We've heard about all the levels of disease we can manifest in the physical body from the smoking habit so there is no sense even going there. Scare tactics never have and never will resolve any problem. What few acknowledge is most problems originate on an energy level. And solutions to problems are also on an energy level. That means the focus on scare tactics is only making the smoking habit stronger, locking a person into an almost phobia reaction to quitting. It also means the solution, when approached from an energy level, is the only way to deal with the problem.
Not everyone has experienced a traumatic event associated with the smoking habit. A good many persons resistant to quitting smoking have strong indicators for survival associated with the smoking habit. For example, one person was raped at the age of thirteen and started smoking after the event. Every time she lit up, she replayed the event in her mind until many years later she wanted to stop doing this. The problem was every time she tried to quit smoking, she began choking replaying that old event from the past, which meant she had to smoke or fear choking to death. The choking became a safety mechanism to remind her to avoid that fear mechanism.


Also death and dying seems to play a part in initiating the smoking habit. Many persons begin smoking after a death of a loved one. This is a highly emotional time to be gotten through and many will report lighting one up to keep breathing through the sometimes weeks of preparation for burial. And then find they can't quit because negative emotion has locked them into survival factors.


Let's take a look at some of the messages we learn growing up that often as adults trip us up. These may sound silly and childish, they are however strong self programmed, self hypnotic messages:


"A car with one headlight is approaching. Hold your breath until it's passed. We shouted out a mental trigger, a word for initiating this process. Pididdle. So years later the program may have been forgotten, the body still replays the message automatically, and we hold our breath until the danger is past. Yes, danger because that is how the brain is taught to keep us safe. Yes there is no real danger in a car with one headlight. It doesn't matter when the mind is trained to perceive a possible danger; it goes into automatic response until this nasty bit of self disciplined support is relayed as "I am safe now." Safe to light up another one without consciously knowing why a person is locked into doing so.

"Driving past a cemetery on either side of the road. Hold your breath until past it. Years later a loved one takes us through the release process and a cigarette becomes our best friend. At least when we're smoking , it's okay to breathe; make space for ourselves to breath, to get past that old bit of programming.

"Walking down a sidewalk, step on a crack; you'll break your mother's back unless you hold your breath.

"Marksmanship. Hold your breath for accuracy. The problem with this mechanism is we encounter daily problems where we attempt to be accurate in many different things and smoking takes some of the pressure off that old bit of programming and makes it okay to breathe.


There is no pill in a bottle or positive affirmation download that can affect any of this wide load of self programmed self sabotaging messages. There is however hypnosis, a method for acknowledging the problem in a manner that triggers the mind's safe mechanism in a moment of excellence where we can make change by activating positive aspects. Change the thought process, release the strangle hold on those old traumatic events that were a time of emotional upheaval and quitting smoking is easy.


Probably hypnosis for quitting smoking is the easiest most visible immediate response for making a change. Most persons quit smoking after a first time hypnosis session. That in itself is rewarding results for both the hypnotist and client.


What about when a person has a strong survival factor attached to the smoking habit? The smoking habit actually got the person to be able to function shifting into adult life survival patterns. We have a core survival factor locking us into the smoking habit and wonder why we can't control this and just quit smoking.


This is where hypnosis leaps to the fore front of possible solutions. A hypnotist doesn't even have to know about that old thing that happened. We can simply regress the mind to the event as an observer, fill it with light and love and progress the mind back to now. The emotional sting is gone. Perception that was a strangle hold on what happened has changed. When we let go of the past, we stop bringing it into our present energy experience. When we stop activating that past bad thing, we can leap forward like a puppy dog looking for more moments of excellence for Joyous Survival.


With hypnosis we can program for a future where we have set up a new program for activating positive aspects. What this does is set up a new thought process. Instead of expecting something bad to happen and because that is energy it does, something good happens and that is energy too.
The reason hypnosis works to stop smoking is because we are bypassing all those old messages a person enacted to support doing this action. It's easy to program for a new healthy life and get it. And smokers who want to quit are so much fun to work with not only because the income pays the bills, they are so eager to make a change to stop smoking. Their expectation carries them forward into improving other areas of their lives as well.
Hypnosis works because it is dealing with a problem on an energy level that bypasses all the self sabotaging beating a drum in the jungle stuff. Hypnosis soothes and when we can relax and breathe deeply we get results activating Joyous Survival.


Let's look at it this way. If holding our breath, shallow breathing, and smoking worked, we would all be doing it. The reason we aren't all doing it and many smokers quit is because activating the Joy State works. Yes, hypnosis works differently for everyone and can work for you too.