How to quit smoking in 1 hour? Effective technique

Everyone knows about the dangers of smoking, even modern society tries to protect non-smokers from the effects of tobacco smoke, pushing people with nicotine addiction into separate rooms in cafes, airplane cabins, into specially designated areas or even onto the street.

Millions of people strive to give up their bad habit; they make many attempts to forget about cigarettes, but fail again and again. But there is a solution to the problem. Today, there are many inexpensive and effective methods for treating nicotine addiction. One of them - hypnosis from smoking - is an excellent alternative to drug therapy.

Characteristics of hypnosis

Hypnosis is a specific effect on the human psyche. What does one hour of hypnotherapy do:

eradicates established concepts,
introduces new thoughts,
eliminates doubts - a person receives a direct instruction, and not a thesis for reflection.

All attitudes heard in a trance state are perceived as truth. One or more sessions can change a person’s behavior and influence his habits. Just one hour of hypnosis gives the same effect as several sessions of psychotherapy.

The essence of the technique

In ordinary life, the brain is guided by consciousness, it contains logic. It comprehends everything that happens to a person. Doubts and lack of confidence in oneself and one’s strengths are born in him. The reason for an individual’s incorrect behavior and thinking lies in the subconscious.

This is a kind of repository in which experience, traumatic events and memories are accumulated that prevent you from experiencing it again. The essence of hypnosis is that in a trance a person’s consciousness turns off. The hypnotized person cannot think about what is happening, defend himself or isolate himself from the words of the hypnotist.

The treatment technique (not random or superficial hypnosis) consists of several stages. This is an important condition in which the psyche of a man or woman does not suffer. If a person is not ready for such events, hypnosis will only do harm.

Such therapy is used forcefully or covertly only in cases where the patient cannot take care of himself (his perception of reality is distorted, he does not understand the harm, the reason why he needs to get rid of a bad habit). The more a person is mentally prepared for the procedure, the better its results.

Video hypnosis for smoking

But there is always a more affordable alternative. Smoking cessation educational video programs have become available for sale. The cost of the video version of hypnosis is hundreds of times cheaper. For example, a course from hypnotherapist Susan Hepburn “How to Quit Smoking in an Hour” is offered to buyers for only 99 rubles. There are services where you can download or watch this film for free. One session and, according to the developer, the viewer will feel like a happy person. And the smoker will realize the full extent and benefits of getting rid of a bad habit in the next two weeks.

True, there is no detailed information about Hepburn’s original method on the Internet. The successes of the hypnotherapist are known only from her words: twenty years of practical experience, author of several books on the topics of overcoming drug and alcohol addiction and losing excess weight. That's all. But there is a significant caveat: for the method to work, the patient’s desire is necessary.

Free video hypnosis

Free video hypnosis is more like profanation. With the growth of user interest in this topic, the number of servers where thematic videos are posted is rapidly growing, which anyone can use. An illustrative example:

The video warns viewers about the content of profanity and the use of zombie technologies. There are other “horror stories” in the credits, designed for people with unstable psyches.

There are many skulls - flying and swinging, skeletons in hoods are grinning, a set of incoherent words is heard. And this goes on for almost fifteen minutes. And then, “in black and white,” the author of this masterpiece states that there is no more desire, and the habit of smoking is simply a myth. It’s not even remotely similar to professional hypnosis. The effect, judging by most reviews, is also zero.

“I watched it and... went to smoke”, “Brain blowing”, “The author is a narcissistic genius, the film is completely negative,” - that’s what viewers say about the newly-made “masterpiece”.

A method to combat smoking

Smoking is a bad habit. Psychologists describe it as psychological addiction. A person needs a dose of nicotine because he seeks a monotonous process (creates a ritual) for distraction.

Chemical dependence on nicotine is much less than psychological. For this reason, smoking can be treated effectively and safely using psychotherapy or hypnotherapy. The two methods with different techniques work on the same principle.

During treatment, the person’s brain finds the cause of the addiction and changes its attitude towards it. With the help of hypnotherapy, detailed work is carried out with subconscious attitudes.

For this reason, psychotherapy is used before her session. This is an additional method that guarantees a lasting result of the overall treatment. An integrated approach or treatment only with the help of hypnosis is used according to the indications of the attending physician (he assesses the patient’s condition and his willpower).

Prevalence of the technique

Tobacco does not harm the human body as clearly as narcotic or psychotropic substances. But its impact affects the health and well-being of a man or woman. The more a person smokes, the less control he has over his own life.

Addiction becomes a distraction, a factor that helps relieve stress and reduce nervousness. Over time, tobacco replaces any other safe habit that can reduce stress levels.

Hypnotherapy for combating such a complex addiction is an old method, it appeared 30-40 years ago, but has only gained popularity in recent years. It is actively combined with psychotherapy and drug treatment.

