When you have decided to quit smoking, this 2 CD 3-week course will make it easy to become a non-smoker. Not a smoker who has quit smoking, but a person who is a non-smoker. If you are not ready to become a non-smoker, goal setting is included to help you make the decision.
This program is based on your successful completion of The Self-Hypnosis Course

. You should be able to do self-hypnosis without the help of my CDs and go into a low alpha or theta state with ease, in sessions ranging in length from 10 to 45 minutes.
One of the most important skills that you have learned in The Self-Hypnosis Course

WHEN I SMOKED

When I was a smoker I remember enjoying about one-third of the cigarettes in a pack. The rest were smoked while I was on automatic. I would light up, inhale and put it out without being conscious of having smoked. This happened during the day when I was at my busiest, particularly in the company of other smokers, who were doing the same thing. But there were times when I really enjoyed the smoke, the heat, the feeling of the cigarette between my lips and fingers. I started smoking when I was in the military and had no plans to ever quit.
Thirty years ago I decided to quit because of one particular experience. I was attending a seminar with 45 other male executives that began at 8:00 a.m. in a meeting room in a large hotel in Los Angeles. At a few minutes past 10:00 a.m., I asked when we would be taking a break. The facilitator asked why and I said for a smoke break. He apologized for not planning a break but then told us smokers where we had to go in order to smoke. It was about a block away, through the basement and outside of the hotel. After the instructions, he announced a 20-minute break. Out of the 45 men, three of us left the room to go for a smoke. This really opened my eyes to how few smokers there were in the group and how much trouble it was to be a smoker.

I QUIT

The following Saturday I was working in my office and ran out of cigarettes. I started thinking about where I would go to buy a package and decided that it was time for me to quit. I sat back in my chair, did a short self-hypnosis session, gave myself a post-hypnotic suggestion, opened my eyes and went back to work. From that moment to this day, I have not smoked and even better, have never had the slightest desire to smoke; I became a non-smoker. That Saturday night I played my trumpet in a band for four hours in a smoke filled room and I can honestly say I never had any desire to smoke.

DESIRE TO QUIT

Over the many years that I have been teaching and practicing hypnosis and self-hypnosis, about two thirds of my clients have been successful in becoming non-smokers on the first or second appointment. My first question to a new client is, why do you want to stop smoking? If the client’s answer is because my doctor, spouse or family wants me to quit. I then ask, do you want to stop smoking? Many times the answer is no. When the clients say no but they need for some reason, usually health, to quit, I explain about goal setting and suggest that we do a goal setting session.

GOAL OF NON-SMOKER

The person is asked to set the goal of being a non-smoker and is asked to imagine him or herself a non-smoker during the session. If the client has the slightest desire to quit, the goal setting will work. Sometimes even the goal setting imagery doesn’t work because the person has no intention or desire to quit smoking. In this case I suggest that the goal to be a non-smoker be set without any time line and the person give me a call when the desire to quit comes about.

USING WILL POWER

Cigarettes, cigars, and food substitution are going to always be an issue when you are a smoker who has stopped smoking using will power. A non-smoker has no desire to smoke no matter the circumstances. Even more important, the substitution of food or any other habit is not an issue.
The Ending Smoking program has a goal setting hypnosis session as well as one with suggestions for becoming a non-smoker for the rest of your life.