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How To Get Motivated To Break The Smoking Habit Using Hypnosis

By: Alan B. Densky, CH

There are two psychological states that must be satisfied before a smoker will freely quit smoking. These elements are called "Desire," and "Decision."

DESIRE: A want, crave or a wish for

DECISION: Making up of one's mind / a verdict or judgment

In order to kick the smoking habit, you have to DESIRE to kick the addiction. You probably want to kick the smoking habit, at least some part of you does, or you wouldn't be reading this article.

In addition, in order to kick the smoking habit, you have to DECIDE to give up the addiction. Since you haven't stopped smoking, it simply means that you have not DECIDED to kick the smoking habit yet.

So what you need is to feel a strong provocation to make a "DECISION" to kick the smoking habit.

MOTIVATION, we all need it. The source of each of our motivations is a belief. Give it some thought, if you didn't think it was true that you could be injured if you walked in front of moving traffic, then you would not experience motivation to be wary. If you did not believe that the gnawing sensation in your stomach meant that you were hungry, you wouldn't feel motivated to eat.

When it comes to giving up an addiction to smoking, people who have a smoking habit need to feel a lots of motivation to make the DECISION to stop smoking. Motivation is based on the thoughts that we believe. So you will need to DECIDE exactly which ideas would motivate you if you believed them. Because when you feel powerfully motivated, you will kick the smoking habit.

Thanks to NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and hypnosis for motivation, it's much easier to learn how to believe these new ideas than you probably think. However, you do not believe the ideas that will motivate you to kick the smoking habit at this point in time, or you would have already quit smoking.

For the purpose of this discussion, we need to define a few words.

DOUBT: Uncertain/distrustful/dubious - "maybe it's this way, and maybe it is not."

BELIEF: Trust/faith/tenet - A state of mind devoid of all doubt. In other words, belief means, "this is the way that it is."

HIGHLY VALUED CRITERIA: What is most important to you, as an soul.

When you believe that if you continue to smoke cigarettes your highly valued criterion is jeopardized, you will feel the motivation that you need to break your cigaratte smoking addiction. We call this is a negative motivator, because it's a belief that motivates by providing you with bad sensations. Negative motivators are great for getting you to make changes.

When you believe that if you do kick the smoking habit, that which is most important to you will become enhanced, then you will also feel the motivation that you require to kick the smoking habit. This is a positive motivator, because it motivates you by promising good feelings if you kick the smoking habit.

The first chore is for you to DECIDE what the most important aspects of your life are. Your most highly valued criteria are usually things that you cannot see. For example: Money would not be highly valued criteria, but the freedom, fun, or security that money can provide would be highly valued criteria. Write your list of highly valued criteria down on a piece of paper.

Next you need to DECIDE what you will need to believe to feel motivated to give up the cigaratte addiction. Here is the good news, sort of: Logic has nothing to do with belief. Things don't have to be logical for a person to believe them. As a matter of fact, they rarely are. So don't worry about logic!

The format for your negative motivator beliefs will be: "I believe that if I continue to smoke cigarettes, something awful will happen to my most highly valued criteria."

Make sure that you frame your motivators in the positive. In other words, always state what you want or what will happen. You should not state what won't happen. Eliminate the "not" word from the beliefs.

In this example we will say that your children's health is your most highly valued criteria.

WRONG: "I believe that if I continue to smoke, I won't be doing my kid's health any good."

CORRECT: "I believe that if I continue to smoke, my secondhand smoke will ruin my children's health."

Next, create a list of positive motivators. "I believe that if I kick the smoking habit: (something very important will be enhanced)."

WRONG: "I believe that if I stop smoking, I won't give my children cancer."

CORRECT: "I believe that if I kick the smoking habit, my children will be healthier because I'll eliminate their contact with the dangers of my secondhand smoke."

The next step is to change the computer codes in your brain to make yourself actually believe these new ideas. Now for a revelation: Your beliefs have nothing to do with or what is real. Instead, your beliefs have everything to do with what your perception of reality is. In other words, it has a lot to do with the way that you see things.

Our belief systems are based in our subconscious mind. The unconscious is like a computer. Computers don't reason. The input controls the output. To demonstrate, I want you to think of anything that you already believe without the slightest bit of doubt. Make it a belief that makes you feel good.

For instance, it's easy for most people to believe that they love their children. If that is true for you, make a mental image that lets you feel that feeling of love.

I'm going to ask some questions, and there aren't any right or wrong answers.

Is your mental image a moving picture, or a still?
Is it in color, or in black and white?
Is it close or far?
Is it focused or fuzzy?
Is it normally bright, overly bright, or dim?
Is there a border on it?
Is it borderless?
Is it a panorama?

Whatever your answers are, write them down. These are the computer codes that your unconscious uses to indicate your feelings of belief. In this case they are the mental codes for positive belief, because you have chosen a belief that gives you a positive feeling. You have just calibrated your positive belief.

All positive belief pictures are bright and focused. If yours aren't, then you probably don't really have total belief. An element of doubt is probably present. So find another belief from which to calibrate.

If you think of something that you doubt, and you make a mental image of it, one or more of these computer codes will probably be different. Similarly, if you have a belief that gives you a bad feeling, (a negative belief): one or more of those codes or submodalities will be different.

In NLP we call these particular computer codes visual submodalities.

Now you will need to calibrate a negative belief. So repeat the same exact process, but do so using an idea that you already believe, that makes you feel terrible.

Once you've calibrated your positive and negative beliefs, it's a simple matter to control what you believe so you can motivate yourself to DECIDE to stop smoking.

So, to summarize, using the above example: "I believe that if I continue to smoke, my secondhand smoke will make my children sick."

1. Become aware of how motivated you feel to kick the smoking habit.

2. Make a mental image that illustrates the above belief.

3. Adjust the computer codes (visual submodalities) of the mental image to match the codes from your calibrated negative belief image.

4. If you are right handed, move your eyeballs (and your image) up to your left and hold it there for five seconds. If you are left handed, go up to the right. This will make you memorize the belief.

5. Now become aware of how motivated you feel to kick the smoking habit. Do you feel more motivated? Do you feel less motivated? Or are your feelings the same?

By utilizing this method you can make yourself believe almost anything by making an image in your mind that illustrates your new idea and then adjusting your mental image to make it match your calibrated belief images.

And if you have a belief that is holding you back, you can use the same technique to change that belief to doubt by changing one or two of the submodalities and memorizing it that way.

Now that you can motivate yourself to DECIDE to quit, you will kick the smoking habit. A DECISION to quit means: I'm quitting no matter what I have to do. If you are like most people, you won't want it to suffer through withdrawal and you don't have to. Because there are several hypnotic techniques that can greatly reduce, or even completely eliminate the discomforts of withdrawal from the smoking addiction. And you can read about them in my library of unique and original hypnosis articles.

(c) 2007 By Alan B. Densky, CH. This document may be re-printed as long as it is not altered and the author's name and clickable web address are retained.

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Alan B. Densky, CH. offers NLP CD's for breaking the cigarette smoking addiction. He is the inventor/developer of the Neuro-VISION(r) Video quit smoking hypnosis technology. It received a US Patent due to its effectiveness. He can be reached through his Neuro-VISION web site.

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