Stop Smoking Hypnosis

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What is Stop Smoking Hypnosis?

Stop smoking hypnosis is hypnosis focused on helping you successfully quit smoking for good. Stopping smoking is not just about the willpower to not have a cigarette, it also involves breaking those automatic habits, overcoming triggers, interrupting the cue, routine, reward pattern, and building motivation to succeed. This is where hypnosis can help.

Hypnosis helps you build motivation, willpower and determination. It can help reduce stress, help you sleep and cope better with triggers or cravings. This page explains how stop smoking hypnosis works, what to expect from hypnosis and which smoking-related program may be the best fit for you.

What the Evidence Suggests

While research into hypnosis for smoking cessation has shown mixed results, there are some positive indicators that it can work for many people. Some studies suggest hypnosis can help people quit smoking more easily when they are motivated and committed to stopping smoking. As with all methods to quit smoking, hypnosis results vary from person to person.

No sensible hypnotherapist would guarantee 100% success rates but many people do genuinely find that hypnosis strengthens motivation, helps reduce cravings and makes it easier to break smoking habits. Hypnosis recordings are also helpful to ease stress and give you something relaxing to do that takes your mind off cravings.

How Stop Smoking Hypnosis Works

Smoking is a deeply ingrained habit that punctuates your day as it usually becomes tied to routines, emotions, and specific triggers. You may enjoy a cigarette after a meal, if you are stressed or anxious, with coffee or at certain times of day as a ‘reward’ or as a consolation. Hypnosis helps you work with those habit patterns at a deeper level of your subconscious mind, so it becomes easier to respond differently and change the habit response. Hypnosis to help you quit smoking works by breaking triggers, reframing your mindset to identify as a non-smoker and feel positive about this. Hypnosis for smoking also helps to make smoking seem unpleasant, creating an aversive association.

A stop smoking hypnosis session or audio program is designed to help you:

• Let go of old smoking habits.
• Feel in control around cravings.
• Strengthen your motivation to stop smoking.
• Replace smoking routines with new healthier responses.
• Build confidence and determination in your decision to stop smoking.

Why is it so Difficult to Stop Smoking?

Have you tried to stop smoking before and been shocked at how difficult it is? You’re not alone, many people find it harder than they expected and it takes many people several attempts to successfully quit. It is frustrating when you know the health risks, you truly want to stop but the habit and addiction of smoking keep you trapped and needing another cigarette. It isn’t just down to willpower because smoking is a complicated addiction that is not simply about physical dependence on nicotine. Stopping smoking is about more than nicotine alone, it is something that becomes integrated into everyday activities, routines and emotions over a long period of time.

Some people feel that smoking is part of their identity or personality and find it difficult to picture themselves as a non-smoker, they may believe they really enjoy a cigarette and don’t want to give them up. They may believe cigarettes help them, relax, cope with stress or enjoy social situations more. Owning the desire for nicotine as a desirable habit is what keeps people stuck with smoking, despite the fact they probably don’t enjoy most of the cigarettes they smoke.

Many smokers see the cigarette as something that goes with many everyday activities, and in a sense it sometimes fills a gap where you are waiting for something and it seems the perfect moment to smoke a cigarette. These habits reinforce the desire as there is no replacement when you first give up smoking and you may feel at a loss at times because your brain thinks of smoking whenever you are triggered, and you are triggered probably dozens or more times a day. The only way to reset these habit responses is to build new responses to replace the urge to smoke. Many people like a cigarette first thing in the morning, with a coffee or tea, after meals, when taking a break, when under stress or with alcohol. These activities have to be recalibrated to fit in with your identity as a non-smoker or ex-smoker and with time and practice they will gradually forget about smoking more and more.

Cue – Routine – Reward

Habits are powerful and get firmly attached to cues and triggers creating a loop that is hard to break as the more it repeats over the years the more it becomes automatic. However, this habit can be broken with perseverance and the desire to quit smoking.

CUE – Making a coffee or feeling stressed or bored

ROUTINE – Open your cigarette pack, light a cigarette

REWARD – Temporary relief from nicotine craving, relaxation, familiar routine.

Nicotine dependence is part of what keeps you smoking but it is best to think of smoking as having two distinct parts, the simple addiction to nicotine and the complex habit of smoking. Successfully giving up smoking requires addressing both of these elements.

Willpower & Motivation

Willpower feels like it is the key to success because you know to give up smoking requires persistent resistance of the desire to smoke. It really sounds like willpower is the key, but it isn’t because the battle with stopping smoking requires moment to moment wins and day to day persistence. Willpower is something that works well in a more simply content like giving up biscuits, with smoking you need to virtually re-wire your brain to change all those habit responses.

