Hypnosis Scripts for Smoking Cessation

 
by Daniel Lester
(NOTE TO THERAPIST)
(Prior to starting your induction)
(Tell client, You are not going to quit smoking today. If you quit smoking you are subject to
cravings and desires for cigarettes or tobacco in any form. If you quit smoking you are subject to
have cravings or desires for cigarettes or tobacco. If you quit smoking you are subject to have
withdrawal Symptoms or to gain excessive weight.
Today, you are going to become a nonsmoker. As a nonsmoker it is as though you never smoked in
the first place. So there isn’t any need for you to ever have cravings or desires for cigarettes or
tobacco in any form. As a nonsmoker there isn’t any need for you to ever have withdrawal
Symptoms or to gain excessive weight. Because as a nonsmoker it is as though you never smoked in
the first place.)
Begin with your favorite induction and deepener.
(Say clients name) Listen very carefully as you focus your attention only on the sound of my voice,
allowing any fleeting thoughts and any noises to fade into the distance, focusing only on the sound
of my voice. As you allow yourself to float and drift deeper and deeper relaxed with every gentle
breath that you exhale. Your subconscious mind is open and ready to accept every suggestion
offered to it for positive change. I’m going to ask you to use your imagination and to imagine
certain things – in this very deep relaxed state of mind you find it easy to imagine or visualize the
things that I suggest – as the sound of my voice helps you to become even more deeply relaxed.
From now until the end of this session every suggestion offered to you for positive change is so
deeply embedded in you subconscious mind that they take complete and through control over your
mind body and spirit.
(Say clients name) The reason you are here today is because you have made up your mind. You
have made a final discussion to be a non-smoker. And as a non-smoker it is as though you never
smoked in the first place, so there isn’t any need for you to ever have cravings or desires for
cigarettes or tobacco in any form. As a nonsmoker there isn’t any need for you to ever have
withdrawal symptoms or to gain excessive weight. Because, as a nonsmoker, it is as though you
never smoked in the first place.
Part 2,
(NOTE TO THERAPIST)
Begin with your favorite induction and deepener.
(Say clients name) Listen very carefully as you focus your attention only on the sound of my voice,
allowing any fleeting thoughts and any noises to fade into the distance, focusing only on the sound
of my voice. As you allow yourself to float and drift deeper and deeper relaxed with every gentle
breath that you exhale. Your subconscious mind is open and ready to accept every suggestion
offered to it for positive change. I’m going to ask you to use your imagination and to imagine
certain things – in this very deep relaxed state of mind you find it easy to imagine or visualize the
things that I suggest – as the sound of my voice helps you to become even more deeply relaxed.
From now until the end of this session every suggestion offered to you for positive change is so
deeply embedded in you subconscious mind that they take complete and through control over your
mind body and spirit.
(Say clients name) The reason you are here today is because you have made up your mind. You
have made a final discussion to be a non-smoker. And as a non-smoker it is as though you never
smoked in the first place, so there isn’t any need for you to ever have cravings or desires for
cigarettes or tobacco in any form. As a nonsmoker there isn’t any need for you to ever have
withdrawal symptoms or to gain excessive weight. Because, as a nonsmoker, it is as though you
never smoked in the first place.
Part 3,
(NOTE TO THERAPIST)
(Say clients name) I want you to reflect back for a moment to all the success you have already had
in your life, and I want you to be proud of all the positive aspects of your life. Your creativity, your
intelligence, and your ability to be a non-smoker and to remain a non-smoker the rest of your life.
From this moment forward you are a non-smoker. And as a non-smoker it is as though you never
smoked in the first place, so there isn’t any need for you to ever have cravings or desires for
cigarettes or tobacco in any form. As a nonsmoker there isn’t any need for you to ever have
withdrawal symptoms or to gain excessive weight. Because, as a nonsmoker, it is as though you
never smoked in the first place.
(Say clients name) You have made up you mind; you have made a final decision to reject all that is
unhealthy and harmful to you. And you know from the bottom of your mind, body and spirit that
cigarettes or tobacco in any form is unhealthy and harmful to you.
(Say Clients name) You have made up your mind, you have made a final decision to be a non-
smoker for yourself, you have made up your mind, you have made a final decision to be a non-
smoker for your health, You have made up your mind, you have made a final decision to be a non-
smoker for your well-being, so that you can live a happier healthier life for yourself and your loved
ones.
Part 4,
(NOTE TO THERAPIST)
(Say Clients name) I want you to imagine yourself going through the routine of your day, doing all
the things that you would normally be doing, but I want you to see yourself doing all those routines
without poisoning yourself with cigarettes or tobacco in any form and I want you to feel proud of
yourself because you have taken control of your life and will never allow cigarettes or tobacco to
control of you ever again.
(Say Clients name) From this moment forward and more and more every day you are a non-smoker,
you will remain a non-smoker the rest of your life. And as a non-smoker it is as though you never
smoked in the first place, so it doesn’t matter where you are, it doesn’t matter what you are doing,
