Stop Smoking Scripts PDF

Helping Smokers Quit
with Hypnotherapy
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Contents
Helping Smokers Quit with Hypnotherapy ............................................................... 3
Stop Smoking Hypnosis Scripts ................................................................................ 17

Direct Suggestion Stop Smoking Script .................................................................. 17
Stop Smoking Script ................................................................................................ 24
Stop Smoking Habit Anchoring Script .................................................................... 38
Stop Smoking hypnosis with aversion ..................................................................... 43
Smoker's Hypnosis induction................................................................................... 49
Stop smoking regression script ................................................................................ 51
Preventing Smoking Relapse Metaphor .................................................................. 61
Stop Smoking Hypnosis Motivation Script ............................................................. 63
Changing a belief about smoking ............................................................................ 70
Bonus Scripts .............................................................................................................. 73

Smoker's Hypnosis induction................................................................................... 73
Breaking the Cycle Hypnosis Script ........................................................................ 75
Self Hypnosis script ................................................................................................. 77
Hypnosis Relaxation Script ..................................................................................... 80
Client Documentation ................................................................................................ 84

What is Hypnotherapy? ........................................................................................... 84
What happens in a Hypnotherapy session?.............................................................. 86
Why choose Hypnotherapy? .................................................................................... 88
What to expect in the first session ........................................................................... 89
Nine Things You Can Do to Be Happy right now ................................................... 91
What you have to look forward to... ........................................................................ 93
Stop smoking interview checklists .......................................................................... 95
Research evidence on the effectiveness of hypnosis: .............................................. 98
David Mason © 2007-2012

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Helping Smokers Quit with Hypnotherapy
Before you meet the client
You need to use every advantage you can get when helping a smoker to stop smoking.
For that reason you need to start putting suggestions into the smoker's mind even
before you meet them.
I confirm all my appointments by email. That is not only good business practice, it
give me the chance to start influencing the client long before I ever see them.
There are two things you can do. You can put a hypnotic suggestion into the email
that will start working on their unconscious mind in the days leading up to the session
and you can send them things to get them into the right mindset to stop smoking.
I put the following wording into all my appointment confirmation emails right at the
end:
And now that you have made a firm commitment to change, your subconscious mind
is actually working on it for you, and you can expect to sense some changes even
before we meet.
I look forward to meeting you.
Notice that this wording is actually quite imprecise. It promises change without saying
what will change and promises that something will be sensed without saying how it
will be sensed. This allows the unconscious mind to attach meaning to anything that
happens and to start convincing the client that the process has started. It also links the
last word 'meet' with the next line 'meeting you'. This sets up an association between
the sensing that might happen and the 'meeting' that definitely will happen.
I also attach to the email a couple of pages for them to read about smoking in general.
One document is about exactly how your body reacts to stopping smoking. This will
seed the idea of the benefits to come and give them a sense of reward for coming to
the session. One is a checklist about when and where they smoke. This is to get them
thinking about triggers and moods and to recognise patterns in their own behaviour.
Most people have never thought about when and why they smoke. The third
document is a checklist about their motivation. This is to get them thinking about
what they are going to do instead, how they are going to feel and how they are going
to reward themselves. Reading these will put the whole idea of stopping in their mind
and since they want to stop anyway, just reinforces their determination to quit.
This strategy of pre-session persuasion is just another tool you should use, and helps
to accumulate the energy needed to move from being a smoker to being a non-smoker.
Meeting the client

When I meet a client for the first time I ask them to write down their name and email
address. And while they are doing that I inspect them minutely and try to figure out
what their body is telling me. I look at their fingernails, signs of chronic anxiety; their
hair, poor grooming suggests depression; how they are dressed, dark colours suggest
lack of confidence; their jewellery, loud jewellery suggests low self esteem - and so
on.
People are signalling how they feel all the time. If you choose to listen you will learn
that body language doesn't lie. I have had a fascination with body language most of
my life and I get as much practice as I can. Every time I am in a public place - on a
bus, a foyer, waiting in a shop - I spent the time watching someone intently, trying to
learn what their actions, posture, clothes, expression, interactions with others is telling
the world. Sometimes you get nothing much, but now and again I get a sudden insight

into that person's life, what they feel, how they see the world. It is endlessly
fascinating and when it is done right you get total rapport with the other person, you
really understand how they feel.
After a while, you get a sense of general categories. I can now watch people go by,
and think 'Depression', or 'Anxiety' or 'Unhappy marriage' just from the signals they
are giving off.
I recommend it as a way to increase your rapport building skill with clients. Listen to
what they are saying on all channels.
Starting the session

