Why Electronic Cigarettes Are Just A Way To Fool yourself.
May 22, 2013 by admin
Filed under how to quit smoking
Hi Future Non Smokers
Recently I was walking through a market and I saw a stall holder who was selling electronic cigarettes. It was early in the day and there weren’t many people around as yet. The funny thing was that the stall holder was smoking a real cigarette. I couldn’t help but laugh. I was thinking he obviously didn’t have much faith in his product.
The idea is that by sucking on a fake cigarette your smoking needs will be meet. The sensation of drawing smoke is offered. Nicotine vapours are said to stop the smoking cravings. But other compounds such as anti freeze, and other chemicals found in cigarettes have been found.
Some schools in the USA are banning these electronic smokes as they don’t differentiate real cigarettes from the fake version. The health concerns are now beginning to surface, but the long term effects can’t be gauged as they haven’t been available long enough.
Those smokers who have presented at my clinic to quit smoking who have used the fake cigarette in an effort to quit smoking have all returned to the real thing.
The reason being is that the experience of using the electronic cigarette is close to the real thing, so much so that it keeps the desire alive and eventually most smokers decide that they might as well enjoy the real thing instead of some poor imitation.
Successfully quitting smoking requires that you divorce yourself 100% from any aspect of smoking. As long as you retain a connection to smoking you are just a step away from starting again. And smoking a pretend cigarette is psychologically keeping you connected to your old habit, and bound to lead to a relapse.
Of all the ways to attempt to quit smoking I believe the use of artificial cigarette is the least likely way to have you quit smoking, and the most likely way to lead you back to smoking quickly.
Hypnosis is well known as the most successful way to quit, because it helps you to break your emotional ties, which is the exact opposite way that electronic cigarettes attempt to do.
The only people who may benefit from pretend cigarettes are those who acknowledge that smoking is dangerous, and fear for their health, but don’t really want to quit. So they convince themselves that they are doing something to help themselves.
But at best they are just temporarily avoiding real cigarettes. Rapid Change Hypnosis is a very successful way to finally quit smoking without having to fool yourself.
To quit smoking the fast easy way just leave your details in the box to the right or call 1300 203 422 in Australia.
We can easily help you quit smoking anywhere in the world via Skype. Just leave your details in the box to the right and we can make contact. And free you from smoking ASAP
All the best
Ian Newton
Quitting Smoking On The sunshine Coast Even If you Have No Willpower
May 16, 2013 by admin
Filed under how to quit smoking
Hi Future Non smokers
Millions of smokers have tried to quit by themselves and have failed, some multiple times. Each attempt convinces them further that they have no will power. In fact just the opposite is the reality.
You have used willpower all your life to achieve both the big complex things and the simple day to day more mundane things.
You were able to use your will power for all these things because you had either no subconscious resistance or little resistance, or the payoff was so good that you overcame that resistance and achieved it anyway.
There are several problems with using will power to quit smoking.
- You have most likely heard countless stories from smokers and via the media and the medical world that will power isn’t successful for most smokers.
- Because you failed before you now believe that you don’t have any willpower and you probably even say as much in your conversations with friends, family and doctors.
- Your subconscious is fighting you every inch of the way.
They say it takes 30 days to create a new habit. So just imagine how ingrained the habit of smoking is when perhaps you have smoked for 20 a day for 20 years. That’s 146,000 smokes. Now you can begin to see how powerful you habit is.
And habit is the word. The habit of smoking with a coffee, with driving or on the phone is purely just that a habit. If you had a smoke with just two coffees a day for that 20 years it would be 14,600 cigarettes with a brew. Now that is a habit.
We are not talking about a nicotine addiction we are discussing a very powerful deeply ingrained habit. When you light up when the phone rings you don’t suddenly have a biochemical need for nicotine.
Your desire for a smoke when the phone rings is a conditioned emotional response to repeatedly doing the same thing thousands of times. Just like a cat will come running at the sound of a can opener.
Rapid Change Hypnosis makes it easier for you to quit because it bypasses your conscious resistance. Hypnosis goes directly to the heart of the problem. Straight to your subconscious file that has all the reasons and excuses for smoking deeply lodged in your mind.
Then it will accept suggestion that will automatically break your smoking connections for life.
