Unique Stop Smoking Hypnosis Program




Hypnosis by Cindy
509.438.1867
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THIS IS A MUST READ FOR ALL SMOKERS INTERESTED IN QUITTING.

Cigarette smoking is a drug addiction to nicotine.  The psychological brainwashing is the BIG monster to overcome in quitting smoking.  The withdrawals of nicotine are actually pretty mild if you don't mope about it. Read the article to reveal those things you tell yourself that have kept you smoking.  You know what the truths are.  With hypnosis you and I work together in a unique hypnotic way to stop any inner conflict that is going on. So all parts of you is reaching for the same goal-to be a non-smoker for life. The main issue is to don't mope about the past, but only look forward to your new positive life ahead. (Commitment creates success. Moping creates difficulties.)

NOTE: Read below and then contact us when you are ready to smoke your last cigarette. We can get you in within a few days (office in Richland, WA). Typical cost is $299. Usually takes 2-3 sessions, or until solid transition to being a non-smoker is obtained.

NICOTINE ADDICTION
The nicotine in cigarettes is an addictive drug.  Smoking cigarettes is voluntarily taking that addictive drug into the body. In fact, nicotine is the most addictive drug known to mankind.  It can take just one cigarette to get hooked on them.  And one drag off a cigarette is enough for a former smoker to get hooked again. 

Every drag of a cigarette takes only 7 seconds for the nicotine to go from your lungs and to reach your brain.  With the very first cigarette, the body and mind cry out, “GET THIS STUFF OUT OF ME” by coughing, tasting horrible, and feeling awful.  The body knows the stuff in cigarettes is poison.  And no animal on earth would voluntarily eat poison—except humans. 

Nicotine is very quick to enter and also quick to leave the body.  After the smoker puts out the cigarette, the nicotine begins to leave the body.  In about 45 minutes the body goes into nicotine withdrawals.  Withdrawals are actually mild, the emptiness, restless, something isn’t quite right, something is missing feelings.  If prolonged, the smoker feels agitated, anxious, insecure, irritable due to the nicotine leaving the body.  The smoker quickly learns to light up, and in 7 seconds nicotine is in the brain again, and all these symptoms magically disappear.  Remember, the nicotine brought these symptoms on in the first place. 

Smoking is like wearing shoes that hurt your feet.  Once you sit down, take a break, and take your shoes off, you feel the relief. Then you put the shoes back on and then you can’t wait until you can sit down again and take the shoes off.  It is the shoes that caused the pain in the first place.

Nicotine addiction is very sneaky.  This addiction becomes stronger and stronger.  Before you know it, a little nicotine monster (LM) takes up residence inside of you and his appetite grows.  He wants more and more.  The LM now has control over the smoker’s behavior. 

The smoker is like the heroin addict.

A heroin addict’s cycle: The addict shoots up and as the heroin leaves the body, the body goes through withdrawal symptoms-and gets stronger if prolonged.  To relieve the withdrawal symptoms, the addict must shoot up again.  It’s the only way to have peace within.  The heroin addict thinks the heroin is providing peace within.  But forgets that the heroin is what caused the lack of peace to begin with.

A smoker’s cycle: A smoker smokes and puts out the cigarette.  As the nicotine begins to leave the body, the withdrawal symptoms come on--and gets stronger if prolonged.  The smoker smokes again to make withdrawals go away.  The smoker is at peace again while smoking.  The smoker thinks the cigarettes are providing peace within.  But forgets that the cigarette is what caused the lack of peace to begin with.

Being out of control in any area of life is perceived as a weakness, so the smoker justifies his smoking, trying to project the illusion that he is still in control and all cigarette smoking is voluntary.  He buries his head in the sand to the real truth and the real reason he smokes—the LM now is in control.

For hundreds of years, tobacco companies have spent millions of dollars to present false benefits of smoking and reinforce those ideas (aka., brainwashing, Big Monster, BM)—just to make money.  And since the addicted smoker doesn’t want to admit s/he is weak and something has control over him/her, s/he easily adopts the brainwashing. 

  Some of the brainwashing is:

MYTH: Smokers receive pleasure from smoking. Cigarettes are a special, precious thing and we are incomplete (the dying soldier is given a cigarette; death by firing squad offers the victim a cigarette).  The message is, “Let the victim have one last pleasure.”          

·         Ask yourself,  Do I REALLY enjoy it?  What does smoking do for me? Do I really need to pay big bucks to stick things in my mouth and suffocate?

·         Smokers smoke not because they enjoy it, but because they are drug addicts who need their fix and MUST get their drug, nicotine.

·         What does cigarettes give you to make you give up freedom, and be treated like a second class citizen?

·         Are non-smokers miserable and smokers happy?

·         Smokers don’t enjoy smoking, they get miserable and anxious when they can’t smoke.

·         The only enjoyment a smoker gets is temporary relief from the discomfort of the last cigarette. Smokers really seek peace, confidence that they had before they started smoking.  It’s like wearing shoes that hurt your feet.  Once you take a break and take your shoes off, you feel the relief. Then you put the shoes back on and then you need to take that break to get them off again.  It is the shoes that caused the pain in the first place.

·         Truth is smoking causes nervousness, stressed, far less relaxed than non-smokers. Obvious to eye.

·         Would you encourage your children to smoke?

·         If you had to do it over again, would you have started?

·         Smoking causes nervousness

·         Smoking for relaxation is like drinking bourbon to get sober

·         Panic if getting low on cigarettes

Smoking provides stress relief, relaxing. Powerful people need this stress reliever crutch.           

