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“A habit cannot be tossed out the window, it must be coaxed down the stairs —– one step at a time. ” Mark Twain
Face The Facts
After you have answered these questions and have a conscious awareness of your smoking habit, be assured that you can decide to reduce or quit entirely, if you choose to do it. Smoking: It's Just a Habit. Have you ever thought about how many times you have lighted a cigarette? If you're smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, that's 20 times a day. Multiply that by 365 for the number of times a year, and, well, get the idea. The next time you light one, notice when and where do it. Is it upon awakening? Having a cup of coffee? Getting ready for work? After a meal? Riding in your car? You probably have a predicable pattern for your smoking habit. You have repeated these actions so often that they have been accepted by your subconscious as how things are "supposed to be" at those particular moments. When you deviate from your pattern, your subconscious mind senses the differences, and it causes a tension to begin building in your body that you will take notice and "fix" it with a cigarette. If you are like most smokers, the cigarette smoking represents mental or physical break from your daily routine. The "break" has been repeated so many hundreds of times that it has become an important diversion recognized by your subconscious as necessary for your comfort and pleasure.
The Good New
Hypnotherapy creates a new image of you as a nonsmoker and when it is combined with imagination, you create a new reality that is different and better than before, free of past habits. You can step away from the PAST and see yourself in the Present, Future as a non-smoker. Nobody knows you better than yourself. Take charge, reclaim your mind, you can always say NO, but better you can use two significant words: I PREFER. Preferring gives not only choice, but also control and mastery over events. So start stating I prefer not to smoke. Exercising your preferences will make you a more assertive person and more highly regarded by all who come in contact with you. The Common Benefits for smokers who wish to quit:
What about all the damage you've done to your body? More good news. The negative consequences of smoking are halted and even reversed when you stop smoking. In time, even your lungs, regenerate themselves to an appropriate level of health for your age.
Hypnotherapy can be use for many other things, the possibilities are unlimited. |
smoker. You started smoking by choice, and you can quit by choice. 