Do you want to give up smoking and start leading a healthier life?
Do you constantly feel the need to smoke, no matter how hard you try to give up?
Are you looking for an alternate approach to stop smoking but don’t know where to start?
You’re not alone if you answered yes to any of these questions. Thousands try to quit smoking every year but fail to succeed. From going cold turkey to trying nicotine replacements, after multiple failed attempts, they begin to feel frustrated and angry. However, e-cigarettes, patches, gums, pills, tablets, and vaping may not always work for everyone because they only help deal with cravings and symptoms and not the psychological reasons for the addiction.
Stopping smoking is not just about quitting nicotine-containing products; it’s about tackling your dependence and addiction to this potent substance. Successfully quitting smoking needs just as much of a mental approach. It’s all about addressing your dependence on the addictive substance that makes your brain constantly think about the next time you’re going to light up.
Hypnotherapy is a powerful tool to help unlearn your nicotine dependence and reprogram your brain to give up smoking. My name is Susannah Saunders, and using hypnosis, I’ll teach you powerful ways to reduce your brain’s dependence on nicotine. My hypnotherapy services involve smoking hypnosis online sessions or in person in my London clinic. I can guide you to a smoke-free future.
In this blog, I talk about the barriers to quitting smoking and how hypnosis can help you overcome these.
Understanding the Barriers to Smoking Cessation
Trying to quit smoking can be difficult, with smokers facing various challenges and struggles when trying to get rid of their nicotine habit once and for all. Let’s explore these barriers in greater detail.
Nicotine Withdrawal
Most smokers struggle with some after-effects of quitting smoking. Nicotine is the potent chemical in tobacco that makes cigarette smoking addictive. As a regular smoker, your body gets used to having nicotine in your system, and once you stop, it takes time to get accustomed to it not being there. The result of this nicotine withdrawal may involve physical, emotional and mental discomfort.
Along with physical symptoms, including increased appetite, you may notice changes in mood, such as feeling restless, jumpy, or irritable and having trouble getting a good night’s rest.
Cravings and Triggers
The things or events that make you want to smoke are known as triggers, and these can vary from person to person. Nicotine cravings refer to the constant desire to smoke. Your state of mind, a social setting or activity, being around smoking paraphernalia or other smokers, and your past smoking habit or routine can all create triggers and cravings.
Emotional triggers stem from feeling stressed, lonely, bored, anxious, excited or happy. Activity triggers are when smoking is associated with a particular activity, like drinking alcohol, finishing a meal, taking work breaks, or after having sex. Feeling the need to smoke in social settings like pubs, concerts, bars, or even seeing someone smoke are examples of social triggers. Withdrawal triggers include smelling cigarette smoke, handling lighters, matches and cigarettes, and craving the taste of a cigarette.
Stress
Associating smoking cigarettes with an emotional event like stress can be challenging to break. Many smokers associate smoking like a coping mechanism that helps them deal with life’s stressful situations. However, smoking only provides temporary relief from stress, and the brain quickly becomes wired to depend on nicotine to feel relaxed. This cause-and-effect cycle is vicious and needs to be broken if you want to return to good health.
Through my anti-smoking hypnosis online and in-person sessions, you’ll learn how to break your dependency on smoking to manage stress.
Weight Gain and Increased Appetite
Nipping smoking in the bud can lead to a slower metabolism and an increased appetite. It’s possible to overeat and pile on some extra pounds, leading to an unmanageable weight. This happens because your taste and smell senses return to normal, making food more enjoyable and increasing your appetite.
Mood and Emotions
Although smokers may think smoking relieves stress, nicotine actually adversely affects the brain, resulting in the increased likelihood of feeling moody, irritable, down, sad, and depressed. Research suggests smokers are at a higher risk of depression than non-smokers.
However, quitting smoking can initially increase the risk of irritability, depression, anxiety and brain fog as the nicotine levels reduce. These symptoms may cause people to relapse.
Slips and Relapses
Quitting smoking for good is not a one-time event; it’s a process. Slips and relapses are a part of that process. One puff or one or two cigarettes after you quit can be taken as a temporary setback. However, it’s important to recover quickly and not go back to smoking regularly.
Quitting smoking is a challenge that needs to be overcome by training your mind. All these barriers can be broken by reprogramming your mind with hypnotherapy. Join me, Susannah Saunders, and give up smoking by hypnosis and embrace a better, healthier life.
How to Stop Smoking With Hypnosis?
Hypnosis is an altered state of awareness in which I interact with your subconsciousness. You’ll be in a more relaxed state than when conscious and more open to suggestions and changes. Research has also suggested that hypnosis induces a higher level of neurological activity in the brain.
My smoking hypnosis online and in-person sessions address the underlying reasons behind your nicotine addiction. I use a blend of clinical hypnotherapy, cognitive hypnotherapy, curative hypnotherapy and NLP techniques in my hypnosis sessions. I programme your subconscious mind to help you quit smoking for good and become a non-smoker.
Learn how to control your triggers and cravings for nicotine and give up smoking with hypnosis. Under my guidance, you can overcome the multiple barriers to quitting smoking and prevent slips and relapses.
Techniques in Using Hypnosis to Quit Smoking
In your first session with me, I’ll learn about your smoking habits, the reason behind your desire to quit smoking and the efforts you’ve put in so far. My objective is to have positive thoughts surface when you feel the uncontrollable urge to smoke. During our sessions, Through my stop smoking hypnosis online and in-person sessions, I use various techniques to deep dive into your subconscious mind and unravel your triggers.
Verbal Cues
In a relaxed and meditative state, I let your mind receive suggestions about the harm smoking has on your body. I suggest how tobacco is poisonous for you and how it affects your health.
Mental Imagery
In a subconscious state, I guide you to visualise the unpleasant outcomes of depending on nicotine. Your mind and body will be able to feel the unpleasantness of cigarette smoke, from the harsh taste in your mouth to the awful smell.
Positive Reinforcement
In my stop smoking hypnosis online and in-person sessions, During my hypnotherapy sessions, I use positive reinforcement to induce a sense of independence from nicotine dependence. Your mind is programmed to accept a future where you’re no longer dependent on nicotine. Through positive reinforcement, you begin to feel optimistic about managing your cravings and living a smoke-free life.
My sessions will help you give up smoking by hypnosis, where a smoke-free life becomes a possibility and no longer a never-ending struggle.
Learn How to Give up Smoking by Hypnosis with Susannah Saunders
Giving up smoking for good is a huge challenge, but once you’re successful, it can do wonders for your well-being. For more than twenty years, I’ve successfully guided many smokers on how to stop smoking through hypnosis. Even if you’re a hardened smoker, I can leverage NLP and various hypnotherapy techniques to help you quit once and for all.
No two people are the same, and neither are their struggles with smoking. Join me as I talk through your concerns and explain how my hypnosis sessions can help. I’m also here to offer complimentary aftercare services in the rare event that you need extra support.
Additionally, you can also reach out to me for help with social anxiety, anger management and insomnia. Learn more about my treatments.
Connect with me to stop smoking by hypnosis in an online or in-person session at your convenience.
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