Can you use hypnosis to quit smoking? The answer would appear to be a resounding “yes” based on the success of many people and successful ex smokers out there, including some that I know personally. I know of at least one very hard core and long time smoker who has successfully used hypnosis to do the impossible and finally give up the cigarettes. It is a triumph for him because he thought he would never be able to quit.
Now even if you do go the hypnosis route, there are some things that you should do in order to increase your chances of a successful quit. For one thing, you have to realize that you still have to want to quit. Deep down, the motivation still has to come from within. Now some people believe that this makes quit smoking hypnosis a sham, but in fact, this is going to be true of any quit smoking technique. If you don’t really want to quit, then nothing is going to work.
These various quit smoking strategies don’t actually force you to want to quit. It would be great if they did but that is not how it works. They do not make you want to quit, you have to generate that desire on your own. You can get that desire through raising your self esteem and through living healthier in other ways. For example, if you shift your priorities in other areas of your life and start eating healthier and exercising more frequently, then there will be a natural tendency for the rest of your overall health to want to follow along with this. It is all part of raising your self esteem and feeling good about yourself and treating yourself right. If you do not care about your self and about your body then it is easy to continue smoking. But if you are working out every day and eating healthy and working hard on your personal growth in other areas, then it makes less and less sense to continue to punish your body with smoking.
So the obvious solution is to seek holistic growth. Start focusing on building healthy habits and healthy self esteem in every way possible. Push yourself to do this and to grow and then when you have established these new habits and you think you have the desire to quit smoking, go get hypnotized. It is fairly cheap and you probably only need one session. Do this and you will be pleased with the results.