What is good to know though, is habits can be changed. Once you stop smoking you are immediately breaking those smoking triggers. In the early days when you quit those triggers are still strong but they become less frequent and less intense and each time to behave and think like a non-smoker you reinforce that change. if you really want to quit you can and will achieve it, just as many other people have done before you. As you live your life and do your day to day activities without smoking, you will begin to think like a non-smoker, and this is why many people choose to use hypnosis as part of their support when quitting smoking. Hypnosis helps to strengthen motivation and willpower and changes the automatic habit responses that make stopping smoking a constant battle.

What Withdrawal Symptoms and Cravings Should You Expect?

When you stop smoking it’s normal to experience withdrawal symptoms and cravings. This is because your mind and body are adjusting to life without nicotine and the familiar habit of smoking. Cravings are uncomfortable, but try to remember they are temporary and each time you cope with one, it makes it easier. You may notice that cravings happen suddenly and in the early days of quitting they may feel quite powerful, but they will pass, and it will get easier.

Physical Cravings:

As well as nicotine cravings you may also feel irritable, restless and find it harder to concentrate because you are craving nicotine and not getting it. Some people find they want to eat more as their body attempts to fill a nicotine craving with food. Some people find it harder to get to sleep or stay asleep during the early days because it takes time for your body to adjust to being nicotine free. After a while your sleep should improve.

Psychological cravings:

Not all cravings you experience when quitting smoking are caused by nicotine withdrawal. Many cravings are habit based where you get a coffee and suddenly realize there’s no cigarette to go with it. This is a habit based craving. Other triggers may be finishing a meal, drinking alcohol, waiting for something or taking a break. Sometimes people mistake these triggers for actual nicotine cravings, but they are triggers you need to reset through practice. Each time you enjoy a coffee without the cigarette you are breaking down the connection and creating a new feeling of enjoying coffee as a non-smoker. This same pattern is true for all of your smoking triggers as your brain gradually learns that there is no need for a cigarette in these situations.

Many people find that self hypnosis can help make cravings easier to cope with. Hypnosis can make you feel calmer, less stressed and more committed to your goals. Listening to a hypnosis recording regularly while you are stopping smoking can help reinforce your decision to quit, strengthen your motivation and help support new healthier habits. With every craving you resist, you are winning and as your new habits as a non-smoker become more established, the old habit gradually loses its strength and many people find the desire to smoke becomes less frequent and easier to manage.

What Happens After You Quit Smoking?

One of the great things about giving up smoking is that your body almost immediately begins to repair itself. It takes time, but within minutes of smoking your last ever cigarette, positive changes start happening. It can be quite motivating to remember these improvements, especially at first when cravings are strongest, because each smoke free day brings you closer to your goal to becoming healthier and free of smoking.

After 20 minutes

Your heart rate and blood pressure begin returning to more normal levels and there is less strain on your heart and circulatory system.

After 12 to 24 Hours

The level of carbon monoxide (CO) in your blood reduces and oxygen levels rise and start returning to normal levels. Your body can maintain higher oxygen levels at this point and this helps your body work better.

After 2 to 3 Days

Most of the nicotine has now left your body (unless you are using NRT). This is an important point because now, many of the cravings you experience from this point are increasingly driven by habit rather than physical nicotine withdrawal. You may notice food begins to taste better and your sense of smell may also improve.

After 2 to 12 Weeks

Your lungs will begin to work more efficiently and your circulation improves. You may find you are less breathless when active as you use oxygen more effectively.

After a Few Months

You may have more energy, feel healthier and be less out of breath. You may cough less and it feels more natural being a non-smoker. You may only think of cigarettes very occasionally.

After One Year

Your risks of some smoking related diseases is lower than it was when you were a smoker. You may feel noticeably healthier, more in control, you may also look healthier and best of all you can enjoy the wonderful sense of achievement that you did it.

Of course it is different for everyone, some people notice positive changes within days, others find it is more gradual. You may have good days and bad days where sometimes you don’t think about smoking at all and other days you feel much less focused. Remember if you get a craving it will pass. Every time you resist the urge to smoke you are strengthening your new identity as a non-smoker.

Which Stop Smoking Method is Right For You?

There are many different ways to stop smoking. Some people choose to just stop (“cold turkey”) and others prefer to try one or more approaches that may help them. There is no single method that always works for everyone, it is personal and needs to suit your life and motivation. Below are some of the methods that might be of interest to you:

Cold Turkey (Stopping without Support)

Some people believe that because giving up smoking is rarely easy they may as well ‘tough it out’ and not use any support. Many successful ex-smokers have tried this method at least once. It can be successful but does require powerful determination as you are managing both nicotine withdrawal and the smoking habit along with all of the withdrawal effects at the same time. For most people, some support makes it easier.

Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT)

Nicotine Replacement Products such as patches, gum, inhalators provide nicotine without all the harmful chemicals you would get in a cigarette. They can help with nicotine withdrawal symptoms as they help address the physical dependence of nicotine but they do not change the habits and routines that may trigger cravings.

