How to Become a Non-Smoker in 6 Steps If you've made the decision to kick the smoking habit once and for all, you’re going to want to keep reading. Why? Because the simple fact is that quitting cigarettes for more than just a few weeks, a few months or even a few years is a simple formula. A formula which you CANNOT take short cuts on. Having been a smoker myself and having helped more than 1,300 people quit smoking over the last 6 years, I’m now pretty confident that I know what it takes to not only stop smoking, but REMAIN a non-smoker.

1. How to Become a Non-Smoker in 6 Steps
If you've made the decision to kick the smoking habit once and for all, you’re
going to want to keep reading. Why? Because the simple fact is that quitting
cigarettes for more than just a few weeks, a few months or even a few years is
a simple formula. A formula which you CANNOT take short cuts on. Having
been a smoker myself and having helped more than 1,300 people quit smoking
over the last 6 years, I’m now pretty confident that I know what it takes to not
only stop smoking, butREMAIN a non-smoker.
The simple fact is that no matter what method you use to stop smoking, you're
going to have to put in some serious effort and comittment. no one can do it
for you. However with the right preparation you make this journey a little
easier for yourself and this is the purposeof this artricle.
Now, I’m going to be totally honest here and tell you something that my
hypnotherapist colleagues would probably shot me for telling you, and that is:
with the right mindset YOU CAN QUIT SMOKING ON YOUR OWN!! That’s right.
Although I do help people quit with Hypnosis and Neuro Linguistic Programing
(NLP), all you really need to kick the habit once and for all is the right mindset
and then perhaps a few tips and techniques. And guess what? You’re going to
get both of those things in this short blog, hence if you are REALLY ready to
quit, I think you’ll find this a worthwhile read and Hypnosis for Quit Smoking
Sydney.
You might have heard some of the things I’m going to share with you below,
BUT, I’m sure you’ll also read a thing or two that you may not have heard
before or known about cigarettes, smoking and quitting. If you get even just
one tip, idea or technique that makes your next attempt more successful, then
I’m sure you’d agree that this blog will have been worth your time. You just
never know what small piece of advice might be the difference that makes the
difference.
It’s important to know right up front that without the right mental preparation
beforehand, no stop smoking aid is going to part the skies for you and 'work'.
Every method will require you to put in some effort and commitment to say no
when you’re faced with the opportunity to smoke during those inevitable
moments when you’ll be tested.
Here's ths seceret to having ANY stop smoking aid work for you . . .

2. YOU MAKEIT WORK!
I really want to stress that because I often speak to smokers who want
something to do all the work for them. They are the exact people who will
inevitablly find quitting a struggle. Having said that, here's the interesting
paradox, the people who are 100% comitted to making the aid work for them
are always the ones who find the aid to be amazingly helpful. Hm . . . does this
seem interesting to you?
Here's another simple fact. Once you have decided to stop smoking you are
going to find one of two things that will determine how sucessful you are at
remaining a non-smoker for the restof your life and that is either:
1) An excuse to smoke, or
2) The comittment to be stronger than your excuses.
PERIOD!Pretty simple really.
I’m now going to share with you the 6 Steps to PERMANENTLY Stop Smoking
Hypnosis Sydney.
Step 1: It’s not enough to know you should quit, need to quit or have to quit.
You have to WANT to quit! Some smokers want all the obvious benefits of not
smoking WITHOUT quitting cigarettes, and this obviously isn’t going to happen.
One way to create a MASSIVE want to quit is to get COMPLETELY clear on as
many reasons to quit as possible. Take out a piece of paper or use your ‘notes’
section on your smart phone and write at the top of the page: ‘I decided to quit
on (day/month/year) for the following reasons…’ and then write down each
and every reason WHY you really really want to quit. The key here is to be as
specific as possible. Eg; don’t just write ‘for my health’, but ‘increased lung
capacity’ or ‘increased endurance’ etc. Once you have this list it’s up to you to
use it by keeping it close to you and looking at it often, morning and night, not
only leading up to the day you quit, but also every time after your quit date
whenever you are contemplating a cigarette.
Step 2: Increase your belief that you actually CAN quit by understanding that
smoking is MORE of a psychological habit rather than a drug addiction. You
may already have this belief but the more you can reinforce it the more
empowered you’re going to be able to quit on your own. You see too many

