So when you told yourself “I can’t have a cigarette” or “I’m not going to smoke” or “The doctor told me I shouldn’t smoke” you had been setting yourself up to fail. Remember, your inner terea computer can’t to process a negative, and won’t without making a picture in your mind AND, it is the very picture of ought to that you need to do not hope! The picture or thought you generate by applying those negative words causes you to think more smoking. Finally you just give in and light.

With hypnosis, we can switch that focus to your long-term primary advantages of not smoking and concentrate on the immediate will benefit. In other words, the client, through hypnotic rehearsal, will perceive the action of smoking much more painful than pleasurable