Prescription Medication

There are some treatments available via GPs that work by reducing cravings or make smoking less satisfying. These prescription only medications are not suitable for everyone.

Vaping

Some people switch from smoking cigarettes to vaping instead as a way of reducing harm to health, and to move away from tobacco and cigarettes. Vaping is considered to be less harmful than cigarettes, but many people later choose to become free from vaping as well.

Hypnosis

With hypnosis the approach is different, it focuses on changing the habit patterns and routines that are part of smoking triggers. Many people find hypnosis helps strengthen motivation, reduces stress, eases cravings and helps them sleep. Hypnosis can be used on its own or combined with other treatments.

A Combination of Methods

Many people choose to combine methods to arm themselves with various support methods as they quit smoking. For example, you could use NRT to manage the physical withdrawal from nicotine, and use hypnosis to help with the psychological side and support habit changes. Finding the right way for you can make quitting more manageable and increase your chances of long term success.

Why People Choose Hypnosis to Stop Smoking

Many people already know smoking is harmful, but that is not always enough to break the habit. Hypnosis works by focussing your attention, reinforcing positive change, and interrupts automatic habit responses.

Hypnosis can be especially helpful for you if:

• You have tried to quit before.
• Stress and anxiety makes it harder to stop smoking.
• You smoke out of habit.
• You do not truly enjoy most cigarettes.
• You want calming support you can use at home.
• You want help if you have a craving.
• You want help sleeping while you are quitting.

Which Stop Smoking Program is Right for You?

We have several stop smoking programs depending on your goal.

Main Stop Smoking Now Hypnosis

Best for people who want a full quit-smoking program and a clear focus on stopping completely. This product includes 3 tracks, a 25 minute daytime hypnosis, a sleep hypnosis and a 5 minute mini hypnosis craving buster.

Stop Smoking Ultimate Program

This complete program supports you is a multitude of ways including willpower boost, stop smoking support with cut back on smoking in addiction to stop smoking. This program also includes Healthy Lifestyle motivation and manifesting good health so you can visualizse yourself healthy and feeling wonderful free of smoking. The program includes 12 tracks in total, including 5 sleep hypnosis options to choose from.

Stop Smoking Essential Program

A simpler option including cut back on smoking, stop smoking and healthy lifestyle. Includes 8 tracks in total (with 3 sleep hypnosis tracks included). if you want the core stop smoking support this is ideal.

Cut Back on Smoking Hypnosis

This product is useful if you are not ready to stop completely but want to reduce your smoking first. Some people even find they can stick to limited smoking for longer.

Free Stop Smoking Download

A good starting point if you want to experience the approach before choosing a full program. This is a short hypnosis lasting 5 minutes and gives you an idea of the style of the hypnosis.

Stop Vaping Hypnosis

Designed for people who want help moving away from vaping instead of cigarettes. It includes 3 tracks, daytime hypnosis, mini booster and a sleep hypnosis track.

Program	Best For	Tracks	Sleep Hypnosis	Mini Booster
Free Stop Smoking Download	Trying hypnosis before buying	1	–	✓
Stop Smoking Now	Quitting smoking completely	3	✓	✓
Essential Stop Smoking Program	Extra support and better value	8	✓	✓
Ultimate Stop Smoking Program	The most complete support	12	✓	✓
Cut Back on Smoking	Reducing smoking before quitting	3	✓	✓
Stop Vaping	Quitting vaping instead of smoking	3	✓	✓

What to Expect with Hypnosis

If you’ve never tried hypnosis that’s okay, give it a try and just follow the guidance as best you can. It gets easier with practice as you get more familiar with the process.

You may find that:

• Cravings feel easier to manage.
• Your smoking routine feels unnecessary.
• You start thinking differently about cigarettes.
• It becomes easier to make healthier choices.

Results vary from person to person, but the goal is always the same: to help you change the habit pattern.

Why Choose Rachael Eccles Stop Smoking Hypnosis?

• Over 20 years’ experience
• Hundreds of professionally recorded hypnosis titles
• Hundreds of verified reviews and testimonials
• Thousands of customers worldwide
• Instant downloads and CDs
• Multiple stop smoking programmes to suit different needs
• Former smoker, Rachael understands what quitting smoking is like

FAQs

Choose the Right Next Step

If you want the most complete support, start with the main Stop Smoking Now hypnosis. If you want something more advanced and premium, choose the ultimate program, a simpler program is the essential stop smoking. If you are not ready to quit completely, the cut back option may be a better first step.

If you want to explore the approach before buying, start with the free download.

If you want:

• Quit smoking completely – Stop Smoking Now
• Maximum support – Ultimate Stop Smoking Program
• Good value – Essential Stop Smoking Program
• Cut down first – Cut Back on Smoking Hypnosis
• Quit vaping – Stop Vaping Hypnosis
• Try hypnosis before purchasing – Free Stop Smoking Hypnosis Download (mini hypnosis).

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