Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy To Stop Smoking

Hypnotherapy has been used to help people with a variety of problems. One of the most successful problems dealt with is to get people to stop smoking, but this doesn't happen by magic. In the first session a hypno-therapist will often discuss with an individual why they should quit smoking. He discusses the method of hypnotherapy, which is to reach the subconscious mind, to get it to agree to cooperate with the conscious mind. They talk over what it means to be free of a dependence upon cigarettes. Often the hypno-therapist will engage in a brief hypnotherapy session then, and when the patient is about to leave, give the patient a self-hypnosis CD, a manual about hypnotherapy and other material to read. The idea is to appeal both to people's conscious and unconscious mind, to make sure that they are more relaxed about the whole experience. This is important, because many people at first think of hypnotherapy as something weird, which they are only driven to out of desperation. The more they are relaxed about, and believe in the process, the more it has a chance to work. In the second session, again the hypnotherapist discusses with the patient the type of emotional dependence as well as physical dependence that he has on smoking. The patient must deal with the problem of thinking like an addict, both emotional and physically. Then the therapist takes the patient into a deep trance, and give him basically the same information, but to his subconscious mind. This session can take over 2 hours. Again the patient is urged to use the CD to further program his subconscious to give up smoking. In the next session, in the conscious section of the session the therapist talks about the part of the patient's personality that wants to hold on to cigarettes. Another hypnotherapy session follows. By this time many patients are ready to quit cigarettes and deal with any discomfort from withdrawal symptoms. This may be followed by another similar session. The final session is sort of a vaccination against any relapse into smoking. The idea is to communicate both to the conscious mind, and through hypnosis, the subconscious mind, so they both can deal with danger times, and be able to set off an alarm if there is a threat to resume smoking. Patients learn to maintain their new found ability to be free of smoking.