subject: How Hypnosis Can Help You Stop Smoking [print this page] Smoking is an addiction that millions of people are trying to overcome. When it comes to quitting smoking, there are many different methods to choose from - the patch, gum, pills, even hypnosis. Some people have questioned using hypnosis to stop smoking - whether it is right or the best treatment to overcome addiction to cigarettes. However, this is an option many people who desperately want to quit the habit are likely to try.
Some people who have become lost in the smoking addiction will likely find ways to get their life back on track. Addiction to smoking makes life miserable. Because of the addictive nature of nicotine, people feel a need to smoke during inconvenient hours and places - the workplace, inside malls, etc. - and they are likely to develop uneasiness when they try to quit. This is why it is important that they have something even more powerful than their conscious minds - and that is the subconscious mind.
Hypnosis to overcome a smoking habit greatly leans on the fact that overcoming addictions all on your own is not easy - impossible, even. This is because addiction is a mental state of mind. During addiction stages, the body is controlled by the mind and there really is no way of contradicting the body since the mind is the thing that controls all. This may probably mean that you won't ever be free from addiction once it enters your mind, and you may be right about this. This is why hypnosis is believed to modify the way your mind thinks.
During hypnosis, what will happen is that the person is relaxed. Then they will be able to reach that state of relaxation that is impossible to penetrate. After that, the person is vulnerable to all other ideas that will enter their mind during the stage. These ideas will be ingested easily by the subconscious because the mind has thrown away all the defense mechanisms, and then it becomes vulnerable to all the suggestions done by the hypnotist. Hypnosis to stop smoking is effective because during the relaxed stage, the idea to stop smoking is gradually inserted into the subconscious of the individual. Once the individual regains their normal state of consciousness, the ideas would have lingered long enough for them to think them through.
Although there is no 100% chance that hypnosis to stop smoking is effective for all of the people, this is still a worthwhile endeavor to take. Find a good hypnotherapist that works with addictions, and chances are that you will find a way to relieve yourself of these addiction problems.
