I believe hypnosis *can* work but not for everyone. Even if it's nothing but a placebo effect, who cares as long as it helps?
That's the whole point..... you don't want something that helps temporarily...... you want something that ends your problem completely.
Going to a hypnotist is like taking novocaine for a bad tooth and not drilling or pulling it. You're only putting something off for a while. If all you wanna do is mask a problem, take all the nicotine patches and gum, the hypnotists and shocking programs and just make
YOUR problem their problem so you can say the program failed and not you.
C'mon, stand up and be responsible for yourself. Only
YOU can light up a cigarette and stick it in and out of your mouth a dozen or so times sucking on it and wheeze out the smoke. These other remedies are only there to make money in hopes you will be back.... because they already know for the vast majority.... they don't work.
You've already stated the best reasons to quit.... your kids and to be around them. Don't you wanna see them graduate or get married and play with the grandkids ?? I'm sure you don't have in mind your grandkids asking Grandma..... what was pop-pop like ??
Slowing down or just smoking at parties or on weekends is for pussies. If you wanna quit....
QUIT. Don't be wishy-washy or you'll talk yourself out of it again.
Set up a plan and a goal.
You want some help ??
Get a quart jar [
empty] with a spin on/off lid. Fill it with cigarette ashes and butts about 3/4's of the way up. Add some water and screw the lid on tightly. Now...... after a day or two..... unscrew the lid and take a deep-deep breath and put the lid back on. See if you feel like lighting up ?? For the next few days... anytime you get the urge to light up.... smell that jar for 15 seconds and see if you still wanna light up. After 72 hours you're about 99% free of the drugs or nicotine in your system. Now you can begin the plan of breaking the habit, because you body will no longer be desiring or needing it..... it's fully your responsibility after this point. Stay out of places you usually found it easy to smoke for maybe two or three months. Get some stirrer sticks [
mixed drinks] and use it as a device to put up to your mouth every so often and take a drag of just air. Remember, you have to break the habit of putting things in your mouth.
I'm still a believer that the routine inhaling and exhaling for two or three minutes was like deep breathing exercising, so a few times a day, do some deep breathing.... besides, it calms you down a little. After three months.... you are actually cured for good. The rest is on your constitution and how strong a will you have or not.
Wanna see those grandkids in 20 years ??