there isn’t any need for you to ever have cravings or desires for cigarettes or tobacco in any form.
As a nonsmoker there isn’t any need for you to ever have withdrawal Symptoms or to gain
excessive weight. Because you are a nonsmoker and you will remain a non-smoker the rest of your
life. As a non-smoker it is as though you never smoked in the first place.
(Say Clients name) From this moment forward and more and more every day it doesn’t matter
where you are, it doesn’t matter what you are doing, the very smell of cigarettes or tobacco in any
form is undesirable and unappealing and smells horrible to you. From this moment forward and
more and more every day it doesn’t matter where you are, it doesn’t matter what you are doing, the
very taste of cigarettes or tobacco in any form is undesirable and unappealing and tastes nasty to
you. So nasty that if you ever put a cigarette to your mouth you will have to get rid of it
immediately.
Part 5,
(NOTE TO THERAPIST)
(Say Clients name) Your lungs no longer desire to have those poisonous fumes in them. Your lungs
desire to breath clean fresh air into clean fresh lungs. Your sinuses no longer desire to have those
poisonous fumes in them, your sinuses wants to have clean fresh air in them.
(Say Clients name) From this moment forward and more and more every day you are a non-smoker,
you will remain a non-smoker the rest of your life. And as a non-smoker it is as though you never
smoked in the first place, so it doesn’t matter where you are, it doesn’t matter what you are doing
there isn’t any need for you to ever have cravings or desires for cigarettes or tobacco in any form.
As a nonsmoker there isn’t any need for you to ever have withdrawal symptoms or to gain
excessive weight. Because you are a nonsmoker and you will remain a non-smoker the rest of your
life. As a non-smoker it is as though you never smoked in the first place.
From this moment forward and more and more every day it doesn’t matter where you are, it doesn’t
matter what you are doing anytime you see someone else smoking cigarettes or tobacco in any form
you will feel sorry for them. Sorry for them because they are so out of control. And you will feel
proud of yourself because you are in control of your life and you will never allow cigarettes or
tobacco in any form to ever control you. Because you are a nonsmoker and you will remain a non-
smoker the rest of your life. As a non-smoker it is as though you never smoked in the first place.
Part 6,
(NOTE TO THERAPIST)
(Say Clients name) Your lungs no longer desire to have those poisonous fumes in them. Your lungs
desire to breath clean fresh air into clean fresh lungs. Your sinuses no longer desire to have those
poisonous fumes in them, your sinuses wants to have clean fresh air in them.
(Say Clients name) From this moment forward and more and more every day you are a non-smoker,
you will remain a non-smoker the rest of your life. And as a non-smoker it is as though you never
smoked in the first place, so it doesn’t matter where you are, it doesn’t matter what you are doing
there isn’t any need for you to ever have cravings or desires for cigarettes or tobacco in any form.
As a nonsmoker there isn’t any need for you to ever have withdrawal symptoms or to gain
excessive weight. Because you are a nonsmoker and you will remain a non-smoker the rest of your
life. As a non-smoker it is as though you never smoked in the first place.
From this moment forward and more and more every day it doesn’t matter where you are, it doesn’t
matter what you are doing anytime you see someone else smoking cigarettes or tobacco in any form
you will feel sorry for them. Sorry for them because they are so out of control. And you will feel
proud of yourself because you are in control of your life and you will never allow cigarettes or
tobacco in any form to ever control you. Because you are a nonsmoker and you will remain a non-
smoker the rest of your life. As a non-smoker it is as though you never smoked in the first place.
Part 7,
(NOTE TO THERAPIST)
(Say clients name) you can see yourself in any situation enjoying yourself, because you are a non-
smoker, you will remain a non-smoker the rest of your life.
(Say client’s name) You have reached an important fork in the road of your life today, (say client’s
name) I want you to imagine that you are standing at that fork.
As you look down the road that leads to the left, you notice that it is a cold, barren, unfriendly dead
road. The sky is dreary and a cold drizzle is falling. The trees are barren of leaves and the grass has
long been replaced with cold, hard rock. A cold wind blows the mist and drizzle. It’s a dead place.
This is the road of a smoker. This road leads to pain, suffering and early death. It’s a sad road, It’s
cold, lifeless and dead.
(Say client name) As you turn from that road and look down the road that leads to the right, you see
a beautiful road. The sun is shining brightly in a deep, rich, blue sky. The trees are full of leaves and
the grass is lush and green. This is the road of the non smoker as you begin to walk down this road,
you feel a warm, gentle breeze playing in your hair. With each step, you notice yourself feeling
healthier and healthier…stronger and stronger,
(Say client name), this road leads to a longer, healthier, happier life. With each step, you feel more
and more alive and more and more convinced that there isn’t anything or anyone that could ever
again make you go back to that other cold, dreary, deadly road of a smoker.
(Say client name) you choose life.., the long, healthy, strong life of a nonsmoker and there isn’t
anything or anyone that can ever change that.
(Say clients name) Every suggestion for positive change has sealed itself into the deepest part of
your subconscious mind and reinforces itself over and over again in your subconscious mind with
every breath that you exhale.
(Now use your favorite count out)

