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Hypnosis For Quitting Smoking

Hypnosis is a mental state that allows for an extreme openness to suggestion. What this means is that while in a hypnotic state, you can receive information or suggestions that will have a deep impact on your mind. These suggestions can then focus the mind on a single dominant idea and be powerful enough to get people to do something they wouldn’t normally do.

Hypnosis as a smoking cessation treatment

Since hypnosis can focus the mind on one particular thing or suggestion, many people are trying hypnosis to get them off cigarettes. There are hypnosis options available as self-help and professional hypnotists who can help you to quit smoking through an on-site visit. There are many individuals who have tried numerous times to quit smoking using medications, nicotine replacement therapy, and cold turkey, but hypnosis is finally what works for them. People have also used hypnosis in conjunction with other quit smoking products to help increase their chances of succeeding. Whether you are looking to visit a professional or want to try self hypnosis methods and programs, there are many options available to you.

Some notes about hypnosis:

Hypnosis has been proven scientifically to be highly effective in treating:

The American Psychological Association’s Definition of Hypnosis

Hypnosis typically involves an introduction to the procedure during which the subject is told that suggestions for imaginative experiences will be presented. The hypnotic induction is an extended initial suggestion for using one's imagination, and may contain further elaborations of the introduction. A hypnotic procedure is used to encourage and evaluate responses to suggestions. When using hypnosis, one person (the subject) is guided by another (the hypnotist) to respond to suggestions for changes in subjective experience, alterations in perception, sensation, emotion, thought or behaviour. Persons can also learn self-hypnosis, which is the act of administering hypnotic procedures on one's own. If the subject responds to hypnotic suggestions, it is generally inferred that hypnosis has been induced. Many believe that hypnotic responses and experiences are characteristic of a hypnotic state. While some think that it is not necessary to use the word "hypnosis" as part of the hypnotic induction, others view it as essential. Details of hypnotic procedures and suggestions will differ depending on the goals of the practitioner and the purposes of the clinical or research endeavor. Procedures traditionally involve suggestions to relax, though relaxation is not necessary for hypnosis and a wide variety of suggestions can be used including those to become more alert. Suggestions that permit the extent of hypnosis to be assessed by comparing responses to standardised scales can be used in both clinical and research settings. While the majority of individuals are responsive to at least some suggestions, scores on standardised scales range from high to negligible.