Hypnotherapy is prescribed only in certain cases:

when traditional treatment methods have failed,
if a person is scared, and addiction is accompanied by other mental disorders,
when the patient believes in the power of hypnosis.

An important condition for proper hypnotherapy is a complete examination of the patient. People with serious mental disorders do not undergo such treatment (interfering with the subconscious only causes harm).

Audio hypnosis for smoking

Not long ago, another method of getting rid of nicotine addiction appeared - audio hypnosis. Psychotherapists well-known in Russia and abroad offer their own methods to their patients. The main goal of audio hypnosis is to create a unique audio program that will become an alternative to professional hypnosis sessions and will help those who want to get rid of nicotine addiction.

Victor Guzhagin's method

A psychiatrist, a certified specialist in the field of classical and Ericksonian hypnosis, Guzhagin has been practicing medicine for almost thirty years. His methods for treating nicotine addiction and other pathologies give positive results. True, the duration of the course of treatment is individual for each patient. Unlike many colleagues, psychotherapist Viktor Guzhagin does not promise to get rid of a bad habit in an hour.

His original method of audio hypnosis consists of listening to sessions recorded by a psychotherapist on a topic of interest. The patient must strictly follow all the doctor’s recommendations. The duration of one treatment cycle takes a month. For the first two weeks, patients need to listen to one session at a time, after which they take a seven-day break.

Then repeat the course and again give a week of rest. In the future, listening to the course can be repeated monthly or quarterly - it depends on how quickly the patient wants to get a positive result.

Paul McKenna Method

The method of audio hypnosis by American hypnotherapist Paul McKenna is based on abandoning the idea that the patient and smoking are inextricably linked. The audio suggestion contains several messages that help an experienced smoker give up the bad habit. Paul McKenna practices the method of hypnotic induction, which has become widespread in NLP. The term “hypnotic induction” refers to immersion in a trance and activation of specific areas of the patient’s brain.

In audio hypnosis according to the method of Paul McKenna, the visualization method, breathing techniques that help to achieve the necessary state of relaxation, relaxation based on self-hypnosis, and other effective techniques are actively used.

During the audio session, attitudes about liberation from harmful addiction and its accompanying conditions and circumstances are instilled. There are special exercises designed to consolidate the effect. The author of the technique recommends that patients resort to audio hypnosis sessions daily. The duration of the course is three weeks. But the author does not set any restrictions on the duration of treatment, since the human psyche is individual.

Free audio hypnosis

The popularity of Victor Guzhagin’s original method has become an impetus for unscrupulous Internet users. Services have appeared online that offer free downloads of audio hypnosis sessions. Experts advise refraining from this, because even a child knows where free cheese is. Such sound files are otherwise called audio drugs, because they contain reverse instructions, after listening to which viewers feel an even greater need for a cigarette.

Stages of the session

Deep hypnosis is used for treatment. It helps to completely eradicate the thought that gives rise to the bad habit. The deeper a person gets into addiction, the more it affects his life. Treatment takes place in several stages:

a specialist determines the root cause of addiction,
the patient is preparing for hypnotherapy,
the patient is put into a trance,
the patient being treated is instilled with a certain attitude,
the person is brought out of the trance.

Treatment is not complete without rehabilitation. A person addicted to tobacco learns to overestimate those situations that were acceptable to him as a smoker. Returning to a familiar environment is a big stress: bad habits are resumed if their trigger is activated.

Finding out the cause of nicotine addiction

Hypnotic trance is a state when a person cannot control himself. He feels everything that is happening, but cannot stay awake. This situation is not dangerous. If a doctor uses hypnosis, he carefully turns off consciousness. You cannot trust suggestion to a person without qualifications.

The main weapon of hypnotic trance is installation. To determine it, psychoanalysis is used. To prepare for hypnotherapy, this is the simplest and most accessible method. The patient must understand what situation or series of events led to the development of addiction.

Why do people smoke:

the upbringing was wrong
tobacco is used as a method of calming,
phobias and repressed fears dominate a person,
the role model was chosen incorrectly,
The patient experiences self-doubt.

There can be many reasons for smoking, as they vary from person to person. If the consequences of smoking are not explained to a child from childhood and a healthy lifestyle is not demonstrated by example, growing up, he cannot resist the bad habit, because he does not understand what is harmful about it and what it threatens.

Another common reason why smoking is a constant habit is to seek peace. A person unable to deal with stress simply closes himself off from the problem. He tries to deal with its consequences, but not with its root cause.

Suppressed fears and phobias reduce mental defenses, and for such a person any bad habit is a distraction. Thus, by performing a monotonous action, a man or woman temporarily escapes from reality.

