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Stop Smoking
Hypnosis How Does It Work?
There are three separate parts to smoking addiction. Two of
the parts are mental/emotional, and one part is physical.
Part A: YOU SMOKE FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.
When you were a little baby and you became upset, your mother
would put a pacifier into your mouth to distract you. You
would get distracted, become more peaceful, and often fall
asleep.
That scenario was repeated thousands of times so that your
subconscious mind was programmed, when something goes into
your mouth, you get relaxation and pleasure from it.
Now that you are an adult, if you feel anxious or tense, the
old pattern kicks in, and you crave something to put into your
mouth... A cigarette!
Part B: SMOKING IS A CONDITIONED RESPONSE.
Remember Pavlov and his dog?
He rang a bell every time he fed his dog. After a few
repetitions, he could just ring the bell, and the dog would
salivate.
When you associate smoking a cigarette with any other
activity, the other activity will trigger cravings for a
cigarette and a feeling of urgency to light up a cigarette.
This is called a Pavlovian conditioned response.
For example, if you light up a cigarette when you watch a
movie, you will automatically get an urge to smoke a cigarette
each time you go to the movies.
If you light up when you drive your car, you will
automatically get an urge to light up a cigarette each time
you drive your car.
If you smoke a cigarette when you see someone else smoking,
you will automatically get an urge to smoke a cigarette each
time you see someone else smoking.
All these things which set off your cravings are called
triggers. An essential part of quitting smoking is
understanding your triggers and knowing how to tackle the
cravings when participating in these activities.
Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed
into your unconscious.
If a person smokes a cigarette and simultaneously drinks a cup
of coffee, the mind takes a snapshot of the cigarette in the
hand, and links it to the cup of coffee. Thereafter, every
time the person sees a cup of coffee, the unconscious fills in
the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of a
cigarette, and the smoker gets a craving for a cigarette.
You may be unaware of the mental movie of the cigarette,
because it may only be at the subconscious level. Just as you
are not consciously aware of what you are seeing through your
peripheral vision until someone or something draws your
attention to it. But the image is there, creating a craving
for a cigarette, building a trigger.
Part C: THERE IS A PHYSICAL ADDICTION TO NICOTINE, BUT . . .
The physical addiction is the weakest part of the habit. In
fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the addiction
to cigarettes. I believe that 90% of the habit is the mental
and emotional component! (Parts A and B).
HERE IS WHAT THIS MEANS TO A SMOKER WHO WANTS TO QUIT.
What this means is that as soon as you eliminate the feeling
of tension that compels you to put cigarettes into your mouth
for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and {if you can
extinguish the conditioned response of feeling a craving for
cigarettes when having a cup of coffee, driving, or finishing
a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can break the addiction
to cigarettes without having to suffer from withdrawal
symptoms or weight-gain.
Self-hypnosis will make it easy to break the addiction to
cigarettes because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how.
Part A is where smokers light-up a cigarette for relaxation
and pleasure. It’s your thoughts that create feelings of
stress. More specifically, people persistently run mental
movies in their minds. If the movie is negative, it brings
about a feeling of anxiety. But if it's positive, it makes
warm happy associations, often accompanied by thoughts of
smoking a cigarette.
We can use various hypnosis techniques to reprogram the
subconscious mind to instantly and automatically take those
anxiety producing mental movies, and automatically exchange
them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This
instills relaxation and pleasure, and obliterates the tension
that triggers the oral cravings and compulsions for
cigarettes.
Because of the elimination of feelings of tension the smoker
who is quitting doesn’t experience the compulsion or need to
substitute food in place of the cigarettes. So quitting
without weight gain is actually quite easy.
Part B is where people smoke a cigarette because smoking
becomes a conditioned response to many different activities
and locations. Remember in the earlier example how smoking
became unconsciously associated with other activities and
environments so that each time a smoker gets into that
activity or environment, the mind to flashes an image of a
cigarette, and the image of the cigarette triggers an urge to
smoke?
There are quit smoking hypnosis techniques that can
effectively extinguish those conditioned responses so that a
smoker’s mind will lose the cravings for cigarettes, and the
compulsion to smoke. As a matter of fact, you will even get a
compulsion to reject the cigarettes towards the end of your
quitting period.
Source:
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