Using Hypnosis To Quit Smoking
The Australian Hypnotherapists’ Association (AHA) has received approval for
listing on the Quitline database to assist people through the use of hypnosis to
help stop their addiction to smoking. For information of a Hypnotherapist in
your area that may be able to assist you to stop smoking, call the Free Advisory
Line 1800 067 557.
For more information use the links below:
- Quitline 13 1848 Quitline is completely confidential. Anyone who is
experiencing a smoking addiction problem, or who knows of someone who needs
to quit smoking can ring Quitline.
- Cancer Council 13 1129
- A Hypnotherapist 1800 067 557
The "Hyp-No-Smoke" release program
“The intention of this
smoking release program is to
get to a state where it won’t occur to you to smoke.”
A recent UK study indicated that most people, who smoke cigarettes, wish to quit
the habit. This has resulted in the Australian government sponsoring
advertisements to encourage people to stop smoking and reduce their chances of
getting lung cancer.
But did you know, that smoking affects much more than just your lungs? A good
site for you to have a look at to gain further information on this is
 The University of Sydney Tobacco
Control Supersite
Can I stop Smoking?
However with the increasing number of people wanting to
quit smoking there is now also an increasing number of ways
being offered to help them to achieve this. These include Nicotine Replacement,
Acupuncture, and even Group Therapy, just to mention a few. All in all there
are many different ways, both using conventional medicine and complementary
therapy to help people to quit the smoking habit. One of the most successful of
these is hypnotherapy.
Hypnotherapy is different. Nicotine addiction is not the main problem in
stopping smoking. Nicotine can be out of your system in as little as three to
four days, whilst other chemicals (about 4,000 in all) may take another four or
five days. With this in mind, one might ask why it is that people can give up
smoking for one, two or maybe three months and then drift back to cigarettes.
The reason is simply that they have never overcome the Psychological habit of
being a smoker. The habit is lodged in the subconscious mind so that there is a
constant desire for a cigarette. It is the nagging desire that this habit
creates which will gradually wear the ex-smoker down, until in a moment of
stress or weakness they give in and light that first cigarette.
Hypnosis helps…
Hypnotherapy is designed to overcome the Psychological
addiction. Hypnosis allows the habit of being a smoker to be replaced with the
habit of being a non-smoker. Hypnosis will strengthen the desire and motivation
of the person to stop smoking in exactly the same way that Hypnosis is used by
sportspeople to increase their motivation and performance.
Why not take advantage of this to give up your Smoking habit now? Once you have
made the decision, you will have already gone through the hardest part of
quitting. Hypnotherapy is one of the most successful and easiest ways to give up
the smoking habit.
IT DOES NOT MATTER – How heavily you smoke… how long you have smoked… or how
often you have unsuccessfully tried to stop.
IT DOES MATTER – That you have a strong desire to break the habit… that it must
be your own decision to stop smoking.
Members of The Australian Hypnotherapists’ Association have been helping people
to stop smoking for over 57 years. If you are serious about quitting, you can
safely use this proven method.
Please contact the AHA FREE ADVISORY LINE 1800 067 557 to arrange an
appointment with your nearest practitioner, and see how Hypnotherapy can work
for you.
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New Scientist
In 1992 New
Scientist Magazine published the results of an extensive clinical study on the
most effective smoking cessation methods. Frank Schmidt and research student
Chockalingam Viswesvaran of the University of Iowa carried out a meta-analysis,
statistically combining the results of more than 600 studies covering almost
72,000 people from America, Scandinavia and elsewhere ...
It shows
single session hypnosis increased a smoker's success chance by 1000% from 6% to
60%.
Success rates for different smoking cessation
methods
Proving that hypnosis is the most effective
way of giving up smoking, according to the largest ever scientific comparison of
ways of breaking the habit. Willpower, it turns out, counts for very little.
Source: New
Scientist, October 1992, Vol 136.
Cigarette Smoke and Children
Summary of an article
by Quitline.
A baby living with people who smoke
inside their house and/or car will end up inhaling passive smoke. Inhaling this
passive smoke will be the equivalent to the baby having smoked 80 cigarettes by
the time of her/his first birthday! Children who are exposed to passive smoke
are more likely to develop asthma and have more frequent asthma attacks; have
poorer lung function and slower lung growth; have more ear, nose, throat and
chest infections; and young babies are more at risk of Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome (cot death).
Passive smoke is the smoke breathed out by a
smoker and from the end of a lit cigarette. It may be invisible but it contains
more dangerous chemicals than the smoke inhaled by the smoker. In particular
it affects young children because their lungs are smaller and more delicate.
Passive smoke contains: nicotine (the addictive drug in cigarettes ); tar (which
coats the inside of lungs, making it harder to breathe) and the same gas that
comes from car exhausts (so the heart needs to work harder). Therefore you, as
the parent, needs to realise that the chemicals in passive smoke can make your
child sick.
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