Smoking is a bad habit and an unhealthy lifestyle choice that many people still make. A lot of smokers want to butt out, but find the prospect of quitting to be an insurmountable task.

It doesn’t necessarily have to be so, says Irina Benoit, certified hypnotherapist and owner of Lasting Change Hypnosis.

Benoit uses hypnosis on her clients to promote positive change in their lives and claims that many people use it because it is safe, simple and effective.

“You can quit smoking with hypnosis with no cravings at all,” claims Benoit, “and in fact, 90 per cent of my clients I treat to stop smoking quit smoking with no side effects, no cravings and no withdrawals at all.”

How does it work?

Hypnosis works to re-train your mind out of the bad habits and replace them with positive, healthy choices instead. This is why hypnosis also works for losing weight and overcoming fears and phobias.

Relaxation: Hypnosis is a process of creating a deep state of relaxation. Though not quite asleep, the client enters into a trance state that feels like a day dream. While under hypnosis, clients are alert, relaxed and in control all the time.

Suggestion: Because the client is so relaxed, the hypnotherapist is able to bypass the critical mind and deliver suggestions directly to the subconscious mind, which accepts the suggestions as fact and the behavior, therefore, changes accordingly. A hypnotherapist cannot alter your mind unknowingly, you must agree with it. In fact, the more in desire you are to make the change, the more beneficial the hypnotherapists’ suggestions will be.

Mindset: Clients must have the right mindset when undergoing hypnosis and must really have the desire to quit smoking, because hypnosis addresses the underlying behaviours, beliefs and feelings that are deeply rooted in the subconscious mind. Once changed, the client is free from those unhealthy, unwanted behaviours for life.

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