One of the signs of a non-confident therapist is how they deal with their client in the
first session. Many new therapists fail to get the best out of the first session. Clients
come to hypnotherapy to get hypnotized. They expect to be hypnotized and no matter
what you do, if you don't hypnotize them they feel cheated and that they didn't get
what they came for. Most newbies spend the whole of the first session taking an
elaborate history and persuading the client to sign various waivers. Then, having done
nothing therapeutic, they ask the client to come back next week, and in the meantime
spend the week thinking about how they are going to approach it and to give them
time to dig out the right script. Clients hate this, and lots of them don't bother coming
back.
in most instances, the first session is the only one you will get. Research has shown
that more than ninety five percent of therapy clients only ever show up for one
session. So if you don't do actual therapy in the first session they won't get any benefit
at all.
There is no reason not to hypnotize your clients on the first meeting. Everyone can
benefit from some form of hypnosis. Putting a client into trance takes only a few
minutes and will convince the client of your skill and effectiveness, and set them up
for a successful second session. If the client clearly has come to the wrong therapist
they can still be taught self hypnosis for relaxation. If the case suggests a different
mode of therapy, then you can take them into trance and suggest that the therapy will
be successful. You can hypnotize them and ask their unconscious to allow them to
become aware of their most worrying problem. All of these will only take a few
minutes of their session and will increase your satisfaction ratings dramatically.
The opposite mistake is attempting therapy too early. Many new hypnotherapists set
themselves up with scripts and techniques and believe everything their instructors told
them. When a client arrives, as soon as they hear the words 'smoking' or 'weight loss'
or 'tired' they think they know exactly what to do and immediately apply their
standard script parrot fashion.
What they need to do instead is to learn is to listen to their clients. Really listen to
them. What the client says is the problem seldom is the actually problem. Trying to
deal with the client's issues before understanding them will seldom work. So you need
to uncover their real problem.
However, building rapport and trust takes time, and with some clients will take most
of the session. The answer in this case is use the last part of the session to teach the
client how to do self hypnosis, and show them what trance is like. Putting them into
trance has many benefits. It convinces the client that they can be hypnotized. It builds
trust. It sets up the client to go into trance faster and more reliably on the next session,

it shows the client that you know what you are doing, and makes it more likely that
they will not only return but will tell all their friends about it.
The Pretalk
Most trainers tell their students to do a 'pretalk' with every client before they attempt
any hypnosis. Advice varies, but the usual is to spend 15-20 minutes explaining
hypnosis to the client. Students are told that they must cover expectations, explain the
different states of consciousness, go through all the myths of hypnosis, and deal with
any misconceptions.
I think this is a total waste of time. I normally spend an hour and bit with each client
and I just cannot fit in a mini-seminar on hypnosis.
What the trainers seem to miss is that the client has already brought themselves to my
office are already comfortable with the idea of hypnosis. Their notions of what it is or
how it works are irrelevant, and no matter what they think as long as they are willing
to shut their eyes, there is absolutely no point in delaying things. None of my clients
need long involved instruction in what hypnosis is or what it can do for them. If they
are unsure about hypnosis I am happy to answer. Normally this takes one or two
minutes at most and we get on with the induction. After they have been hypnotized
they will know everything they need to know about it.
Building rapport with Clean Language

The best book on how to build rapport with clients is Grove and Panzer's book
Resolving Traumatic Memories. It is all about clean language. David Grove invented
Clean Language.
Grove saw the need for clean language in absolutely everything.He talks about the
need to use clean language from the moment you meet your client.
He says that the phrase 'How can I help you today?' is one of the least useful ways of
starting a session. His core idea is that the therapist should become invisible, and
allow the client to express their own feelings, memories, symbols and semantics
without any interference. If you want to learn the exact contents of the client's inner
experience, if you want to know why they smoke, then you need to avoid putting your
own assumptions in there. Asking how you can help implies that the client needs help,
and forces the client to think about what kind of help they need from the therapist, and
therefore is not clean language. In starting the therapist needs to 'slide in gently, to be
unsure and undefined' (p15)
The first question to the client is important because 'it is like the first move in chess'.
Questions are used to shape the interaction between client and therapist. The first
question should do as little as possible to influence the client's inner environment. By
asking 'and what brings you here' you imply that there is problem driving them, and
they will focus on identifying a problem for you. 'What can I do for you?' implies that
they need something from you that they do not already have. 'What seems to be the
matter?' implies that they do not know their own mind, and assumes the therapist must
have some better insight than the client has. 'What is your problem?' assumes there is
one problem. And so on.
According to Groves, the correct way to begin a session is to ask 'What is it that you
want?'. This focuses the client on the outcome they desire, and lets them respond with
an abstraction that is about their future behaviour.

