Giving up Smoking with Hypnosis

Did you know that your subconscious mind stores all your habits, mental blocks and inhibitions? Each of these tendencies or properties comes with specific feelings and sensations. How did this come about? For each of these tendencies, at some point in time possibly when you were quite young, you experienced certain sensations or feeling repeatedly - some positive and others negative or unpleasant.

Because of the repetition, these emotions were reinforced and became more dominant in your mind and memory than other memories, experiences and feelings.

What then happens is that your subconscious mind tries to relive the experiences over and over again - which in turn reinforces them in your memory - especially the pleasant ones.

But how does that affect you as a smoker?

Basically, when you smoke a cigarette or cigar, you experience pleasant sensations - both mental and physical which you then associate with the smoking. Your subconscious mind then tries to get you to experience the thrills of the smoking again and again until it convinces you that smoking has become becomes a necessity for you.

To destroy the habit, it is necessary to persuade your subconscious that its conviction that smoking is beneficial to you or needed by you. One way to do this is to replace these memories with even more pleasant ones. One way of doing this is by using Hypnosis.

There are two main stages in the process of hypnosis:
The first step, is the relaxation stage and the second stage comprises of focusing on the unconscious actions or problems that lead you to smoke.

While you are relaxed, your subconscious mind is much more receptive to instruction. You will need to practice getting into this state several times until you perfect the art. Getting into the relaxed mode is essential for you to be hypnotized. Once you perfect this, you can turn your focus to problem solving. (Note that you can use the same method to solve most personal problems as well, not only smoking)