Stop Smoking Wellington Hypnotherapy

Stopping smoking is psychological, so hypnotherapy deals with smoking where it happens - in your mind. There is actually very little physical addiction to smoking, stopping smoking is all about attitude and belief. Hypnotherapy works on your inner mind to remove the reason you need to smoke so that you can stop smoking. With Wellington Hypnotherapy you will stop smoking no cravings, no willpower, no weight gain.

With hypnotism it is easy to stop smoking.

 

Can I really give up smoking?

Most people give up smoking for ever after one session. Each person is different in terms of how long they have smoked, how many they smoke a day and why they smoke. But most people stop smoking immediately and never think of a cigarette again.

A few people start getting antsy and thinking about smoking after some weeks and need a second session. But in general most people are able to stop smoking permanently and with no cravings or weight gain,

A stop smoking session usually takes about an hour and a half.

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Why can't people stop smoking?

Stopping smoking is all about inner beliefs and feelings. Most people started smoking in late teens, at a time when they were changing from a child to an adult, a time when they formed all sorts of new ideas about who they were and what they can and can't do. At that time most people felt smoking helped them fit in, to be a rebel, to look cool, to get through new situations, and their mind formed powerful connections between smoking and feeling good.

The first time you succeed at something, your mind forms strong links between what you are doing and how you are feeling. The result is you built an automatic link, an unconscious association, a belief that you cannot do one thing without the other. And if you form the belief that you need smoking to feel good, then you have a smoking problem. Because your mind forever after believes that stopping smoking means giving up that ability. The link is not obvious to the smoker, but that is why they keep smoking.

That is why smoking is so hard for some people to give up. Their mind fights desperately against stopping smoking in order to not be friendless, to not look like a dork again. That is what cravings are, your mind's desperate attempts to get you to start smoking again so that you will get back those feelings you need. That is also why some people can just stop in a day - they didn't form the automatic associations. Hypnosis works to remove these beliefs, to break the associations.

Once these beliefs are gone so are the cravings.

 

How much does it cost?

The session costs $120 which pays for itself quickly for most people
when you count up the cost of buying cigarettes, and the cost to your health.

 

How does Smoking Hypnotherapy work?

People who smoke are not weak, or lacking in character, or natural addicts.

You can go 'cold turkey' - people do. You can grit your teeth, go live in a tent somewhere without cigarettes and after a week or so you are no longer smoking. But as soon as you get back to your familiar surroundings all the triggers for smoking are there waiting. As soon as you hit the first bit of normal stress your own mind can betray you. If you believe that you cannot handle stress without a cigarette then the pressure will build until you take one. Going cold turkey gets rid of the physical addiction, but it does nothing about the mental associations of smoking.

The physical effects are not what keeps you smoking. After two days all the nicotine is gone from your body. Totally gone. If you start smoking again it is not because you need the nicotine. It is because some part of your mind believes that you cannot function without cigarettes and actually doesn't want you to stop smoking.

It is your own mental beliefs that are the problem.

 

 

The STOP SMOKING Action Plan

To stop smoking you need to address three separate areas. There is the addiction, the effect of the nicotine, the false beliefs about smoking, and the situations that act as triggers to remind you to light up.

 

 

The Physical Habit

The physical addiction of nicotine is actually quite mild. People often have self fulfilling beliefs about how addictive tobacco is and how difficult it will be to give up. Therefore the first part of the therapy is aimed at correcting the client's beliefs about how easy it is give up, and giving the client post hypnotic instructions about how they will feel after they throw away their cigarettes.

This is reinforced by teaching a replacement behavior. Psychology studies show if an existing behavior is associated with a new physical behavior, the old behavior rapidly goes into extinction, and the desire to do that behavior fades away as well. So this part of the treatment consists of teaching you a new physical response to use any time the desire to smoke occurs. This new response gives you something to do with your hands, it takes the place of the cigarette until the link between stress and reaching for a cigarette is broken, and then the behavior fades away with disuse.

Beliefs about smoking

The second part of the therapy focuses on your beliefs about the role that smoking plays in your life. Smokers often are convinced that they cannot relax without a cigarette, or that their best ideas only come when smoking, and other self justifying beliefs. In extreme cases clients believe that smoking defines who they are, and that stopping smoking somehow will diminish them. These beliefs are removed with a mixture of direct hypnotic suggestion and metaphor therapy.

Situational Triggers

For the long term smoker, all sorts of situations have become associated with smoking. Most smokers tell themselves that they enjoy a cigarette after a meal, with a drink, to give themselves a break. These are all highly charged situations and the smoker has created powerful conditioned responses to these.

Hypnosis is used to create new mental associations with meals, breaks, coffee, driving - whatever it is that the ex-smoker associates with smoking.

 

By using this three-part approach smoking gets beaten for ever.

 

Hi David
Thought I would drop you a quick line to let you know that I am now 12 weeks not smoking.
In this time I have been through some fairly traumatic circumstances and have succumbed to the odd cigarette, however I have not bought any and now I am climbing up to the ridgeline in the hills behind where I live with relative ease.
Thank you for your help, I am ever so grateful.
Vanessa, Upper Hutt

 

Thank you so much for what you helped me with on Wednesday. No cravings to smoke at all, and more importantly have put steps in place to deal with my other issues.

Bruce, Wellington

 

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