Stop Smoking with NLP and HYpnotherapy
Neuro Linguistic Programming and NLP provides tools to help anyone stop smoking through changing ideas within the client's mind, empowering them to quit. The main barrier to a person stopping smoking is not the physical symptoms of withdrawal but the mental and emotional issues that come with stopping. The key to stopping smoking is within the commitment of the person who wants to stop: if someone wants to quit smoking then hypnotherapy and NLP will enable that to happen but if a client is not sure it they want to stop smoking, the likely hood is that they will not. No therapy can create a willingness within a person to stop smoking if they do not really want to. If you are considering giving up smoking ask yourself: why are you giving up, is this for you or because another person has pushed you into it? Are you ready to have a life as a non-smoker? Having asked yourself those questions and you still want to stop then you are firmly on the road to stopping smoking. If you are not sure why you would stop or feel pressured into stopping then now maybe the wrong time. Wait until you want to stop smoking for you, then you will be ready. How can NLP and Hypnotherapy help you stop smoking? The reason for any behaviour is within our own minds and there is no idea of belief, including the ideas that have kept you smoking, that you are unable to change. The key to stopping smoking is to understand that you are not 'giving up' anything; you are gaining your life back. Many who want to stop smoking; using hypnotherapy and NLP, struggle because they have convinced themselves that in order to quit the smoking they have to 'give up' something. This may not sound like a small issue, after all they are giving up smoking but the power of the mind is awesome and if you are convinced that you are giving up something, you will resist it. So what do most people feel they are giving up? The interesting thing is that most people feel they will lose something by not smoking, it may be the relaxation of inhaling the smoke, the 10 minutes out they gain to relax, the social comradeship of fellow smokers, or it may be they feel smoking relaxes them in some fashion. So when people talk of 'giving up' they may not really mean the smoking, but what they gain from smoking itself. The key to stop smoking is not only to recognise one's ability to live without cigarettes but also to replace the 'gain' from the smoking. Through altering your beliefs we can not only reduce the physical impact of the lack of nicotine, but we also need to replace the emotional need with something else. The most successful way to stop smoking is to replace the smoking with something else, to replace the 'gain' with ideas that are life affirming and positive and in doing so each person realises that they have gained more that they have 'given up' never returning to smoking. For more details on how I can help you stop smoking please visit my website.