Are you ready to quit smoking? Congratulations on making the choice to live the healthier lifestyle that you know you deserve.
The reasons to give up your smoking habit are numerous. The American Lung Association reports that, “Every year in the U.S., more than 480,000 people die from tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke.” Smoking increases and aggravates certain conditions, such as asthma and allergies, and has been proven to put you at risk to develop others, not the least of which is cancer.
Besides the health advantages of quitting smoking, there are also social benefits. If you are a smoker and a parent, your child is twice as likely to start smoking as the child of a non-smoker, according to research done by the University of Washington. Smoking leads to the yellowing of teeth, early wrinkles, dehydration, and shortness of breath. Have you ever noticed the smell of smoke clinging to your hair, clothes, and home? Maybe not, because smoking numbs your sense of smell and taste.
If you have previously tried to quit smoking, only to start right back up again, you know that it is no easy task. But if the patches, gum, prescriptions, counseling, and other methods that you have tried in the past have failed, do not despair. Hypnosis has been shown to be an effective treatment for an addiction to smoking with certain patients.
How does it work?
Despite what many believe, you are not unconscious when you are in a hypnotic state. As theAmerican Association of Professional Hypnotherapists explains: “Hypnosis is simply a state of relaxed focus.” In this state, your mind is calm and more open to suggestion and influence.
Maybe you’ve seen the episode of Friendswhere Chandler uses a hypnosis tape to quit smoking. Unfortunately for him, it was created for women, and while he does quit smoking, he begins to act more and more feminine. It was good for a laugh, but not very realistic.
Hypnosis is not brainwashing. It is a process that helps reach the thoughts and feelings that are buried in the subconscious. It does not alter who you are, but instead, can help you become the best version of yourself.
Under hypnosis, you may be encouraged to consider the negative outcomes of smoking, such as the way it tastes (like exhaust, for instance), the health risks (receiving a cancer diagnosis), or how it makes you feel (extremely thirsty). These suggestions create an association in your brain between lighting up a cigarette (or any tobacco product) and something that is uncomfortable or undesirable, such as feeling parched or poisoning your body.
Self-hypnosis is an important technique used in this process. Learning how to self-hypnotize gives you the ability to manage your cravings when the urge to smoke arises. The key to the success of using hypnosis to quit smoking is having a way of reinforcing what you have learned in your sessions when you are home or out. Repeating affirmations can decrease the need to for nicotine until, eventually, your body gets past the physical addiction to smoking, and your mind has broken the muscle memory link that has you reaching for your lighter out of habit.
No one can make the choice to quit smoking for you. That is up to you. So if you are ready to make the changes that are necessary to live a healthier and more fulfilling life, then contact Advanced Care Hypnosis. Daniel Rose is an experienced and compassionate professional who will help you conquer your cravings, increase your willpower, and give up smoking, once and for all.
To book a sessions with Dan Rose and quit smoking with hypnosis call us today at 973-402-6882.
Other Advanced Care Hypnosis Services
Advanced Care Hypnosis is here to help people who would like to find a better way to change their lives for the better in a natural and holistic way. Hypnosis has been used for hundreds, perhaps thousands of year to alter the body by using the mind.
- Why Hypnosis?
- What happens under Hypnosis?
- Are you Ready for Change?
- Why Hypnosis?
Hypnosis allows you access your subconscious, the most suggestible and more powerful part of your mind where real, lasting change takes place. You may have heard it said that we only use 10% of our brain; hypnosis is a way to get access to that other 90% . Especially in habit and pain control, this relieves any internal battle that may occur.
Although some researchers and clinicians claim that some people are not able to be hypnotized, everyone has the ability to be hypnotized because it’s a natural, normal state that each of us enter at least twice each day – upon awakening and falling asleep. We also enter a hypnotic state whenever we get totally engrossed in a movie or TV show. When the actors become the characters they portray in our minds, we are hypnotized. Also, whenever we are driving and daydreaming enough to miss a turn or freeway exit we know to take, we probably were experiencing a light state of hypnosis.
There may be those people that have this misconception because of an unsuccessful experience they’ve had with a hypnotist. People are responsive to different approaches, and if a particular approach has not been successful in the past, it’s a matter of finding the way that works best for them.
- What happens under Hypnosis?
You are in total control and will remember everything that happens while under hypnosis. Occasionally a person might choose to selectively forget certain facts for a time and then bring them up later when they are more ready.
There is no danger of a person failing to come out of the hypnotic state. In fact it would be impossible to remain hypnotized. Some people choose to stay in trance a little longer because it feels so good and it’s the most relaxed they’ve been in their lives!
The hypnotist is merely a guide or facilitator and he/she cannot “make” you do anything against your will. During a hypnosis session, you to totally aware of everything that is going on and if you don’t like where the hypnotist is guiding you, you have the power to reject the suggestions.
- Are you Ready for Change?
Every effort is made to provide a prospective client with a session date and time that best fits their schedule. Evening and weekend appointments are available pending availability.
We encourage each client to complete a confidential intake form and email it directly to clinical Hypnotist Daniel Rose at [emailprotected] with dates and times that work best for a 1 hour and 45 min. session or no fee 15 minute phone or in-person consultation. The intake form prepares Daniel for your session and it is also of great help to you. As you respond to the questions, you will gain a better understanding of your relationship to the situation you wish to change, your motivation for changing it and can help you to begin the change process before your appointment or consultation.
During your session you will learn and practice “self hypnosis*.” Self hypnosis compliments your session and can help you achieve your goals because it involves mental practice. There is no faster or easier method for eliminating habits or changing behaviors than mental practice through self hypnosis.
We strongly encourage clients to practice self hypnosis following their session. Hypnotist Daniel Rose and his staff will be available by phone post-session should you have any questions or any further issues you wish to discuss.
