Stopping Smoking Whilst Improving Eating Habits

Stopping Smoking Whilst Improving Eating Habits

And some hypnotists are fond of calling smoking just a habit, whilst others may call it a kind of addiction. Every hypnotist using additional modern techniques is finding their own combination that works for their clients.

I feel it is important first of all to address the issue of calling smoking habit or addiction. I have recently been reading up on Habit versus Addiction and it seems that semantics are getting in the way. When I was in my early twenties, a long time ago, it was recognized that there was what was called "psychological addiction," in other words, the emotional need for a substance. Now, the psychologists do not like using the word "addiction" it seems unless there was a big "physical" withdrawal such as in the case of a heroin addict going cold turkey. Now I use the words "need" or "desire" to avoid making it just a habit. You see, what a psychologist calls a habit is not what the layman calls a habit.

The originator of EFT expressed it very eloquently in one of his DVDs. He said if he had a habit of putting his right shoe on before his left shoe, then that is a habit, and all he needed to change it is put a note by his shoes reminding him to put the left shoe on first, and he would simply do it. But he asked members of the audience, if a smoker can simply stop smoking by leaving a note on their cigarettes reminding them not to smoke, and successfully quit the habit.The audience said no, and he explained that it is because there are emotional reasons why a smoker smokes.

But I am a holistic healer and a scientist and seriously challenge anyone to tell me exactly where the physical ends and the emotional begins and prove it. The problem I find for the client with this arbitrary distinction between addiction and habit is that the client then tries to convince themselves that they need to change habits rather than address the emotional reasons why they smoke. That is, a habit as perceived in laymans terms, not habit as psychologists call what a layman calls a psychological addiction.

So then one has to address overeating, and this is because the emotional reasons behind the smoking simply get transferred to another destructive activity, that of overeating. But hypnosis is very popular and lucrative, and no matter what we do to persuade the client to stop smoking from the root, they want the perceived magic of trance and are willing to pay more for it, rather than face their emotions in the waking state and release them relatively faster with EFT. What to do? I mix the two when the client wants.

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