Let your Brain take you by the hand.

Use your Brain to Gain.

For the vast majority of 'smokers', smoking just accomplishes good feelings .i.e. Smoking makes you feel good. This is why many people who smoke, tend to smoke more at times of stress and upset. The cigarette is a quick tool to a good feeling, and we all like good feelings! People who smoke have made a habit out of using tobacco as a coping strategy.

This is the reason why becoming a non smoker fills many people who smoke with a sense of dread. Thinking how will they cope without that good feeling...it really is nothing to do with nicotine, nicotine addiction is a myth.

If a smoker can come up with a strategy that gives them the same benefit as the cigarette on an conscious and unconscious level then giving up smoking is very easy. When I say the same benefit, I mean something else that makes you feel good. If you can't actually think of anything that would make you feel as good, because sadly some people can't, then astonishingly, just imagining something that would make you feel good can work too, if utilized correctly.

It just becomes a matter then of overcoming the mechanical unconscious habit and that is even easier as long as you point your brain towards what it wants and not what it doesn't want.

Habits are just 'programmes' in the brain and just like a computer the program will work over and over again until you replace it with a different program or in cyber geek language overwrite it with a better one. The only difference being that you cannot entirely delete a habit like you can a programme. It has to be that way or you would be able to forget how to drive or forget how to count. That's why when you become a non smoker you have to stay a non smoker !

Coming up with an effective strategy then becomes a matter of using your brain to get what you want, and it is always a very personal thing. That is why it is impossible to take a group of people who smoke and use the same technique on all of them. Every one of them will have a different set of strategies to elicit good feelings. However the same psychological model can be used by all people who smoke, who want to be free of this destructive habit, by incorporating their own unique set of strategies. A simple NLP swish pattern can easily achieve this. This is where a skilled NLP practitioner can be very helpful. It can be done amazingly quickly, and the change is permanent. The only things that can limit the effectiveness is if the person does not want to be a non smoker, or the person is not prepared to make the changes required to enable a cessation in their coping strategy.

With love

Nigel