Now that vaping has overtaken smoking as the number one nicotine addiction larger numbers of people are beginning to turn to hypnotherapy for vaping. If you are one of those people you may wish to consider what help hypnotherapy can give. In this blog we look at how hypnotherapy can help someone become a non-vaper.
Hypnotherapy for Vaping – number of sessions
This can vary depending on the hypnotherapists approach. However, most hypnotherapists are treating vaping as closer to a bad habit than a persisitent addiction. This means that they are taking briefer, more intense, approaches which tend to be 1-3 sessions. Personally, I favour the single session approach for stopping habits like vaping (and smoking). For more information about hypnotherapy sessions in general click here!
The case history
Should you go to a hypnotherapist to become stop vaping then they are likely to take a case history. In addition to some general details about your life they are going to be interested in a few vape related areas such as:
- What caused you to start vaping? – Was it to stop smoking? Was it just because it was the thing to do?
- When and where do you vape – For some people this is all the time (in bed, at work, on planes), but many vapers will have times and places where they are freer with it.
- What are your reasons for becoming a non-vaper? – These may vary from person to person, but common themes are health concerns and issues with the social acceptability of vaping.
Hypnotherapy for Vaping – Hypnotic trance
Hypnotic trance is usually entered by a combination of guided focusing and relaxation exercises. Sometimes a visualisation element may also be present. During the process the hypnotist moves the subjects focus of attention onto their inner mind. The effect of which is:
They enter a sleep like state – This differs from the sleep of bedtime in that the mind remains alert and to a degree aware. Most people find this state relaxing.
Creating change
Most hypnotherapists will do some combination of:
- Obtain unconscious buy in to change – Most hypnotherapists will look to create acceptance of the change within the unconscious. This is done in several ways from the use of suggestions and metaphors to psychodynamic approaches.
- Deconditioning of habits – This is where the therapist uses hypnotic suggestion or visualisation to overwrite the old habit behaviours with a new response.
- Emphasis benefits and positive future – Through a combination of suggestions and often visualisations patients are encouraged to acknowledge and even experience the future benefits of becoming a non-vaper.
Hypnotherapy for Vaping – Does it work?
Medical research is a slow business and at time of writing I have been unable to find any serious research on this topic. However, my experience with patients has been very positive so far, take this feed back for example from a review :
Call or email to find out more!
