A Change of Mind

by Chris Holmes

In the long-running debate about whether tobacco-smoking is a habit or an addiction, this series of books is surely the last word. Here, the notion that it's a drug addiction is systematically torn apart, and smoking is emphatically re-defined as a Compulsive Habit, which hypnotherapy can shut down.

In Volume I, most of the emphasis was on destroying the myth of nicotine addiction - identifying nicotine as a poison, not a drug - and defining the Compulsive Habit as distinct from addiction. The single most useful aspect of all that, for practical purposes in therapy, is for us to be able to recognise that cravings are not withdrawal symptoms and are not connected to nicotine in any way.

This Volume is mainly about the beliefs that commonly support the habit, and many other incorrect notions which we routinely change with hypnotherapy - one of which is that hypnotherapy is a load of mumbo-jumbo and it won’t work. This is quite a common piece of ignorance, but not everyone holds that belief. Beliefs are simply ideas that you have ceased to question for the time being, and they are not set in stone.

322 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 28, 2014