One of the most effective ways to quit smoking or indeed beat any addiction is through using NLP. If you have been thinking about quitting for a long time and never had the drive, or if you have tried many times and always succumbed to temptation, today we are going to help you with some simple tips on how to quit smoking using NLP.
The philosophy is simple; you associate smoking with pleasure, you associate quitting with pain. Reverse it and you won’t need to quit, you will simply stop as you will take no pleasure in the activity anymore. Here are the first steps. Find an image, sound or feeling that repulses you about smoking. This might be a photo of tar in the lungs, it might be a cross section of a blocked artery, it might be the funeral of a loved one who died of cancer.
As unpleasant as it sounds you will be finding a thought connected to smoking that truly repulses you. Pick up a cigarette and think about this thought. Every time you take a drag make the image more intense, experience the feelings more. Put a reminder on your cigarette box and force yourself to live the consequences of your smoking every time you light up. If you commit to this technique you will be smoking nothing in no time. Another interpretation of this technique is to eat a tin of cat food with every cigarette, it’s disgusting, I’ve done it, and it works.
However, this is only half the process. With the money you save from giving up you have to truly reward yourself. Plan a dream holiday, look at the gadget you will buy with the money and every time you usually have a cigarette get your high off the thought of the great life you will have without smoking. These instructions are simple and we give a far more developed tutorial in our seminars.
What we find is when people learn how to quit smoking using NLP they take the techniques in to the rest of their life and find ways to motivate themselves in to achieving incredible things. The fact is NLP is an adaptable philosophy that will not only help you reach your own personal goals, but the way you communicate, the way you think, the way you live your life will help the people around you to live the life of their dreams too.
