Now, friends, it's time for some math. How many puffs does it take to take a cigarette? I think it's between 10-15, let's take the middle 12. Now think of a person who smokes 20 cigarettes a day; so 20*12=240. Yes, a person who smokes a pack of cigarettes takes a stick filled with tobacco with a burning tip between his fingers at least 240 times, brings it to his mouth and takes a puff. 30*240=7400 times per month and a total of 12*7400=86400 per year. If you wish, let's read it again by writing it down. Eighty-six thousand four hundred times, a person makes that particular movement, a smoker.
Anyone who is a little interested in the subject will immediately understand that I am talking about obsessive-compulsive disorder. As you know, obsession means obsessive thought and compulsion means the behaviors we develop to get rid of this obsessive thought. Let me explain with a more familiar example: The obsession with hand washing. It is one of the most well-known obsessions. In this case, the person has a constant and persistent obsessive thought, "My hands are dirty." As a result, the person washes his hands non-stop (compulsion). Even when he finishes washing his hands and turns off the fountain, the person starts to think that his hands are dirty.
Let's go back to smoking. If a person just snaps his fingers every 4 minutes, he will snap his fingers 240 times during the 16 hours he stays awake, and if he does this continuously for a year, he will do it eighty-six thousand four hundred times. And so finger snapping (here it becomes a compulsion) creates its own obsessive thought; I can't live without snapping my fingers. We know the physical addiction part of nicotine. And here is the psychological addiction of cigarettes... If you take a burning stick filled with tobacco between your fingers 86400 times, bring it to your mouth and take a drag, you will start to think that you cannot live without cigarettes and that you will die without it. This thought is implicit, hidden, therefore it is a subconscious belief.
As a result of so much repetition, every emotion; You now have a storm that accompanies all emotions such as joy, sadness, anger, pain, sorrow, trouble, worry, trouble, anxiety, happiness. There is now a storm that accompanies our every memory and moment (time), every coffee, tea and drink, from the first moment of the morning to the last moment just before we go to sleep at night. Acetylcholine (located in the central nervous system) It is very easy to get rid of the physical addiction to nicotine, which imitates (a chemical transmitter). Only 72 hours. So, if the person does not smoke and can spend 3 days, the brain starts to produce acetylcholine again. You heard right, it only takes 3 days to get rid of physical addiction.
"If it's so simple, why do people have such a hard time quitting smoking?" I can easily hear you ask now. Getting rid of the physical addiction to smoking is only 5% of the job. The real knot is in getting rid of 95% psychological addiction. If you repeat a movement thousands of times, you give the message to your subconscious that you cannot live without doing that and only that movement. Your subconscious will automatically ask you to make that particular move. Because the implicit thought is that I can die without cigarettes, cigarettes are very valuable, I am very attached to them, etc. are thoughts. It is an obsessive thought, that is, an obsession. And the compulsion for this catastrophic (bad, depressing) thought is very easy, to light a cigarette, put that burning stick to our mouth and take a drag. Whoops, the catastrophic thought disappeared into the smoke.
And we know that if the subconscious is mentioned, hypnosis must also be mentioned. This is exactly where hypnotherapy comes into play. Just as the subconscious has made smoking behavior automatic and developed a direct addiction to that action, it is also easy to condition it on the contrary. We can convince his subconscious that he is not addicted to smoking and that he will not have any problems if he does not do that action. And in one session. The basis of our thoughts and behaviors is the subconscious. And the subconscious is very fast, it directs the consciousness instantly. That is, most of the time the person is not even aware that he has lit a new cigarette.
If we can direct the subconscious mind that it is very easy not to smoke, that it can only be achieved by not lighting it, and we can convey to the subconscious that being smoke-free is freedom, I am happier without cigarettes, I am much more careful without cigarettes, I am much more careful without cigarettes. I am more peaceful etc. If we can understand the notions, it is only a matter of time before a person stops smoking.
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