Can Self Hypnosis Work To Quit Smoking?

By Mike Postman

You may be someone who wants to quit smoking and identify yourself as a new non-smoker instead of as an ex-smoker. Even after they have intentionally kicked the habit, an ex-smoker will continue to want a cigarette for a long, long time. This makes the ex-smoker vulnerable to starting again. The new non-smoker is different in that this is a person who has retrained or programmed the mind differently so that there is no craving for a cigarette. The ex-smoker is still struggling with the desire to smoke in an ongoing battle, whereas the non-smoker is forever liberated.

It doesn't matter if it's sex or smoking or something else - addiction has a life of its own. The reality of addiction is that it stays in the unconscious mind of the addict. Addiction is something that wants to get more powerful and stick around. It's true that consciously it's possible to overcome the addiction for a set amount of time, maybe even years, but this addiction is still living, hiding in the shadow, and waiting for the right time to come out again. If a person becomes overwhelmed by the struggles they usually go back to old habits and seek out what they know.

How exactly can hypnosis aid in conquering addiction? It is effective because it deals with where addiction really lives, which is in the unconscious mind. To put it another way, the unconscious mind gets trained to use different mechanisms to deal with stress in a better way. Hypnosis begins by inducing a deep relaxation which is almost like a trance.

After achieving this trance state your unconscious mind becomes accessible. This opens the way to reprogramming that will start to alter the unconscious mind. If the retraining is successful, observable changes could be apparent very soon after starting the program

We've seen the differences in the types of people who quit smoking. It's obvious that becoming a non-smoker is preferable to being an ex-smoker. It's great to become an ex-smoker but keep in mind that the addiction hasn't really left completely, but is lying is wait and ready to return. You must reprogram the unconscious mind to actually make the change to becoming a non-smoker.

The advantage of self-hypnosis is that it's an inexpensive way to get a custom session that you can re-use as much as possible. Just the experience of relaxation has many health benefits. Hypnosis used in this way has been valuable to many successful athletes who want to improve their athletic performance. It would be wise to look into hypnosis for yourself.

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