Stop Smoking London
November 20th, 2010
An article in the New Scientist has reported that “Hypnosis is the most effective way of giving up smoking, according to the largest ever scientific comparison of ways of breaking the habit.” The magazine reported on research done by scientists at Iowa University who studied the results of 600 studies of a total of nearly 72,000 people in Europe and the USA who had successfully quit smoking.
If you are a smoker it will come as no surprise to you that stopping smoking is the single most important thing you can do to improve your current and future health (USDHHS, 1990).
People usually start smoking in order to achieve a resolution to some problem. Engaging in the activity of smoking is a trance state which explains why cognitive hypnotherapy is so effective in helping people to quit because it breaks this trance state by using hypnosis.
One of the reasons why many people start smoking is that they believe that cigarettes will bring them positive benefits, such as membership of a social group, of being grown-up, of proving oneself, of rebelling against authority, or of looking cool, glamorous and sophisticated. This is referred to as a positive hallucination which is a trance state and people take up smoking in the belief that it will achieve those things.
This is so true in today’s modern society and one of the reasons why so many adolescents start to smoke at a young age.In doing so, they engage in the negative hallucination of blocking out anti-smoking health education messages and all knowledge about people who have suffered ill-health or early death from smoking.
The physiological aspects of smoking are minor compared with the overriding psychological aspects. Laboratory rats, monkeys and other animals have been cruelly forced to smoke cigarettes in scientific studies. Yet when a lit cigarette is placed where they could smoke it if they wanted, but they are not forced to do so, they do not make any move to smoke it, no matter how many cigarettes they have previously smoked.
The human body undergoes a considerable shift when either starting smoking or giving it up. In most cases, this happens when a person smokes their first cigarette there is considerable discomfort. The body fights against it, associated symptoms include dizziness, nausea, violent coughing etc. There is a small minority of smokers who do not have these symptoms and this is usually because the person is so keen and enthusiastic to become a smoker, that they override the body’s natural defence mechanisms.
If it’s possible to override such physical sensations when a person starts smoking, it’s also possible to do the reverse when they want to quit.
This is just a bit of background in understanding how effective hypnotherapy is and how I help my clients to quit smoking, easily and permanently without them really noticing from my therapy room Strand Hypnotherapy. Everybody smokes for different reasons, and everybody wants to quit for different reason.
In my role as a cognitive hypnotherapist, one of the most enjoyable parts of my work when working with smokers is knowing that I am helping my clients improve their health and live longer.
I personally stopped smoking using hypnosis many years ago and I was amazed at how easy it was. This is one of the reasons why I decided to train as a cognitive hypnotherapist and help others to make changes similar changes to their lives.
Every client I see who wants to quit has their very own reason for quitting, just as they had their own reason for starting. For some it’s health, for some it’s concerns about improving their complexion and getting rid of the smell of smoke on their clothes. Utilising this information during trance, and bypassing the conscious mind I work with their unconscious mind to accept their new identity as a non-smoker.
If you are ready and motivated and want to quit smoking and improve your health use the most effective approach and contact Sarah Jons today.
Further articles on stop smoking
Imagine much money you could save if you stopped smoking
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/smoking/
Another useful article that extols the virtues of stopping smoking.
http://www.theipcrg.org/smoking/benefits.php
There are plenty of good reasons to stop smoking and the sooner you do it the benefits to your health will begin
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Tags: stop smoking, Stop Smoking Hypnosis, stop smoking hypnotherapy london
Interesting stuff. I’ve never tried hypnotherapy for anything before so it’s a bit of an unknown for me.
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The effects of using tobacco will be harmful which means you should attempt to stop.