Smoking
The health risks associated with smoking are well-known and widely advertised. The ban on smoking at work and in public places has made it less convenient and less socially acceptable, and of course taxation has made smoking expensive. Many people want to stop smoking, but find it difficult because of social pressures and the effect of the nicotine in the cigarettes.
Hypnosis has been demonstrated to be an effective way to help people change from being "smokers" to being "non-smokers". A single hypnosis session can bring about a profound shift in your attitude to tobacco and set you free from this expensive and damaging habit.
Other Habits
Habits are a normal and useful part of the way human beings operate. We teach ourselves to do certain things automatically. Examples of useful habits are: looking before you cross the road, and brushing your teeth morning and night
However, some habits are less useful, and when they disturb us or other people we may want to stop doing them. And this is where their automatic nature becomes a problem. Stopping a habit such a nail-biting by will-power alone is difficult, because that implies constantly being on your guard. Doing this consciously is difficult, and can be exhausting.
Hypnosis works to change habits in several ways:
- By changing your motivation and removing your desire to perform the habit,
- By reducing your sensitivity to outside events which trigger you to perform the habit, and
- By training your unconscious to recognise and interupt the habitual action before it starts.
Many simple habits can be changed, or removed, in a small number of hypnosis sessions.
