Setting your Goals to Stop Smoking

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Goals

When you have decided to set a goal to stop smoking, one of the first things that experts suggest is that you give some thought to why you want to stop smoking. Not all the conventional reasons why doctors say that people shouldn’t smoke – the reason why you, personally, want to stop. Goals should be very specific and should include when and how you will do something in order for it to be most effective. 

Then you should set a realistic date for when you will stop. Your “quit” date. Some people choose to quit “cold turkey” on that date, some people prefer to cut down on smoking for a while first. You know yourself better than anyone else.

Experts suggest that the “quit date” that is chosen should not be a on a day that is traditionally very stressful for you, such as a holiday.

Many people find that it is helpful to write down the date they will stop, the details of the plans they have made to support themselves as they are quitting, and the reason or reasons why they want to stop and put them in a place where they will be seen often.

There are other actions that people who are now successful non-smokers have said were helpful to them in quitting. These include:

 
  • Getting rid of all cigarettes, ashtrays, lighters, matches, and anything else that is very closely linked to smoking.
  • Getting rid of the lighters in their cars.
  • Having their clothes and homes professionally cleaned after they quit.
  • Not allowing others to smoke in their home.
  • If they have tried to quit before and started again, to make a point to think about those quitting efforts, and what may have contributed to them beginning to smoke again.
  • Making a plan to deal with the “tough times.”
 

 Many people find they can be helped greatly through the use of hypnosis and/or Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) to stop smoking. These extremely powerful techniques can help you set your goals, and/or to understand why you became a smoker in the first place. Having this information has helped many people break addictions - to everything from cocaine to chocolate to nicotine.

In fact, hypnosis has been proven to be among the most powerful techniques known to help people quit smoking. One long-term study of 71 smokers showed that after a two-year follow up, patients that quit with hypnosis were twice as likely to still be smoke-free than those who quit on their own. (Wynd CA. Guided health imagery for smoking cessation and long-term abstinence. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 2005; 37:3, pages 245-250)
 
Even so, nicotine is very addictive and partly because of the repetitive nature of the habit, it can be difficult to break. However, many people are able to stop smoking permanently after just one hypnotherapy session. Many other people need the sessions more frequently for a while. Having an advance plan to deal with the “tough times” as noted above is very important. What will you do instead of smoking when you get upset, after you quit? What will you do if you get angry? How will you deal with the fact that you may gain a bit of weight briefly after you stop smoking? And so forth. Thinking these things through in advance increases the likelihood that you will be successful in quitting.
 
Other things that hypnosis and NLP can be very helpful with - should you need the assistance - is forgiving yourself for having started to smoke in the first place and helping to raise your self-esteem. Both issues can be important emotional components in the profile of someone who will be successful in quitting. Many people also say - and clinical study has shown – that hypnosis and NLP can help people to deal with stress and anxiety. (Melis PM. Rooimans W. Spierings EL. Hoogduin CA. Treatment of chronic tension-type headache {and anxiety} with hypnotherapy: a single-blind time controlled study. Headache 1991; 31(10): 686-9.)
 
Even with the help of all the tools that are at the disposal of the modern nicotine addict, the majority of now ex-smokers would tell you that stopping smoking is stressful. But if you have a good set of realistic goals, and a good set of tools prepared, you can be among the many thousands of people every year who kick the habit – for good.
 

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