Smoking Cessation
Therapists who provide this service:
Paul Levrant
Stop Smoking Forever
If you are a smoker, ask yourself: How many times have I tried to quit, or quit successfully for weeks or months or even years, only to start again, feeling ashamed, defeated, and fearful of the consequences?
In your conscious mind, you still have all the same reasons why you wanted to quit - to regain health and stamina, to avoid social stigma, to dramatically decrease the risk of catastrophic illness, to set a good example for your children, to save money, to become more physically attractive, and the list goes on - so why don't you?
Lurking deep within your subconscious mind dwells the belief that smoking satisfies one or more important needs you have. Your subconscious mind goes back to smoking because those needs were not being met when you quit. Was it to relax and manage stress, to satisfy a craving for nicotine, to have something to do with your hands, to increase your concentration, to keep the acceptance of your buddies who smoke, or to gain oral pleasure?
When you discover what the reasons are, and use hypnosis to reprogramme your subconscious mind with healthy replacements for the smoking behaviour that satisfy those needs, you can quit once and for all.