Is this true? Do I even believe this to be true? I read an interview with Martin Amis in the The Sunday Times magazine and he said that smoking increased your IQ.
Once upon a time when most people smoked but now in my circle of friends it is the majority that don't smoke and the minority that do. Smoking is bad for your health and it's ridiculously expensive. It tastes terrible and it's toxic.
I prefer the smoke free world that we live in. I remember when I used to go out on a night out and you would come back and your clothes would stink of stale cigarette smoke.
Yet, I occasionally smoke. I am an, on the bus, off the bus, smoker. For me, heightened stress leads me to reach for the fags. Especially, if I am doing a lot pacing and thinking. I don't smoke in front of my children. It's my dirty habit. I can go weeks without a cigarette. But could I give up forever?
At The Therapy Lounge they claim "evidence proves that the vast majority of smokers who stop smoking for more than one year, will never smoke again." Using hypnotherapy in a two hour session, with a one year guarantee.
The Therapy Lounge use hypnosis to induce a deep state of relaxation. In this state our unconscious minds are highly receptive to new ideas or alternative perspectives.
It taps into the extreme power of our unconscious mind, which stores all the memories, beliefs, habits and behaviours we've developed throughout our lifetime.
We cannot consciously control our unconscious. Could you consciously decide to unlearn how to ride a bike? Now apply the same to principle to an addiction, phobia or anxious response. The therapy lounge believes hypnosis can change any of these unhelpful responses for the better, by changing the information stored in our unconscious, or providing it with newer and more helpful information.
Apparently, this can be achieved through hypnosis, which bypasses the conscious mind and creates an alternative state of consciousness to help change or update the information stored in our unconscious, thus changing our unhelpful habitual responses.
But I have this theory that once you are a smoker you are always a smoker and that you will never give up the urge to smoke. I still can't quite put my finger on why I smoke but I do. I want to quit but not enough. It makes me wonder - why do I smoke? I don't have the answer and yet I can't see me stopping anytime soon. Maybe I should try some hypnotherapy. Do you think hypnotherapy works? Could it rid me of my dirty habit forever?
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