Get Motivated To Stop Smoking Using Hypnosis & NLP

There are two psychological states that must be satisfied before a smoker will freely quit smoking. These elements are called "Desire," and "Decision."

DESIRE: A want, crave or a wish for

DECISION: Making up of one's mind / a verdict or judgment

In order to quit smoking, one must have a DESIRE to quit. You probably want to quit smoking, at least some part of you does, or you wouldn't be reading this article.

In addition, in order to quit smoking, one must DECIDE to give up the habit. Since you haven't quit smoking, it simply means that you have not DECIDED to stop yet.

So what you need is to feel a strong motivation to make a "DECISION" to stop.

MOTIVATION, we all want to have it. The foundation of each of our motivations is our beliefs. Give it some thought, if you did not believe that you would be injured if you stood in the path of an oncoming semi, then you would not experience motivation to be alert. If you did not believe that the gnawing sensation in your stomach meant that you were hungry, you would not feel motivated to eat.

When it comes to breaking the smoking addiction, people who are addicted to cigarettes need to feel a great deal of motivation to make the DECISION to quit smoking. Motivation is based on the ideas that we believe. So you will need to DECIDE what ideas will motivate you (when you start to believe them). Because when you feel a great deal of motivation, you will quit smoking.

Thanks to NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and hypnotism for motivation, it is a lot easier to learn how to believe these new ideas than you think it is. However, you don't believe the ideas that will motivate you to quit smoking right now, or you would have already quit.

For the purpose of this discussion, we need to define a few words.

DOUBT: Uncertain/distrustful/dubious - "maybe it's this way, and maybe it is not."

BELIEF: Trust/faith/tenet - A state of mind free of all doubt. In other words, belief means, "this is the way that it is."

HIGHLY VALUED CRITERIA: What is most important to you, as an individual humanbeing.

When you totally believe that if you continue to smoke your highly valued criterion is in jeopardy, you will feel the motivation that you need to break your addiction to cigarettes. We call this is a negative motivator, because it is a belief that motivates by providing you with dreadful sensations. Negative motivators are great for getting you to make decisions and changes in your life.

When you believe that if you do stop, your highly valued criteria will become enhanced, then you will also feel the motivation that you require to quit smoking. This is a positive motivator, because it motivates you by promising good sensations if you stop.

The first task is for you to DECIDE what the most essential aspects of your life happen to be. Your most highly valued criteria are usually intangibles. For example: Money would not be highly valued criteria, but the freedom, fun, or security that money can purchase would be. Write your list of highly valued criteria down on a piece of paper.

Next you need to DECIDE what you would need to believe to feel motivated to break the habit. Here is the good news, sort of: Logic has nothing to do with belief. Things don't have to be logical for anyone to believe them. As a matter of fact, they rarely are. So forget logic!

The format for your negative motivator beliefs will be: "I believe that if I continue to smoke, something horrible will happen to my most highly valued criteria."

Make sure that you frame your motivators in the positive. In other words, always state what you want or what will happen. Never state what won't happen. Eliminate the "not" word from the beliefs.

In this example we will say that your children's health is your most highly valued criteria.

WRONG: "I believe that if I continue to smoke, I won't be doing my kid's health any good."

CORRECT: "I believe that if I continue to smoke, my secondhand smoke will ruin my children's health."

Next, create a list of positive motivators. "I believe that if I quit smoking: (something very important will be enhanced)."

WRONG: "I believe that if I stop smoking, I won't give my children cancer."

CORRECT: "I believe that if I quit smoking, my children will be safe because I will eliminate their contact with the dangers of my secondhand smoke."

The next step is to make changes to the computer codes in your brain to make yourself actually believe these new ideas. Now for a shocker: Your beliefs have nothing to do with or what is real. Instead, your beliefs have everything to do with what your perception of reality is. In other words, it has a lot to do with the way that you see things.

Our belief systems are based in our subconscious mind. The subconscious is like a computer. Computers do not reason. What goes in controls what comes out. To demonstrate, I want you to think of something that you already believe without the slightest bit of doubt. So come up with a belief that gives you a good feeling.

For instance, it's easy for most people to believe that they love their children. If that is true for you, make a mental image that lets you feel that love.

I'm going to ask some questions, and there aren't any correct or incorrect answers.

Is your mental image a moving picture, or a still?
Is it in color, or in black and white?
Is it close or far?
Is it focused or fuzzy?
Is it normally bright, overly bright, or dim?
Is there a border on it?
Is it borderless?
Is it a panorama?

It doesn't matter what your answers are, just write them down. These are the computer codes that your unconscious uses to indicate your feelings of belief. In this case they are the computer codes for positive belief, because you've chosen a belief that gives you an excellent feeling. You have just calibrated your positive belief.

All positive belief pictures are bright and focused. If yours aren't, then you probably do not really have total belief. An element of doubt is probably present. So find another belief to calibrate.

If you think of something that you are unsure of, and you make a mental picture of it, one or more of these computer codes will probably be different. Similarly, if you have a belief that gives you a negative feeling, (a negative belief): one or more of those codes will be different.

In NLP we call these particular computer codes visual submodalities.

Now you will need to calibrate a negative belief. So repeat the same exact process, but do so using an idea that you already believe, that makes you feel awful.

Once you have calibrated both your positive and your negative beliefs, it is a simple issue to manage what you believe so you can motivate yourself to DECIDE to kick the smoking habit.

So, to summarize, using the above example: "I believe that if I continue to smoke, my secondhand smoke will ruin my kid's health."

1. Sense how motivated you feel to quit smoking.

2. Make a mental image that illustrates the above belief.

3. Adjust the codes (visual submodalities) of the picture so that they match the mental codes from your calibrated negative belief.

4. If you are right handed, move your eyeballs (and your picture) up to your left and hold it there for five seconds. If you are left handed, go up to the right. This will make you memorize the belief.

5. Now become aware of how well motivated you feel to quit smoking. Do you feel more motivated? Do you feel less motivated? Or are your feelings the same?

By using this technique you can make yourself believe almost anything by making a picture in your mind that illustrates your new idea and then adjusting your mental image to match your calibrated belief images.

And if you have a belief that is holding you back, you can use the same technique to change that belief to doubt by changing one or two of the submodalities and memorizing it that way.

Now that you can motivate yourself to DECIDE to quit, you will quit smoking. A DECISION to quit means: I'm quitting no matter what I have to go through. If you are like most, you won't want it to suffer from the pain of withdrawal and you do not have to. Because there are several hypnotic and NLP methods that can greatly reduce, or even completely eliminate all of the discomforts of withdrawal from the smoking addiction. And you can read about them in my library of unique and original hypnosis articles.

(c) 2007 By Alan B. Densky, CH. This document may be re-printed as long as it is not altered and the author's name and clickable web address are retained.

Alan B. Densky, CH. offers Ericksonian Hypnosis and NLP CD's for breaking the cigarette habit. He is the inventor/developer of the Neuro-VISION(r) Video break the smoking habit hypnotic technology. It received a United States Patent because of its uniqueness and effectiveness. Mr. Densky can be contacted through his Neuro-VISION web site.

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