A good description of clinical hypnosis for anybody who’s ever wondered what it’s about. Hypnosis can be helpful to some people for a number of mental health and medical conditions.
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I cannot figure any way in which hypnosis would actually work. Whenver I hear about it, it just sounds like magic.
Helping someone quit smoking? Why would telling someone they don’t want to smoke actually make their cravings cease? They need the nicotine because of the down-regulation of receptors in the body. What would telling someone they don’t want to smoke help with at all?
Hi The best way to help them quit smoking is by good counselling sessions, and helping patients to join a health community club
I suggest you talk to an experienced, well trained Clinical Hypnotherapist. In providing a therapy for a smoker who wants to change not only do you push the fact that they are becoming a “non smoker” you shape the suggestions to take the cravings / habit into consideration. I’ve assisted people to become non smokers using whatever I can find out about them (a new baby in the house hold, sports aims etc etc). It doesn’t work for everyone as not everyone who turns up at my door wants to stop – in conversation they may say the want to stop but obviously if the enjoyment factor is too high then your flogging a loosing horse (in much the same way I have seen people using nicotine patches continue to smoke). As for counselling – yes that works but Clinical Hypnotherapy, in dealing with the subconscious mind where habit is stored and reinforced cuts to the chase pretty quickly.
Many people underestimate the power of the mind. It’s not telling someone they do not want to smoke that will change anything… it’s about helping someone to believe they no longer want to smoke.