To quit smoking the fast easy way just leave your details in the box to the right or call 1300 203 422 in Australia.
We can easily help you quit smoking anywhere in the world via Skype. Just leave your details in the box to the right and we can make contact. And free you from smoking ASAP
All the best
Ian Newton
How Sunshine Coast Smokers With Major Stress Issues Can Quit
May 12, 2013 by admin
Filed under how to quit smoking
Hi Future Non Smokers
How Sunshine Coast Smokers With Major Stress Issues Can Quit
We all have stress in our lives, and we find various ways of managing it. But how do you make a major change like quitting cigarettes when you have a strong stress.
To just bite the bullet and quit when severely stressed you will reduce your chances of success, in spite of the best methods used. So the solution is to tackle your issues in the right order. The major stress must be managed or reduced before you tackle smoking.
How you handle your stress is your business but in clinic I find EFT, emotional freedom Technique to be very successful in giving people the power and the capacity to manage their lives. EFT works on the principles of Acupuncture, with two benefits. 1. You don’t need to be stuck with needles and 2. You can use EFT any time you need to.
Once the stress is reduced then you will be able to tackle your smoking addiction. With the help of Rapid Change Hypnosis you will quickly and simply release the hold that nicotine has over your mind and your body.
If you attempt to quit without addressing your stress then if the stress spikes or overwhelms you it’s likely you will return to smoking. I assist clients in this situation in a two step or two consultation process.
- Work directly with them using EFT to start the stress reduction process.
- Teach them to use it for themselves at home.
- Rapid Change Hypnosis to quit smoking.
It’s important to note that major stresses from the past can be managed very successfully with EFT, in a reasonable time frame, but ongoing stresses will need to be managed sometimes on a day to day basis. EFT is still the solution.
All ex smokers face the prospect of some big stress coming along out of the blue and throwing a difficult challenge at them to remain a non smoker. This is a perfect time for EFT, but if you don’t know how to apply it then you must keep your reasons for quitting right in the front of your mind and fight any temptation.
It will pass and if you don’t smoke you will feel good about that decision, and you can get on with your life, but if you do give in and light up, then you simply have another problem in your life you have to deal with.
To quit smoking the fast easy way just leave your details in the box to the right or call 1300 203 422 in Australia.
We can easily help you quit smoking anywhere in the world via Skype. Just leave your details in the box to the right and we can make contact. And free you from smoking ASAP
All the best
Ian Newton
Can You Quit Smoking And Alcohol At The Same Time?
May 8, 2013 by admin
Filed under how to quit smoking
Hi Future Non Smokers
Can You Quit Smoking And Alcohol At The Same Time?
Most people who smoke drink as well. That’s not surprising simply because most people drink to some extent.
But those who drink mostly have a strong connection between smoking and drinking. Many report smoking only a few a day until they start drinking and then they can lash out and have a whole packet.
The problem with alcohol is that once you cross a certain line of consumption your brain literally turns its smart switch of. Then it’s easy for the old habit can easily resurface. The solution when you quit smoking is to have a quit buddy who will help you avoid the smokes.
It can pay to ask your smoking friends for support. If they won’t help you then you might have to avoid drinking with that group for awhile. Most people will help but occasionally someone can see your success as their failure and try and lure you back to smoking. You know your friends, who is likely to do that?
Another group of smokers have a different problem. They start smoking heavily as soon as they start drinking. This means that the quit process must be closely linked to alcohol consumption. The hypnosis process will need to focus heavily on breaking the emotional connections with alcohol.
This can take some serious commitment from a smoker because their social life is so strongly connected with alcohol.
The next group is a person who isn’t a social drinker but prefers to stay at home and drink and smoke. There are issues of boredom loneliness, or stress to be addressed. Smoking fills in gaps in their lives. The gaps will need to be addressed when they quit cigarettes or they will find their way back to smoking if they feel low.
The last group is alcoholics. The strong desire to drink and to meet their emotional needs is often linked to smoking or other drugs. Instant gratification and reward, plus a desire to avoid the emotional pain they are feeling.
If you are this person then hypnosis is important for you to break your emotional connections to cigarettes and alcohol. But this therapy must be supported by specific medical therapy to assist with the alcohol. Rehab, medications, counselling may all be vital in order to achieve complete success.
