subject: How to Stop Smoking Before the New Year [print this page] How to Stop Smoking Before the New Year How to Stop Smoking Before the New Year
Here's a thought: everyone (well, all of us left who are still smokers, anyway) tries to stop smoking for their New Year's resolution. Some succeed for a few hours; some for a day or two; some last well into February and then cave in a cloud of sweet smelling Virginian tobacco. All, or at least as near to all as makes no odds, fail. Why? Because they're going about it in the wrong way. Why not give up smoking now, before Christmas, and start the New Year already well into the new way of life?
But is it as easy as that? Well actually it is, these days, thanks to the rather spectacular advances in cognitive therapy that have been going on over the last few years. As hypnotherapy has risen to the top of the pile of acceptable alternative (i.e. non clinical or drug related) remedies, so the success rate for first time stop smoking candidates (and second time, and third time, and all of the rest of us who have tried once a year for the last decade) has gone through the roof.
What and How? Simple. By using a good helping of plain common sense and a lot of science. See, hypnotherapy in its modern form relies as much on psychiatry, or at least on psychiatrically validated ideas, as it does on waving watches or snapping fingers and intoning "sleep now". Hypnosis is able to aid people who want to stop smoking: by cutting through all the rubbish on the surface of the consciousness, and delivering the "smoking is bad" message right at the heart of the cerebellum. The subconscious self, once derided by mental health professionals is now rightly courted as the seat and driver of all our urges not least, of course, those urges that are bad for us. So once you can convince it to quit, then you've won. Hypnotherapy allows one to stop smoking almost with a cast iron guarantee because it dives into the subconscious, explains to the subconscious self that smoking is really rather a bad idea and would it please stop? After that, everything is more or less under control.
People who have had a successful smoking cessation as a result of hypnotherapy and there are a lot of these people around now say that one of the most amazing things about it is the absence of a post-therapy desire to smoke. Once the therapy has been completed, and the person trying to give up smoking has succeeded, they never seem to feel the need to go back. Some people who have had these successful stop smoking courses even say that they cannot remember what it is like to smoke in the first place which is peculiar, no doubt, but strong evidence of the effectiveness of the cure.
So why wait for the artificially imposed boundary of the New Year? Seize the day and do it now.
