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Get Motivated To Break The Smoking Habit Utilizing Hypnosis

Written by Alan B. Densky, CH

Wednesday, 31 October 2007

There are two states of mind that must be satisfied before a smoker will freely stop smoking. These elements are called "Desire," and "Decision."

DESIRE: A want, crave or a wish for

DECISION: Making up of one's mind / a verdict or judgment

In order to quit smoking, one must have a DESIRE to kick the addiction. You probably want to quit smoking, at least some part of you does, or you wouldn't be reading this article.

In addition, in order to quit smoking, a person must DECIDE to give up the smoking addiction. Since you haven't quit smoking, it simply means that you have not DECIDED to quit smoking yet.

So what you need is to feel an incitement to make a "DECISION" to quit smoking.

MOTIVATION, we all want to have it. The source of each of our motivations is what we believe. Give it some thought, if you didn't believe that you would get hurt if you jumped from a tall building, then you would not feel motivated to be careful. If you did not believe that the gnawing feeling in your stomach meant that you were hungry, you wouldn't feel motivated to eat.

When it comes to giving up the cigarette addiction, people who smoke need to feel a tremendous amount of motivation to make the DECISION to break the smoking addiction. Motivation is based on the ideas that we believe. So you will need to figure out which thoughts will motivate you (when you start to believe them). Because when you feel powerfully motivated, you will quit smoking.

Thanks to NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and self-hypnosis for motivation, it's much easier to learn how to believe these new ideas than you probably think. However, you do not believe the ideas that will motivate you to quit smoking at this point in time, or you would have already broken the cigarette addiction.

For the purpose of this discussion, we need to define a few words.

DOUBT: Uncertain/distrustful/dubious - "maybe it's this way, and maybe it is not."

BELIEF: Trust/faith/tenet - A state of mind free of all doubt. In other words, belief means, "this is the way that it is."

HIGHLY VALUED CRITERIA: What is most important to you, as an soul.

When you believe that if you continue to smoke cigarettes your highly valued criterion is jeopardized, you will feel the motivation that you need to stop smoking. We call this a negative motivator, because it's a belief that motivates you by providing you with awful sensations. Negative motivators are great for getting you to make changes.

When you believe that if you do quit smoking, that which is most important to you will become enhanced, then you will also feel the motivation that you require to quit smoking. This is a positive motivator, because it motivates you by promising good feelings if you quit smoking.

The first chore is for you to figure out what the most essential aspects of your life are. Your most highly valued criteria are usually intangibles. For example: Money would not be highly valued criteria, but the freedom, fun, or security that money can provide would be highly valued criteria. Write your list of highly valued criteria down on a piece of paper.

Next you need to DECIDE what you would need to believe to feel motivated to give up cigarettes. Here is the good news, sort of: Logic has nothing to do with belief. Things don't have to be logical for you to believe them. As a matter of fact, they rarely are. So do not worry about logic!

The format for your negative motivator beliefs will be: "I believe that if I continue to smoke cigarettes, something horrible will happen to my most highly valued criteria."

Make sure that you frame your motivators in the positive. In other words, always state what you want or what will happen. Never state what won't happen. Eliminate the "not" word from the beliefs.

In this example we will say that your children's health and welfare are your most highly valued criteria.

WRONG: "I believe that if I continue to smoke, I won't be doing my kid's health any good."

CORRECT: "I believe that if I continue to smoke, my secondhand smoke will give my children cancer."

Next, create a list of positive motivators. "I believe that if I quit smoking: (something very important will be enhanced)."

WRONG: "I believe that if I stop smoking, I won't give my children cancer."

CORRECT: "I believe that if I quit smoking, my children will be safe because I'll eliminate their exposure to the dangers of my secondhand smoke."

The next step is to modify the computer codes in your brain to make yourself actually believe these motivational ideas. Now for a shocker: Belief has nothing to do with reality. Instead, your beliefs have everything to do with what your perception of reality is. In other words, it has a lot to do with the way that you see things.

Our belief systems are based in our subconscious. The subconscious mind is like a computer. Computers do not reason. What goes in controls what comes out. To demonstrate, I want you to think of anything that you already believe without the slightest bit of doubt. So come up with a belief that makes you feel good.

For instance, it's easy for most people to believe that they love their children. If that is true for you, make a mental picture that makes you experience that love.

I'm going to ask some questions, and there aren't any correct or incorrect answers.

Is your mental image a moving picture, or a still?

Is it in color, or in black and white?

Is it close or far?

Is it focused or fuzzy?

Is it normally bright, overly bright, or dim?

Is there a border on it?

Is it borderless?

Is it a panorama?

It does not matter what your answers are write them down on a piece of paper. These are the computer codes that your subconscious uses to make you experience your feelings of belief. In this case they are the computer codes for positive belief, because you have chosen a belief that gives you an excellent feeling. You have just calibrated your positive belief.

All positive belief pictures are bright and focused. If yours aren't, then you probably do not really have total belief. You probably have an element of doubt. So find another belief from which to calibrate.

If you think of something that you doubt, and you make a mental image of it, one or more of these computer codes will probably be different. Similarly, if you have a belief that gives you a negative feeling, (a negative belief): one or more of those codes will be different.

In Neuro-Linguistic Programming we call these particular computer codes visual submodalities.

Now you will need to calibrate a negative belief. So repeat the same exact process, but do so using an idea that you already believe, that makes you feel bad.

Once you have calibrated both your positive and negative beliefs, it's a simple thing to manipulate what you believe so you can motivate yourself to DECIDE to quit.

So, to summarize, using the above example: "I believe that if I continue to smoke, my secondhand smoke will make my children sick."

1. Become aware of how motivated you feel to quit smoking.

2. Make a mental picture that illustrates the above belief.

3. Adjust the computer codes (visual submodalities) of the image so that they match the submodalities from your calibrated negative belief picture.

4. If you are right handed, move your eyeballs (and your mental picture) up to your left and hold it there for five seconds. If you are left handed, go up to the right. This will make you memorize the belief.

5. Now become aware of how well motivated you feel to quit smoking. Do you feel more motivated? Do you feel less motivated? Or are your feelings the same?

Using this procedure you can make yourself believe almost anything by making an image in your mind that illustrates your new idea and then adjusting your mental picture so that it matches your calibrated belief pictures.

And if you have a belief that is holding you back, you can use the same technique to change that belief to doubt by changing one or two of the submodalities and memorizing it that way.

Now that you can motivate yourself to DECIDE to quit, you will quit smoking. A DECISION to quit means: I'm quitting no matter what. If you are similar to most, you won't want quitting to feel painful. The good news is that you won't have to suffer. Because there are several hypnotic techniques that can greatly reduce, or even completely eliminate the discomforts of withdrawal from the smoking addiction. And you can read about them in my hypnosis article library.

I also host a free entertaining video filled with quit smoking tips. It is titled "How To Stop Smoking The Easy Way." It is available both on my site as well as most of the Web 2.0 video sites.

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About The Author:

Alan B. Densky, CH offers stop smoking hypnosis CDs for breaking the tobacco habit. He is the creator of the Neuro-VISION Video stop smoking hypnosis technology, which received a US Patent thanks to its effectiveness. He can be contacted through the Neuro-VISION self-hypnosis site.

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