Hypnosis Stop Smoking event

[Glassman]

Sooooo... I still haven't been able to drop cigarettes, last week my MIL was told she likely has lung cancer, and next weekend there's a hypnosis smoking cessation seminar coming to town..
I know it can work as a friend of mine didn't even want to quit smoking but went to one with his wife, and hasn't smoked since.
I'd like to drop the cigs, but my fear is it will ruin cigars for me...
What do you guys think?

 

[CVAC085]

I'm not a cigarette smoker, but I've been told that it changes the cigar profile for the better. But then again, their palate could be complete opposite to yours. So YMMV.The road might not be easy, but if you have a great support system of friends and family to keep you moving forward and quitting, IMHO by all means do it.

I know all too well the feeling of that hated "C" word. Hopefully, super early detection and it can be treated. Keeping you and the fam in my prayers. My dad's friend was a heavy cig smoker and when he found out about my Dad, he dropped them cold turkey and hasn't smoked since then.

 

[Glassman]

Well, I know quitting cigs should help my palate, my fear is that the hypnosis will take away my desire and enjoyment of cigars... :/

 

[CVAC085]

Well, I know quitting cigs should help my palate, my fear is that the hypnosis will take away my desire and enjoyment of cigars... :/

Any chance of reading up on it to see if it'll take away your love of cigars???? Maybe from people who previously smoked???

 

[Juice]

No experience with hypnosis myself but I’d go and ask. Let them know you are not interested in the addiction of cigs but enjoy cigars as a hobby. Hopefully there is a difference for their program.

If you don’t go that way and wanna try to reduce/quit you might consider the e-cig route. I used them as a tool to quit a few years back, really helped me taper down the nic level until I just didn’t wanna smoke anymore the. I put down the e-cig. If you are at all interested in that route feel free to PM me and I’ll link you to some material on what’s out there now.

 

[Boudie]

Glassman, call and ask them how hypnosis works. I though hypnosis substituted something you want to stop doing with something that you didn't mind doing. Inquiring minds want to know?

BTW the best way to quit cigarettes is to quit buying them and stay away from people that do!

 

[Unpossible_1]

I feel like it's different for everyone. My SO quite smoking through both pregnancies and had no issues, and didn't need anything. Some folks need tons of help kicking the habit during the same time. I've smoked cigarettes, and did smokeless. I have no interest in either. I just decided to stop doing them both. I'm sure it couldn't hurt to try though. Worst that could happen is you never come out of the trance, like in Office Space.

 

[multi-useless]

@Glassman Jeremy, it was the "ear staple" that worked for me, that was like 5 years ago and I haven't had a cigarette since. It's an acupuncture thing where they stick a metal staple in your ear, kinda like a cross between an earring, and a nail in the side of your head like that guy from Happy Gilmore.

Combined with patches and gum (neither of which had worked for me before), and finally making the commitment to quit instead of a half-assed attempt to cut back, it wasn't all that bad and didn't ruin my ability to enjoy a cigar - although for a while there, I regressed from smoking Nicaraguan maduros to lightweight stuff like NC Montecristo bc I couldn't handle the nicotine.

Anyway, they say you have to really want to quit for any method of quitting to work, and I think that's true, but the staple sure made it a lot easier for me

 

[Boudie]

I can see how the ear staple thing would work. If you smoke another cigarette, I'm going to staple your other ear. After that we start stapling things below the belt buckle!

Glassman, you could just tell your wife that if she see's you smoking another cigarette she can start removing finger tips on the other hand. Bet that will make you quit!

 

[Glassman]

I can see how the ear staple thing would work. If you smoke another cigarette, I'm going to staple your other ear. After that we start stapling things below the belt buckle!

Glassman, you could just tell your wife that if she see's you smoking another cigarette she can start removing finger tips on the other hand. Bet that will make you quit!

Well, that won't happen, she's a pretty big fan of the fingers on that hand....

 

[Boudie]

I guess tongue piercings are out also!

 

[BloodWood]

Nothing to do with the hypno aspect, but two sides of the same coin.
a. My BIL quit cigs after 20 years. After introducing him to cigars he quickly went back to cigs. Had to re-quit cigs all over again.
b. An old army salt I worked with smoked cigs for some 30+ years until quitting.
Took up cigars, but didn't fall back into cigs.
Though, at lunch he'd hit his car and speed herf a Robusto or Toro vitola. He also did this before and after work.
He swears up and down he doesn't inhale, but I think otherwise.

 

[Patrickh44231]

Hey I know what we can do. I'll quit with you so well have support together(no homo) and if its pick back up the other has to be honest and bet something ridiculous on it. Like a whole box of ccs? Is that reasonable or obscene? Either way I'll quit with ya bro. For our own better health I guess.

 

[Glassman]

Hey I know what we can do. I'll quit with you so well have support together(no homo) and if its pick back up the other has to be honest and bet something ridiculous on it. Like a whole box of ccs? Is that reasonable or obscene? Either way I'll quit with ya bro. For our own better health I guess.

Heh, I totally would but I can't even afford postage for a bomb right now...
But yeah, gotta quit for health, finances, productivity and marital harmony...

 

[Glassman]

https://www.reddit.com/r/cigars/comments/2k8cku/quitting_cigs_while_smoking_cigars_advice/

 

[Mossome]

Are you at all worried that after the session every time you hear a doorbell you’ll start clucking like a chicken?

 

[sean]

I quit cigarettes while smoking cigars... I was still getting my vitamin N, but had to retrain myself as to when I was going to get it... once I realized how much better cigars tasted when I wasn't smoking cigarettes, I would use that as a proverbial carrot and talk to myself like, "You could smoke a cigarette now, and crumble like a crybaby, or you could exercise self restraint like a big boy, and really enjoy the F**K out of a cigar later. Which one is it going to be Sean?"

After a while, I stopped thinking about cigarettes.

 

[icehog3]

Hypnosis "works" by the power of suggestion. Tell the hypnotist that you only want to avoid cigarettes....if you are a person that hypnosis works for, it will only be what he suggested that hypnosis would make you want to avoid.

 

[Glassman]

Hypnosis "works" by the power of suggestion. Tell the hypnotist that you only want to avoid cigarettes....if you are a person that hypnosis works for, it will only be what he suggested that hypnosis would make you want to avoid.

Well, under some further study it seems that almost anyone (outside of people with mental disconnects) can achieve hypnotic states, (same phenomenon as driving and not remembering a portion of the drive). Fewer people have the mental inclination to do so in such a way to allow a stage hypnotist to lead them into foolishness. (but entertainment hypnotists are good at picking them out.)
But most people can allow themselves to be hypnotized into breaking down the subconscious barriers preventing them from accomplishing something they really want to do.

 

[Glassman]

I kinda cheated and did a stop smoking hypnosis hypnosis video on YouTube this afternoon and haven't had a cigarette since... With no severe craving.!
Not particularly enjoying this intemperance BA as much as usual at the moment either, but hopefully that's just a palate fluke.