Self hypnosis to stop smoking is a simple, enjoyable way to support yourself while changing smoking habits, reducing cravings, and strengthening your determination and willpower to quit. This guide explains how self hypnosis works, what to expect from hypnosis and how it may support you as you stop smoking.
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Are you considering using hypnosis to stop smoking? I guess you have tried other methods before and failed. Most smokers make dozens of attempts to stop smoking before successfully giving it up for good.
You already know that smoking is bad for your health. You also probably know that giving up smoking is one of the best moves you make to improve your health. Smoking can cause heart disease many types of cancer and premature aging. The good news is that your health can improve if you give up smoking. Once you give up smoking, the risk of premature death lowers even if you have smoked for years.
Why Quitting Smoking is Worth it
Tobacco smoke contains many chemicals and, according to cancer.gov at least 69 of them cause cancer. Smokers are much more likely to die from cancer than non-smokers. In addition, smoking increases your risk of dying from lung disease, stroke, or heart disease. As well as your chances of dying from a smoking-related disease, your average life expectancy if you smoke is about ten years less than for non-smokers.
The goon news is that many of the health risks begin reducing as soon as you stop smoking. Every day you go without smoking is a positive step towards better health. This really makes the whole effort of give up smoking worthwhile.
What is Stopping You From Giving up Smoking Now?
Stopping smoking is difficult because nicotine is highly addictive. However, the rewards of quitting smoking are immense. Your health begins to improve almost immediately and for many people giving up smoking brings a feeling of relief and less worries about the long-term effects of smoking. Becoming smoke free it can feel like a weight lifted from your shoulders and it can also give you a great sense of achievement and greater confidence. So how can we make stopping smoking easier?
How Can Self Hypnosis Help You Stop Smoking?
Self hypnosis can help you stop smoking by reducing stress, strengthening willpower and helping you stick to your decision to quit smoking. It can help you change the psychological habit of smoking as you begin to identify as a non-smoker. If you listen to a stop smoking self hypnosis recording regularly, it encourages you to stick to your decision and stay smoke free and can help ease cravings. The hypnosis aims to help you develop a positive image of yourself as a non-smoker.
As a smoker, you may believe that having a cigarette will help you when you feel stressed or anxious. In reality it can actually be the addiction creating the expectation where you believe the cigarette is what you need. Self hypnosis can help you relax, reduce tension, respond differently to triggers and even sleep better.
You may feel that being a smoker has become part of your identity. Perhaps you feel that you will lose something if you gave up smoking. With self hypnosis to stop smoking it can help you create a more developed mental image of yourself as a healthy non-smoker, and this makes it easier to identify with that version of yourself until it gradually just comes naturally and you simply see yourself as a non-smoker or an ex-smoker.
How Does Self Hypnosis Work?
Self hypnosis is a focused, absorbed state of mind, the same natural state as hypnotherapy. Using a self-hypnosis recording means you can relax at home with the recorded session, rather than visiting a therapist. Hypnosis is a pleasant, relaxing state of mind. Most people experience a similar mental state from time to time in ordinary life. It is natural and pleasant to be in a state of hypnosis. Have you have ever been so absorbed in a book, film or a daydream, where you lost track of what was happening around you? This is very similar to a light hypnotic trance.
During self hypnosis your attention is focused and you may be more open and receptive to positive suggestions and new ways of thinking. The aim of the hypnosis is to help change habits, feelings, and automatic responses that you associate with smoking.
If you listen regularly to your self hypnosis audio the positive suggestions are reinforced through repetition. This helps to strengthen your determination to stop smoking and replace old smoking habits and triggers with healthier responses and build a strong identity as a non-smoker.
Why is it so Hard to Give up Smoking?
Most smokers want to stop smoking, yet many find it incredibly difficult. You may have tried many times and failed again and again. Friends and family may encourage you to quit for the sake of your health, but they may have little understanding of how difficult a task quitting smoking is, how challenging long-established smoking habits can be and how addictive nicotine is.
Nicotine Withdrawal
At first, when you stop smoking, you will experience the effects of nicotine withdrawal, which is unpleasant and creates a strong craving to smoke. The good news is, this stage of withdrawal is short-lived. Once 1 to 3 days have passed, you are past the physical withdrawal effect. The next enormous challenge is coping with the psychological elements of stopping smoking. This is where self hypnosis can become particularly valuable, help you stay committed to your goal and develop healthy responses to triggers and cravings.