Pre-induction planning
As a general principle you need to make sure that you match what the client expects.
Early in the session I always ask 'What is it you need from me?'.
This ensures that I learn what the client has in their mind that they think they need for
the therapy to succeed. Usually they say something simple like 'I just need you to give
me the willpower' or something like that. But often they have a very specific thing in
mind, and if you don't give them that thing, then they won't believe that the therapy
can possibly work.
Their answers to this question are also a rich source of metaphors. A smoking client
recently said that 'I want you make me be able to switch off the need to smoke'. I used
this in therapy to ask what the switch looked like, and what it was connected to, and
got her to turn the switch off. As far as she was concerned, she had turned off the
smoking switch and no longer needed to smoke.
If they mention 'willpower' or 'strength' or things like that, then I make sure that I
include direct suggestions that use those exact words, and tell them that they do have
the willpower or strength or whatever it is they think they need.
Another simple technique I usually use with clients is before I start hypnotizing them
I ask them 'What are you expecting?'.
This makes sure that the client is not harbouring any unrealistic fears of going into
trance, but equally that they do not have any unrealistic expectations either.
This question lets me sort out any fears, reservations or other problems. It also usually
means I do not have to do any long pre-talk about hypnosis. If the client is
comfortable with hypnosis then there is no need to waste time explaining what it is. I
can just get on with it.
Similarly, some clients have wild ideas about what is going to happen to them. This
kind of client will be disappointed that they remembered everything and because
whatever they experienced in trace will not match whatever they were expecting they
will say that they were not hypnotized. If they believe they were not hypnotized then
the therapy I give them will be less likely to work.
So sorting out their expectations right at the beginning is good way to start.
Check for previous experience

Another very valuable technique before starting the hypnotherapy is to ask every
client 'Have you ever been hypnotised before?'.
Some people have never been hypnotized and are nervous about the whole idea.
Asking this question is a non-threatening way to let them bring out their feelings. If
they seem nervous or unsure I use the follow up question 'and what are you expecting'
and we can talk about hypnosis generally and about their needs specifically.
A large number of people have been hypnotized by somebody else in the past. Some
clients have had multiple sessions with one or more therapist and if they report that
they went into trance easily then I know I don't have to do a lengthy induction. If they
have had a good outcome then I know that this client is more likely to benefit from
this session too.
A considerable number report having been on stage at a hypnosis show. If they had a
positive experience I comment on that and move swiftly to the therapy.

If they felt that they were not hypnotized, or they were in the audience, then I explain
about how stage hypnotists work on percentages and that some people need one on
one inductions to feel comfortable with it.
A surprising number report having been to a hypnotherapist before and thought the
hypnotist was incompetent. Once I learn this, I have to find a way to convince the
client that this session will be different. I ask them about their previous failed session
and try to identify what went wrong. The common complaint is that they felt they
were not in trance and that the hypnotherapist ignored them and just carried on with
their patter without checking.
I use this information to make sure that I do demonstrate to the client beyond any
doubt that they were in trance. It alerts me to add an extra deepener or two to my
induction just to make sure. I then do two depth tests, one to convince me that they are
indeed in trance, and one to convince the client that they are in trance, and that they
know they are in trance.
A number of them report they felt the hypnotist's approach was wrong for them, too
New Age, or too spiritual or not enough spiritual, or whatever it was that didn't match
what they felt they needed. I therefore use this information to tailor my session to
better match what it was they didn't get last time that they thought was so important.
Using this question lets me maximise the chances of a successful outcome.
The smoking test question

When dealing with smokers another little test that I use with them is to ask one key
question to assess their attachment and dependency on smoking.
Right at the beginning I say to the smoker "I am going to make a statement and I want
you tell me what you feel when I say it. Not what you think, but what you feel. Let
your body answer the question." Then I say 'are you ready?', and then I say "You will
never smoke another cigarette for the rest of your life".
Then I ask them, 'what came to mind when I said that?'
The answers are often an insight into how that person relates to smoking. Most people
say 'relief' but some say 'doubt' or even 'fear'. Many say they got not reaction at all.
But when there is a reaction it is a valuable guide to what to look for in their
behaviour, and how to continue with the session. Sometimes the simplest tests are the
best.
Smoking Emotional Test

