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How Hypnotherapy Can Help You Stop SmokingPart 1 of 2 – the habitual smoker In general, there are two types of smokers – those who smoke purely out of habit and those who smoke to temporarily distract themselves from an uncomfortable feeling such as anxiety, loneliness, boredom or another emotion. Next week I will discuss the person who smokes as a distraction or a comforter. The habititual Smoker Habits are formed mainly be repetition, so when you first learned to associate having a cigarette with a comfortable feeling - after finishing a meal for example, and you did that a few times, you established a pattern of thought and behaviour which became re-enforced over time and eventually became embedded in your subconscious as a habit. It's like making an engraving on a piece of metal – the first time you may only make a light scraping on the metal but if you go over the same scraping a number of times you will make a deeper inscription which is hard to remove. The Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy Stop Smoking Programme is a proven approach to helping you stop smoking. 2 sessions are usually sufficient to become smoke free if you smoke purely from habit, or up to 4 sessions if you smoke as a distraction or a comforter. A re-enforcement CD is supplied which should be listened to daily for at least 30 days, so that the> smoking habit pattern is completely eradicated and the subconscious mind is re-programmed with more healthy habits in replacement. Part 2 of 2 – the distraction or comfort smokerIn general, there are two types of smokers – those who smoke purely out of habit and those who smoke to temporarily distract themselves from an uncomfortable feeling or as a comforter. Last week I discussed the person who smokes out of habit and if you missed it, it is posted on www.hypnotherapyireland.net. The distraction or comfort Smoker You may find that you smoke to distract from an uncomfortable feeling inside you such as anxiety, loneliness or boredom, in addition to having formed the habit of lighting up at certain times such as after a meal. You may also find that you smoke as a comforter or view cigarettes as a friend. You may have tried to quit on your own but have found it too upsetting or stressful to be without cigarettes. This means that your subconscious mind has developed smoking as a way of temporarily removing discomfort or stress. The key word here is temporarily, because there is no way that a cigarette can permanently remove an uncomfortable feeling inside or reduce stress in the long term – it is simply a distracter and when the temporary effect of the cigarette fades the feelings return. Then you need another cigarette to distract again, then it wears off and so the cycle continues. There are many and varied reasons for the origin of the feelings you are trying to distract from or pacify and to stop smoking permanently we need to get to the root cause of those feelings and neutralise them. The Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy Stop Smoking Programme is a proven approach to helping you stop smoking. From 2 to 4 sessions are usually necessary if you smoke as a distraction or a comforter. However 2 sessions are usually sufficient to become smoke free if you smoke purely from habit. A re-enforcement CD is supplied which should be listened to daily for at least 30 days, so that the smoking habit pattern is completely eradicated and the subconscious mind is re-programmed with more healthy habits in replacement. Helen Ryle MICHP is a qualified hypnotherapist and psychotherapist who runs the Institute's Stop Smoking Programme at the New Horizons Clinic in Collis-Sandes House, Tralee. For further information and brochure please contact Helen on 087 7734914 or through www.hypnotherapyireland.net. Hypnotherapy Ireland homepage >>>
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