The Psychological Element of Stopping Smoking
Do you enjoy smoking? There may be occasions cigarettes are enjoyable, like after being unable to smoke for several hours. Most of them, however, you are not truly enjoying them are you? In reality many cigarettes are smoked simply because nicotine addiction and habit creates the urge to smoke. You may have been convincing yourself that you enjoy cigarettes but it is an illusion based on addiction. You may have wanted to stop smoking for a long time, but smoking cigarettes makes you feel normal because it feeds the addiction.
When you stop smoking, you may experience:
- Strong cravings for nicotine
- Headache
- Nausea
- General aches and pains
- Irritability
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Difficulty concentrating
- Crying or feeling emotional
- Insomnia
How Can Self Hypnosis Help During Nicotine Withdrawal?
Self hypnosis can support you through the quitting process by helping you relax, reduce stress and strengthen determination. The positive suggestions will help reinforce your decision to stop smoking, make it easier to accept temporary cravings without acting on them and just letting them pass. With regular listening self hypnosis for quitting smoking can help you stay focused and persevere by reminding you of why you are doing this. Using self-hypnosis can help you build a positive self-image as a non-smoker, as you go one day at a time staying strong, sticking to your decision and succeeding.
What are the Benefits of Stopping Smoking?
Regardless of your age, stopping smoking is one of the best decisions you can make for your health. The sooner you quit, the faster your body can begin to recover and become healthier. Your risk of many smoking-related diseases begins to fall as your overall health and wellbeing continues to improve. Take a look at the list of benefits of quitting smoking, keep these in mind as you quit smoking,
Some benefits of giving up smoking:
- Improved health
- Reduced risk of smoking-related disease
- Easier breathing
- More energy
- Better concentration
- Reduced stress and anxiety
- Increased confidence and self-esteem
- A sense of achievement
- Healthier looking skin
- Fresher breath and clothes
- Healthier teeth and gums
- Saving money
- Freedom from smoking
Can Self Hypnosis Help You Stop Smoking?
Self hypnosis is a popular approach to help people stop smoking. Researchers have studied the effectiveness of hypnosis for giving up smoking using self hypnosis. Some studies have found hypnosis to be valuable in supporting people quitting smoking such as this Stanford University study Many people also find their personal experience is using self hypnosis to quit is very helpful.
You may choose to try a nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). Some prefer to stop without it so that they are nicotine free straight away. Self hypnosis can be used on its own or along with other approaches. The actual struggle with giving up smoking is in part the psychological side of giving up a habit as much as the physical addiction. This is where self-hypnosis can help you through the quitting smoking process, to relax you and help change old habit responses.
Self hypnosis addresses the psychological side of smoking, such as the habit and ritual of smoking and emotional triggers. Hypnosis can help with changes triggers such as the cigarette after a meal or with a coffee. Stop Smoking hypnosis will guide and encourage you to focus on positive images as you develop a strong identity as a non-smoker. Another benefit of hypnosis for quitting smoking is that it natural, pleasant and you can combine hypnosis with other methods if desired.
How to Use Self Hypnosis to Quit Smoking
1. Choose a quit date
2. Listen to one or more tracks each day
3. Use the mini session whenever you get a craving
4. Keep using the hypnosis for 3 weeks
5. Focus on being a non-smoker
Conclusion
Stopping smoking is difficult, and you may need help to succeed with it. Although most smokers know the risks of smoking, it does not make it easier to quit; it only makes you want to quit. Hypnosis can help you in several ways. Self hypnosis can relax you deeply and help ease stress, tension, and irritability. Hypnosis can build your motivation and desire to give up smoking. Hypnosis can help you change the way you feel about smoking. Using hypnosis to give up smoking can help you develop a clearer image of that version of yourself, you as a non-smoker. Many people have successfully given up smoking. Just like them, you too can become a non-smoker.
Continue Your Stop Smoking Journey
- Explore the Stop Smoking Hypnosis Hub to compare all of our smoking hypnosis downloads and programs plus helpful articles.
- Learn more about the Smoking Hypnosis download or CD. and discover how the 3 track program can support you as you quit smoking.
- Explore the Stop Smoking Program if you are looking for more comprehensive support.