Does hypnotherapy stop smoking really work? Can it help you to quit smoking after other strategies have failed you?
I believe that it can help. But really there is a special distinction here that you should understand in order to get the most benefit out of it.
Hypnosis for quitting smoking is not a magic bullet. And no one is really claiming that it is. Just look at the other quit smoking products out there, such as the patch and the laser treatments and the stop smoking shots and so on. None of them are a magic bullet and none of them are guaranteed to work. So when you use something like hypnotherapy to quit smoking, you need to realize that it is not going to do the work for you. You still have to make a tremendous effort in order to quit successfully.
So what can you do to make that effort? I would suggest a 3 part strategy for quitting, based on what worked for me, and what I see working for others.
As a disclaimer, I would have you note that this technique does not rely on social support at all. I tried for years to quit smoking by using social support and it failed every time for me. It was only when I decided that I was quitting by myself, for myself, with no outside help that I was able to quit successfully. Now I know that others out there use the opposite strategy (such as Nicotine Anonymous), but that is what worked for me.
So here is the 3 part strategy:
1) Start exercising every single day. Just walk if you have to. Do more if you can. But commit to every single day. No questions asked. Do it.
2) Stay awake for the first 36 hours after you smoke your last cigarette. Force yourself to stay up. No napping allowed. At the 36 hour mark, you may sleep. This is brilliant because you will sleep through the worst of your withdrawals.
3) When you wake up from this super power sleeping session, I would have your hypnotherapy session scheduled to take place. Go get hypnotized.
That’s it. If you do exactly what I suggest here then your chances of staying smoke free will be very, very good. Of course it is a lot of work though, and most people will not follow through with it. Most people don’t succeed in quitting smoking though. If you want good results you have to put in a massive effort.
