Giving up smoking is something that many smokers realise they will want to do. Some may want to to it now and others believe they will make a decision in the future to pack up smoking.
Unfortunately the term “giving up” does not help the efforts of a smoker. the words “giving up” implies that in doing so that you will have to “do without” something or that you will be deprived of something that you like or want.
No one likes to be denied something that on some level they have accepted that they need, want or like. “Giving up” has similat connotations to the word “diet”. A diet implies limitations and depriving yourself of something you want or have had in the past.
If you start your good intention to stop smoking with the thought that you are giving up something, psychologically this perception does not help you to stay stopped in fact it may undermine your efforts to quit smoking for good.
A perception of giving up something implies that you continue to think about what you will miss by stopping smoking. It also implies that smoking does something for you in a positive way, which, as a non-smoker you will have to cope without.
Many smokers view smoking as an aid to relaxation and having a chance to de-stress. In reality the nicotine that enters the blood stream, if anything makes you more tense. It doesn’t relax you. What does hel;p to release and relieve any stress and tension is what you do whilst you are smoking.
Most smokers do this when they are smoking:-
1) Step away from the place of stress to smoker (eg. step outside the office)
2) Take deeper breaths in (this is a well-known relaxation method)
3) Daydream about pleasant events (if they are alone) or get things off their chest by cursing something that has upset them.
4) Engage with fellow smokers – a kind of cameraderie that aids the pereception of shared experienes and helps de-stress someone
5) Smoke when drinking alcohol (alcohol provides temporary relaxation)
Smokers make an association between the above ideas and smoking and assume that it must be the cigarette or rollie that helps them to feel chilled or relaxed. In reality it is those other things you do when you smoke that helps you to relax.
Giving Up Smoking – Good News
There is a way of stopping smoking without having the sense of giving up anything. Part of that way is to continue to do those things you used to do when you smoked. So you can still have those 5 minute work breaks and step away for a while. You can still mix with people who smoke and enjoy the cameraderie. You can still enjoy alcohol.
If you use this tactic you will not be giving up anything, you will in fact simply be stopping poisoning yourself. In doing so you will make the task of sticking to your decision to be a non-smoker much easier.
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Authors Details
Steven Harold BA(Hons) DCH DHP
Quit Smoking Hypnotherapist London and Essex
Website: www.stop-smoking-hypnosis.com Email: steve@stop-smoking-hypnosis.com
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The number one asset that anyone must have if they want to succeed at anything, is their decision to commit to doing something. This is certainly true of stopping smoking permanently.
Why People Fail to Quit Smoking
Attempting to stop smoking for the wrong reason(s) is virtually always doomed to fail. One of the wrong reasons might be convenience. What I mean by this is that you may decide to stop, not because you are necessarily ready or committed to stopping, it is just that a convenient situation as occurred for you. Let me explain…
A friend or partner, husband or wife who is a smoker, makes the suggestion to you that it would be a great idea to stop together. On the face of it this seems to be a good idea because you can support each other in remaining stopped and there is this nice feeling of doing something together. You might call this a sense of camaraderie or team spirit.
Unfortunately, in reality although both participants know they ought to stop smoking at some point in time, on this occasion it usually means that one person is really ready to stop but the other is going along with it because it is convenient. They have got caught up in this being a good idea without giving it too much thought.
Make Up Your Mind To Stop Smoking
Then what happens is that the person who hasn’t really made up their mind to stop, will at some point try to persuade or cajole the other into just having that one. If they succeed in persuading the other to have one, they will both fail. It is a kind of collusion to smoke, just as those of us who colluded to smoke for the very first time when we were young. In fact we did it because our peers did it and we wanted to be part of that crowd… and accepted. Here is an example of the same influences happening again.
That is why it is vital to stop smoking for your own good reasons and not to do it out of convenience. The convenience aspect will often come into the equation when someone decides to stop smoking with the help of a hypnotherapist. Let us say the wife has decided to do this. But the wife, although motivated to stop smoking now, will not have had hypnotherapy before and may have some anxiety about it. A way of overcoming that anxiety is to encourage the husband to quit with the aid of hypnosis too. Here again one person is persuading another to quit without them really coming to the right decision under their own steam.
Quit Smoking With Hypnotherapy
Any hypnotherapist who naturally wants his or her clients to succeed will need to ensure that both husband and wife (or friends or colleagues) really do want to stop and have made up their minds that they want to do it right now. This being the case, then doing it together can be a real asset as the sense of doing it with others can strengthen their resolve to stick to their decision.
I certainly emphasise to people who come along in pairs for quit smoking hypnosis sessions, whether mates, husband and wife, or partners, that they should be there for each other to keep to their decision to quit smoking for good and not to collude together to smoke.
Steven A. Harold Stop Smoking Hypnotherapist
London & EssexEmail: steve@stop-smoking-hypnosis.com
Website: http://www.stop-smoking-hypnosis.com
Article Posted – 2nd May 2007. Copyright Steven A. Harold
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