Rapid Change hypnosis is a valuable tool in assisting any smoker to quit when they have strong social, emotional or addictive connections to alcohol.
To quit smoking the fast easy way just leave your details in the box to the right or call 1300 203 422 in Australia.
We can easily help you quit smoking anywhere in the world via Skype. Just leave your details in the box to the right and we can make contact. And free you from smoking ASAP
All the best
Ian Newton
How Sunshine Coast Smokers Can Quit When They Are Under Stress
April 30, 2013 by admin
Filed under how to quit smoking
Hi Future Non smokers
If you ask any smoker for a main reason that they smoke, the number one reason they give is that they need to smoke to control their stress. Many of these same people will decide that they have had enough of cigarettes or their body is showing signs of illness.
So the catch 22 is that they are stressed and they want to quit but their only stress management technique is to smoke.
So how can you manage to quit while stressed?
- Have a close look at the people you know who are non smokers. How are they surviving? Are they struggling because they don’t smoke, do you feel sorry for them because they don’t have an obvious outlet for their stress.
Or do you notice that they are no worse off than you, in spite of not having nicotine to rely on to manage their lives. Your first step is to realise that non smokers do just fine with cigarettes and maybe you could to.
- Next is to understand that smoking itself places a big physical stress on your body. Every cell, nook and cranny is negatively affected by smoking. This stress only adds to your overall stress levels. So again smoking isn’t helping your stress at all.
- The most important thing to know is that smoking doesn’t actually relieve stress. But you’re probably thinking that when you are stressed you have a smoke and you feel better, so what’s going on?
Here is the sequence of events: You feel stressed, so you decide to smoke, because this is what you have done thousands of times and you have become conditioned to immediately reach for a cigarette.
You light up your smoke and the first thing you do is to take a deep breath. Just the act of deep breathing is enough to make changes in our brain which lower stress.
Quickly the chemicals in your blood stream go to your brain and hit the reward centre which releases feel good chemicals such as dopamine. This is good news so far but…
The next thing that happens in your body is that your brain releases adrenalin. It’s this release that gives smokers a boost with their coffee first thing in the morning. After the adrenalin comes the stress hormone cortisol.
So the trail leads to the release of a stress hormone which makes us feel bad. What starts out as an action to relieve stress is now clearly seen to cause stress.
This is most clearly seen when someone is very stressed and chain smoke. The stressed person should become relaxed if smoking really helps, but the chain smoker will just become more anxious and will literally suck the life out of each subsequent smoke in the hope that it will help. But it doesn’t!
To quit smoking the fast easy way just leave your details in the box to the right or call 1300 203 422 in Australia.
We can easily help you quit smoking anywhere in the world via Skype. Just leave your details in the box to the right and we can make contact. And free you from smoking ASAP
All the best
Ian Newton
Long Term Success For Sunshine Coast x-Smokers
April 26, 2013 by admin
Filed under how to quit smoking
Hi Future Non Smokers
It’s one thing to quit smoking for a week or a month but another to remain a non smoker for the long run. In order to succeed you need to be very clear about your potential challenges.
The most common are.
- Alcohol. This is literally a no-brainer, because drinking can literally turn your brain off. The casualty departments and newspapers are full of people who have done stupid things while under the influence.
Once you drink beyond a certain level it is very hard to make rational decisions. You will need a strategy in place to protect yourself. If you drink at home its easy. Just don’t have any smokes handy. But if your guests smoke then you will need help.
Some of your friends will support your efforts but some will make it difficult for you. Find a friend who will back you up once you have had too much to drink, if you can’t trust yourself.
- 2. Stress.
You may be cruising alone as a non smoker but then something very stressful happens in your life. Somewhere in the deep dark recesses of your mind the thought emerges that smoking will make your stress better.
You will notice two things, firstly the cigarette tastes terrible and secondly your stress is still the same. Smoking never has and never will relieve stress. You will need to find a way to manage your stress in your life. Exercise, relaxation, meditation, going to the beach, etc
It doesn’t matter how you do it, just start doing a few things you enjoy and keep doing them until they are a part of your life. If you don’t you will be tempted to smoke again should you become stressed.
