Hypnotherapy as a Solution
The time when hypnosis was perceived as a kind of dark magic with watch waving and controlling people’s minds have gone for good. Nowadays hypnosis is a therapy that helps people overcome addiction to tobacco, alcohol, gambling, cocaine, different phobias and many psychological disorders. Notwithstanding the fact that we live in the XXI century stereotypical views on hypnosis still exist.
Most people still think that hypnosis is a state of deep sleep and that the patient is absolutely helpless and cannot control themselves; but can be made to do things by her hypnotherapist. These prejudices are completely outdated. Hypnotherapy is first and foremost a self hypnosis, meaning that the hypnotherapist is there to direct the actions of the patient, but not make them do anything. The patient is at the state of deep relaxation but not asleep, they are fully aware of herself and controls her mind.
Hypnotherapy is a solution for those who want to stop smoking once and for all. Hypnotherapy or NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) decreases craving for smoking, strengthens people’s will and develops disgust towards cigarettes. Acting on the sub consciousness of a person hypnotherapy is the most effective of the stop smoking aids. But to use hypnosis to quit smoking successfully one should be sure that she really wants to quit and be confident that she is able to do it. If the person hesitates this method might not work.
Every hypnotherapist has their own methods of programming people’s minds against smoking. Moreover scientists claim that self-hypnosis is no less effective, if one is positive about quitting smoking. A great number of compact disks, books and materials on NLP and hypnosis are available online and at specialist shops.