The wrong reason’s for stopping smoking (yes there are more than one)

If you know where you are going you are more likely to get there. The number one way you can help yourself is by knowing what you want. This is true of Stopping Smoking as it is for everything else.

If you are trying to stop smoking for the wrong reasons you are much more likely to fall at the first hurdle. One of the wrong reasons might be convenience. What I mean by this is that you decide to stop but not because you are necessarily ready or committed to stopping it is just that a convenient situation as occurred for you. Here how it work’s.

A friend or partner husband or wife who is a smoker makes the suggestion that it would be a good idea to stop together. On the face of it this seems to be a great idea because you can support each other in remaining stopped and there is this nice feeling of doing something together… a shoulder to lean on a bit of safety in numbers you get the idea.

The reality is that although both people know they should stop smoking at some point in time, usually on this occasion it usually means that one person is really ready to stop but the other is going along with it because it is convenient or they have got caught up in this being a good idea without giving it too much thought.

Then what happens is that the person who hasn’t really made up their mind to stop, will at some point try and persuades or cajoles the other into just having that one. When they succeed in getting the other to have “just one” well both of you have failed and well you might as well start again. It is a kind of collusion to smoke, just as those of us colluded to smoke the very first time when we were young. In fact we did it because our peers did it and we wanted to be part of that crowd… accepted. The above is just one example of the same influences happening again.

That is why it is vital to stop smoking for your own good reasons.

Well this is just one reason there are many wrong reasons for stopping smoking that you will need to bear in mind. The reason we have such a high level of success is because we make sure that yo are not stopping for the 8 major wrong reasons why people fail at stopping smoking.

Good stop smoking practitioners want their clients to be successful. Of course you can stop smoking together but please do it for your reasons and not for someone else’s reasons or timing.

I certainly emphasise to people who come along in pairs for stop smoking or weight loss sessions, whether their friends, spouses, or partners, that they should be there for each other to keep to their decision to quit smoking for good and not to collude together to smoke.

If you believe the time is right for you right now then contact me today and see if Advanced Hypnotherapy by an Advanced Hypnotist will help you do it easily.