Side effects to stopping smoking by willpower alone - Restlessness

What to expect if you stop smoking by willpower alone

Someone who tries to stop smoking by willpower alone, may find it hard to sit for a long time in one place.. they feel fidgety, and want to move about, feeling like there is something else they should be doing.

When to expect it

If someone has tried to stop smoking by willpower alone, they may find that this affects them mostly for the first week or so, but at any time until the habit has diminished.

Why does it happen?

Over their years of smoking, their mind has formed a link between some particular activity, and smoking. 

When the conscious mind tries to abstain from smoking, the subconscious mind often devises many ways to try to get the person smoking again...  So when they are in this particular situation, the link triggers a desire to smoke.

It’s the feeling that something is not quite right, even if you can’t quite put your finger on it…  it’s called ‘cognitive dissonance’, and it’s caused by the conscious mind trying to concentrate on one thing, but the unconscious mind is tying to tell you that you should be doing something else… that feeling of ‘something’s not quite right, but I’m not sure what’ is caused by the discrepancy between these two parts of your mind. 

To give an analogy, it’s a bit like sea-sickness when inside a ship… your eyes (looking at the room you’re in), tell you that you’re in a stationery room, while your ears (where your sense of balance come from), tell you that you’re moving… the two disagree, and the brain can’t understand this, and that’s why people feel seasick. 

What you can do to help yourself

Like in the sea-sickness analogy above the only way to help with cognitive dissonance, is to bring the two parts of the mind into balance.  With sea-sickness, it’s just a matter or looking out of a port-hole.  Once your eyes see that the horizon is moving from side to side, just the way the balance receptors in the ears are saying that it is, the two inputs to the brain match… the brain likes it that way, and many of the feeling of sea-sickness will disappear.  When stopping smoking, it’s not quite that simple to bring the two parts of the mind back together… the conscious mind determined not to smoke, the unconscious mind saying that that’s not quite right, because the habit of smoking is so ingrained. 

There are two main ways of bringing the two parts of the mind (the conscious and the unconscious) back together

• Over time, the unconscious mind will realise that there is a new pattern of behaviours to be learned… that of the non-smoker… the phrase to emphasise here is ‘over time’… because the behaviour of smoking is often learned maybe 20-30 times a day, every day, for many years, and it can take the unconscious mind a long time to relearn the correct behaviour.
   
• You could consider a session of stop smoking hypnotherapy with me! - See below for an explanation.

Why my clients find it easier

The 'need' to smoke comes from the individual's subconscious mind, weighing up the benefits of smoking, against the benefits of not smoking. 

The stop smoking hypnotherapy session sets about to change the subconscious balance, so that the person has no desire to smoke, because their subconscious mind finds that the benefits of not smoking, greatly outweigh the 'benefits' of smoking.

When this process happens, the mechanisms supporting these 'withdrawal symptoms' are no longer there.

Stop Smoking Testimonials

 

"Hi Paul, hope you are well,

Just wanted to let you know it's been a week now since my therapy and I haven't smoked. In fact in a way it feels like I've never smoked.

I haven't had any cravings and I have no problem being around other smokers. The therapy has worked so well for me, I feel great and things in my life seem to be coming together nicely.

I have recommended you to 3 of my close friends.

I will continue to recommend you to people who could benefit from your treatment as I am over the moon with results I have seen in myself."

...a stop smoking client from Hitchin

 

"You’ve completely cured my lack of willpower and confidence"

... a stop smoking client from Essex

 

"I was going to get back to you earlier but decided to wait until i had been through everything and still not smoked.

It's been 5 weeks and i still have not smoked, i haven't even had a craving!!

I dont know how you've done it and im sure a lot of it is to do with wanting to give up, i have been on holiday, been to family gatherings and all my family smoke, and even had emotional upset and i cannot believe that through all that i have not had the urge to have a cigarette.

I wanted to say thanks "

A stop smoking client from Bedfordshire

 

"She stopped smoking so easily after coming to see you, that I've come as well, because I want the same for me."

...a stop smoking client from Warwick

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Book a Stop Smoking Hypnotherapy Session With Paul

Book your stop smoking hypnotherapy session with Paul, and he can help YOU to stop smoking.

During the session, Paul will listen to you, talk to you about how smoking has fitted in with your life in the past, answer all your questions, and explain how he can use hypnotherapy to help YOU.

Then, during the hypnotherapy part of the session itself, you can sit back, relax, and experience one of the most interesting, enjoyable and relaxing experiences there are...

Leaving the session as a non-smoker, you'll feel full of confidence and motivation, ready to enjoy better health, more money in your pocket, and a huge feeling of achievement... simply feeling that you've regained control of your life!

Book your stop smoking hypnotherapy session now, by simply using the 'Contact Paul' form, which is lower down the page, or:

Telephone: 01354 696155

E-Mail: paul@pauldouglass.co.uk

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