As tip notice the non smokers in your life. What do they do ? how do they handle stress? One thing you know for certain is that they don’t light up a cigarette.
- 3. Curiosity.
The old saying is that curiosity killed the cat. Who knows if that is true, but curiosity about smoking will probably kill you! If you are tempted to have just one smoke to see what will happen, then don’t. There is no such thing as one smoke, it is highly likely that you will become a smoker again.
If you try one to see if you are completely over cigarettes then don’t. You will fail, and you will again be a smoker.
If you have a smoke to prove to others that you are complexly over smokes, then again you will fail.
Don’t be curious, do manage your stress, and be careful around alcohol and you will be fine for the long run.
To quit smoking the fast easy way just leave your details in the box to the right or call 1300 203 422 in Australia.
We can easily help you quit smoking anywhere in the world via Skype. Just leave your details in the box to the right and we can make contact. And free you from smoking ASAP
All the best
Ian Newton
Quitting Smoking On The Sunshine Coast By Clarifying Your Reason
April 22, 2013 by admin
Filed under how to quit smoking
Hi Future Non smokers
Most smokers who want to quit are conflicted by the prospect. They know all the reasons why, but they still feel connected to cigarettes. To help you quit you need to become very clear about two things.
- Why do you smoke? This is not a simple question. What exactly is the feeling you are chasing when you light up? Every human behaviour is governed by a desire to feel a certain way. E.g.
A person can buy a functional car but chooses a luxury model to feel a certainly way.
Someone drinks too much alcohol to avoid certain feelings but to experience others. So what feeling are you chasing with cigarettes. The answer may be obvious or take some soul searching to find. But it is critical that you do find it.
The reason you need to do this is because you will have to find another way to get the feeling you chased from smoking.
If you can’t work out what feeling you are chasing then maybe you can find what feeling you are avoiding!
Boredom? Or Stress ? Can’t concentrate? Feel nervous perhaps. Once you can identify what you don’t want then you can work out how you will want to feel.
If smoking allowed you to relax and take some time out to clear your mind then its critical that you find a new way to achieve this before you quit.
Boredom is not easily solved. Everyone can get bored, not everyone uses smoking to fill gaps in their lives. Smokers and non smokers alike feel bored at times, it’s just life.
- Be clear on the number one, absolute reason for quitting. What do you want for yourself more than anything else. Vague reasons such as health won’t cut it. If it was health related, stating that you want to be 100% healthy when your children have their children is better.
- Vague reasons won’t help you if the going gets tough, if you get tempted or if you become very stressed, but having your reason clearly etched in your mind will.
These two things are important information when using rapid change hypnosis.
Releasing you from your old connections and feelings will set you free from cigarettes and focussing on your core reasons for quitting will further implant the new thoughts you have about yourself. That is that you are a non smoking fresh air breathing person for life.
To quit smoking the fast easy way just leave your details in the box to the right or call 1300 203 422 in Australia.
We can easily help you quit smoking anywhere in the world via Skype. Just leave your details in the box to the right and we can make contact. And free you from smoking ASAP
All the best
Ian Newton
How To quit smoking On The sunshine Coast Without Gaining Weight
April 10, 2013 by admin
Filed under how to quit smoking
Hi Future Non Smokers
How to Quit Smoking And Not Gain Weight
One of the common concern among Sunshine Coast smokers is that they will gain weight when they quit smoking. It’s not just an urban myth that many people do gain a few kilos when they quit cigarettes, it happens very often.
But, it doesn’t have to be the case.
There are two reasons why people gain weight after they quit.
- Many smokers use cigarettes in the mistaken belief that the nicotine is managing their stress and helping them to relax. When quit they simply turn to the next thing to deal with stress. For some it may be exercise but for many people it is food.
It’s not just and food, it is specifically carbohydrates. And it’s not usually quality carbohydrates like vegetables or grains. It’s usually junk carbs.
For the sweet tooth its cakes, biscuits, lollies, chocolates or ice cream. For those who prefer savoury, its chips or burgers or pastries like sausage rolls or pies.
The key to preventing this transfer of stress relief from smoking to food is to create an effective programme as part of the quit smoking session. Everyone needs to manage their stress, but is is even more important for ex smokers in order to prevent them from returning to smoking.
