Addictions, Smoking Cessation

It is known that hypnotherapy is very successful in helping people break the smoking habit. Smoking is not just an addiction to nicotine, but an addiction to the habit.

Hypnotherapy will help you break those associations and habit patterns IF you are really ready to stop. 94% of clients who use hypnosis and are committed to stop smoking DO give up.

The feelings that people who cease to smoke cannot do day-to-day such as: drink tea, coffee or alcohol, make a phone call or a decision without a cigarette is compounded over and over with every cigarette they smoke. Hypnosis will give you the understanding, the confidence and motivation and the self-belief that you need to break the habit pattern.

Hypnotherapy can help you to change your way of doing things and seeing things. It will help you turn all the time and mental and physical energy you have spent in the past on smoking, into an ability to achieve new things in your life with a positive outlook.

There is a very high success rate with those who want to give up smoking.

Research indicates that a great deal of unhealthy addictive behaviour originates in the form of compensation for lack of love, approval and creative expression. Hypnotherapy will work on self-esteem, self-belief, safety and security, which will help you to make positive changes that you want in your life.

By first ascertaining the core root issues, Thinkshift then uses motivational hypnosis with clients, helping them turn their problems into goals.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

An Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a disorder in which compulsive (i.e. repetitive/ unwanted) thoughts or actions interfere with a person’s life. They often start as a superstition in order to protect the person from a dreaded event, but for some, this can develop into obsessive patterns of behavior which are intrusive and invariably distressing. Although, going through the obsessive ritual provides a sense of relief, it can create further anxiety. Often a vicious cycle develops: obsessive thoughts leading to anxiety, leading to rituals to relieve anxiety.

One person in forty of the population has some sort of OCD. The obsessions can be thoughts, ideas, images, and impulses which they cannot get out of their minds and then turn into obsessive acts, based on these constantly recurring thoughts, which become stereotyped and repetitive behavior patterns. The behaviors can lead to embarrassment for the person because they are must be done at a specific time and sequence, often inappropriate to the setting in which they find themselves.

There are various types and frequency of obsessive thoughts and actions. Obsessive thoughts such as: contamination, pathological doubt, need for symmetry, aggression and sexual impulses. Obsessive actions such as: checking, washing, counting, asking/confessing, symmetry and hoarding.

An OCD can be extremely detrimental in terms of a person’s everyday life, time-keeping, work and social life. It also has a huge impact on the lives of their family and friends.

The onset of this condition will usually start in a person’s late teens or early 20s and at least a third of those people will have suffered from a stressful or dramatic event prior to onset.

Hypnotherapy will instill a feeling of calmness, tranquility, plus motivation and expectation to change.