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Hypnotherapy &
Hypno-Analysis
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Smoking Cessation Smoking Cessation
requires only a single one and a half hour session.
STOP SMOKING SESSION First I help you to understand how the habit of smoking can be under your control. This helps you to see the habit of smoking completely differently with you in charge. Then you will be asked to lie on the couch and will be relaxed into a very quiet and comfortable state where your unconscious mind can more easily absorb the suggestions for calmness and the easy with which you will stop smoking. All you have to do is to relax. The suggestions will go into your unconscious automatically and start to work for you, helping you to do the things that you want to do. It is such a relaxing experience that many people fall asleep during the session but this make no difference at all to the effectiveness of the treatment. Your unconscious mind is still active and will respond just the same. It's still up to you to want to give up though. Hypnosis does not 'control'
your mind and cannot make you do something against your will, so it is very
important that you have really decided to stop smoking. When you have made that
decision then hypnosis will be your greatest ally, helping most people stop
smoking easily in just one hour. HABIT OR ADDICTION The therapy relies on the principle that smoking is a habit and NOT an addiction. Much that we are all told of the addictive properties of nicotine, the fact is that people are not addicted. A true physical addiction occurs when the body craves a substance and needs an ever increasing amount of that substance to fulfil it's needs. However, as we all know the majority of smokers are satisfied with a daily number of cigarettes which remains constant for many years. You may have smoked 20 cigarettes per day for 30 years. This is not characteristic of an addiction. The other difference is that smokers don't wake up every hour through the night to have a smoke. It may seem impossible to go more than an hour without a cigarette during the day but you may well sleep 6 or 8 hours without any craving whatsoever. Smoking is a very strong habit and will produce a craving for cigarettes. This craving comes from the unconscious part of our minds and continues even when we consciously want to stop. It goes to show the tremendous power that the unconscious mind has to control us and make us believe and do things in our life. It is a miracle how a cigarette can calm anyone's nerves. After a nerve racking day at work or in some other stressful situation you will light a cigarette, draw on it and feel a tremendous feeling of calm. But why? It is a vaso-constrictor. It puts your blood pressure up and gives you a buzz. The only calming effect is a psychological one. This leads us on to why it calms our nerves. Smoking, along with eating, drinking, nail biting and thumb sucking, is an 'Oral Satisfaction'. We get pleasure from putting things in our mouths. It comes from the baby period when we instinctively sucked. We never lose this trait and it is normal in all humans. Hence smoking calms our nerves. Therefore it is quite understandable that when people stop smoking, they may well start eating more instead. They have simply substituted one oral satisfaction for another. To go one step further it is necessary to look at your level of anxiety. Not just how stressed you are on a daily basis but your underlying stress levels. These old traumas from the past can cause symptoms such as anxiety, depression, panic attacks and low self esteem. If you have a high anxiety level and you use smoking to calm yourself, even with hypnotic suggestion you may find it impossible not to go back to smoking. If this is the case then you need to find and release these traumas before attempting to quit smoking. 'Hypno-analysis' is an ideal way to do this. (See Hypno-analysis page).
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