OUR CONGLETON HYPNOTHERAPY AFTERCARE

Here is a small taster from the book. If you are going to come to our hypnotherapist in Congleton, it’s a good idea to read the free sample pages first.

….. I’m going to be talking a lot, later, about staying stopped, but the belief in the stress-relieving property of smoking is the single major reason why people start smoking again, often years after they have stopped.

Rationally, they know it’s not true, that it isn’t going to help. but I’ve already said, once a smoker always someone who used to be a smoker. When you start smoking you give away the ability to think rationally about smoking. Ten years after you have stopped, twenty years even, you might come under some terrible stress and someone offers you a cigarette and instead of responding rationally to the idea you just take it. There is almost no way you can stop this happening.

Am I being pessimistic? No, I’m being realistic. The belief in the stress-relieving property of tobacco goes so deep that you will probably never escape it. In fact it is the reason so many people start smoking again not within years but within months.

Does that mean you are doomed to go back to smoking at some time once you have stopped? Yes and no. Wouldn’t you just know there isn’t a simple answer? Anyway, this tutorial isn’t about staying stopped, so lots more about that later. For now I want to make the point as forcefully as I can. Smoking doesn’t relieve stress.