- Tobacco is soaked in a concentration of 18% sugar in order to preserve it. Every time a smoker has a cigarette they receive a sugar hit. This pushes up their blood sugar. When the smoker quits they experience blood sugar problems and even without knowing why they turn to food.
The food usually the same junk carbs mentioned solve their blood sugar problems and so they continue to gain weight. The solution to this problem is to eat like a diabetic. Eat small meals across the day. Or at least prevent hunger by eating apples, between meals.
Apples are perfect because they contain fructose for energy but when combined with the fibre in the peel the energy is delivered slowly over time. Plus apples contain pectin which creates a feeling of fullness.
The good news is that using rapid change hypnosis you can quit successfully, because of the stress management components which are built into the process, and the information you gain about how to manage your life without smoking.
By continuing to use the stress busting techniques you will enjoy a much improved life both physically and mentally, but the first step is to decide to quit.
To quit smoking the fast easy way just leave your details in the box to the right or call 1300 203 422 in Australia.
We can easily help you quit smoking anywhere in the world via Skype. Just leave your details in the box to the right and we can make contact. And free you from smoking ASAP
All the best
Ian Newton
How Many Cigarettes Will You Smoke Before you Quit
March 29, 2013 by admin
Filed under Quit smoking
Hi Future Non Smokers
When you are questioned about your smoking, you may have some idea about how many you smoke and much it costs you per week, but most sunshine Coast smokers either haven’t thought about it or just don’t want to know about the cost numbers and cost.
The average smoker will smoke 20 cigarettes per day for 20 years before quitting. If you are a young person you might be thinking that you won’t smoke for that long, but all the older smokers in my clinic said exactly the same thing.
Most people bite the bullet at about age 40, when they start to notice changes in their bodies and health and no longer feel bullet proof.
So here are some statistics that my surprise you.
Average smoker smokes 20 per day for 20 years.
That’s 146,000 cigarettes at a cost of approximately $109,500. And if you keep smoking or are new to the habit you will spend about $233,600 for the next twenty years.
Most smokers claim that they smoke to relax. So that’s 36,000 smokes to relax. Of course caffeine and the adrenalin from nicotine aren’t the best way to relax!
Having a smoke with a cuppa is also common on average you will have 24,300 cigarettes with coffee or a cup of tea.
Most smokers will have to walk outside of their office or movie, or dinner to stand in the rain or cold or hot sun about 43,800 times you will have to stand outside with the others smokers often gathered around the closest bin.
You will have to leave family moments 29,200 times that’s about 1,460 hours of potential fun times you have missed out on.
An average person will smoke at least 21,900 when they are bored.
Every smoker has a host of connections to smoking and I’m sure you can see that there isn’t any wonder that it’s a powerful habit.
It’s said that it takes about 30 days to make a new positive habit. So it’s easy to see that during your 146,000 cigarettes you have created such a deep habit that it will take some work to break it.
Rapid Change Hypnosis is the perfect way to break those old smoking habits and create new positive habits for yourself.
You will find other ways to relax, and manage boredom. You won’t have to stand in the cold and the rain any more when you friends and family and co workers are inside in comfort.
To quit smoking the fast easy way just leave your details in the box to the right or call 1300 203 422 in Australia.
We can easily help you quit smoking anywhere in the world via Skype. Just leave your details in the box to the right and we can make contact. And free you from smoking ASAP
All the best
Ian Newton
How Sunshine Coast Smokers Can Quit Like A Celebrity
March 25, 2013 by admin
Filed under how to quit smoking
How Sunshine Coat Smokers can quit like a celebrity
Quitting smoking can be a challenge for many people. But sometimes having role models who have gone before us can make it easier. Perhaps Sunshine Coast smokers would like to quit like a celebrity.
What do these celebrities have in common. Ellen DeGeneres, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Drue Barrymore, Billy Joel, Britany Spears, Ashton Kutcher, antony LaPaglia,Mark Knopfler,Ben Afleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Winona Ryder and Charize Theron to name a few.
They have all used hypnosis to quit smoking. These people had the good sense to use a scientifically proven method to quit that is also perfectly safe. No side effects no risk of a heart attack from questionable pharmaceuticals, no poisoning with nicotine.
