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How does Hypnotherapy work for Smokers? |
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While we expect the motivated client to be a non-smoker from the first session, occasionally a second one is required. In the second session the suggestions given initially can be reinforced and perhaps even more importantly, if the client has experienced any residual desire to smoke, the therapist can assist the client to try to discover why this might be. Often our behaviour is prompted from within as a result of subconsciously held beliefs and if there is a conflict between the rational conscious mind and the subconscious conditioning the individual can find themselves behaving in a contradictory and sometime self-abusive fashion (smoking being a form of self-abuse). Using hypnoanalysis, the therapist can help to unearth any root causes, analyse and help the client to eliminate the inner conflict. A word of caution however. . . . .
What's the success rate? The generally accepted success rate is that out of 10 motivated people 6 will stop with one session. Out of the remaining 4 - 3 will stop with a second session. The remaining person will be the one who didn't really want to stop in the first place but had been put under pressure by family, friends or perhaps some other reason. We, at Edinburgh Stop Smoking, have found that since we have been treating people as couples (either partners or friends) we very rarely have anyone return for the free second session. Couples encourage and support each other as non-smokers which makes the whole experience successful. |
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