Quit Smoking - Success Can Be Yours Only If...

One of the most important resources that anyone has when making a healthy change to their life, is their decision to do something different. This is never truer when successfully stopping smoking

Trying to quit smoking for the wrong reasons is more likely to fail than succeed. A typical wrong reason might be the reason of convenience. Essentially this is when you decide to stop smoking, not because you are necessarily ready or committed to stopping, it is just that a convenient situation has occurred for you.

For example, a husband or wife, or friend or partner, who is also a smoker makes the suggestion that it would be a good idea to stop together. On the face of it this seems to be a great idea because you can support each other in remaining stopped. There is the added sense of doing something together which you might call camaraderie or team spirit. In other words, the sense of not being alone in doing this.

Yet in reality, whilst both participants know they ought to stop smoking at some point in time, usually on this occasion it usually means that one person is really ready to stop but the other is going along with it because it is convenient. The other person has got caught up in this being a good idea without giving it too much thought.

Now what is likely to occur is that the person who hasn't really made up their mind to stop, will at some point try and persuade or cajole the other into just having that one. If they succeed in persuading the other to smoke, they will both fail. This is like colluding, just as like the way they probably colluded to smoke the very first time when they were young. In fact you smoked because your peers did it and you wanted to be part of that crowd and accepted. So this collusion is an example of the same sort of influence happening again.

It is essential therefore to quit smoking for your own reasons and not to do it out of convenience. This convenience aspect will often come into the equation when someone decides to stop smoking with the help of a hypnotherapist. For example, the wife has decided to stop smoking with hypnotherapy. The wife, although motivated to stop smoking now, will not have had hypnotherapy before and may have some anxiety about it. A way of overcoming that anxiety is to encourage the husband to quit with the aid of hypnosis too. Here again one person is persuading the other to quit when they haven't really reached their time and decision to quit.

Any professional hypnotherapist will be keen to maintain a good reputation of success. In doing so the hypnotherapist needs to ensure that both husband and wife really do want to stop now. This being the case, then doing it together can be a real asset as the sense of doing it with others can strengthen their resolve to stick to their decision.

As an experienced hypnotherapist I emphasise to people who come along in pairs for quit smoking hypnotherapy sessions, whether mates, husband and wife, or partners, that they should be there for each other and to stick to their decision to quit smoking for good and not to collude together to smoke.

Steven A. Harold
Stop Smoking London Hypnotherapist
Quit Smoking Hypnosis London