Many clients have vivid imaginations and are in contact with the metaphors that are
used by their own minds. I take advantage of this in therapy sessions to get into their
unconscious mind quickly and easily.
I use this where a client uses lots of visual images when they are talking to me, or
when they use strong metaphors as we talk about their problem. I also use it when the
client expresses some anxiety about being hypnotized.
For example, in a stop smoking session I will say to the client 'Close your eyes for a
moment. This is not hypnosis yet, I just want you to think about what smoking means
to you. So close your eyes now. I want you to think about smoking, cigarettes,
tobacco... everything to do with smoking.... what you don't like about it, how you feel
about it... what it represents to you. Just allow your mind to think about everything
about smoking... and let whatever comes to mind to come to mind'.[pause]
'Now what comes to mind when you think about smoking?'.
In most cases the person will say 'nothing. I don't get anything'. But quite often the
person will say something like 'it is like saying goodbye to an old friend' or 'it is like a

dirty brown haze around me', or 'I feel like I have a ball and chain that I am dragging
around'.
If nothing comes to mind, then I accept that and move on. It is very useful for the
nervous clients because it lets them close their eyes in a non-threatening environment,
they know this is not hypnosis, and it sets them up for the actual hypnosis later.
Many times I do get a strong image or feeling. When that is the case I use that and
develop the image or metaphor to break the association with smoking. Usually the
client gets so absorbed in the metaphor process that they go into trance just by
thinking about it, and no formal induction is needed.
There is a further benefit to this technique even when the client doesn't have any kind
of image. Some clients, when they close their eyes, will show flickering of their
eyelids. This shows that they have rolled their eyes right up into their head, and are
ready to go into trance. (Try it. Close your eyes, roll your eyes right up as far as they
can go, and most people will find that their eyelids are flickering. It is the precursor to
going to sleep.)
This is a type of hypnosis susceptibility test. You can use this to predict who will go
into trance easily, and save time by doing a very short induction when you start
hypnotizing them.
Two Simple Smoking Scales

Every smoker is different and every smoker needs a therapy matched to their unique
particular needs but knowing which therapy to use can be a problem. I start by using
two simple scale questions. I ask them to rate themselves on a scale of one to ten on
how much they want to give up smoking, and separately on a scale of one to ten on
how much they think that they can give up smoking.
I find this simple test very effective sometimes. Most people give an eight or a nine to
both. It is the ones who are at the extreme ends of the scales who are most interesting.
People who are a ten on motivation to give up only need to be given hypnotic
suggestions that they have the ability and they are pretty much done. However, you
need to probe as to why they have not already given up. Usually you find they have a
history of good intentions, but deep psychological problems about self esteem and self
regard. People on the low end of the motivation need to be questioned about why they
are in my office at all if they really don't want to give up. Their answers are always
revealing. It may be that they have had a health scare, or they want to please
somebody else, but it does let you know where to start probing and how to design
your therapy.
The same applies to the can-you-give-up scale. People who score a ten are ready to
give up on their own and only need a little bit of hypnotic convincing. People who
score low are telling you something very important. If they don't believe they can give
up, but haven't really tried very hard, then you need to work on their belief system.
Other people have given up many times but always start again. I find this type of
smoker needs the most attention, so this gives me an opening to talk about why they
start again, what their motivation is, what is underlying their smoking behaviour.
These two simple tests are an excellent way to get your stop smoking sessions going.
Choose the right induction

Most hypnosis inductions rely on visual imagery, and if the client can't visualize, then
they will have difficulty getting hypnotised. Inductions such as imagining the sun
going down, or waves on a beach require a degree of visualization ability.

It is easy to test for visualization skills. All you have to do is to ask the client 'can you
imagine a horse?' Then ask them what color their horse is. Most people say 'brown'.
Then ask then what direction the horse's head is facing. Most people say it is facing to
their left. Then ask them to imagine their horse as a different color, or being smaller
or larger. This will let you judge very accurately how good their visualization skills
are.
However the need to visualize is probably over emphasized. People can imagine
waves on a beach and can be induced into trance by thinking about waves going in
and out without actually needing to see the waves in their mind. The idea of waves is
what is important, and most people can manage that. It helps if the therapist suggests
'imagining' the waves, rather saying 'now see the blue waves rolling up the black sand
and the white foam hissing as it spreads out and then see the water rippling canyons
through the soft sand as it withdraws...'. Putting too much detail into your suggested
images is always a mistake.
The best way however, is to avoid the need for any visualization at all. If you use an
induction that does not rely on imagery then it doesn't matter whether the client can
visualize or not. I now always use a breathing induction. Everyone knows how to
breathe, and that is linked to a physical relaxation induction, and then compounded
with a staircase countdown induction. This works reliably with 99% of people and
puts them into trance in about three minutes.
In hypnotherapy sessions, it is best to avoid problems rather than solve them.
Improve your success rate with a convincer