Hypnotic trance helps in cases where, due to lack of self-confidence, the smoker succumbs to the harmful influence of others. By identifying the primary thought that triggers the negative reaction, you can create a precise treatment plan.

A state of trance

The main stage of the procedure is trans. The borderline state between sleep and wakefulness. During hypnosis, a person does not completely switch off from smoking. He feels lethargic and drowsy, but is aware of what is happening to him. Any person is introduced into this state; only the choice of technique depends on resistance.

Tools for putting a person into trance:

simple things that repeat monotonous cyclical actions - a pendulum or a coin that rotates between the hypnotist’s fingers,
tactile contacts - stroking the arm or shoulder,
the voice is monotonous, quiet,
special look.

Hypnosis from smoking does not exclude the use of different techniques. In order for a person to quickly immerse himself in the desired state, a preliminary conversation is held with him. The hypnotist talks about each stage, explains the reactions of the body and mind to commands. It is necessary to eliminate any fear of entering a hypnotic state.

Planted installation

Only correct thinking can save you from smoking. A person who objectively evaluates the action (smoking) and its consequences (diseases) does not hide behind addiction. He is rational, nothing interferes with his judgment. With an addict, everything happens differently.

He distorts reality, interprets it in such a way as to justify the disease. A new correct attitude, planted during hypnosis, allows you to return rational thinking. The first hypnosis sessions are aimed at understanding the reason for smoking.

If it is self-doubt, hypnosis is used to increase self-esteem, incorrect education - the hypnotized person gets the idea that smoking is harmful. Radical attitudes are not used in such cases.

Unlike alcohol or drug addiction, smoking causes harm gradually. For this reason, the addict is gradually removed from the state in which smoking is an acceptable habit. The more natural the attitude seems, the faster it will be perceived by the subconscious.

Is it possible for you to quit smoking under hypnosis?

Any person who is wondering whether hypnosis will help him quit smoking needs to know the main thing - this procedure should be carried out exclusively voluntarily. Only if the person agrees to be hypnotized can the procedure be successful. But this does not give a 100% guarantee, because the method does not “work” in any case.

People who are most easily immersed in a hypnotic state are those who are emotional, subject to strong experiences, and have a mobile and unstable psyche. On the contrary, if you are skeptical, question everything, and know how to remain calm even in extreme situations, then hypnosis is unlikely to help you quit smoking. It simply won't work on you.

It is believed that women are more susceptible to hypnotic influences than men. This could be explained by the greater emotionality of the fair half of humanity, but not all hypnotherapists confirm this. Most experts are confident that there is no difference - both women and men can be hypnotized with equal ease.

Is it possible for you to quit smoking under hypnosis?

Hypnotherapy course

One hypnosis session lasts from half an hour to an hour. The duration of the session depends on the patient’s condition and the attitudes that need to be dictated to the subconscious. The general course of treatment is drawn up based on work with a psychoanalyst.

A medical examination allows you to assess the condition of a smoker. If he suffers from chronic or other diseases, drug therapy is carried out in parallel.

When the session ends, the patient is in a relaxed, lethargic state, so immediately after the procedure he needs rest (half an hour or an hour to regain strength). The patient undergoing therapy should be extremely frank with the attending physician. If the procedure causes him fear or strange thoughts, this is a reason to review the course of treatment.

Who is hypnotherapy indicated for?

Each therapy session is a process of gradual mental recovery. For this reason, people with severe disabilities are at risk. Schizophrenia or obsessive states (suicidal tendencies, split personality) are direct contraindications for the use of therapeutic hypnotherapy. If the patient feels discomfort or cannot overcome fear, other treatment methods are found.

Who benefits from hypnotherapy:

for those who have decided to finally get rid of addiction - determination is an additional force for the work of hypnotherapy,
for heavy smokers - they cannot quit the bad habit on their own,
for weak-willed people - ordinary persuasion and ultimatums do not work on them.

The smoker must independently express a desire to undergo treatment. Half of the treatment depends on his attitude and the speed of rehabilitation depends entirely. Hypnotherapy is needed for people who have difficulty communicating (they cannot ask for help, so their addiction develops faster and has a greater impact on their health).

How smokers recover

Dependent people begin to smoke against the background of one or more stressful situations. Adults, teenagers and children can become addicted to tobacco. Addiction has no clear gender or status division. In modern society, anyone can do this.

Due to the constant environment of problems that the smoker is trying to get rid of, the addiction may return. To quit smoking, the patient needs to recover properly after treatment. To do this, after undergoing hypnotherapy, the patient continues to visit the psychoanalyst’s office. He must figure out how to occupy his free time from smoking.

It is important to find an activity that can calm you down or give you the necessary rest. New hobbies will help you forget a bad habit. If tobacco helped fight stress, relaxation activities are looked for. This is yoga, meditation, running - any useful and distracting activity. They distract and focus the patient’s attention on healthy habits. Support from loved ones during treatment and rehabilitation will help you quit smoking forever.

