In this article I am going to share with you some of the specific ways Hypnotherapy Hertfordshire can help you to stop smoking, for good. With the smoking ban fast approaching in the UK (July 1st 2007), many people are beginning to feel the social pressures to stop smoking. The benefits of stopping smoking are immeasurable. Without question you will be much healthier and perhaps more importantly free from the control you should have felt by being at the mercy of a horrible, smelly and expensive habit. Hypnotherapy Hertfordshire is a hypnotherapy practice based in Aldbury, near Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. At Hypnotherapy Hertfordshire, you are supported to give up smoking with ease and also quickly. What this means is there won't be months of relying on expensive nicotine patches and other replacement therapies, which in my opinion, just keep the physical addiction going, longer then necessary.
When you make the decision to seek support from Hypnotherapy Hertfordshire to help you stop smoking, we take steps to ensure that you are given the best possible chance of quitting. One of the ways in which Hypnotherapy, Hertfordshire, does this is by assessing your motivation to stop. From experience, it is clear to us that you must want to stop smoking now and you must also want to do this for yourself. The therapist will help you identify whether this is the case. Clients who are not considered motivated enough will be advised to come back, when the time is right. That way you are not wasting money and we are not wasting out time!
At Hypnotherapy Hertfordshire, we use various different hypnotherapy techniques to assist our clients so that they are able to stop smoking. The techniques used depend on the unique needs of the client. Some of the techniques include:
Identifying and consolidating your reasons to stop smoking- At Hypnotherapy Hertfordshire, we have many facts and information about the negative effects of smoking on the mind and body. The hypnotherapist spends time with you, supporting you in applying this information to yourself and your life. The result is that perhaps for the first time, you can appreciate that harm from smoking, is not something that happens to other people. At this stage in the session you will begin to will feel the strong desire to move away from smoking forever.
Identifying the benefits and positive rewards of stopping smoking ? its not all doom and gloom! It is also very important to begin focusing on what you will gain by stopping smoking and how your life will improve massively for the better. The therapist will also spend time with you, discussing and exploring the positive impact quitting smoking and remaining a non-smoker will have on your life. You will also be guided to set goals for the future. These will focus on things you wouldn't have been able to do as a non-smoker. You will be amazed at the new options you have for relaxing, becoming more healthy, going to new places and of course spending all that extra money you will save by stopping smoking.
Hypnosis with positive suggestion. Of course, part of your stopping smoking treatment at Hypnotherapy Herts will involve you getting to sit back and relax whilst your unconscious mind does the learning! During this process you will be guided to a deep state of relaxation, whilst the therapist also directs your unconscious mind with suggestions and metaphors to stop smoking. You will also be supported to develop positive coping strategies. Acknowledge that your smoking habit has served a purpose in the past, in that it has likely been a method for coping. Hypnotherapy and NLP techniques (neuro linguistic programming) will enable you to develop positive coping strategies that serve you in the present and future. One of the new positive coping strategies could be learning to use an anchor. If the therapist feels that you would benefit from having an anchor created, this will also be part of the stop smoking treatment session at Hypnotherapy, Hertfordshire. An anchor, is basically a positive resource of emotions that you can fire off, when you need extra emotional strength to cope.
There are also several formal change techniques, which are effective for helping you to stop smoking. The most appropriate technique will depend on your unique problem. At Hypnotherapy, Hertfordshire, these techniques are used if required. Examples include: The Swish Technique which can be used if you wish to replace a highly contextualised problem behaviour with a more positive behaviour. It works to eliminate behaviours that occur in specific situations after specific triggers. 2) Parts Integration is very useful at uncovering the positive intention of your smoking habit and dealing with incongruent behaviour and feelings. 3) Like To Dislike ? This technique is based on information about how we code memories in our brain. We tend to code things we like in a different way to things we don't like. So, its possible to recode your memory of smoking into something that you find disgusting.
Hypnotherapy Hertfordshire provides a free consultation to those who make the decision to use Hypnotherapy Hertfordshire to stop smoking. In addition, free support for the next six months is provided. This means that at any time within six months you should you start smoking again, we will work for free to get you to quit smoking again. Hypnotherapy, Hertfordshire works on the basis that it is possible to have you stop smoking in one session. This is because we deal with all that aspects of your habit in this session, so that you leave a non-smoker and are done with that old habit.
Tobacco or cigarettes are considered as one of the most addictive substances known to man. People only tend to see the bad side of smoking after they get sick. When the right time comes, a person can think of quitting smoking due to factors such as health, family concerns, or financial problems. When trying to quit smoking, people often go for the easy way out which is unfortunately almost always unreliable and ineffective.
Many non-smokers wonder about the power that sways over tobacco and cigarette users. Nicotine is, in fact, a very powerful form of substance. Perhaps, knowing the very real dangers of tobacco or cigarette consumption could motivate smokers to drop their dangerous vice. Nicotine use actually results in pleasurable sensations that are felt in the brain. This explains the supposed calming effects of smoking. But while the nicotine lulls the smoker with those calming sensations, the ingredients of the cigarette are actually weakening many of the body's vital organs including the lungs and the liver. Smoking also pollutes a person's blood.
But all is not lost even for the most addicted smoker. There are actually a number of ways to quit the habit. Smokers can choose to go ?cold turkey? and just suddenly stop smoking. Or they can use a variety of anti-smoking oral medications, patches, and nicotine substitutes. Smokers can also go ?green? by taking all-natural anti-smoking products. One positive side about giving up smoking with the aid of natural products is that you do not have to fear getting any side effects that normally come when one uses chemical-based drugs. From a philosophical standpoint, it can be said that if one has created a disease for himself by living in an unhealthy manner against the laws of nature, one can also find a cure to that disease from nature itself.
To stop smoking naturally is merely not a possibility, but a reality that has helped thousands of people who decided to quit using cigarettes. For example, oats of the common garden variety have been used successfully in helping opium addicts manage symptoms of withdrawal. By applying the same principle, an alcoholic extract in the form of tincture is now being used by patients who experience nicotine withdrawal. Another mixture composed of herbal tinctures from white-horse hound, mullein, green oats, peppermint, and golden seal is placed on the tongue in drops whenever one has the craving for smoking cigarettes, with astonishing results.
Another supportive role could be derived from the alternative healing method called acupuncture. The mixture of the prescribed medicated oil is applied to different acupuncture points. But this practice should only be done by an acupuncture specialist. There are also herbal aromas, herbal cigarettes, herbal liquids, herbal lozenges and many other products that would help one in their effort to stop smoking naturally. But aside from using these natural products, a person who has decided to quit smoking must also muster the most potent source of cure for nicotine addiction, and that is one's own will power.
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Karen Hastings, Hertfordshire has sinced written about articles on various topics from Anger Control, Hypnotherapy and Cure Anxiety. Karen Hastings is an Occupational Therapist, Master NLP practitioner and Hypnotherapist. Karen practices in Aldbury, near Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. Karen also offers home-visits throughout Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Visit http://ww. Karen Hastings, Hertfordshire's top article generates over 8100 views. to your Favourites.
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