Stop Smoking
Smoking Cessation
From my point of view as a hypnotist, any habitual behaviour is fulfilling a function in a person’s life. I assume that the behaviour is gaining a benefit for the person.. The behaviour may also bringing many negatives into the person’s life as well is a reality. When these negatives upset the balance in the life of the person, that person usually contacts me for change.
Removing the behaviour without somehow addressing its positive intention, would do the person a disservice. Many aversion approaches to habit are focused on stopping the behaviour. My approach is to add options to the person’s life so that the old behaviour is such a poor alternative that it drops out of its own accord.
While in a hypnotic state, a person is more receptive to new alternatives than they might be in full consciousness. We are surrounded by negativity that is very pervasive. Many people spontaneously look for ways that something “won’t work” before they have even had a chance to experience a new event.
The hypnotist helps the person to internally generate new options based upon the unconscious mind’s magnificent knowledge of what is a “match and fit” for the person’s actual life as they live it. A stranger simply could not know enough about the person on brief meeting to get this knowledge.
This approach is very empowering and enriching. It is quite common for individuals who have used hypnosis to make changes in one area of their lives to find new and interesting changes occurring elsewhere as well.
My expectation from those wishing to use hypnosis to stop smoking is a prepaid commitment to two sessions of hypnosis, spaced a week apart. The majority of the changes are made in the first session. The second session is to follow up how well the new choices are measuring up in the person’s real life. If additional choices are needed they can be added at that time.
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