Hypnotic Scripts


Stop Smoking Session I

First of all, you are aware that we have already completely uncovered the
underlying cause of your compulsive smoking habit. You no longer feel the
compulsion to smoke at all. We are now only dealing with a habit pattern
-- the hollow shell of your original problem.


Habits can be broken as easily as they are created. One of the ways to do
that is to make you aware of your smoking. From the very moment you reach
for a cigarette, you will be extremely conscious of what you are doing. If
you light it and start to smoke, you will be unusually aware of every
moment of the time you are involved in smoking that cigarette. The main
reason you have continued to smoke is because you are doing it
unconsciously -- you have not really been aware of what you were doing.
But now you are. Each time you reach for a cigarette, you attention will
be drawn to that cigarette and focus uncomfortably upon it. When you are
aware of what you're doing, you are no longer in the unconscious habit.
You already have no need to continue smoking; you know that. So this will
be easy and effortless. There will be none of the struggle and fight with
will power you may have experienced in the past, no guilt of smoking as
you do it. The awareness may make you annoyed with smoking, disgusted and
bored by it. You may even want to put the cigarette out when you are only
half-finished.


It will not taste as good as it used to. You simply will not wish to
continue. You have already made up your mind. You have found the reason
you smoke and you have already made up your mind -- a final decision to
stop smoking altogether. You have already made up you mind to stop smoking
altogether. You have already made up you mind that you are going to stop
now, not tomorrow, not the next day, but you are going to stop this very
moment. You have made a final decision to stop smoking.


You want to stop smoking as of this very minute. You know why you want to.
Think about that reason. Form it clearly in your mind. Think about the
problems smoking causes. You have no need of smoking because of that, you
are giving it up. You're giving up coughing; you're giving up pain; you're
giving up trouble; you're giving up all the things you don't want,
including smoking. You are giving up the things you don't want in order to
get the things you do want: relaxation, rest, a feeling of security,
happiness.


You will forget about cigarettes altogether. You have no need to buy them
because you have no need to smoke them. Consequently, your purchase of
cigarettes will immediately cease. And should you perhaps accept a
cigarette without realizing it, you will immediately be aware of it and
will be overcome with an uncontrollable compulsion to break it in two as
soon as it enters you hand. Whenever you touch the cigarette, you will
instantly break it in two. It will remind you of all the bad things you're
giving up and all the good things that are in store for you. You realize
how much greater the proportion of good you are receiving is than the
portion of bad you are giving up. It will seem as small thing to you to
give up smoking, considering the tremendous benefits you will be receiving
for giving it up. It is easy to give up things you don't like. And you
don't like to smoke.


You will begin to feel proud of yourself, very proud. You will find it
easier to conquer other habits. It makes it easier for you to conquer life
in general. It fills your ego, making you self-confident, self-assured and
self-reliant.


You will keep a record in the beginning of your progress. Every single
day, you will remind yourself how successful you have been as an
abstainer. How many days, how many weeks and months you have been an
abstainer and how wonderful it has made you feel. You will continue to
keep this record and it will encourage you and fortify you as a tangible
record of your success. And soon you will no longer feel the need to keep
such a record because you will know that you are an abstainer permanently.
That this record will go on unblemished for the rest of your life.


You already know that no habit is stronger than the power of you mind
which created it in the first place. It is now you versus tobacco. You
will easily win for you are stronger. Your have patience, great patience
now, perseverance, great perseverance, calm and relaxed determination.
Nothing can shake it. You will go on patiently day to day. Every day will
be a success. You will become accustomed to success. And soon that feeling
of success will be far more important to you than any habit could possible
be.