OUR STIRLING HYPNOTHERAPY AFTERCARE

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

The NSCI lie detector test

If you believe you want to be a non-smoker, do this simple test now. Imagine that the government has been secretly researching how to genetically modify tobacco plants so that cigarettes can be made from them that are almost completely safe to smoke.

The new tobacco is about to be launched commercially and the government has announced that it wants everyone to change over to it, so they are not going to tax it, at all, so in the UK twenty cigarettes will cost, say, a pound. What’s more, these new cigarettes will actually smell quite pleasant, so people won’t even mind if you smoke in their homes.

Try to imagine all of this is true. Now, you can smoke with a completely clear conscience, with no health worries, or financial or social issues either. Would you still stop smoking or try them for a while?

If you would still want to stop, then yes, you really do want to stop smoking. If, though, you admit you would try the new cigarettes first before deciding, you don’t really. You just don’t want to pay the price (in the fullest sense) of smoking, which is not the same thing at all. Many patients in our clinics, when we ask them this question, say they would put the programme on hold and try the new cigarettes first.

If this is you it doesn’t mean you don’t want to be a non smoker. It does mean, though, that you need to revisit your reasons for stopping. You want to stop because of the negative issues around smoking, not because you just don’t want to smoke any longer.

Does this mean you’re a hopeless case? Of course not. I could almost say you’re stopping smoking for the wrong reasons (but I wouldn’t, because they’re all good reasons even so), and I want you to learn something from this test, which is that you want to carry on smoking but can’t. With that understanding, you will accept the work you still have to do.