Hypnosis- A New Medium to Stop Smoking

Quitting the cancer sticks is one of the hardest things an adult human will ever try to do. Research has suggested that nicotine itself is more addictive than heroin. The withdrawal symptoms are appalling, and can include any of the following: nervousness, irritability, fear, lack of sleep, shaking, a propensity for catching every illness on the go, blurred vision and light headedness. People who try to stop smoking unaided often go through all of these symptoms and more only to find that they have picked the habit up again a year or so later. Many people do not even get this far: quitting, going through all of the horrible side effects (which stop after a couple of weeks, for a while at least) only to start smoking again once the first of the worst bits is already over.

One says “the first of the worst bits” because quitting smoking is actually a succession of horrors like those alluded to above. You get over one two week bout, you are fine for a month and then you get hit by all of those symptoms again. After a while, it goes in two month cycles, then six – but it is always there. So how is anyone supposed to stop smoking once the habit and the addiction have been formed? Hypnosis can be the perfect answer.

Hypnosis, the recent subject of much favourable press in the alternative remedies sections of national newspapers, may have the answer. Hypnotherapy has long been recognised as a powerful reinforcing technique in terms of positive behaviour patterns – where repetition and persuasion convince the subconscious to promote certain beneficial behaviour patterns and actions on a regular basis. By the same token, hypnotherapy can reinforce persuasive ideas that are designed to stop the subconscious from allowing destructive or harmful behaviours to take place like smoking, which is one of the most destructive behaviours of all.

No smoker needs to be told what the benefits are of not smoking. No smoker needs to be told that he or she needs to stop smoking. He or she already knows that. But he or she also knows that he or she has tried every pill, every potion, every patch and every gum. He or she has, literally, tried everything. Except perhaps hypnosis.

Well, it is worth a try. Hypnosis is gaining a lot of currency amongst mainstream press as the medical profession starts admitting that it gets a lot of things right without the need for drugs or costly equipment.

Hypnotherapy can help you stop smoking, just as it can help people sleep better, or manage their anger better or fear flying less. Hypnosis is a powerful tool that can convert the subconscious’ harmful impulses into good ones. The New Year is coming. Why not give it a go?