Hypnosis can be a last resort therapy, but if you read the scientific literature you will find that it is the most successful way to quit cigarettes.
The interesting thing with many of these celebrities is that in spite of huge incomes some of them lead very challenging lives with considerable stress from alcohol, drugs and being in the constant spotlight and under close scrutiny from the media.
Yet in spite of all these pressures they were able to quit smoking using the power of hypnosis. It isn’t a magical power. It’s the power we all have within us to change. All you need is the right assistance to access the inner workings of your mind.
The place where your memories are stored, where your emotions stem from and the place where all real change occurs in our lives.
Hypnosis has long been used to help with addictions, weight loss, pain, sports performance and stress. But stage shows and television have turned hypnosis into something of a side show act in the minds of many people.
Clinical hypnosis is a well respected process where no one is ever programmed to cluck like a chicken.
Hypnosis can only focus on the change that a person wants to make. The main rule is that you can’t make anyone do anything they don’t want to do. It’s because a part of your mind, the conscious part is still active and won’t allow for anything to happen other than what has been agreed to by the client and the therapist.
This fact is very important because it helps to develop trust with the client allowing people to relax and enjoy the process feeling safe that they will quit smoking in a natural and comfortably way.
To quit smoking the fast easy way just leave your details in the box to the right or call 1300 203 422 in Australia.
We can easily help you quit smoking anywhere in the world via Skype. Just leave your details in the box to the right and we can make contact. And free you from smoking ASAP
All the best
Ian Newton
How Sunshine Coast Smokers Can Manage Stress Without Cigarettes
March 21, 2013 by admin
Filed under how to quit smoking
Hi Future Non Smokers
How Sunshine Coast Smokers Can Manage Stress Without Cigarettes
Stress and smoking have gone hand and hand for decades. In the nineteen sixties doctors were still prescribing smoking to help manage the stress of people with a nervous disposition. Solders were given a cigarette ration to help with the stress of combat. So it’s not surprising that many smokers on the Sunshine Coast still use cigarettes to help with their stress.
In fact this is the number one fear amongst smokers when contemplating quitting. It is true that smoking and stress are linked but not in the way you might imagine. Smoking caused stress, it does not relieve it.
It is true that initially you will feel a little calmer, as the dopamine is realised from your brain. But soon after you will experience an adrenal burst. This is why so many smokers like a smoke and a coffee to start the day, they like the adrenal surge.
But soon the adrenals release the stress hormone cortisol. Therefore if you light a smoke to reduce your stress you will only make it worse. Chain smokers during strong stress don’t become more relaxed with each smoke they become more and more anxious. I’m sure you have seen it, or experienced it for yourself.
But you have connected smoking with releasing stress for so long that the belief is strong. Just five cigarettes per day for stress over ten years is 18, 250 cigarettes. That many times is sure to make you believe that smoking relieves stress.
The key is to find real ways to manage stress, not just for those quitting smoking but for anyone.
- Deep breathing.
- Acupressure to anxiety relieving points
- Heart focussed relaxation
- Activities like Qigong, Tai Chi or yoga.
- Relaxation meditation
- Exercise
- Supplement like magnesium, Oats, valerian, lemon balm
- Lavender essential oil on the temples or on your pillow.
- Emotional Freedom Technique.
- Neuro Linguistic Programming.
- Rapid Change Hypnosis
- Reading
- Gardening
- Coffee with friends
- Join a meetup group or interest group
- Make time for yourself away from work and family pressures.
- Have a massage.
- Go to bed at a reasonable hour
As you can see there are plenty of ways to relax. Managing stress isn’t about inhaling 4000 toxic chemicals it’s about firstly deciding to do something about your stress and then taking some action to help yourself
How Sunshine Coast Smokers Can Find New Ways To Relax Without Cigarettes.
March 17, 2013 by admin
Filed under how to quit smoking
Hi Future Non Smokers
How Sunshine Coast Smokers Can Find New Ways To Relax Without Cigarettes.
One thing smokers all over the world agree on including the sunshine coast is that they cigarettes to relax. Basic biochemistry disputes the fact that the adrenalin released by inhaling nicotine does anything but relax.
