Quitting smoking – “Tomorrow never comes”

I recently had and on-again off-again email exchange with a client who wanted to quit smoking. She had been referred to New Farm Hypnotherapy by some friends who had successfully quit smoking after visiting the clinic. After enquiring about our Smoke Free program and what might be the most effective way for her to quit smoking she made an appointment for the following Tuesday. The day before her appointment she emailed and postponed for a few days and this became a pattern over the next couple of weeks and in the end, she didn’t come at all.

This is not uncommon for people who want to quit smoking, in fact, most smokers put off quitting until “tomorrow.” At the time they decide to quit, the decision seems final and it seems like the right thing to do – tomorrow. The problem is that day after day, week after week, month after month, tomorrow never comes.

70% of smokers want to quit smoking

Research shows that more that 70% of smokers want to quit smoking and more that 40% try to quit in any given year so, if you are a smoker the chances are you want to quit and there is an almost 50/50 chance that you will try to do so at some time in the next 12 months.

So, is it “tomorrow” yet for you? You probably have doubts about quitting smoking and you may have tried before and not succeeded. You may feel like the time isn’t quite right. You probably also feel that there is a part of you that wants to keep smoking, a bit like wanting to hold on to a familiar habit or behaviour  that once was fun but now isn’t helpful anymore. That’s okay, in fact it’s normal and that you are reading this, means that the scales are tipping in favour of your health and freedom – it means that at some level you are ready to stop smoking.

Hypnotherapy is an easy and effective way to release yourself from the power that smoking holds over you. The reason that it’s so effective is that by using hypnotherapy when you quit you overcome all three dependencies that come with smoking. The physical, psychological and habitual are dealt with allowing you to move forward enjoying better health, a great feeling of personal achievement as well as saving a lot of money.  A client told me a few days ago that his pack of 40 cigarettes cost $38.40, this equates to about $1.00 per cigarette. Most people we see smoke about 25 cigarettes a day which means that quitting smoking saves each person we see more than $9000 a year. Do that for 25 years and that adds up to $225,000 or half the cost of a home.

At Brisbane Hypnosis Clinic / New Farm Hypnotherapy we love helping people quit smoking permanently knowing that it’s the single most important thing they can do to secure the long term health and financial freedom.

Our Smoke Free program uses hypnosis to help you make the changes you need in both your conscious and subconscious mind so that you find the process as painless and stress free as possible. When you leave the clinic after your second session you’ll feel like smoking is something you’ve let behind and don’t need to do anymore. And, you can be confident in knowing that you will remain a non-smoker for life and having helped clients for more than 20 years we’ll be there to go be you all of the support you need.

About New Farm Hypnotherapy’s Smoke Free Program

The Smoke Free program comprises of two hypnotherapy sessions usually a week apart and we’ll also give you MP3 self-hypnosis audio programs to support you so you can get the best out of your sessions. You need to allow 90 minutes for the first session and about an hour for the second and you’ll leave not smoking after your second session.

You can find out more about the Smoke Free program here, and our FAQ for smokers are answered here.

If you need help to quit smoking, hypnotherapy is a great way of achieving your goal and improving your health and wellbeing. We’re friendly and approachable and can help you quit permanently and painlessly.

Call us on 07 3254 1373, email appointments@brisbanehypnosisclinic.com.au or fill in the form below and you can start to make the changes you want.

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It’s That Time of the Year Again

New Year Resolutions 2017

Tomorrow is December 1st and university semesters are over for the year, school is almost finished and most of us have started planning our holidays with family and friends.
It’s usually after the holidays, between Christmas and the New Year that our thoughts turn to the immediate past and to the future. We think about the year just past perhaps with satisfaction or maybe with a twinge of disappointment as we remember the things we’d planned to do or change and realise that we’ve not quite achieved what we would have liked.

If we don’t attain our goals it’s often because of a lack of planning and follow through. Most of us don’t consider what we’d like to achieve in the future until the turn of the year, we then plan in a hurry without much thought and certainly without the planning necessary to help us to follow through and achieve our goals and dreams.

The French pilot and philosopher Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote;

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”

To turn our wishes into reality we need a plan and plans take time to develop, own and realise. If you’re wishing for 2017 to be somehow different and better than 2016, now is the time to begin to dream, thinking plan.

Hypnotherapy is a powerful way of releasing your creative unconscious mind and resolving issues that may be hindering you from achieving your best. At Brisbane Hypnosis Clinic we help people just like you overcome anxiety, and reach their unconscious potential using hypnotherapy.

