5/22/2013

People use different techniques to get rid of the smoking habit. Many use nicotine patches, some other rely on medication while few others try to stop smoking using their willpower. The success rate in any of these techniques has been very low with most people failing in their efforts.



As a last resort people then select self-hypnosis to stop the smoking habit. Self hypnosis is used to influence a person's views regarding smoking habit inside his subconscious mind and is considered to be the most effective way of quitting this addiction.



Components of Self Hypnosis



There are different components of self hypnosis such as visualization, relaxation and scripts. The first of these components is relaxation which helps to make the mind accept new suggestions. Next component is scripts which are small phrases that are to be repeated inside the mind and help you quit smoking. Last but most important component of self hypnosis is visualization.



Visualization provides several benefits to people practicing self hypnosis. By visualizing doing any particular thing it becomes easy for you to actual do it. Many people go through dissociated visualization while performing self-hypnosis. In dissociated visualization a person starts forming pictures of his own self which feel like watching himself on T.V.



This is an effective method as using it you are able to increase your imagination power and visualize how things would look like after you stop smoking. If we start visualizing any particular work as if it is really happening then actually performing it becomes relatively easy.



Optimize Visualization Process



The 1st step involves clearing visualizing that you are really quitting the habit. This will help you in believing that getting rid of the addiction is easy. As a 2nd step, try to use imagination and creativity to create images in your mind that have emotional influence on you. Emotional influence is important in self-hypnosis as the more any hypnotic suggestion is emotionally charged the better effect it has on our subconscious mind and thus results in faster response.



There are many words that are used to visualize emotions like "pulsating", "dazzling", "breathtaking", "magnificent", "dominant", "joyful", "adoring", "bighearted", "thrilling", "charming" and "gorgeous". By making such images vivid as well as dramatic we make the visualization process more effective since basically visualization is suggestions that we give to our subconscious mind.



As an example try and visualize tobacco smoke. Develop an image in your mind that tells you that the smoke smells, tastes and looks disgusting. You will also have to create associations which show how bad tobacco smoke is. Many people use negative things such as smelly shoe or garbage dump as associations for tobacco smoke so that our subconscious mind starts to consider cigarette smoke as a bad thing.



It is generally found that visualization and self hypnosis work quite effectively for people with respect to goal of stopping the smoking habit. People also find that visualization and imagination when used together for changing our thinking or our habits is a very simple but effective technique.
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