Understanding the Benefits of Hypnosis for Reducing Anxiety and Quitting Smoking

Smoking is addictive, especially tobacco smoking because any product containing tobacco contains nicotine. When nicotine enters the blood vessels it stimulates adrenal glands to secrete more ‘adrenaline’ or ‘epinephrine’. As you might have heard, adrenaline is the ‘fight or flight’ hormone, it puts the body in an excited state which eventually ends up increasing the amount of dopamine that is reaching the brain. This state of ‘high’ is often addictive and hence smokers keep on craving smoking. Thus, quit smoking hypnosis is recommended.  

Similarly, hypnotherapy for anxiety is also effective. Unlike the depiction of hypnotherapy in movies, hypnosis is an induced state of sleep of the mind but unlike sleep, the recipient is focussed in his sub-conscious mind and can respond to suggestions of the hypnotherapist.   

Any individual who takes up smoking does it because of a trigger. Be it peer pressure, stress or mental illness.  A hypnotherapist is able to diagnose the rigger that could have played the ‘influencer’ that lead to smoking. Once the hypnotherapist is aware of the trigger, he uses quit smoking hypnosis so as to positively influence someone’s mind about the ill-effects of smoking so that the client becomes averse to smoking.

Similarly, hypnotherapy for anxiety helps to avoid any anxiety symptoms like a feeling of impending doom, shortness of breath, increased heart rate, muscle tension, irritability, nervous stomach. Using hypnotherapy for curing anxiety can be compared to meditation as both induce the mind into a state of ‘calm & peace’.

Not only has hypnotherapy shown results for smoking cessation and curing anxiety but it is also effective for patients with physical ailments like diabetes, blood pressure, cancer, drug & alcohol addiction, etc. Dr. Geetanjali Saxena is a renowned hypnotherapist and has been teaching it for the past 7 years. She has been certified by the California Hypnosis Institute, USA.