always been difficult. In a study published in the International Journal For Clinical And Experimental Hypnosis in 2004, 95% of participants found hypnosis to be very effective in helping them to stop smoking.
My own research in my own clinic has shown that, when people follow my advice to the letter and listen to the hypnosis for quit smoking audio that I give them, 98% successfully quit for good.
What Is The Most Effective Way To Kick The Smoking Habit?
There are a number of steps required in order to quit smoking permanently, whether you are going cold turkey or using nicotine patches or nicotine lozenges.
- Have A Good Reason: many people try to quit without ever thinking about why they are doing it. Figure out your particular reason. For some, it’ll be the substantial financial cost of tobacco use. For others it’ll be because they are scared of lung disease or coronary heart disease. For others it’ll be because they really want to have longer life expectancy so that they will be around to see their families grow up. What’s your reason?
- Make A Strong Decision: a strong decision is one where you say to yourself something like “I am a non-smoker now and forever more no matter what happens in my life. Nothing could ever tempt me back!”
- Choose Your Method: there are quite a few cessation methods out there. An effective approach that I always suggest is to use a self hypnosis audio in conjunction with whatever other method you decide upon. Hypnosis for quit smoking is always a good option.
- One Month To Freedom: I always tell people to just focus on getting through the first month well. What I mean by this is to make it as easy for yourself as possible during that first month. If that first month is hard, then you are not likely to succeed long term.
- Avoid Complacency: the worst thing that you could do is to become complacent after a couple of months and think that you could handle “just one”. One of the best things about using hypnosis to target your unconscious mind with hypnotic suggestions is that the specific effect of hypnotherapy relative to other methods is that there are always suggestions that target this very problem.
Self Hypnosis Audio To Stop Smoking Successfully
Self hypnosis can be a great tool to stop smoking successfully. This powerful audio is 25 minutes long.
Is Nicotine Addiction Real?
Nicotine is a sneaky drug. On the surface, it’s difficult to detect what it’s doing to you. But inside your brain, nicotine is causing a dopamine “hit”. In other words, you are getting a little “hit” of pleasure every time you inhale.
Now for most of us who have smoked, no matter whether you are at the “almost never-smoked level” or if you were one of the heavy smokers, we don’t actually recognise that little “hit” of pleasure consciously. I know I certainly didn’t when I used to smoke.
The problem really kicks off when you try to quit. You unconscious mind notices significant differences in the amount of dopamine you are receiving. We get the dopamine effect every time we feel pleasure about anything.
This is why I strongly encourage my clients to take three deep breaths of fresh air multiple times every day and at the same time, tell themselves that the feeling they are getting from it is a real “wow” feeling. This helps to counteract the deprivation your unconscious mind is experiencing and makes it more likely you’ll succeed.
From research conducted amongst clients at my hypnotherapy clinic, people that followed my instructions and really felt that good feeling after taking three very quick deep breaths experienced significantly higher abstinence rates that those that didn’t. You’ll find some of those suggestions on the hypnosis for quit soking recording to make it easier for you.
Am I Really At Risk Of Lung Cancer From Smoking?
I think probably the best evidence is the quote from the Center For Disease Control‘s website which states
“In the United States, cigarette smoking is linked to about 80% to 90% of lung cancer deaths”
You already know this but the only thing that is supposed to be breathed in your lungs is air. Not cigarette smoke. Not pipe smoke. Not some heated nicotine product like an electronic cigarette or vaping pipe. Just clean air.
Imagine if you saw some guy down on all fours, breathing in exhaust fumes from the tailpipe of his car. You’d think he was nuts, right? Yet when you smoke, you are breathing in over 7,000 chemicals, some of them deadly poisons like arsenic, cyanide and even weedkiller.
I have encountered many “idiots” over my lifetime. Like the guy who said to me “my granny smoked all her life and she lived till she was 90”. That was his reason for continuing smoking and never trying to quit. He thought it was all some sort of conspiracy theory right up until the moment he got throat cancer.
So, please don’t be an idiot. Do the right thing! Organisations like the American Cancer Society have not been raising this issue for all these years without just cause.
What About Nicotine Replacement Therapy?
The most common drug-based approach is nicotine replacement therapy. These come in the form of nicotine patches, nicotine chewing gums, nicotine inhalers and nicotine lozenges. In my opinion, these can be really helpful for people who are significantly addicted to nicotine.
However, for most people, psychological addiction plays a major part too. From working with many smokers over the years, I would always recommend that they use NRT’s (Nicotine Replacement Products) if they really need them.
The very interesting thing is that most of my clients find that they don’t actually need NRT’s at all. As a matter of fact, in the past five years, I have had only one client who told me that he “could not survive” without his nicotine inhaler. To my mind, all that matters is that you succeed.
Who cares what worked and what didn’t? As long as you succeed – that’s all that counts! I would suggest that you have them on standby if you need them, but I think you’ll find that if you are listening to a self hypnosis recording such as “Stop Smoking Successfully“, you probably won’t need them. Hypnosis for quit smoking can be the only thing you do or used in combination with other things.
Self Hypnosis Audio To Stop Smoking Successfully
Self hypnosis can be a great tool to stop smoking successfully. This powerful audio is 25 minutes long.
Best Stop Smoking Hypnosis Download
In my humble opinion, the best stop smoking hypnosis download is right here on this web site. I believe this, in part, because I am a former smoker so I know how difficult it can be to stop.
By downloading my self hypnosis track “Stop Smoking Successfully“, and listening every day for thirty days, these hypnosis sessions will act as a powerful tool to help you keep doing all the right things every day.
There are suggestions on the hypnosis for quit smoking recording that adverse events will not give you any desire to go back to that horrible habit. This is a highly beneficial drug-free approach but can also be used in conjunction with other methods.
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