Stop smoking - the essential resource that any smoker needs to stop smoking permanently
Successfully quitting smoking requires an vital resource to be present first.
The number one asset and resource that anyone has when making a change to their lifestyle, is their decision to do something different. This is never more true than when successfully stopping smoking
Attempting to stop smoking for the wrong reason is virtually always doomed to fail. One of the wrong reasons might be convenience. What I mean by this is that you decide to stop but not because you are necessarily ready or committed to stopping it is just that a convenient situation has occurred for you. Let me explain...
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.
Unfortunately, in reality although 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 or they have 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.
That is why it is vital to stop smoking for your own good reasons and not to do it out of convenience. The convenience aspect will often come into the equation when someone decides to stop smoking with the help of a hypnotherapist. Let us say the wife has decided to do this. But 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 and with a particular method, when they haven't really reached their time and decision to quit.
Any hypnotherapist who naturally wants his or her clients to succeed will need to ensure that both husband and wife really do want to stop and have made up their minds that they want to do it right 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.
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