The Smoking Challenge Hypnotherapy Works and It Lasts

For most people, the absolute worst way to attempt to deal with a smoking habit is with willpower. Willpower is usually neither consistent nor effective. Like moods and emotions, our willpower fluctuates. One day it is strong but willpower tends to fade away or become yanked away with the difficulties of daily life.

There are countless methods to try to stop smoking. Smoking programs, substitute products, pills, chewing gums, self-help tapes and books, etc. They often try to build up the personal power to resist or overcome the addiction.

Hypnotherapy works on a different principle. It does not work at achieving the willpower or strength to resist. Instead, its goal is to eliminate the desire on the conscious and sub-conscious levels.

Reasons for Smoking

Two principle reasons we start to smoke or use tobacco are Identifying with a people in your life who are smoking or Replacement smoking to fill a need for comfort. It can begin very innocently and most often, an unpleasant reaction to it is experienced at first but the habit begins and then the habit turns into a major drug addiction.

In addition to the addiction to nicotine, the issue is compounded by the ritual and sensual gratification gained from smoking -- Enjoying the touch or feel of the cigarette; lighting it and taking the first inhalation; seeing the flame of a lighter or the smoke rising; the smell of the burning tobacco; and, the gratification of lifting and bringing the cigarette to the mouth. The typical smoker lifts their hand to their mouth 300 times in the act of smoking one pack of cigarettes. Just try lifting your hand to your mouth 300 times in one sitting and see what I mean by the "ritual" of smoking.

The Nature of Smoking

Since smoking is both physical and mental, success in a stop-smoking effort must change not only the mental attitude, but also the physical reaction. In most cases, becoming a non-smoker is achieved in one to three individual sessions. Typically it takes only one session to actually stop and one or two more to reinforce the new behavior.

Although the negative effects of tobacco on your body does take time to clear, the felt dependency has little to do with the craving because the nicotine actually is no longer in your body soon after smoking cessation. It turns out that the real culprit is the comfort found in the "ritual of smoking."

The Hypnotherapy Smoking ProgramThe first meeting is a two-hour session. It involves your personal history of smoking; what satisfactions you gain from it as well as reasons why you want to stop the addiction. You are then checked for psychological reversal and corrections are made before the hypnosis begins. You will then be taken into a relaxed state of focus for a 45-minute hypnotherapy session. At the end of the session, you are given a 30-minute CD recording that must be listened to each day for 30 days in order to change the habit permanently. You will also receive a lung clearing exercise to speed up the healing of your lungs. The second session is scheduled three to four days later for reinforcement.

Smoking is a lethal drug addiction. Individualized hypnotherapy sessions have been very successful in dealing with smoking as well as other addictions. Over time even the thought of smoking will fade and disappear.