Stopping smoking does being hypnotized work?

toniq

I started at 13, stopped for many years and started up again a year ago.

I have smoking cessation clinic on 7th April, but wandering has anyone had any success with hypnosis to stop?

I do vape quite a bit so imagine it will be easier than the 2 weeks of hell it gave me when I gave up before, just concerned about tearing my hair out.

Any tips welcome

suki1964

Worked for my sister over 20 years ago so it's worth the try

I stopped for 5 years taking Champix

However I did start again

I've just quit again in January with the help of Champix again

I've also started to vape , very low nicotine. I buy a six and a zero and mix. I don't feel I want a cig, I just enjoy the vaping

Hope to be zero nicotine in a few months

toniq

Wow 20 years, that sounds amazing, well done you, how did you cope the first few weeks?

I don't want to snack or get snappy that worries me, but smoking worries me more x

suki1964

toniq wrote: »

Wow 20 years, that sounds amazing, well done you, how did you cope the first few weeks?

I don't want to snack or get snappy that worries me, but smoking worries me more x

Sorry, was my sister who quit with the hypnosis 20 years ago

I quit on the medication champix, first time for 5 years and then lapsed for 2.5 years and just quit again in January

I'm fine, unless I'm in the pub. I don't even think about a smoke until I walk into the pub. That's why I got an ecig.

With the champix you get snappy and irritable when you start to take them but that wears off within a few days. By time your quit date comes around you are so glad to be off the fags, it's easy. The tablets make you feel so ill smoking that you really can't wait to stop

Fingers crossed this is my last time quitting

cashewnut

This isn't a serious or helpful answer but you need to watch the superb film Get Out. It's about stopping smoking with hypnosis

Pop_Up_Pirate

Just use patches.
Don't replace the smoking with vaping as it doesn't help you address the behavioural issues.

Plus new research is showing it's as bad as smoking for health.

Money_maker

toniq wrote: »

I don't want to snack or get snappy that worries me, but smoking worries me more x

This is the mindset which will help you to stop. When you're really worried about what the future may hold as a smoker. The sooner the better as our lungs will never fully recover.


I used Alan Carrs book as a smoker on over 40 a day for over 20 years but you've got to want it. Would never start again. There are sessions you can go to too with a money back guarantee I believe.

A.Penny.Saved

There is different forms of hypnosis using different techniques. It's NOT all the same. There is curative hypnosis which attempts to find the causes and reasons you have for smoking. They will reframe past events so that you no longer have the need to smoke. Often this can be tied to your primary sense to anchor the ideas. There are more simpler forms which give suggestions to prevent you from smoking. For example when you reach for a ciggie a suggestion could cause you to take off all your clothes. If you happen to be in the pub at the time then you ARE in trouble. lmao.

ripplyuk

I had hypnosis. It worked but started to wear off gradually. I stayed off the cigs for 9 months. I guess I could have gone back for more hypnosis but by that stage I had put on so much weight that I was less keen on the whole idea.

Benzie

I stopped with the paul mckenna book/cd it was amazing! Sadly i didnt keep it up and started again about a year later on a drunken night out but eventually packed in 7 years ago, just felt like stopping and i did I think wanting to stop is the only sure fire way to make it last, but i would certainly give hypnosis a try

A.Penny.Saved

The one's that fail are the ones which do not deal with the reason you have for smoking. If that remains unresolved then you will always have a drive to smoke again. That can take a lot of willpower until you have broken the habit and replaced the need by something else.

Paul McKenna is okay but I do not think it would beat the personally focused hypnosis because it cannot be tailored to a person. For example every person has a primary sense and anchoring to that primary sense gives a stronger effect than a more general suggestion. Skillful use of words might enable a skilled hypnotherapist to anchor to the persons primary sense but I have some doubts that it can be done effectively without identifying a persons primary sense and then using that information in a tailored way. In the same way, every person has different internal reasons for smoking and those reasons need to be addressed for the reason to be eliminated and the need to smoke removed. There are also physical reasons for smoking too. Smoking causes a brief rise in blood cortisol which moves the liver energy which has a relaxing effect on the body. There are various methods to get around that with patches and similar things.

BTW I am a none smoker, I have never smoked and never intend taking it up. I have used hypnosis, both self hypnosis and via a hypnotherapist and I have read quite extensively on it and similar therapies.