Is quitting smoking without going crazy your goal!?

Quitting smoking without going crazy - is this actually possible?!!

Your panic attacks, nicotine cravings, anxiety, withdrawal symptoms and irrtability make quitting smoking one of the hardest things you can do. And to do it without going crazy is a pretty hard feat to a cheive.

But can it be done? The truth is yes! But it is not as simple as you may think.

All the things that make you 'go crazy' are real things that have a huge effect on you and your body. I've already mentioned some of them above, and to make it easy you need to understand two things.

Firstly, the things that make you feel like hell on earth when you stop smoking are not all down to a lack of or your body's adiction to nicotine.

Yes nicotine plays a huge role in the way you feel in the days after your last cigarette, but it most definitely does not cause you to get into a panic or alter the way you think.

Nicotine can only cause a few of the 'symptoms' or 'side-effects' that I've listed above. And they are caused because your body is removing nicotine and other toxins ( a exhaustive cleaning process to remove the 4,000 chemicals in each cigarette from your body), not because your body wants it or needs it.

Secondly, it's a good idea for you to see that each and every single of the above issues like panic attacks, anxiety and irritability are each different problems brought on by different causes.

You don't get panicky and go crazy because you 'need nicotine'. You do so because you and your mind are so used to relying on cigarettes to deal with stress and problems, that when you don't have a cigarette you don't know what to do with yourself!

And you go crazy because you feel strange - but you're not aware that that panic attack, anxiety and strange feeling is more to do with the fact that you haven't got a cigarette to turn to. It is not caused because you don't have nicotine in your system to 'relax' you.

Each and every sinlge problem you have when you stop smoking, has a root cause. And therefore a root solution. You can't just quit smoking and expect a patch or a new wonder drug to beat every single one of your problems.

So what is the solution to quitting smoking without going crazy?

The best thing you can do is sit down and anticipate all the smoking pitfalls and problems you are likely to face. From withdrawal symptoms and carvings, to weight gain, everyday stress and problems, to recurring habits and routines.

Remebering that many of these problems will not be directly caused from quitting smoking, some will be every day problems that you face now and don't realise you solve by smoking.

Then you can anticipate and plan on how to beat each and every single problem, seperately. You are not going to be able to solve all the possible smoking pitfalls with one or two solutions.

So the secret to quitting smoking without going crazy is to plan how you are going to quit smoking, and realise that you need to look at and solve each problem seperately. You're not going to be able to quit smoking in a few days, it will take a couple of weeks and some good plans.

How long does it take for hypnosis to work?

From my personal experience, many smokers steer clear of hypnosis to stop smoking because they think that it will wake too long. Understandably most of you want to stop smoking ASAP!

Which is great, but it's also a by-product of today's super fast paced society. We have fast food, broadband internet connections, fast cars and the ability to travel from the US to the UK in under five hours. So it's understandable that you want to stop smoking right NOW!

So how long does it take for hypnosis to work?

Well, unfortunately from my experience you can't stop smoking with a magic pill or in a few hours. There is a lot of work you absolutely must do. By far the best way to approach the problem is with hypnosis. And many hypnotherapist have good success rates with one quick one or two hour session, and some prefer 3 sessions.

Hypnosis works because it deals with the root causes of your smoking habits and actions. After allm you smoke for a reason don't you! You either want to relax or reduce stress, you are bored, you are lacking confidence in new surroundings and with new people, you are anxious or because you enjoy it.

These are just a few of your reasons for smoking. So to answer your question - how long does it take for hypnosis to work? I would say that it deepends a little on how much you rely on cigarettes, and not on how many you smoke a day.

For example you may smoke 40 a day, but most of them are probably out of boredom or habit. You don't need them, you just smoke them to pass the time. When you and your hypnotherapist
find your reasons for smoking, it simply a matter or re-programming your mind to focus on something different.

For most smokers this usually takes two one hour sessions. The first one for you to find out what makes you smoke, find out what it is that you want in terms of replacing your desire for cigarettes with something else and to then re-program your mind.

And the second one to re-inforce your new desires to stay off cigarettes.

The whole process usually takes about a week or two. But that's not it! In my opinion many hypnotherapists and smokers fail to spend time on one very, very important area of stopping smoking - staying stopped!


Yes your one or two sessions may have worked, but what about when you see a passer by smoking, or you get a whiff of smoke of a colleagues clothes. I think you need to spend a little time before your session planning on how you are doing to keep yourself distracted and how you are going to block out any desires to smoke!

Some people don't need this, but why take the chance that you will end up smoking again!

If you ask me - how long does it take for hypnosis to work? I would say that the hypnosis it'self only takes about two and a half hours in total at most.

But there are a few other things that you should do to stop smoking and stay stopped, and ensure that you really enjoy your life much more as an ex-smoker than you did as a smoker!