·         Smokers have less stress than non-smokers? Then for surgeons, pilots, high stress occupations, it would be mandatory to smoke.

·         If so, smokers would be more engaged, energetic, better able to concentrate, less stressed than non-smokers. Even smokers know this is not true.

·         Children cope with horrendous situations without cigarettes.

·         Puberty causes most stress, yet we manage okay without cigarettes

·         Smokers are in a permanent state of stress

·         Smoking ads CAUSE stress and keeps smoking.

·         Stressful situations motivate us to quit, but also stresses us to want to smoke.  When stop, more stress comes in form of withdrawal.

·         We can’t believe smokers would spend huge amounts of money and horrendous health risks to do something that gives them nothing.

Smoking helps concentration.

·         Smoking causes a distraction, not focus.

·         Smoking is like wandering into a maze. Minds become misted up, clouded, spending the rest of your smoking life trying to find the way out.

Smoking gives a person confidence, courage.

·         Cigarette attacks nervous system, robbing confidence.

There is a void within without cigarettes.

·         Cigarettes created the void in the first place.  Non-smokers don’t have a void.

Smoking is cool.  Smoking is rebellious. 

·         Not plausible unless you are age 12-13.  Soon, smokers wish they had never started.

Smoking is normal, desirable, and even glamorous. (Social habit)

·         Cigarettes destroy social situations.

·         Sentence to bad breath and smelly body/clothes, yellow teeth and fingers.

·         This social habit now is shame and embarrassment.

·         Have to excuse self, stand in cold, use breath spray to mask, wondering if you are insulting others with smell.

·         Smoking causes impotence.

 

GAINS to STOP SMOKING

·         Life is more enjoyable

·         Once feeling of being deprived is eradicated, you can reconsider your health, your money, etc.

·         Enjoy life free from smoking slavery.

·         Return of confidence/courage.

·         Freedom from slavery of drug addiction.

·         Not going through life knowing you are despised by others, despising yourself.

·         Healthier, wealthier, happier, enjoy life more..

·         If you truly weigh the pros and cons, your result will be to stop smoking, every time.

·         Incredible joy of energy and confidence.  Black cloud lifts. Freedom.

·         Quitting is the most enjoyable experience of your life.

·         Know withdrawals are the little monster dying off. “Isn’t it great that I’m breaking free, looking forward to a full life of freedom”.

 

Below are some fears and the truths behind them:

Fear of deprivation, a void

·         From, what? Deprived of something that is killing you, making you die a slow death, poisoning you? 

·         Non-smokers never experience a void, or deprivation.  They are thrilled to not have the addiction.

Fear you will have to sacrifice

·         What will you be sacrificing?  The pleasure that isn’t even real (the relief from which smoking causes?) and you counting the moments until you can smoke again?

Fear of failure

·         Peer pressure by smokers trying to sabotage your success because they envy you.

·         We all have bad days. As a non-smoker you have raised the bar. Even though you have bad days, a bad day as a non-smoker is better than a good day as a smoker. Even with bad days, it no longer has those added worries, added stress that you did as a smoker. Celebrate that.

Fear of withdrawals, panic

·         Mild withdrawals. No physical pain.

·         Panic if getting low on cigarettes—Non smokers don’t experience this panic.

·         Withdrawal symptoms are a sign of death of a terrible enemy who has enslaved you (the LM), stole your health, your money, your self-respect, your courage, your confidence, and is trying to kill you.

·         Cravings are a slight feeling of empty. When you take a cigarette the empty feeling goes away. But then the LM wants more and you feel pangs again. You take a cigarette and you get relief. But the little monster wants to be fed again in a short while.

·         Instead of being fearful of pangs, know it the little monster dying off. “Isn’t it great that I’m breaking free, looking forward to a full life of freedom”.

Fear I won’t have fun anymore, won’t relax if I quit smoking.
(See MYTH: Smokers receive pleasure from smoking, above)

     

Fear I can’t stop this habit.

·         We change habits everyday.  Haven’t you ever took a different driving route to a familiar place?  Did you create a craving for the old route?

·         Why is it difficult to break a habit that tastes awful, kills us, costs a fortune, is filthy and disgusting?

·         It’s an addiction. You have ultimate control over your behavior.  You CAN stop this habit, and it can be very easy.  Like taking a new route to work.

 

What a Winter Ride it's been!

This winter has been a series of blocked doors, changes, forced detours, and all those good things only life can offer!  After giving it all up, it was a blessing to be finished with all the trying, failing, let downs--to be free of beating my head against the wall.  I am learning and changing my life to do what feels right in the moment. As suggested by my mentor, Bashar (www.bashar.org) to live in the moment, choosing in each moment my highest excitement; that is, knowing which action feels best inside and chosing/acting on it. 

Funny thing is that I recently had a hypnosis referral from a client and decided to help this lady with anxiety. I structured business differently, as I was NOT going to go back to the old ways.  In fact, I refused to take any money for the sessions. Instead I took a commitment from her to continue with free sessions until we got success. It worked! I finally had time to experiment with what techniques were the best to use without guilt of taking money if miracles didn’t happen in one sole session. Since then, I’ve had several referrals and this new way of business and new successes are coming along nicely.

I am happier now, but then Spring is here and warmer weather brings that out in most of us. For example, I got a cheap vintage bicycle and take 20-30 minute rides at lunchtime. On weekends, I pull a dog trailer behind the bike with Parry, the puppy, inside and Tai Chi, the energetic dog running alongside. It a fantastic ride! Life is good, one moment at a time!