Hypnosis for Smoking Cessation or Weight Management (separate programs)

How Hypnosis Works

The conscious mind is the part of the mind with which you are most familiar; the part that knows where you are and what you are doing at all times. If the conscious mind cannot see, touch or taste something, then it doesn't exist. Consequently, it is difficult to change unhealthy behavioral patterns by just using the conscious mind.

The subconscious mind works very much like a computer. Once something is programmed into the computer it remains that way until it is reprogrammed. The old programming repeats no matter how much your conscious mind wishes something else to occur, making it difficult to break long-standing patterns such as smoking.

Hypnosis is an "altered state of consciousness," similar to daydreaming or getting absorbed in a good book. During this altered state of consciousness, suggestions are able to bypass the conscious mind and can be fed directly into the subconscious, where they can be readily accepted and acted upon immediately.

Traditional smoking cessation and weight loss programs stop here, using only suggestions to help the participant stop smoking or lose weight. What makes Pathways' Smoking Cessation and Weight Loss programs different from the others?

Like other hypnosis programs Pathway's Hypnosis for Smoking Cessation and Weight Loss programs help participants reach an "altered state of consciousness" where suggestions can be readily accepted by the subconscious mind. However, this is where the similarity ends. Under the expert guidance of Dr. William Bezmen and Pathways staff, participants are able to go back to the origin of their smoking or weight problem and reprogram positive healthy thoughts where limiting, negative thoughts (blocks) reside. These new, more expansive thoughts allow participants to stop smoking or lose weight in a much more painless and effortless way than is usually the case when other approaches are used. These blocks prevent people from being as successful as they would like to be, and it is these blocks that are not addressed in other programs. That is why many people successfully stop smoking or lose weight for a while after attending a hypnosis smoking cessation or weight loss program, but find the old thinking and need to smoke or eat returning, and then go back to their old habits.

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