STOP SMOKING SESSION 1

Habits can be broken as easily as they are created. One of the ways to do that is to make you aware
of your smoking. From the very moment you reach for a cigarette, you will be extremely conscious
of what you are doing. If you light it and start to smoke, you will be unusually aware of every
moment of the time you are involved in smoking that cigarette.

The main reason you have continued to smoke is because you are doing it unconsciously – you have
not really been aware of what you were doing. But now you are. Each time you reach for a
cigarette, you attention will be drawn to that cigarette and focus uncomfortably upon it. When you
are aware of what you’re doing, you are no longer in the unconscious habit.

You already have no need to continue smoking; you know that. So this will be easy and effortless.
There will be none of the struggle and fight with will power you may have experienced in the past,
no guilt of smoking as you do it. The awareness may make you annoyed with smoking, disgusted
and bored by it. You may even want to put the cigarette out when you are only half-finished.

It will not taste as good as it used to. You simply will not wish to continue. You have already made
up your mind. You have found the reason you smoke and you have already made up your mind – a
final decision to stop smoking altogether. You have already made up you mind to stop smoking
altogether. You have already made up you mind that you are going to stop NOW, not tomorrow, not
the next day, but you are going to stop THIS VERY MOMENT. You have made a final decision to
stop smoking.

You WANT to stop smoking as of this very minute. You know why you want to. Think about that
reason. Form it clearly in your mind. Think about the problems smoking causes. You have no need
of smoking because of that, you are giving it up. You’re giving up coughing; you’re giving up pain;
you’re giving up trouble; you’re giving up all the things you don’t want, including smoking. You
are giving up the things you don’t want in order to get the things you do want: relaxation, rest, a
feeling of security, happiness.

YOU WILL FORGET ABOUT CIGARETTES ALTOGETHER.

You have no need to buy them because you have no need to smoke them. Consequently, your
purchase of cigarettes will immediately cease. And should you perhaps accept a cigarette without
realizing it, you will immediately be aware of it and will be overcome with an uncontrollable
compulsion to break it in two as soon as it enters you hand. Whenever you touch the cigarette, you
will instantly break it in two.

It will remind you of all the bad things you’re giving up and all the good things that are in store for
you. You realize how much greater the proportion of good you are receiving is than the portion of
bad you are giving up. It will seem as small thing to you to give up smoking, considering the
tremendous benefits you will be receiving for giving it up.

IT IS EASY TO GIVE UP THINGS YOU DON’T LIKE. AND YOU DON’T LIKE TO SMOKE.

