Anyone who has ever wanted to quit smoking, or tried and failed with repeated frustrations at some points wonders about hypnosis - Does hypnosis really work to stop smoking? And the answer is... yes - but it requires the right attitude.
As a matter of fact, hypnosis is probably the best method for quitting smoking. However, the success of hypnosis, like any method, relies on the individual's true desire to quit smoking and follow through with a disciplined mindset which promotes continued success.
How does hypnosis work for quitting smoking?
The best way to describe how hypnosis works for helping to quit the smoking habit is to view it as a tool which helps retrain the mind. In essence, new neural pathways get created and old habitual ones get neutralized.
Neural pathways are the tracks that become embedded in the brain which hold the lessons, experiences and conditioned behaviors that one relies on and uses every day. All of the time and experiences invested into smoking get stored in these pathways.
Over a period of time, these neural pathways tend to be used on "auto pilot". Not only does smoking become second nature, but it can also become an addiction. And since nicotine is a stimulant drug, some individuals also develop a physical addiction to smoking to go with their psychological addiction creating a dual dilemma when it comes time to quit.
New and positive experiences need to become conditioned and embedded into the brain via the mind. In doing so, new neural pathways are created.
These neural pathways are like new highways with new names. The old highway was the "smokers" highway and the new one becomes the "non-smokers" way. You see on the non-smokers' highway, all of the signs and information point toward a healthy mindset which characterizes that of a non-smoker.
The goal of hypnosis is re-training the mind and convincing it that it's a non-smoker. Anything to do with the mindset of smoking gets pushed to the backburner, or literally buried over!
Hypnosis works to treat the psychological aspect of the addiction by infiltrating destructive psychological thoughts which lead to smoking and replacing them with positive, modified thought processes.
The Path of Least Resistance:
The negative and destructive thoughts have become embedded and never challenged and have become rooted, and created the neural pathways related to smoking. It is very much like kids sledding down a hill in the winter and using the same trail. Over many trials, the trail becomes embedded, icy and prominent. These are how thoughts are produced with smoking-they become embedded on the same slippery slope!
The goal of hypnosis is to bring the sled down other, undisturbed paths-the paths of least resistance.
Why Hypnosis is an Excellent Method:
Hypnosis is an excellent tool for quitting smoking because it has the ability to effect the addiction two-fold; psychologically and physically. Most times other methods target only one aspect of the addiction and not both. The outcome of this is that it makes relapse more probable.
Methods such as; patches, nicotine gum, pills, aversion therapies, cold turkey and acupuncture do not retrain the mind to develop new sets of cognitive scripts and conditioned responses as fast as hypnosis does, or even at all for that matter.
Hypnosis is able to tap into the unconscious mind immediately. It is in the unconscious mind that all scripts and conditioned responses are housed. Hypnosis is the quickest and most effective way to get into the mind!
What is best about hypnosis is that within one or two sessions changes are made immediately in the unconscious mind. Since you have direct access to the mind, you can put into it what you want or replace what you don't want.
The key to success in using hypnosis however is expectation. One has to believe it will work and want it to work. Going in with that mindset makes hypnosis the most effective method for quitting smoking!
As a matter of fact, hypnosis is probably the best method for quitting smoking. However, the success of hypnosis, like any method, relies on the individual's true desire to quit smoking and follow through with a disciplined mindset which promotes continued success.
How does hypnosis work for quitting smoking?
The best way to describe how hypnosis works for helping to quit the smoking habit is to view it as a tool which helps retrain the mind. In essence, new neural pathways get created and old habitual ones get neutralized.
Neural pathways are the tracks that become embedded in the brain which hold the lessons, experiences and conditioned behaviors that one relies on and uses every day. All of the time and experiences invested into smoking get stored in these pathways.
Over a period of time, these neural pathways tend to be used on "auto pilot". Not only does smoking become second nature, but it can also become an addiction. And since nicotine is a stimulant drug, some individuals also develop a physical addiction to smoking to go with their psychological addiction creating a dual dilemma when it comes time to quit.
New and positive experiences need to become conditioned and embedded into the brain via the mind. In doing so, new neural pathways are created.
These neural pathways are like new highways with new names. The old highway was the "smokers" highway and the new one becomes the "non-smokers" way. You see on the non-smokers' highway, all of the signs and information point toward a healthy mindset which characterizes that of a non-smoker.
The goal of hypnosis is re-training the mind and convincing it that it's a non-smoker. Anything to do with the mindset of smoking gets pushed to the backburner, or literally buried over!
Hypnosis works to treat the psychological aspect of the addiction by infiltrating destructive psychological thoughts which lead to smoking and replacing them with positive, modified thought processes.
The Path of Least Resistance:
The negative and destructive thoughts have become embedded and never challenged and have become rooted, and created the neural pathways related to smoking. It is very much like kids sledding down a hill in the winter and using the same trail. Over many trials, the trail becomes embedded, icy and prominent. These are how thoughts are produced with smoking-they become embedded on the same slippery slope!
The goal of hypnosis is to bring the sled down other, undisturbed paths-the paths of least resistance.
Why Hypnosis is an Excellent Method:
Hypnosis is an excellent tool for quitting smoking because it has the ability to effect the addiction two-fold; psychologically and physically. Most times other methods target only one aspect of the addiction and not both. The outcome of this is that it makes relapse more probable.
Methods such as; patches, nicotine gum, pills, aversion therapies, cold turkey and acupuncture do not retrain the mind to develop new sets of cognitive scripts and conditioned responses as fast as hypnosis does, or even at all for that matter.
Hypnosis is able to tap into the unconscious mind immediately. It is in the unconscious mind that all scripts and conditioned responses are housed. Hypnosis is the quickest and most effective way to get into the mind!
What is best about hypnosis is that within one or two sessions changes are made immediately in the unconscious mind. Since you have direct access to the mind, you can put into it what you want or replace what you don't want.
The key to success in using hypnosis however is expectation. One has to believe it will work and want it to work. Going in with that mindset makes hypnosis the most effective method for quitting smoking!
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