There is one simple thing that every hypnotherapist can do to increase their success
rate - convince the client that they were hypnotized. Success is a matter of meeting the
client's expectations. If the client believes that they were not hypnotized then the
hypnotherapy is unlikely to work as well as if they believe that they were, so it is
good practice to always find a way to convince the client they were hypnotized.
Hypnotherapy is a strange and mysterious thing to most people, and clients who come
to be hypnotized are often uncertain of what to expect. Many clients are secretly
convinced that they can not be hypnotized, are seeking the session out of desperation
and really don't expect it to work. Many of them are therefore ready for it not to work,
and will use anything as evidence that they are right.
Some people assume that because they can remember everything, they must not have
been hypnotized. Others expect to feel somehow strange or bewitched in some way
and are disappointed when they don't feel that way. Others expect to wake up feeling
totally different and that their life will instantly be transformed when they open their
eyes. This naive set of beliefs works to prevent a successful outcome.
Therefore the therapist has to demonstrate to the client, clearly and unambiguously
that they were in trance. It has to be proved to every client, every time.
The easiest way to do this is to test for eye catalepsy after the induction. This lets both
you and the client know that the client really is in trance. I have trained myself to
always do this. When I started out as a hypnotist I was often afraid to do this test, just
in case the client wasn't in trance. I have since learned that if the client opens their
eyes then you both have learned something valuable.
The other simple convincer is to do a finger lift at some point in the session. You will
be able to tell by how they respond whether they are in trance or not, and the internal
experience of the client is usually of having their finger or hand move mysteriously on
its own. This is an excellent convincer, and can be combined with suggestions that
because their hand moved, their mind is guaranteeing that they are now a non smoker.

A method that is used less often, but is probably better, is to talk to the client in
trance. Ask them what they are experiencing. Again this is very illuminating for both
parties and rapidly builds the confidence to use regression and metaphor therapies.
Building in a convincer takes only a minute or two, and is well worth the extra effort.
Is the client listening?

It is too easy to convince yourself that a quiet client is a good client. But when the
client is lying there with his eyes closed and you are talking away at him, how do you
know that your client hasn't just gone to sleep? And does it matter?
Many hypnotists have been persuaded that even if the client is asleep, their
unconscious mind is still awake, and is still taking in whatever is being said. This is
based on analogies with the 'cocktail party effect'. This says that even if you are
talking to someone at a party, and focussing on what is being said, if your name is
mentioned at another table, you will instantly recognise this. The belief is that your
unconscious mind is monitoring your environment all the time and never shuts down.
I am convinced that this is nonsense. If it was true, then all we would have to do is to
record textbooks and play them to students while they were sleeping and we could
close all the universities tomorrow. The fact is that there is no evidence whatsoever
that people can learn while they are asleep. It has been tested hundreds of times and
the outcome is always nil. You cannot learn while you are sleeping.
Therefore trying to do therapy while the client is asleep is also a waste of time. If your
client is sleeping then you are just talking to yourself. No one else is listening.
So how do you tell the difference between a sleeping client and a hypnotized client?
This is all part of the philosophy of constantly interacting with your client in
hypnosis. Hypnotherapy is not a one way process, the client has to be actively
engaged all during the session. If you are constantly engaging with your client, he
won't go to sleep.
The easiest way to test whether the client is still listening to you is to ask for a
response. At the end of each section I say to the client 'Now take a deep breath, and
allow your mind to clear'. If you get a deep breath, then your client is still responding,
if not,they are either deep in trance, or asleep.
If I don't get a response I repeat the instruction, a little more firmly 'Now I want you to
take a deep breath, take a deep breath now and let it out... Ahhhh'. This usually
produces a definite deep breath and I know I can carry on.
If it doesn't, then I have to wake the client. The first thing I try is to get them to move.
'I want you now to move into a more comfortable position, move your body so you are
more comfortable'. I will repeat this possibly several times more forcefully and louder
until the client moves and I know I am getting through.
If the request to move doesn't work then I say in a loud voice... 'I am going to count
from Five up to One, when you get to one your eyes will open'. and I start counting.
Even in deep somnambulism this will rouse the client. If the client is very tired then I
might have to repeat it, almost shouting until the client responds. I never, never touch
or shake the client.
When the client opens his eyes, I act as if this is a normal part of the session. I say
something like 'That's very good. You are a very good subject. Now I want you to
close your eyes again, and then try to open them. As you try to open them you will find
it gets harder and harder to open those eyes. Try it now and you might be able to
open them a bit, but the harder you try the harder they will want to stay closed, until
you just can't open them at all'.

