I have learned: To motivate smokers to quit, they need to be helped to extract the smoking from their core identity.
Smokers often feel deeply entwined with their smoking – “It's who I am”. This makes any threat to their smoking (“You should stop smoking!”) feel like a very personal threat.
2 ways to detach the smoking from yourself as the smoker:
How does smoking convince you to smoke, even when you'd said you wouldn't?
How did smoking get you to believe you need it?
3 smoke-busting metaphors:
A parasite appears to be part of the host organism but in reality undermines its very existence. Just like smoking steals away wealth, youth, looks, money, the very cells of the body. Even years of life.
In abusive relationships, the abusive partner destroys confidence and self-respect, all the while convincing their victim that they couldn't live without them.
Smoking can disguise itself as a friend, someone you can relax with, console yourself with when times are rough, have a drink with, but… how many real friends eventually turn around and stab you in the back?
To quit, you have a 90% chance of success in one 2-hour session. All you need to do is feel more associated to the parts that want to be free…the lungs, heart, cells and feel disassociated from the conniving parasite. Let the science of clinical hypnosis do the rest.
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