Smoking Cessation by Self-Hypnosis
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You Want to Quit Smoking
So, you want to quit smoking. You've probably tried many times unsuccessfully to quit. Now you've chosen the magic of hypnosis to make you quit.
Forget it! There is no magic. How long have you been smoking? A year? Two? Five, ten, twenty? Most people buy this book with unrealistic expectations of hypnosis. Put out of your head the idea that you will read this book and suddenly become a non-smoker. Realize that you've taken perhaps ten years to become an expert in the field of smoking. You've had that much experience, that much conditioning, and that much association with cigarettes. Give up now the idea that you will become a non-smoker at the snap of your fingers. Realize now that it will take work and effort on your part, and I will show you how to quit smoking successfully.
If you've had ten years of learning how to smoke, or twenty or thirty, do not despair. It won't take that long to gain the knowledge required to quit. If you have been studying and practicing smoking for ten years, then you have ten years of knowledge upon which to call to help you quit smoking!
Often it is said, "Don't confuse me with the facts". You have ten years of facts on how to smoke, when to smoke, where to smoke, etc. If you re-arrange these facts to be meaningful and in-formative, you can quit easily. I will show you how to do that.
In order for me to be able to communicate to you the essentials required for your successful breaking of the smoking habit, some commonality of communication is required. Towards that end, I may appear to include sections that are entirely irrelevant with respect to our goal. If you are too smart, too intelligent, and too educated to bother reading the digressions, and studying and learning from them, then now would be a good time for you to close this book and quit smoking.
Good. We need to learn and develop together an under-standing of hypnosis, how the mind works, why you smoke, and how you can quit successfully. I assume (without wishing to make and ASS of U and ME), that you have quit several times. I smoked two packs of cigarettes a day for twelve years. I can't tell you how many times I quit. Once, when I was fifteen, I quit for a year. I started again. When I developed the method that you will learn in this book, and applied it to myself, I quit smoking with impunity, with no ill effects, and with no symptom replacement. Besides quitting with ease, I learned how not to start again.
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About the Book
If you are a smoker looking to quit, you’ve probably tried many times unsuccessfully. In Smoking by Cessation by Self-Hypnosis, author Dr. Steve Grattan provides not only a resource for anyone interested in understanding the reasons for smoking, but also practical, proven techniques on how to use self-hypnosis to quit smoking effectively.
More than a simple how-to-stop-smoking guide, Smoking Cessation by Self-Hypnosis helps you gain a deeper understanding of yourself in order to achieve a broader grasp of both the internal and external causes of smoking. This broader understanding creates a foundation for smoking cessation that is more promising than a simplistic approach. In addition to providing an overview on hypnosis and how the mind works, Grattan discusses his personal experience with the method and also shares case studies.
Informative and challenging, Smoking Cessation by Self-Hypnosis offers real hope to smokers seriously committed to doing what it takes to quit successfully and become nonsmokers.
About the Author
Dr. Steve Grattan trained with the Canadian Institute of the Law Enforcement Hypnosis Institute, did four years of postgraduate training at the Gestalt Institute of the National Capital, and completed a doctorate in acupuncture. He is also the author of Therapeutic Hypnosis a Brief, In-depth Overview, along with several articles on hypnosis. He practices and lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. This is his second book.