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Quitting Smoking Forever In 2018

3/14/2018

Yes, it is really possible to decide that this ‘National No Smoking Day’ is the last you’ll see as a smoker. How good would that be? Can you imaging what you would do with all the money you’ll save?

The average cost of a 20 a day smoking habit can cost around £65 a week so, if you are serious about quitting…sometime. This could be the ideal time to do it properly, once and for all.

Hypnotherapy has been proven to be one of the most effective ways to stop smoking. If you really want to quit smoking forever, you will find that you don’t have to try not to smoke, the urge will simply no longer be there.

Up until now of course, your unconscious mind has been programmed (through years of repetition) with the belief that smoking has done something positive for you. Yes, that’s right, there has been a positive intention to the smoking habit.

You might have smoked to help you:

Relieve stress, boredom or other uncomfortable emotions
Feel more confident in social situations
Improve your concentration
Give you something to do with your hands

Or any one of a hundred other reasons all of which are positive intentions but, there are other, healthier ways to achieve those objectives.

Through hypnotherapy, your unconscious can generate healthy alternative behaviours which you will carry out automatically. In effect, your stop smoking hypnotherapy session will re-programme your unconscious mind to produce the same positive intentions that you believe cigarettes have given you but in far healthier ways.

To find out more about how Hypnotherapy can help you quit smoking forever…

Don’t agonise…Orrganise!

Evolution Not Resolutions!

3/1/2018

Yesterday I was browsing through some cuttings and articles I had kept in my desk drawer pending the five minutes I would find to read them. The one that caught my eye was all about regrets and somehow it just seemed apt for this time of year. There were so many common themes among the things that people said they regretted at different stages of their lives but the ones that rang bells with me were;

Never pursuing dreams and ambitions
Working too hard and not making enough time for their families
Not telling precious people that they were loved
Not being true to themselves
Wasting years with the wrong person
Not having the courage to live truthfully
and not realising that happiness and success are always a choice

I don’t know about you but most people I speak to can identify with at least one or more of these regrets and somehow, this time of year is a really good time to remember the old adage that tells us that that life is not a dress rehearsal.

No matter how many times we learn the hard way that New Year resolutions are not an effective way to make changes in our lives, millions of us race to make them every year. We’ll lose that stone, exercise every day, spend more time with the people who matter to us or finally get that new job.

This year we can really do things differently and make those changes forever. Instead of the dreary ‘giving things up’ refrain what about choosing to do something new and positive instead. Join a running or walking group, learn to Salsa, join that writer’s workshop or anything that lets you see yourself differently. Make changes that are going to be part of your life forever.

If all this sounds like a reinvention of yourself, maybe that’s the aim of making really positive changes that are going to become a way of life.

There are some great tips that will support anyone who wants to do things differently. They may sound obvious but I am always surprised that we still don’t do them.

Firstly, write down those goals.. I hear people say all the time that they have just No Time for all that writing. Think about it though, no time to write means no time to make those changes and the benefit of writing things down and putting them somewhere that they can be seen… every day, can not be underestimated.

Secondly, choose wisely when you are spending time with other people. After all your mate from the smoking shed outside work isn’t going to be the ideal cheerleader for your new healthy approaches, and if the group who gather at the water cooler at work to moan every morning see you moving on it’s not going to make them feel great… Misery loves company.

Thirdly, see yourself achieving your goals, being that confident and healthy individual striding cheerfully through life knowing that you are worth it in the hair tossing way of that famous advert.

Finally, tell everybody that you know that you are making these wonderful and positive changes that this is the new you and don’t forget to talk as if they are already your habits. Maybe your friends and family will be so impressed that they’ll want to join you. Above all, wouldn’t it be great not to have those sad regrets?

Don’t agonise… orrganise!

Quitting Smoking Forever In 2018

Evolution Not Resolutions!

Francine Orr

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