OUR EXETER HYPNOTHERAPY AFTERCARE

Here’s a snippet from the book. There are lots of pages you can read for free. We suggest you do this before you come to our Exeter acupuncture or hypnosis branch.

….. On the other hand, maybe you did it successfully and you thought, yes, I can do this. Well, great, but don’t get carried away. The object of that exercise was for you to challenge yourself without having to stop smoking yet.

This business of stopping smoking, you know, on the big day, well it’s all terribly stressful, and I don’t know about you but I’m not a great believer in increasing my stress if I don’t have to. So try it a different way.

When you wake up in the morning, you’re a non smoker. You haven’t lit a cigarette, and by definition that makes you a non-smoker. I know what you’re thinking, but stop thinking like that and listen. You’re not a smoker until you light a cigarette.

Now, let’s say you normally get up at 7.30 and light the first one at 8 o’clock. What is it you normally do just before 8? A shower? OK, have a shower the night before, so now you don’t light up after the morning shower because there is no morning shower. Spend that time doing something different. So now you sit down at the kitchen table and you have a cup of coffee. Normally, this would be your second cigarette. Alright, so you light that one. Have you failed?

No, you haven’t failed because you weren’t trying to do anything. No target, no failure. What you have achieved so far is that you waited half an hour before you smoked the first one of the day.