Advantages and disadvantages of hypnosis

Influencing a person’s subconscious in order to get rid of nicotine addiction, like other methods, has its pros and cons.

Obvious benefits include:

Duration of the effect of the procedure. After several sessions, you can get rid of cigarettes forever;
Replacing negative memories associated with smoking with positive ones;
Even if the patient himself does not know the reasons, the influence of the hypnotist can find them;
This method is safe from both a physical and psychological point of view;

As for the disadvantages of the method, it is the inability to influence everyone with it. Hypnosis does not work for everyone, so it cannot be called a universal cure for smoking. In addition, there are a number of contraindications that are incompatible with the process.

Hypnotherapy for prevention

The main difference between hypnotherapy and psychotherapy is that after hypnosis, no matter how natural the correct attitude may seem, it is not a consequence of introspection.

After a trance, a person understands that his habit is harmful and meaningless, so he gives it up. But over time, the attitude may become distorted - the consciousness ponders what is happening, not finding grounds for the correct thought, and begins to change it.

Psychoanalysis completely eradicates the cause of addiction. After completing the course, the percentage of smokers who returned to the bad habit is 2-3 times less than after hypnotherapy.

How to prevent negative changes:

undergo preventive hypnotherapy courses,
listen to your desires and thoughts,
arrange your life (the more interesting it is, the less temptation there is to return to bad habits),
increase stress resistance (no stress factor, no need to use cigarettes to calm down).

There should be no reproaches or nagging from family and friends. Everything a person does is for his health, and if he loses proper motivation, he needs help, not reprimand.

The effectiveness of the technique

The effectiveness of any technique depends on the qualifications of specialists, the desire of the patient, and initial factors (how a person makes contact, how strong his defense is). The interaction between the doctor and the patient and their open dialogue guarantee a stable result.

Most of the responsibility always lies with the addict. If he doesn't try to help himself, no one else will help him quit smoking. Completing rehabilitation, living a healthy lifestyle and taking care of your own health is the best prevention of addiction and the key to the effectiveness of hypnotherapy.

How to find a hypnotherapist to help you quit smoking?

How can you find out which specialist will do the job well and which one will do it poorly? First of all, you need to study the website of the clinic or private specialist. If a site is filled with dubious information, fantastic promises and, even worse, unrelated advertising, it is better to refuse, no matter how attractive the price.

Next, you need to look for reviews about this specialist. Pay attention to interesting details of sessions and personal impressions of patients, and not to faceless messages like “thank you, you are the best” or “I didn’t like it.” In this case, reviews should be looked for not on the clinic’s website itself, but on a third-party resource. Site owners are always tempted to remove negative reviews of their work. Therefore, objective reviews will most likely be posted on independent sites.

Does hypnosis help you quit smoking or not?

Before answering this question, you need to know a little more about nicotine addiction itself. This is a real drug addiction, which is a mental disorder (like heroin or cocaine). When someone thinks of drugs, they usually only think of the physical aspects, the addictiveness of the body. However, this is far from the main thing. It’s not for nothing that doctors consider any addiction to be a psychological problem.

Over a long period of time, an addicted person develops false beliefs about the drug. They are the ones who force the smoker to take up another cigarette, and another, and another. Even if a person thinks that this is evil and should be abandoned, deep-seated internal attitudes pull him in the other direction.

Thus, the success of treatment depends on whether the person manages to change his attitude towards cigarettes so that he no longer wants to smoke. Is it possible to achieve this effect using hypnosis? We think this is very unlikely. Of course, there are people who come to a hypnotherapist with the right attitude and a conscious desire to quit cigarettes. They may successfully achieve this goal, but this will be more of their own merit than the result of working with a hypnologist.

Research on hypnosis in the treatment of nicotine addiction supports this information. Thus, in 1997, the American Lung Association of Ohio examined 2,810 smokers who underwent group hypnosis. Then, 452 people were randomly selected as a control group. To find out whether hypnosis helps people quit smoking, each of them was asked a question about smoking after 5 and 15 months. It turned out that only 22% did not smoke.

Other studies have attempted to compare the effectiveness of hypnotherapy with psychological treatments. The overall result is not surprising (to us): just as many people succeed in quitting smoking with the help of hypnosis as those who have undergone conventional psychological treatment. In other words, the effectiveness of hypnosis is exactly the same as that of other methods - low.

Don't waste time looking for good hypnotherapists in the hope that after their suggestion you will no longer have the desire to smoke. You can quit smoking easily and quickly not with the help of hypnosis, but thanks to the Allen Carr method, which works with the root cause of addiction - your attitudes. Just one training and you will stop thinking about cigarettes. If you need additional advice, call!

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