Yet smokers still connect smoking with relaxing, because they have made many associations with relaxing and smoking, and you subconscious mind has taken this thought on board. Lets say that you have smoked for 20 years.
And just 5 smokes each day were connected to relaxing. That is 55,500 times you have relaxed while having a smoke, no wonder it’s such an entrenched belief that smoking causes relaxation.
That’s the bad news. The good news is that non smokers find ways to relax every without the nicotine adrenalin effect making it hard for them. And just as they relax every day so can you.
When you decide to quit smoking it’s important that you put into place some strategies to give you time to relax. Go for a walk, find a comfy chair and read, surf your favourite sites, stare out the window, have a cold beer, have a coffee or just de-focus your eyes and take a few breaths.
There are hundreds of ways you can relax, and non smokers have known this forever, so not quitting because you need a toxic chemical to help you relax is really a pretty lame excuse.
Is that a bit harsh, well maybe, but I’m here to help you quit smoking not to become your buddy. Chances are your friends have either smoked with you or they have nagged, but few if any will have really helped you.
The point is to start to understand that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that planning your new ways to relax will be an important part of your successful quit smoking programme.
Not enough attention is paid to the benefits of relaxation. Occasionally we go fishing or have a meal with friends, so my challenge for you is to find moments to relax. Go out of your way to find relaxing things to do.
Become a conscious relaxer, and I guarantee that not only will you quit smoker with much greater ease than you ever believed possible, but you will have more energy, you will sleep better, make better decisions and think more clearly than ever before in your life. So why wait to start your new life.
Choosing Rapid Change Hypnosis to help you quit will work perfectly with your new decision to relax.
To quit smoking the fast easy way just leave your details in the box to the right or call 1300 203 422 in Australia.
We can easily help you quit smoking anywhere in the world via Skype. Just leave your details in the box to the right and we can make contact. And free you from smoking ASAP
All the best
Ian Newton
Why Sunshine Coast Smokers Take Up Other Healthy Pursuits When They Quit Smoking
March 13, 2013 by admin
Filed under how to quit smoking
Hi Future Non Smokers
Why Sunshine Coast Smokers Take Up Other Healthy Pursuits When They Quit Smoking
So often when people smoke they want to be healthy but unconsciously they think, why bother exercising while I keep smoking. It’s as if a part of you doesn’t feel like you deserve to be healthier.
So the first step for all Sunshine Coast smokers is to just get started on their new healthy life. It’s a chicken an egg scenario. If you take some action to improve your health, then you will be motivated to then quit smoking.
Once you have quit then you will want to improve all areas of your wellbeing.
The steps to your healthier life are as follow.
- Make a decision, even a small decision to help yourself.
- Take action. e.g. start a walking a few times a week, or increase your fruit and vegetable intake.
- Commit to quitting smoking.
- Use The Rapid change Quit Smoking Method to finally give up cigarettes for life.
- Expand into other healthy areas as you enjoy your new found health. Exercise, diet, supplements, relaxation or seek out medical or Naturopathic assessment.
From step one to step five there will be a massive improvement in your health and wellbeing. But I’m sure you can see that step one is critical, without this simple step, the others just won’t happen.
The question is why do these steps work? Before starting, your subconscious has a big file on smoking and not feeling healthy. It doesn’t see your desires to quit as serious. There is no support for the changes you want to make.
But once you make that decision and start to take action, you literally open another file. This new file will initially be very thin, but as you start to do some healthy things and really build dissatisfaction with smoking the file will become filled with more beliefs to support you quitting.
So that when you do your Rapid change session you already have a part of your subconscious supporting you to quit. You already have a foot in the door. Sure there is a lot more work to be done, but now it will be easy for your subconscious to embrace the transformation to a non smoker.
And soon your subconscious takes on the new message that being a non smoker is the best way and it will embrace this new protective behaviour, making quitting cigarettes much easier for you than you would have believed possible
To quit smoking the fast easy way just leave your details in the box to the right or call 1300 203 422 in Australia.
We can easily help you quit smoking anywhere in the world via Skype. Just leave your details in the box to the right and we can make contact. And free you from smoking ASAP
All the best
Ian Newton
Quit Smoking Sunshine Coast. Many still believe its Harder To Quit Smoking Than Heroin.
