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Stop Smoking Hypnotherapy and How it Works

Hypnotherapy is to Stop-Smoking as Door is to Frame, as Chair is to Table. Mention hypnotherapy to most people, and they will think of smoking cessation. Mention giving up smoking naturally to most people, and they will think of hypnotherapy.

But what is hypnotherapy?

Well, hypnotherapy is hypnosis plus therapy.

In the hypnosis part, you go into a state of relaxation that varies from a light relaxation to a deeper half-asleep half-awake state of trance. At the end, you awaken fully, feeling relaxed and refreshed.

In the therapy part, various techniques are used to achieve the desired outcome. These days techniques like NLP and EFT are so advanced and so effective, they are often used by hypnotherapists without the hypnosis part!

NLP stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming. It utilises the relationship between how we think, how we communicate, and our feelings and behaviour.

NLP works a bit like this: You may be starting with thinking your glass is half-empty and anesthetising your sense of emptyness with cigarettes. Then you may be coming out of the hypnotherapist's delighted that your glass is half-full and so fulfilled, the desire to smoke has gone.

EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Technique. It uses the principle that the cause of all negative emotions (and therefore behaviour) is a disruption in the body's energy system.

EFT works a bit like this: You may be starting with feeling a bit bad without a cigarette, due to various negative emotions stored in your body as "energy". Then you may be coming out of the hypnotherapist's feeling so peaceful and calm, the desire to smoke has gone.

Most people have the impression that stop smoking hypnotherapy consists of going into the hypnotherapist's, lying down, becoming unconscious, and walking out a totally different person. Popular television and theatre programs, especially in the past, do nothing to dispel this view. Subjects are chosen for the show that look unconscious when they are hypnotised, giving the popular illusion of a state of deep sleep. Also highly suggestible subjects are chosen. Most modern techniques are so good, there is no need for this suggestibility. Certainly only a very small percentage of hypnosis subjects go into a sleep-like trance, maybe 4%!

So when you go to your hypnotherapist to give up smoking, you may be pleasantly surprised to remain awake and become free from cravings. If you have already made an appointment, it is good to print out this article and read it before you attend to allay any fears should this be your first time. And most of all, congratulate yourself for making the decision to be free!

© Suzanne Zacharia 2009. My name is Suzanne Zacharia and I am committed to spreading the word about health options. I believe that the more and better options one has, the more choice there is.

A virus caught along with 5 other students at university at the end of 1986, plus medical negligence, meant that I got smokers lung at a relatively young age. In desperation for help with my symptoms and quality of life, I turned to complementary therapy, and I have outlived one doctor's prognosis by over 12 years now.

I am now a complementary therapist, author and trainer specializing in techniques referred to as "energy psychology". Want to use this article? You can, as long as you credit me with it and invite your readers to get my FREE book "7 Real Truths of Energy Psychology" at http://www.newagetherapies.com

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