That will put them right back into trance and they are ready to continue. You might
have to repeat parts of what you covered already, but that's OK. Repetition leads to a
more definite effect anyway, and the client won't know the difference.
Then as you progress through the session keep testing with deep breath instructions,
or asking the client to describe what he is experiencing and you will be sure that his
unconscious mind really is listening.
Find the reason for smoking

I have always believed that people aren't stupid, and that people who smoke have
good reasons to smoke. Understanding their reasons can make the therapy more
effective. If you can find out what they are getting from smoking, what associations it
has, then you can create the same feeling in hypnosis and tell them that they can have
that feeling without cigarettes.
Some people have always seen smoking as a form of rebellion. Girls in their teens in
particular seem to resent having to be good all the time but they equally don't want to
be bad. So smoking gives them a socially acceptable way of losing the 'goody-two
shoes' image without doing anything too daring.
Other people say that 'smoking is my vice' the one thing I allow myself to do that is
bad for me. These are often people who do not drink or do anything else self
destructive. They are generally model citizens, but this one thing allows them to feel
they are not trying to be better than others.
Another common reason is to have 'a secret'. Smoking in private gives them a feeling
of being mysterious and daring and they like to think that nobody knows the real
them, that they have a secret interesting life that they can keep hidden away behind
the mask of conformity.
Of course, the most common reason is simply to fit in. Smoking is seen as a rite of
passage. You are dared to try a cigarette, and if you can get through the coughing and
nausea you are accepted into the group. This doesn't only happen with teenagers,
many smokers say that they started smoking in their first job, because everyone else
did it, and they wanted to fit in.
Smoking is also often the result of being accepted into a group, particularly an older
group. Being offered a cigarette by some senior person is a signal that you have been
accepted, that you can now join the group as a full member. To turn down the
cigarette would be seen as refusing the invitation to join.
There are many more reasons and I am always coming across new ones. That's one of
the things that makes smokers so fascinating.
Ending the session

When the client is reoriented back out of trance it is normal to ask something like
'How was that?' or 'How do you feel?'. Neither is particularly helpful. What is useful is
to use the fact that the client is still in trance to an extent. Saying something like 'I
think your mind knows you are a non-smoker now' is an indirect suggestion and acts
like a final convincer.
Igor Ledichowski has a useful tag line. He recommends saying to the client as soon as
they open their eyes 'You were great!'. This immediately banishes any lingering
doubts in the client that they might not have been responding the way they should.
Andrew Newton suggests hustling the client out of the door as quickly as possible, but
I think that is disrespectful. Very often the client is excited and enthralled and wants

to talk about what they have just been through. Let them ask questions about the
therapy and talk about how they are feeling. Spending a few minutes on that is
worthwhile. I like to send the client on their way in a good frame of mind.
One thing that Newton recommends is that as the client leaves, is to say 'Let me know
how well you are getting on'. This uses the supposition technique that they will be
doing well.
But the session isn't really ended when the client departs. What distinguishes the
average hypnotherapist from the outstanding hypnotherapist is follow up. You will
never get any better unless you can measure how well what you are doing actually
works.
Follow up simply consists of an email or phone to the client a week or ten days later
to see how they are getting on. It should be a genuine enquiry showing concern for the
client's wellbeing. Most therapists don't do this. It may be because they are afraid
they might learn that it didn't work. But without a fearless attitude to feedback it is
very difficult to improve your success rate.
Use what the client brings you

