All you need is the genuine desire and commitment to stop smoking. Plus the absolute knowledge that when you stop you can never ever have even a single puff again.

When you stop never doubt that you have stopped. Never hope that you have stopped, know it.

Consider this statement.  "It is difficult to stop smoking"

Now ask yourself.

Does it really seem that way to me?

Have I always believed that or did I come to think that way over time and listening to other smokers?

How would I feel if I discovered that it isn’t true but just an old way of thinking about it?

 

Write your answers down and look at them.  Already you are changing the way you think about stopping smoking.

 

 

If you are reading this then you are probably one of the estimated 80% of smokers who say they want to quit smoking.  You know its unhealthy, you know its bad for your health, you ignore the warnings on the packets, avert your eyes from the pictures of diseased lungs and arteries and take no notice of all the lists of chemicals that are in the cigarettes that you smoke. You are noticing that your breathing seems congested and those colds never seem to go away and you decide to stop smoking again.  You try patches, chewing gum and cold turkey and invariably when you fail you promise yourself that next time you will try harder to give up and it will be easier.  But it isn’t is it?

The truth is that it is very easy to stop smoking with hypnosis but there are things that you need to recognise and accept before you stub out that last cigarette forever and become a permanent stopped smoker

If you recognise why you smoke then it becomes easier to see why you actually don’t need to anymore. Smoking has a 99.9% certainty of affecting your health. There are no positives or benefits to smoking. The only beneficiaries of smoking are the tobacco companies and the government that rakes in more tax from you every time you buy a packet of cigarettes.  

Smoking cigarettes is considered to be a habit. The truth is that it is not a habit. It is an addiction. It is an addiction to nicotine, one of the most toxic, poisonous and addictive substances on the planet. It hooks you so quietly and quickly that while you are still telling yourself that you can stop any time you want, it is too late. You are already addicted.

 

Think about this

NICOTINE IS TOXIC

NICOTINE IS POISONOUS

NICOTINE IS ADDICTIVE

 

AND YOU POISON YOURSELF EVERY DAY

 

Smokers are addicted to nicotine and like all addictions it appears virtually impossible to break the addiction.  The second you finish your cigarette and stub it out the nicotine starts to leave your brain and your brain doesn’t like what is happening. Withdrawal symptoms have now started and your brain is already demanding more nicotine.  Anxiety levels rise and you feel the urge to smoke again. That first puff on the next cigarette lets the brain have its nicotine hit in seconds and you feel the buzz of a brief euphoria. This is caused by sudden increases in levels of dopamine, a feelgood chemical in the brain. You feel yourself relaxing as anxiety levels fall.

This gives rise to the lie that smoking cigarettes relieves stress and helps smokers relax. It is an illusion. Withdrawal has already started for the next hit.

Nicotine is a chemical stimulant so it is impossible to help you relax.  You don’t use stimulants to relax!  If you smoke when you are stressed, you are increasing the stimulant so you will  become more stressed.  All you are doing is temporarily relieving the withdrawal symptoms and as soon as the cigarette is finished the withdrawal starts again. You are caught in a revolving door. The good news is that you can get off.

Another lie is that smoking helps you to concentrate. Again the withdrawal symptoms negatively affect your concentration so it actually has the opposite effect that you have been led to believe.

By now you may be thinking. If this is true then why do I believe the opposite. The answer is brainwashing. Over decades smokers have been led to believe that smoking relieves stress and helps concentration. You hear it mainly from the mouths of smokers, but the advertising that the tobacco companies used to put out still has an effect today. It’s the same as being told it is difficult to stop smoking. It isn’t.  Once you understand the reasons why you smoke, you can overcome the biggest and main reason why you believe it so difficult to stop smoking something that you know will ultimately either kill you or ruin your health. That reason is FEAR.

Smoking cigarettes causes fear, it causes panic attacks and anxiety.  They instill fear in you because you always worry about when you can next have a cigarette and this fear affects concentration. When you are going to a cinema the little voice in your head says “that’s at least two hours without a cigarette” When you ride a train or catch a plane you work out the hours you are going to be without a smoke. You always need to know that your cigarettes are nearby and you can work out quickly when you can have one. Every time you read the health warning or see a picture of diseased lungs on the packet, you experience fear. You may not recognise it as fear, maybe just a bit of stress or anxiety. So you have a cigarette thinking that it will relieve this. Which in turn will cause withdrawal symptoms and increase your stress. And so on and on.

Another lie is when a smoker says “I enjoy smoking. If that’s true then why are so many smokers trying to quit. Also if any smoker could go back in time and stop themselves from trying that first cigarette then they will do it. A smoker who says that they enjoy smoking is simply saying that they are too afraid to stop. They don’t think they can live without cigarettes. In other words FEAR.

