Can you stop smoking using Hypnotherapy?

Before we can understand if hypnotherapy can work to help you quit smoking it is best to first understand what hypnotherapy is;

Hypnotherapy is performed by a licensed practitioner who has had to learn the art of putting someone into a deep trance and then implanting suggestions into that person’s mind for or against a certain thing. For some people this works wonder for others it doesn’t but for the most part people will tell you it is the best money they have ever spent on stopping smoking compared to more traditional methods. Now a trace is something most of us do without even realising it in or everyday lives. We can get lost in a good book, a game you are playing on your video console or even watching a film. We become so engrossed in what we are doing that all time and other things just slip from out minds and after we “come to” we realise that we have “lost” a certain amount of time without realising it. This is very similar to hypnotherapy, this is because we are fully aware of other things around us, you are totally conscious and able to leave or stop what you are doing at anytime or point if you really needed to and you have been able to engross your mind in a form of “role play” as such. When reading a book we can often use our imaginations to create a film of sorts to entertain us from the words written and the descriptive language used. When we watch the film made from the book we find that the film will either marry up to the image we created in our own minds or that it differs slightly but the outcome is the same. This is called by scientists as the willing suspension of disbelief – it is when the brain is able to by pass the conscious and enter the sub conscious. This is also true when it comes to hypnotherapy.

A hypnotherapist will if you allow it to be able to by pass your conscious and ration thought patterns of what you can see, touch, smell and feel and get into your sub conscious the part of you that truly rules who you are, why you act in certain ways and manors and to the true centre of your mind. Once in a trance the hypnotherapist can implant suggestions, make changes, in effect change the way you act without you truly realising what you are doing consciously because it has been implanted into the subconscious. A hypnotherapist can help you loose weight, stop smoking, forget harmful and traumatic experiences and also some say can regress you to former lives if they dig deep enough. They implant positive not negative thoughts and ideas that can truly change your life for the better.

Some people require just one session and can never pick up a cigarette again others need more than one session, but either way hypnotherapy should not be ruled out as a way of stopping smoking and is known to be exceptionally effective.