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Quitting Smoking Using Hypnosis

Using hypnosis is arguably the best way to quit smoking. A large number of people completely give up smoking after their first hypnosis session and never smoke again!

How can Hypnosis help with giving up smoking?

The main concept behind breaking a bad habit using hypnosis is removing any false beliefs associated with the habit. Usually the bad habit is associated with many unconscious false beliefs that make quitting the habit seem impossible, which in turn prevents the person ever attempting to do so. Examples of some of these false beliefs are:

• I can't stop smoking because it's highly addictive: yes, nicotine has been proven to be addictive, but not so addictive that you wake up screaming in pain from withdrawal symptoms. Hundreds of people manage to stop smoking. Why do they succeed where you fail? They succeeded because they don’t have this false belief.
• Cigarettes make me relax: what’s funny about this is that smoking actually increases muscle tension, raises blood pressure and increase stress in general. I know you might be saying: “no, I really do relax when I smoke”, and you are probably right thought for two completely different reasons. The first is that the process of exhaling and inhaling that you do while smoking is in itself a well known relaxation technique and breathing that way without a cigarette is enough to make you relaxed. The second reason is subconscious suggestion to which your subconscious mind is highly receptive. The more you convince yourself cigarettes are relaxing, the more you will feel relaxed while smoking even though it has nothing to do with the cigarette itself.

Those were just two examples but your case may be different. It’s easy for you to figure out exactly which false belief is associated with your smoking habit. Once recognized, you can continue to the next step.

Using logic to quit smoking won't work

Trying to use logic to stop smoking will never work simply because the subconscious mind will always prevail over the conscious mind (see the subconscious mind rules). In this case, the subconscious mind is convinced that smoking is relaxing. So even though you consciously know that smoking is harmful and should be given up, you'll never be able to quit.

The process of quitting smoking using hypnosis

After you have identified the belief that is associated with your smoking habit, it's time to self hypnotize yourself and alter this belief by replacing it with another.

One other good thing is that, since discovering that your beliefs were false and that you were fooled, you may stop smoking even without hypnosis.If you don’t know whether or not your belief is false, you should search for answers whether on the web, through professional help, or by reading a lot on the subject. Whatever you do, don’t let a false belief destroy your health, waste your money and spoil your life.

Hidden Bad habits

Other than the well known bad habits we all know of, there are other hidden habits that are really bad and are sometimes worse than these common habits. Waking up late, wasting time, losing our temper and even failing to get over someone are examples of bad habits that skip unnoticed. in my book How to get over anyone in few days i described how some people developed the habit of becoming broken after a breakup instead of recovering.

These bad habits are really dangerous because usually people doesn't warn us of them thinking that they are not bad habits, but in fact, some of these habits may have a bigger impact on your life than other popular bad habits.

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Did that help?

Not until you show me how to self-hypnotize myself.

I've grasped the basic idea behind hypnosis but want to know more about it.

Yes, but are there other methods to quit smoking?