You will begin to feel proud of yourself, very proud. You will find it easier to conquer other habits.
It makes it easier for you to conquer life in general. It fills your ego, making you self-confident,
self-assured and self-reliant.

You will keep a record in the beginning of your progress. Every single day, you will remind
yourself how successful you have been as an abstainer. How many days, how many weeks and
months you have been an abstainer and how wonderful it has made you feel.

You will continue to keep this record and it will encourage you and fortify you as a tangible record
of your success. And soon you will no longer feel the need to keep such a record because you will
know that you are an abstainer permanently. That this record will go on unblemished for the rest of
your life.

You already know that no habit is stronger than the power of you mind which created it in the first
place. It is now you versus tobacco. You will easily win for you are stronger. Your have patience,
great patience now, perseverance, great perseverance, calm and relaxed determination.

Nothing can shake it. You will go on patiently day to day. Every day will be a success. You will
become accustomed to success. And soon that feeling of success will be far more important to you
than any habit could possible be.

Stop Smoking Patter Script

Note to hypnotist - This script was designed to be used when you have first discussed the idea of
distractors (alternative behaviors). Your client should have come up with a list of distractors to use.
Also the idea that nicotine is not addicting should have been covered in the pre-hypnosis interview.

(Script begins here.)

Congratulations, you have made a very important decision. You have decided to become a non-
smoker. There is part of you that has always wanted to do this. That is what makes today (insert
date), very special.

You have decided to listen to your body, and your body wants you to quit smoking. Your body has
always hated it. Smoking has hurt you, because it has been hurting your body. You are now doing
something very good for yourself.
Nicotine is not addicting, if it were the masses would become addicted to the nicotine patch or the
nicotine gum. If nicotine was addicting, someone would have come to me and want hypnosis to quit
the gum or the patch. This has never happened and it probably never will.

So, why do people keep smoking. It's a habit. But what is a habit. A habit is when you automatically
think about doing something. A habit is just simply responding to a thought. Well you don't have to
do that any more. You are free from smoking. You now know that the smoking habit is just a
thought. Your thoughts have no power over you. You have thought about doing thousands of things
and then simply decided not to them.. You might have thought about buying something and then
decided that the money would be better spent on something else. This is also true of cigarettes. Your
money is always better spent on something else. In fact there is always something better to do than
smoke.

The nicotine in cigarettes is not addicting but it is a poison. Even a thimble full would be enough to
kill a horse. Fortunately, there is only a small amount of poison in each cigarette. But it is there and
it tends to build up until your body becomes affected by it and you become sick. Sometimes it is a
major illness like cancer, heart disease or emphysema. You have decided to not let this happen to
you. Other times it is something like a cough or bronchitis. You have decided to not let that happen
to you any more either. You have decided to become a non-smoker, to let go of all the worries and
sickness associated with cigarettes. You are becoming free, so all of the urges are just fading away
to nothing. You are now in control. You are not going to allow yourself to be made sick or
inconvenienced by a habit. A mere though.

But how did that thought get there? You weren't just walking around some day and the idea popped
into your head from nowhere? You got the idea from somewhere. You probably saw someone else
smoking, and because they did it, somehow you thought it might be a good idea to do it. But where
did they get the idea?

Everyone smokes for one reason. It was sold to them! You smoke because of one of the most
successful marketing plans in the history of the world! It all started a long time ago. By the time that
America entered WWII, everyone was so sold on the idea that even the government was buying
them to give to our brave men and women who were fighting a war. Most of those people came
back with the smoking habit. These people became our parents and people that we looked up to.
They were role models, and because they smoked, you smoked. It just got handed down. Now more
people die of smoking than did in the great wars.

Well, that is all over for you. You are on to them. Their advertising campaign no longer affects you.
As a matter of fact you resent it. You resent being sold that pack of likes. In fact, each pack of
cigarettes is a pack of lies. Smoking is now simply something that you used to do. You are free from
a uniformed decision that you made so long ago. It feels so good to be free. Free from the pain. Free
from the worry.

You will remember that there is always something better to do than to take a poisonous cigarette.
That is obvious. Now that you are through with smoking for good, you can fill the time that you
used to spend poisoning yourself with cigarettes any way that you want to. Fill up that time with
any fun, interesting or growth experience.

