One of the most unusual ways to quit smoking is hypnosis. It is a relatively new method and it becomes more and more a trend. Hypnosis promisses to ease the nicotine withdrawal and to make it possible to renounce cigarettes easier. In this article we will discuss the possibilities of hypnosis for a successful smoking cessation.
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Let us first understand what hypnosis really is. It is a situation in which the body is very relaxed, but the brain remains highly concentrated and it is able to collect information. Expressed in simplified terms, it is a situation between sleeping and being awake. It is a voluntary process, noone can be hypnotized non voluntarily and forced to do things he or she does not want to. A hypnosis works by changing parts of our subconsciousness to make us change parts of our daily life so we can do or not do things, we usually would. |
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Okay now what a hypnosis cannot do is, it cannot make you hate cigarettes, just as it cannot make you not feeling hungry, but what it can is, it can help you forget about certain situations in which you would usually smoke. This is not like absorbing the need to smoke from you, but it will help you to forget about certain times, places and people that you would associate with smoking a cigarette.
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Things You Should Know You will find what I’ve told you on many websites, but careful! – It is often websites, who want to convince you to choose a hypnosis therapy, but there’s a few things they don’t tell you, and you should know them before! It is very important that you make understand, that a hypnosis does not grant much higher chances of success. Though it has a strong effect on some people, most of it is only a placebo effect, as it is not possible to influence a person in such an intensive way. This means, that if someone manages to stop smoking with the help of a hypnosis therapy, the same person is most likely able to stop smoking without hypnosis. The other way round, a person who fails without a hypnosis therapy, will likely also fail with hypnosis. |
The only difference between a failure with the help of hypnosis and the one without hypnosis is that someone who fails with hypnosis loses much of his will and his hope, though he shouldn’t. It is dangerous as it can result in an even higher cigarette consumption than before!
Conclusion
Considering hypnosis to quit smoking doesn’t need to be a bad idea at all, but before you make such a descision, you must be aware of the risk that comes together with such a therapy. You will also have to deliberate about wether the placebo effect and the risk is worth trying such a therapy or not. If you are really willing to stop smoking forever, you can most likely also do it without hypnosis.
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