3. smokers have bought into the idea that they are drug addicts addicted to
nicotine, so it gives them an excuse and reinforces a disempowering story,
which is the exact story the drug companies want you to believe. But if quitting
was all about ‘nicotine’ then the patch would work every time for everyone,
but it doesn’t! The simple fact is that no replacement therapy is going to give
you the mindset needed to quit. The fact that second hand smokers don’t feel
the need to rush out and start smoking but can get the same illnesses as a
smoker is another proof that the cigarette smoke is bad for your body but
doesn’t get you ‘hooked’ on cigarettes. And how do you form and maintain a
habit? By the repetition of an action. Since it takes about 10 draws to finish a
cigarette if you multiply the number of cigarettes you’re having in a day by 10
that’s how many times you’re bringing your fingers to your lips a day. Big
number isn’t it?
Hypnotherapy in Sydney - But the biggest test if a drug or chemical is truly
addictive to the body or not is to notice what happens to the body when you
stop taking it all of a sudden. The really addictive drugs out there are heroin,
cocaine and amphetamines. If you’re a daily user of any of these kinds of drugs
and have been for a while and you try to stop all of a sudden, you’re going to
feel some SERIOUS withdraw symptoms. Things like severe vomiting, shaking,
sweating, muscle cramps, insomnia etc. Now who goes through this when they
quit cigarettes? Nothing like that. Another indicator is to see the effects of the
drug on new born babies. Of course we all know that cigarette smoke is bad for
an unborn child, but it only elevates the risk of an effect on them, it’s not a
guarantee. But if the mother is addicted to any of the hard drugs mentioned
above, that new born is going to be an addicted mess 100% of the time!
The mind body connection is just SO powerful and smokers prove this to
themselves every time they walk into an airport and jump on an airplane for 10
to 13 hours. You see the moment you walk into an airport you have the
mindset of ‘smoking just isn’t an option’ and so your brain produces the
corresponding chemicals associated with that kind of mental conviction, it
sends these chemicals to your cells and you feel fine. BUT, as soon as that
plane starts to descend and your mindset switches from ‘it’s not possible’ to ‘I
can have one in 20 minutes’, your brain now produces those corresponding
chemicals, feeds them to your cells and all of a sudden you feel anxious, edgy
and irritable. The drug companies will tell you that’s nicotine withdraw but if
that’s true why weren’t you experiencing those feelings 1 hr into the flight?
Hm . . . So the message here is get a 100% conviction that smoking just isn’t an
option so your brain can do it’s job and support you with the brain chemistry
that will allow you to FEEL like quitting is easy.

4. Step 3: Prepare for your ‘STOP Day’ by starting to break your habit and routine
of smoking and slowly starting to reduce the cigarettes you’re having. There
are a few ways to do this. Start by asking yourself how many cigarettes you
think you REALLY can’t go without (it’s probably a LOT less than you’re having
in a day), and put those cigarettes in a separate container and only bring those
ones for the day leaving the rest of the packet at home. This forces you to
think about the ones you’re having more and eliminates the ones you’re
smoking literally on automatic pilot which you could have gone without. It’s no
guarantee you won’t just go buy more, but it’ll make it harder and that’s the
point.
Start trying to delay as many smokes as you can by putting them off by 20 or
30 minutes. During the times that you’re smoking leading up to your quit day
start to think of yourself as a non-smoker by contemplating the other things
you could (and will) be doing in that moment when you’re not smoking. Be
familiar with your triggers and start to mentally prepare a plan of attack as to
how and what you’re going to do instead from that day onwards. At least a
week or two before your quit day start to use a clear glass jar, at least 1ltr in
size for your ash tray and butts. Start to collect them all and slowly top it up
with water. Take a look at it often as it builds. This can be used after your quit
day as well. Any time you THINK you want a cigarette, just look at this jar or
take a smell of it and this should kill your urge pretty quickly. Realise that
studies have shown it takes 21 days to break a habit so make this your hump
day and give yourself a chance to adapt to a new routine.
Step 4: The day you decide to quit your body is going to be going through a
detox process and some may feel this process a little more than others. The
good news is that it only takes 3 to 5 days for every chemical in a cigarette to
leave your body. There are 2 simple things you can do to support your body
during this process and that is having plenty of natural sugars and drink plenty
of water. Why natural sugars? Because what a lot of people don’t know about
cigarettes is that there is a LOT of sugar in cigarettes! Yep, that’s right, 8 to
18% of one cigarette is sugar. Surprised? Most people are when they hear that.
You see when they harvest tobacco from the fields to get rid of the foul,
horrible, disgusting, bitter taste of raw tobacco they soak the leaves in large
vats of sugar water where all kinds of flavouring and additives called ‘casings’
are then added to the tobacco.
Hypnotist for Confidence near me, It’s for this reason that smokers stick to
their ‘smooth’ brand because they get used to the distinct flavour. There’s
even sugar in the paper that it’s wrapped in. So what does this mean? It means