After all, what is there to enjoy. When you smoke you can have lung cancer, arterial sclerosis , emphysema, angina , chronic asthma, bronchitis, heart disease, amputations. Bad breath, stained fingers and teeth, lethargy, wheezing and coughing. Is ill health and premature death enjoyable?

Another lie is “I can have a good quality of life by enjoying the bad things in life”  Anyone who thinks being hooked up to an oxygen machine or being pushed around in a wheelchair because your legs have been amputated  is a good quality of life is only lying to themselves.

Think what its like to be a smoker.  Now imagine what it will be like to be a stopped smoker. Thinking of being a stopped smoker just made you feel good. A million times better than being a smoker of poison.

You are not making a sacrifice by stopping smoking. In fact by continuing you may actually sacrifice your own life.

I often have people coming to see me who have emphysema or cancer or an x-ray which has shown a shadow on their lungs!  Why wait until then to stop, why bring it on yourself?

Some smokers think that cigarettes represent a possible risk not a definite one!  It’s a “never happen to me” syndrome!

Virtually everyone who tries to cut down before stopping fails.  This is because you spend your time between cigarettes looking forward to the next one.  If you believe that you are dependent on nicotine, then you will be.  You must remove that thought.

Start saying to yourself now.

 

I AM NOT DEPENDENT ON NICOTINE

And keep saying it to yourself. Get it in to your mind.

People who have never tried cigarettes or those who tried one, choked and never tried again, find it impossible to understand why people smoke and why they find it so hard to stop.

Set a date a week, 2 weeks or a month into the future.  If you are going on holiday in a couple of weeks, then unless you are convinced it wont make any difference then wait until after the holiday and then stop.  Make a date on your calendar and say to yourself every day “This is the day I am going to stop smoking permanently no matter what” – there is nothing pleasurable about smoking. You pay through the nose to smell like an old bonfire and ruin your health.  The only beneficiaries of smoking cigarettes are the cigarette companies, who are only too happy for you to continue smoking and the government who rakes in billions from tobacco sales but isn’t too quick to plough these profits into health services.

If a smoker is pressured to stop by someone else, they are a virtual certainty to fail.  You are always saying to yourself I have got to give this up or this is too expensive or I hate this smoking habit.  Don’t wait for something to happen when you stop.  The world still turns and the benefits from stopping are immediate but you fail if you concentrate on the negatives.  Whenever you fail to stop you always think to yourself that next time it will be easier.

Light up a cigarette, sit down with a pen and paper and as you smoke it make a list of what you really honestly enjoy about smoking.  The true answer is NOTHING!. 

Remember the lies about smoking.

LIE. It is a habit   

TRUTH. It is an addiction

LIE. It relieves stress.

TRUTH. It only relieves the addiction to nicotine temporarily.

The stresses in your life are still there and caused or increased by nicotine withdrawal. NICOTINE IS A STIMULANT.

LIE. Smoking helps me concentrate.

TRUTH. All it does is relieve the withdrawal symptoms and as soon as you stub out the cigarette the withdrawal has started again and this affects your concentration. Your brain is demanding more nicotine. How can you concentrate when your attention is elsewhere.

LIE. Everyone puts on weight when they stop smoking.

TRUTH. If you become overweight when you stop smoking it is simply because you have swapped one habit for another.

Hypnosis can prevent this happening.

LIE. I enjoy smoking

TRUTH. How can anyone enjoy this?  When you smoke you can have lung cancer, arterial sclerosis , emphysema, angina , chronic asthma, bronchitis, heart disease, amputations. Bad breath, stained fingers and teeth, lethargy, wheezing and coughing. Ill Health desease and premature death is not enjoyable.

You only have one body. Don't poison it with cigarettes

 When you are ready to stop smoking permanently call

 

   9405 9661 or 0431 457 011

and make an appointment to become a permanent stopped smoker.


and you will receive

• A stop smoking hypnosis and Complete Mind Therapy session PLUS a free hypnosis "boost" session in the first 3 weeks of stopping smoking in the  unlikely event that you need it
• A stop smoking hypnosis reinforcement CD. This recording is based around your hypnosis session. The Stop Smoking Reinforcement CD has been designed exclusively for clients of All In The Mind Hypnosis and is unavailable anywhere else.
  
• A 12 month guarantee* 
  
• A 12 month CD replacement guarantee
  
• A certificate of the day you became a permanent stopped smoker.

* It is a condition of the guarantee that you listen to the stop smoking CD we supply for thirty days without missing any days. It is an important part of the stop smoking process that you do this.