In my early days in hypnosis I wanted to change the world and fix all smokers, but I realized it was impossible and it took me a while to figure out why.

Imagine a straight line and a quarter of the way from each end there is another line that crosses the first.

The fourth on the far right represents crossing the threshold of total commitment to change.

The fourth on the far left represents crossing the threshold of total commitment to stay the same or keep the habit.

The middle half is where most smokers live. You may want to keep smoking, but you know you need to quit. You can talk about quitting and even make frequent attempts to quit, but you keep failing.

Maybe others are pressuring you to quit and you agree that they are right, but you are not quite ready.

Or you are fed up with smoking but still need to do so to relax or stop your boredom.

The problem with this middle ground is that it is a very stressful place to live, you constantly feel guilty or beat yourself up. You keep trying and failing. One day you want to quit smoking, but then you go out for a drink with your friends and you like to smoke.

You may be the person who jokes by saying “I quit easily, I do it every Monday”, but other than the jokes, you are not having much fun.

My suggestion is that you start a concerted process to move forward and cross the threshold to quit smoking, with a strong commitment to never go back and never go back.

Or just cross the left hand threshold and declare that you will smoke as long as you want and never make excuses for your behavior. The advantage is that you no longer have the pressure to be in the middle ground, you can relax and smoke to your heart’s content.

However, you must accept the reality that you can get sick and possibly die, and that you made that decision and will have to live with the consequences.

Ultimately, it is your life, but if you want to stop using hypnosis, the most powerful method available, then doing it with the far left mindset is hopeless, doing it from the center has a modest success rate, but using hypnosis To quit smoking you are practically guaranteed to quit for life.