If you have dreams for 2017 and need a little help realising them, start planning to succeed now, not on New Year’s eve. All us on 07 3254 1373 or email us, come and see us at New Farm Hypnotherapy and let us help you achieve your very best.

What to stop doing to achieve your goals

Even though unwanted or bad habits can stop us from achieving what we want, they can be hard to break.
Here are 6 habits that need to be broken if we are going to be successful.

1. Stop Quitting

Achieving our best is never easy yet the temptation is to quit when things get difficult. Perseverance and working through the hard times is what makes people successful.

2. Stop Procrastinating

If you don’t want to do something today, the chances are you won’t want to do it tomorrow either. Refer to point 1, things may be difficult hard,but they wont be any easier tomorrow. Break things down into smaller steps so they seem manageable, take the first step and get it done.

3. Stop being a Victim

We can all be successful if we put our minds to it so don’t say your stuck or you don’t have a choice. We all have choice and ofter the only thing holding us back is ourselves and our thinking. We make decisions every day that hold us back when we need to start making decisions that help us in life, that help you reach our dream goal. No one else is responsible for the decisions we make other than ourselves.

4. Stop saying Yes

We all have a limited amount of time and don’t have much to waste. It is important to say no to people who will waste our time. When we say no to the unimportant and stop saying yes to everything that comes our way we free up more time than you can imagine.

5. Stop Expecting

No one can read our minds and no one knows what we want in life unless we tell them. No one knows we want something from them unless we specifically say it. When we stop expecting and start voicing our concerns or issues things start happening much faster.

6. Stop Avoiding

There are always things we don’t want to do, everyone has a list of stuff they hate but it doesn’t mean we can avoid doing them. Not everything is fun, or something you are passionate about. Sometimes we have to do things we don’t want to. Suck it up. Generally avoidance causes problems later.

If you need help getting it all together and achieving your potential hypnotherapy is a great way of getting focused and achieving your goals. We’re friendly and approachable and can help you decide on a program that suits you perfectly.

Call us on 07 3254 1373, email appointments@brisbanehypnosisclinic.com.au or fill in the form below and you can start to make the changes you want.

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Achieving your weight loss goals isn’t rocket science

We all know what’s necessary to reach goals whatever they may be and that’s commitment, perseverance and adhering to a few basic principles. This is true when it comes to achieving lasting weight control, energy expended must equal or exceed energy consumed. So what are the basic rules that help our clients achieve their weight loss goals?

1. Eating healthy food: the closer to the farm, the better it’s likely to be. This is quite easy to do, instead of prowling the inner aisles of the supermarket keep to the outside where the fresh produce is displayed.
2. Use a smaller plate: We all love to fill our plates to the when we sit down to a nice meal. Something about it makes it feel more satisfying that way. But the fact is, the average dinner plate, even when filled with nutritious healthy food is still going to be excessive in quantity because dinner plates have grown over the past 20 years. The average size is around 20 centimetres and if you fill this to the brim, you’re going to eat too much. So choose a smaller plate that you really like, buy a nice one if you need to  and you’ll naturally eat less while still enjoying the psychological benefit of visually enjoying a full plate of food.
3. Reset your love of fast food: For most of us the purchase of fast food is either an impulsive or an emotional decision. To stop the impulse, we have to exercise willpower and willpower can result in a sense of feeling deprived or somehow restricted. Using hypnosis you can change this response and healthy habits become enjoyable as your attitude to food changes.
4. Move your body: the human body is made to move, movement keeps us healthy, fit and supple. An essential part of any weight management program is taking a reasonable amount of responsible healthy exercise.
5. Use hypnosis to get and stay motivated: hypnosis can help you achieve all of these principles by keeping you motivated and on track. Our clients enjoy achieving their weight loss goals because hypnotherapy makes it seem natural and easy instead of a chore.

If you’re having trouble with weight control and diets and fads haven’t worked for you, try losing weight in a completely natural and safe way without feeling deprived. It might take a little linger that a crash diet but the results with be there to stay because you’ll have changed the way you think about food and healthy living.

To use hypnotherapy for weight loss and to achieve your goals, we’ve friendly and approachable and can help you decide on a program that suits you perfectly.

Call us on 07 3254 1373, email appointments@brisbanehypnosisclinic.com.au or fill in the form below and you can start to make the changes you want.

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At the start of most years may of is take the time to reflect on what we have achieved, what we would like to change and perhaps even what we’d like to change. We make promises and commitments to ourselves by that somehow the coming year will be different.
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