Smoking Cessation
Hypnotherapy for Smoking Cessation Near Charleston, SC
QUIT FOR GOOD
It’s not easy to stop smoking, especially if it’s something you’ve been doing for years. Your body forms a dependence on the nicotine and other chemicals found in cigarettes, and the withdrawal symptoms can be debilitating. Not only do you have physical symptoms, but mental ones can occur as well.
If you’re ready to quit smoking, hypnotherapy may be the answer you’ve been looking for.
There are many reasons why someone might quit smoking. Maybe their doctor told them they needed to if they wanted to live longer or their daughter told them they couldn’t see their grandkids if they smelled like smoke. While these are great reasons for people to quit smoking, they won’t actually make you quit. You have to want to quit smoking for your own reasons before hypnotherapy can help you.
Hypnosis is a useful tool for smoking cessation because it puts the client into an altered state of awareness and, with the help of the hypnotherapist, allows them to tap into their subconscious, which is where the triggers for wanting a cigarette tend to be held. With this newfound access, the client can then address problems or fears that are keeping them from certain goals. Unlike what movies and TV shows would have you believe, hypnosis can’t make someone do something they don’t want to. On the contrary, it only helps to amplify things they already want to do, which can be immensely helpful in the mental aspect of smoking cessation.
Most smokers don’t want to be smokers.
Usually, it’s a habit they picked up at a young age before they knew the full consequences that it could have. Not only is it bad for your health, being one of the leading causes of lung cancer and other respiratory diseases, but it’s expensive, too! Whether someone they loved was a smoker or they saw it on TV as a way to relieve stress, their mind made a positive association with smoking, so their brain doesn’t want to stop. Hypnotherapy can help reassign these positive associations to a healthier activity in order to help the client quit.
Seeking out help is the first step on your road to recovery.
During your therapy session, you may be asked to visualize some negative outcomes that smoking might have. For example, the smell of the smoke or the way it makes your mouth dry. Your hypnotherapist may also introduce some statements for you to focus on regarding the reasons you should quit smoking, like “Smoking hurts my body, which I should be taking care of.”
If you’re interested in learning more about how you can stop smoking with hypnotherapy, contact Pam Greenberg, C.Ht today! She is a certified hypnotherapy specialist that graduated from The Hypnosis Motivation Institute, the only accredited college of hypnotherapy in the country. Pam specializes in using hypnosis to address a wide variety of issues, including weight loss, chronic pain, and sports performance. Call today to let Pam help you start living a better life! Her office is conveniently located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and she proudly serves the entire Low Country area, including Sullivan’s Island, Isle of Palms, and Charleston, SC.
Pam Greenberg is a certified hypnotherapist and life coach. She specializes in hypnotism for weight loss, smoking cessation, sports performance, immune diseases and cancer, and she is certified in the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Her office is located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (SC), but she also proudly serves the entire Low Country area, including Charleston, Isle of Palms, and Sullivan's Island.