It’s my time for me.
I had a client who was a smoker who just could not give up. He doesn't smoke a lot,
five to fifteen a day, but must have his cigarette at various times of the day. He
smokes on the walk between the train and his work, then at break times, at lunchtime
and on the walk back to the train. He does not smoke in the house. He gave the
common reason that smoking was his time to himself. I have heard this many times
and never paid much attention to it.
However I couldn't find any reason why this man was smoking and I will not go on
with hypnosis until I know why they smoke, or I get a way into their world that I can
use. This man said that he gave up once for a week, when he went on a camping
holiday in Scotland on his own, and he stopped for the whole week and never gave it
a thought until he returned home and immediately lit up again. He also said that he
gave up when he came to this country for a job interview and spent three days in a
hotel preparing and actually forgot that he smoked. He does not normally smoke as a
response to stress at work, and if he is really busy will forget to smoke all day, and
has no problems with not smoking on a plane for ten hours.
I have a theory that you always have to examine the other side of the coin, what
people are not doing, as well as what they are doing. I asked him what it was that he
needed time to himself for. He said he had responsibility for his family and always
worried about them. I pointed out that this could not be true when he started smoking.
I pursued this idea of what it was that he was trying to avoid. I asked how he got on
with his parents and siblings. He said he never got on with his dad. I dug into that and
discovered that his father had divorced from his mother when the client was thirteen
years old. He also said that he was afraid of his father. And that put the whole thing
into perspective.
As a boy he felt he had to defend his mother in her time of need, and look after her,
but he was not prepared for it at that age. He also knew that he could not in fact deal
with his father and protect her, so he had he classic childhood trap. He had to do
something but was prevented from doing it. This set up a life long anxiety. The only
time he got away from it was when he had a smoke. It started with being with his
friends as a teenager, and carried on. The reason he gave up in Scotland was because

he was totally on his own and no one was relying on him for anything. So he had no
anxiety, and no need for time out, so no need to smoke.
Knowing this I knew how to tackle his smoking - remove the source of the anxiety.
I did that and he is now a non smoker for life.
Listening for metaphors

I believe that if you listen to the client, you will learn precisely how to deal with their
issues. All you then have to do is to match what they want.
Never forget the power of listening. Clients will use powerful metaphors that can be
used to stop them smoking. One client I had can serve to illustrate the process.
During the data gathering part of the session when I asked him what he needed from
me, he said 'I need you to help me take the last step'. This was a beautiful example of
a metaphor, and like all metaphors, it was not an accident, it was exactly how he
thought of his problem.
So I asked him what he would have, what life would be like, after he had given up
smoking. This was so that I could find out exactly what images he had of his smoke
free future. He described getting fit and staying healthy and having more money.
When it came to designing his therapy, it was easy to incorporate these elements into
the spoken imagery. I led him through a series of rooms. In each room he partly
completed some task. Then I led him outside and up some stairs with a curtain across
the end. In order to get buy-in I asked him if he wanted to see past the curtain, and
when I got agreement, I created a visualization of seeing himself fit and healthy,
wealthy and enjoying family life. I then asked him if that was what he wanted, and if
he was ready to take the last step to achieve it. When he confirmed that was ready to
change, I told him to take the last step into his new life and to describe what he was
experiencing. He said that he had exactly what he wanted.
And that was the job done. He had crossed the threshold from being a smoker to a non
smoker for life. The session had used his metaphors and completed the link between
one and the other.
Listening for Black and White thinking

I notice that men from the uniformed services - for example policemen, firemen,
ambulance personnel, career military - tend to exhibit Black and White Thinking to an
extent more that other people. B & W thinking is the name given to the type of mental
processes, or parts of the personality, in which things are seen as being either right or
they are wrong. In particular in people from the uniformed services seem to thrive on
rules: there is a certain way to do things, and when things are done that way they are
approved, and any deviation is totally unforgivably wrong.
Black and white thinking appears in many aspects of life in all sorts of people. In my
job at the university I see students who are obsessed with getting an 'A', anything less
is seen as total failure and they are thrown into despair. They often go on about
wasting their efforts and talk about abandoning the subject. I see the same thing in too
many young men's relationships: the other person has to be perfect in every way or
there is no point in continuing. As soon as the object of their affection does something
or says something that does not fit the rules these men have, the girl is immediately
seen as somehow inferior, and the relationship soon ends.
The underlying cause of this is the 'fight or flight' response. If something is wrong,
then it is dangerous, and you need to get away from it. This feeling gets generalized
from an initial trauma in childhood until the behavior becomes integrated into
unrelated parts of their life. It is seen in the behaviour of taking decisions very quickly