This information is now stored in the conscious and subconscious mind. So you no longer can
accept poisoning yourself for any reason. You turn away from tobacco in any form. You are free.
The urge is gone. You are free. You are free to drive home or to work free from cigarettes.
Today is your special day. It could be as important as any birthday or anniversary. This is the day
you finally took back control permanently. Now you are in control. That is what you really wanted.
You are in control and resent the fact that cigarettes ever controlled you. You feel great knowing
that no matter what happens you are in control because there is always something better to do than
poison yourself with cigarettes.

Smoking is no longer connected to anything in your life. All of those old self-defeating connections
are broken up completely. All of those things you used to do while you were smoking now goes
better with health! Without the embarrassment, worry and frustration of cigarettes. Now if you are
watching TV or visiting with friends, or simply on the telephone, you enjoy not having to worry
about cigarettes. They were dirty, filthy and they made you sick. Now everything goes better with
health and confidence that you find as a nonsmoker. Free from the worry and frustration. Smoking
is simply something that you used to do. You are now free because there is always something better
to do than smoke.

Somehow you knew that one day you would quit. Congratulation! You did it. Today and for all the
rest of your days you are free. You decided to quit for all of your own reasons. You have made a
great deal! You have made a great trade! You have traded something that you don't want for
something that is priceless. There is no amount of money that could add one more day, hour or
minute to your life. How many people wish they could trade something for more time, a longer life.
Not only have you traded smoking for something precious, more time, a longer life, but it is going
to be a higher quality life. Your new life is filled with more time, more money, more self-respect.
Your new life is filled with more confidence and energy. If you don't have your health you really
don't have anything. You have traded something you don't want for something you do want, more
time to fill up with anything you want! And you have better health to enjoy every minute of it with.
Smoking is simply something that you used to do. Now there is always, always, always, something
better to do than smoke.

There is no way that you would ever go back to the old way. Smoking means pain so you simply
traded it away. No matter what happens in your life, you handle it without cigarettes. You simply
stubbornly refuse to smoke! No matter what happens. There is always something better to do than
smoke. You will always remember that. There is always something better to do than smoke. This
makes you free and keeps you free forever! Having a drink of water is better. Having a piece of gum
is better. Doing anything as long as it is not illegal, immoral or fattening is better than smoking.
Because you are in control!

You handle the situations in your life effectively. You are now in control of your body and no longer
will you put poison in it. You simply turn your back on all of that poison. You body will reward you
with health. You mind will reward you by thinking more clearly, the smoke has cleared.
Emotionally you will feel better because you are free from all the worry and stress of smoking.
Smoking is simply something that you used to do. You traded it away for something priceless, life,
health, self-confidence and peace of mind.

Congratulations, you are now a non-smoker and you are going to be a non-smoker for the rest of
your life and when you are around other that smoke, it will only make you feel proud to know that
you are now in control, even though you might feel a little sorry for them. When you are around
others that smoke, the fire and smoke will not effect you in any way because you are able to enjoy
the company of others that smoke, and it will always make you feel wonderful on the inside and out
knowing that you are back in control. You are free from being kicked around by any cigarette
company that doesn't care about you. You are proud to be a non-smoker and you are going to be a
non-smoker for the rest of your long healthy life.
Repeat this silently to yourself as I say it out loud, "I am now a non-smoker and I'm going to be a
non-smoker for the rest of my life." (Compound that 15 times.)

From this moment on you are a non-smoker. You have never felt better and you are going to feel
better yet, as you lungs continue to become healthier and healthier, because you have gotten rid of
all the tobacco poison.

You are through with the poison and the smell. There is a part of you that has always wanted to be
free and in control. You have really always hated it because it stinks and it makes you sick. You
have made up your mind. You refuse to smoke any time or any place or under any circumstance.
When you think about cigarettes you know that you will never again, make that mistake, never
again. Never again.

Now if for any reason at all in your life you think that you might want a cigarette, all you have to do
is take a nice deep breath and as you let it out just say to yourself, "There is always something better
to do than smoke" and let yourself have that feeling of being in control. Lets do that right now. Take
a nice deep breath, and as you let it out, say to yourself, "There is always something better to do
than smoke" and notice how good it feels to be free from that old useless habit.