Quit Smoking

"Change the picture in your mind and you will change your reality."

I had a neighbor who was 80 years old who had quit smoking many years earlier. When I asked how he did it, he said he just decided to not smoke anymore and that he didn't have any withdrawal symptoms or side effects either. As our conversation continued, it turned out that for many days prior to him quitting, he kept picturing himself as a non smoker. He pictured his home as one without ash trays or lighters. He wasn't sick of his house or his clothes or his breath stinking like a filthy ash tray. He couldn't care less about how cigarettes affected his health and the health of others around him. He didn't want to hear anything about statistics. He said he just couldn't see himself as a smoker anymore. A note here that this is the least effective way for anyone to quit smoking.

Statistically, only 2% of people who want to quit smoking do so exactly like my neighbor did in the above paragraph. Again, statistically, only 2% of people who go to a hypnotist to quit smoking do so in their very first session. This is because, before they went to a hypnotist, for many days, weeks or months, they had changed the picture in their mind from an addicted smoker to a nonsmoker. They just couldn't see themselves as a smoker anymore. And all they needed from the therapist was a little nudge in the direction they had already mentally taken.

Hypnosis enhances the vision of what you already see in your mind, which helps your vision become a stronger reality. Think of hypnosis as a motivational coach who helps you stay on the road you have already taken. So if you have been attempting to quit smoking for some time, then hypnosis will definitely help you maintain that road to success.

As a medical hypnotist and a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist, I recommend you read this medical article by clicking HERE which will recommend both in order to quit smoking.

The nicotine in smoking does one thing and one thing only, it raises the dopamine level in your brain which supposedly eases your stress, anxiety and depression.

However, 2 minutes after you quit inhaling nicotine, your dopamine level drops right back down to where it was 2 minutes before you began smoking.

But the question remains, does smoking ease your stress, anxiety and depression or is smoking the cause of your stress, anxiety and depression?

The reality is, in between cigarettes, your brain is feeling the withdrawal from the highly addictive nicotine, which is the cause of your stress, anxiety and depression, and is therefore screaming for it's nicotine fix in the same way a drug addict is screaming for it's highly addictive heroin fix in order to stop the screaming in their brain. Yes, all medical evidence has proven that nicotine is as addictive as heroin, hence the comparison. 

If you really want to quit your nicotine addiction, then ask yourself what do non-smokers do to raise their dopamine levels? Exercise? Eat healthier? Are you willing to tell your smoking friends that they can't smoke around you, to take it outside? Are you willing to remove every ashtray and lighter from your home so that you won't be reminded of smoking? 

If you need to feed your nicotine addiction, then vaping is the healthier answer over cigarettes because vaping is simply ingesting pure nicotine and cigarettes and cigars have all the other ingredients that cause people to drag around an oxygen tank, have bypass surgeries, remove a section of their lung, cough uncontrollably from the tar in tobacco, and basically cause your breath, clothes, hair and furniture to stink like a filthy ashtray. So vape away. But be aware that ingesting an entire vial of nicotine from a vape pipe will kill you instantly.