| One common trait amongst smokers is that they | | | | those which may be unique to you. The more |
| all have a set of triggers which cause them to | | | | unusual the better, because these may be the |
| light up a cigarette. Understanding these triggers is | | | | ones which are most important to identify if you |
| critical in order to quit smoking for life. | | | | wish to quit smoking successfully. |
| In order to quit smoking it is important that you | | | | The reason that identifying your triggers is so |
| clearly identify all of your triggers. Your triggers | | | | important is that your triggers become your |
| are all those rituals you have created around | | | | habits. These habits become entrenched, and this |
| smoking. All those little connections you have | | | | is one of the big problems in quitting smoking. |
| between your life habits and cigarettes. | | | | After the effect of nicotine is long removed from |
| When you get in your car, and you light up. Cars | | | | your system it's the habits which may be the |
| don't make people smoke it's just a ritual which | | | | most difficult to shake. |
| has become a habit. A relaxing coffee or tea and | | | | It is the memory of these triggers which can foil |
| a smoke. How about a beer or rum and coke and | | | | an ex smoker 10 or 20 years in the future. For |
| a smoke. | | | | some reason they find themselves in a situation |
| Lighting up at the end of a meal. Dating back to a | | | | where the smoking habit memory is triggered. |
| time when the men would retire for port and | | | | They rationalise by saying it was just one |
| cigars. | | | | cigarette. |
| In the Edwardian era when the suffragette | | | | Of course any smoker who has quit and |
| women would gather in the vegetarian | | | | restarted will tell you that there is rarely such a |
| restaurants of London and smoke, which was a | | | | thing, as just one smoke! |
| way to express their freedom. | | | | During an advanced hypnosis session your triggers |
| The phone rings and it's a friend. You reach for a | | | | will be weaved into the structure of the dialogue. |
| cigarette, here is another popular ritual. How about | | | | By personalising the process it's another way we |
| the classic moment, of lighting up after a romantic | | | | can be extremely confident that you will quit in |
| encounter! This was a popular scene in many 60's | | | | just 60 minutes. |
| and 70's movies. | | | | Most will never re-experience the need to smoke |
| What are your triggers? Those I've listed are | | | | but some will always need to be be wary of |
| quite common. But it's very important to identify | | | | being tricked into smoking again. |