5. that when you stop smoking all of a sudden your blood sugar levels are going
to drop and then you’ll experience the same things that diabetics experience
when they have a blood sugar drop. This includes headaches, moodiness,
irritability, slight hand shaking, all the things that the drug companies call
‘nicotine withdraws’. The simple solution is to have natural sugars which
include fruit juice, fruit and honey. Try to avoid artificial sweets like soft drinks,
energy drinks, lollies, chocolates, desserts and sweets. These give you a sugar
rush and then a sugar crash, just like kids experience when they have that
stuff.
The water is obviously important because our bodies are 75% water but the
chemicals in cigarettes prevent your cells from absorbing water. It’s for this
reason that smoking has the aging effect on skin because your cells are literally
starved of water. It’s also what people are noticing when they might say that
you look great after quitting. What they are observing is more water in your
eyes and skin. Drinking plenty of water will help your detox process happen a
lot faster and will help with circulation and as your circulation improves so will
every other system and organ in your body. It also prevents most headaches. I
suggest drinking at least 2 litres a day long term and the natural sugar intake
for about 2 weeks.
Step 5: Be mindful and have a plan to prepare yourself for your old triggers
ESPECIALLY the two most common reasons why people relapse: stress and
alcohol! Don’t let these scenarios trick you. Start by researching stress
management techniques. There are plenty of simple processes one can learn
to cope with small and major life stressors. Deep breathing techniques are fast,
simple yet effective. Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT is also a fast and
simple process which I regularly use and teach my clients. Its roots are in
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and It works with the body’s meridian
lines where the life force or ‘chi’ is said to flow through. Stress is said to be a
sign that these channels are blocked and releasing them through either
acupuncture, acupressure massage or even just tapping, as in EFT, it can
stimulate the flow of the energy, release the block and bring the body back to
its natural state of wellbeing in body mind and spirit. Or you can try exercise,
yoga, meditation, reading, walking, hot baths etc. Anything that helps you to
unwind and detach is going to help.
Beware of alcohol and its ability to reduce your decision making ability which
can easily lead to thinking like: ‘well, maybe just a puff, one won’t hurt, I’ve
gone ages, I deserve it’ etc. You might feel you need to go without a drink for
the first week or two. Or use your reasons for quitting list, read it on your way

6. to your party or night out so you can reinforce to yourself the reasons you
made the decision to quit.
Step 6: Use your own subconscious mind to become a non-smoker. One easy
way to do this is to make use of two naturally occurring hypnotic states during
your day. This is the moment just before you fall asleep at night and just when
you’ve woken up in the morning. It may not be a long time, but you only need
a couple of minutes during that half-awake/half-asleep state to send powerful
imagery to your unconscious mind. During this state visualise yourself looking
at a movie screen and seeing yourself right in the middle of a moment in your
day that use to be a trigger but as a NON-SMOKER. Make the picture bright,
sharp, vivid, focussed, colourful, hear the sounds you would hear, feel the
feelings of being a confident non-smoker in that moment. Shrink the image to
the size of a postcard; imagine holding it in front of you, still seeing yourself in
the image. Then imagine floating out above a timeline to some unspecified
time in the future where you’re going to drop the postcard as it slots into your
future timeline. Then imagine floating back to now. Once you know the
process it only takes 3 minutes to do.
BONUS Step: Get help from an expert! If all else fails, get in touch with an
expert on quitting who not only understands the mindset needed to quit, but is
also equipped to work with you on a subconscious level to help disconnect the
deeper connections to the smoking habit. Although I know what I have shared
can help you quit, if you come across the right tool which address the smoking
problem at its CAUSE, it can feel like such an easier battle to win.
Nick Terrone is a psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, speaker author and a
HeartMath® Certified Coach/Mentor. He has healed thousands of people from
addictive behaviours and relationship problems over the past 15 years in
private practice, government organisations and schools. Of Italian heritage,
‘Terrone” means ‘person of the earth’.
As a teenager, Nick asked himself three big questions that would help shape
not only his life but also his career.