March 9, 2013 by admin
Filed under how to quit smoking
Hi Future Non smokers
In most areas of our lives there are urban myths which are believed by many people. Many Sunshine coast smokers believe in the myth that it is harder to quit smoking than it is to quit heroin. In fact very few smokers who have come to my clinic haven’t heard of this myth and many have come to believe it.
If you give it some thought you will realise that typically smokers have some symptoms in common. Feeling stressed or angry, headaches, shakes and concentration problems.
If you compare this to someone quitting hereon. Need a specialist detox centre with trained medical staff, if they can afford it. Bouncing off the walls, nightmares, curled up on the floor in the foetal position with vomiting and diarrhoea.
Have you ever heard of someone committing a robbery to buy smokes. If a thief did steal cigarettes they would most likely sell them, possibly to buy drugs.
Now you tell me which is the worst. There was some research comparing nicotine and hereon. But it was about the time it takes to become re-addicted.
If an ex-smoker and an ex hereon user begin using again, the smoker will become re-addicted faster than the hereon user.
In fact if you have just one cigarette it is most likely that you will become a smoker again within hours. You will be searching for a packet, and within days you will be back to your previous smoking level.
Of course the quitting smoking symptoms listed above do not have to be endured.
- Consider the above logically and realise that believing the story about heroin being easier to quit than cigarettes is just an excuse to keep smoking. After all if you can keep such a myth alive in your life then you will always find a reason to avoid quitting.
- Commit yourself emotionally and mentally 100% to quitting. If you don’t fully commit then you won’t succeed.
- Use Rapid Change Hypnosis to make the change. Easily breaking all the triggers and patterns of your life of smoking.
- Create new routines in your life to relax. You had plenty of rituals for smoking and relaxing, now you need new ways to relax without smoking.
- Embrace stress management methods to keep your stress under control so that you will never want to return to smoking to feel calm.
To quit smoking the fast easy way just leave your details in the box to the right or call 1300 203 422 in Australia.
We can easily help you quit smoking anywhere in the world via Skype. Just leave your details in the box to the right and we can make contact. And free you from smoking ASAP
All the best
Ian Newton
Quit Smoking Sunshine Coast… When You Are Totally Convinced That You Can’t
February 27, 2013 by admin
Filed under how to quit smoking
Hi Future Non Smokers
Quit Smoking Sunshine Coast… When You Are Totally Convinced That You Can’t
Failure at anything in life tends to drive people in opposite directions. Some dig there heels in and refuse to give up and some use the failure to further convince themselves that they will never succeed.
Some Sunshine Coast smokers fall into this second group. Multiple failures only succeed in driving this failure belief deeper and deeper into their sub conscious.
Just as smoking itself is a process of repeated exposure to nicotine while doing a certain activity such as driving, which then becomes a habit. Then repeated failure also becomes an ingrained habit. So much so that the next time you try to quit smoking, you will enter the process with a pre-programmed failure mindset.
Unless you can break this pattern of belief which leads to a pattern of behaviour. You can do this on both a conscious and an unconscious level.
Conscious change.
Take a few moments to think about your past failures, let it really sink in. Now think about trying to quit again. Feel the feeling. Now walk in front of a mirror and just take a good hard look at yourself, as you continue to think these feelings.
Look away and think about something that you have done well in your life, it doesn’t matter how far back you need to go, it could be winning a race at school. As you think about this, notice how good that feels and take that feeling all through your body.
Now go back to the mirror. Notice how much you have changed. Your posture, breathing, smile etc.
Now while holding that positive posture, decide to quit smoking. Don’t let anything slip. As you look in the mirror say in strong terms that you want to quit, that you will succeed that this time it’s going to happen.
Repeat this process for a few days until it is easy to maintain your positive feeling about quitting.
Unconscious.
You have done the perfect preparation, now all that is left is to allow this new positive conscious belief to filter down into your unconscious. This is easily achieved with Rapid Change Hypnosis. At this level there will no longer be any resistance to your change.
Now with your conscious and unconscious minds in total agreement, you can quit smoking with so much ease that it will be hard to imagine. The reason it that you are no longer fighting your own wishes.