Smoking

Hi this is Michael, I want you to know that over the past nineteen years I have helped thousands of people to be safely, and comfortable free of smoking. If that is what you really want in your life, then yes, I can help you to be free of smoking too. Please take the time to read the rest of this page. It is very important that you understand more about emotions and cigarettes.

First rate your desire to release smoking on a scale from 1 to 10. If your own personal desire to release smoking is a 9 or 10 we can easily help you to safely and comfortably release smoking.

If your own desire to release smoking is not a 9 or 10 but you have to quit for health issues then we can use EFT in your first session to help you to get to where you have to be to be able to release smoking. Please visit the EFT page to learn more.

Next we need to get you to understand why you smoke.

What does smoking symbolize to you an a conscious and subconscious level?

For many they consciously perceive it as a way of claming down, of relaxing. How do you know if your one of these people? Ask your self this question;

If I'm nervous, anxious or stressed does having a cigarette help me to relax and feel more clam?

If the answer to this question is yes, then if we just get rid of your cigarettes how are you going to feel calm when you no longer have the tool you used to use to feel calm anymore?

The answer is the first session and possibly second session we use to deal with stress, overall nervousness and any anxious feelings you have. We change the way you relate to your daily stress and help you to be comfortable dealing with stressful situations. The things that the things in your life that used to bother you no longer do. If you naturally felt relaxed most of time how much need would you have for your cigarettes?

Smokers almost always get started smoking with a friend, or group of friends, family (older, brothers or sisters) cousins, or kids at school that they would like to associate with or be part of the gang. Many times to feel at though they are accepted and part of the group. Many times their parents smoked and they looked up to their parents and this was a positive association. Many times it's just the opposite, it is a way of rebelling for attention. I can tell you one thing for sure no one has a problem quitting smoking unless they have a strong emotional trigger with the act of smoking. What do I mean by strong emotional trigger? The feelings you felt when you got started, no not the feeling about the act of smoking. The feeling about who you were sharing this behavior with. That feeling of being accepted, being liked, feeling good about yourself. These feeling get anchored to what was physically happening at the time. What was it that was happening? You were smoking and those positive feelings got anchored to the cigarette. Why do you think smoking helps you to feel less stressed? The cigarette companies would have you believe that it's because they are so chemically addictive that you have little chance of getting off of them. The truth is all the chemicals and nicotine are out of your system within three days. So if you can go three days without smoking and your still having problems what's left is your emotional addiction to the cigarette. This is not hard at all to work through, but it is very much necessary to work through.

Let me give you an example of what I am saying, and you be the judge.

A wonderful woman comes in to quit smoking. We go though how hypnosis works. I ask as much as she consciously knows about her smoking habit and how it got started. She has some conscious memory of the day she started smoking and who she was with. Now we induce hypnosis and bring up the positive feeling associated with smoking, magnify it and regress back to the very first time she felt that positive feeling. She is now four years old and her daddy is on the phone. Daddy's cigarette is in the ashtray burning. She walks over and picks it up. Holds it just like daddy does and now starts to put it in her mouth. Dad turns around and sees his cute little four year old smoking his cigarette. As daddy started laughing he comes over and says "No, no, no honey you have to wait till your older to do what daddy does!" and then he hugs her. (Cause she's just too cute and he loves her very much.) What just happened here? Did you see it? Can you feel it? She got permission from dad to smoke when she was older. Dad hugged her and she felt his love as she did the act of smoking. Dad laughed, and her smoking made daddy happy, or so she rationalized. She got permission and it made daddy laugh, and he hugged me and I felt love. All these feelings are transferred (anchored) to the association with the cigarette and smoking it. Now her dad passed on when she is just twenty years old. She then starts chain smoking. Why does this happen? She wants that feeling of dads love and happiness back and gets a little piece of that feeling every time she smokes. Now if I just suggest took her cigarettes away from her without breaking the emotional attachment to her dads love, I would have just taken away a major connection to dad and his love for his daughter. If I just ripped dads love for her away by taking away her cigarettes, how would it have affected her emotionally? We had to work on repairing the grief she felt for the loss of dad. Let her know she always has dads love and it has nothing to do with cigarettes and gently break the unhealthy connection between smoking and dad's love. She is then emotionally stable and safely quits smoking without emotional harm.

Now consciously before our session she had no idea this is why she had so much trouble quitting on her own. For her to quit on our own meant giving up he one strong bond to her father, it meant giving up a symbol of dad's love for her. So now you see there is a lot more under the surface then we realize. This is why it is very important to go to the roots of your smoking habit and release the misconceptions and install truth. Then you will be free of this habit safely and comfortably.

Q: How many sessions will it take?

A: We will have a much better idea after your first session. The average has been from five to eight sessions. Keep in mind that is not only helping you to quit smoking, but also getting you to a point where you are living each day much more stress from and with a much greater sense of peace than you ever imagined.

Contact me to set up your first session, or for more information at 412-264-4848 or e-mail at michaelrweir@verizon.net