and not revisiting them, of suddenly abandoning a long term hobby, or even a career,
and never going back to it.
The men who are in the uniformed services have made a virtue of their thinking style,
and have often made successful careers in the service by following their urge to
enforce rules and live by rules. This can be used to help them to stop smoking.
In the session you ask them what not following a rule is like for them, and find out
what metaphor they use to describe it. It might be 'like I am out of step with everyone'
or it might be 'I have failed and I feel useless' or something else. Whatever it is, you
can use this to create a hypnotic metaphor situation where they are given a new rule, a
rule to stop smoking, and use their own feelings about rules to make them want to
follow the new rule.
That we they install a new rule for themselves that they feel comfortable following,
and that their own personality will ensure is always applied.
I had another memorable client yesterday. She came in to stop smoking. She sat on
the chair clutching her handbag and sitting forward as if she was ready to spring out
of it. It was only with some difficulty I was able to persuade her to settle back into my
big comfortable client chair.
She sat wringing her hands, fingers constantly moving, raising her leg from the knee
now and then. She was a picture of anxiety. I said to her 'you seem a little nervous'
and she said 'No I'm not!'. I pointed out her hands were in constant motion and she
said 'I'm always like that, doesn't mean I'm nervous'. I asked her if she was the sort of
person who could relax easily. She said 'Sometimes'. I asked her if she sleep well or if
she had sleep problems - 'Sometimes'. One thing did tell me that she found it strange
that she found it difficult to sleep at night, but had no problems sleeping during the
day.
I asked her if she had ever given up smoking. She said 'no'. I asked if she had ever
tried to give up. Again 'No'. I asked her how it was that she knew that she couldn't
give up? 'I just know'. And so on. Every question I put to her was answered with one
word, or with evasion.
Eventually I gave up questioning her, mainly to preserve my own sanity. I have never
met such a negative client. She was actually making me feel bad.
So I started on the hypnosis. I suspected that this client would be resistant to losing
control, because her behaviour in the beginning of the session suggested that she was
desperately trying to keep control of everything. I suspected that she was afraid to
give up control for even a moment, and that all her answers were to protect her from
being made to give out any information that might reveal weaknesses.
I did an elaborate and multipart induction, using a breathing induction, a staircase

induction and a full progressive muscle relaxation induction. She seemed to be going
into trance nicely, better than I expected, until I got to the second round of progressive
muscle relaxation. As her muscles relaxed, just at the point where I was sure that she
had completely relaxed, her body jerked so violently that she was catapulted out of
trance.

I now understood why she couldn't sleep. As soon as her body started relaxing and she
let go of conscious control, some inner fear was let loose and her reaction was to
instantly try to control it again. Given what she had said about being able to sleep
during the day, but not at night, this suggests to me that she has some unresolved
trauma to do with nights.
I was able to put her into trance again with lots of assurances about being safe and
calm, and I carried on to deal with her smoking.
At the end of the session she said she was very pleased with the feeling of not
smoking, but would not even consider doing anything about the other thing, and still
denied that there was even anything to deal with.
I wonder if she will ever resolve it.
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Using the Key-Hypnosis hypnotherapy scripts
See the Table of Contents for a list of all the scripts.

Click on any title to jump to that Script.
The hypnotherapy scripts are arranged into groups according to their main function,
but all the scripts broken into sections so that you can mix and match sections from
different scripts and cut and paste them to create new scripts for yourself.
This means that you should examine scripts from all areas to find parts that you can
adapt when creating a treatment for any particular client.
Some of the scripts are ready to use exactly as they are. Some are edited transcripts of
hypnotherapy sessions. Every client who comes to your office is unique and therefore
you should study these transcripts to understand how the problem was tackled, and
then take sections and adapt these for your own use.
The underlying logic of the script is shown for each section and the hypnotic concept
embedded in the wording is shown in the comments column. Using these guides you
should be able to follow the logic of the scripts and use these as the basis for your
own original wording and ideas for your clients.
Guide to the scripts layout
Each script is laid out in four columns. The first column shows the target of the hypnotic
technique being used. The second column gives the wording of the suggestion. The third
column has a code that indicates what type of suggestion is being used. The fourth column
has notes and explanations of how the particular line of the script works.
Meaning of the codes used in column three:
I Indirect Suggestion
D Direct Suggestion
K Kinesthetic reaction aiming at a muscle memory
A Auditory reaction encouraging an auditory recall
M Metaphor reaction using a metaphor
V Visualization reaction encouraging a visualization
= Equivalence Doing one thing is the same as another thing
/ Opposite The more of one thing the less of the other thing
> Cause and Effect Doing one thing causes the other thing

Stop Smoking Hypnosis Scripts
Direct Suggestion Stop Smoking Script
This style of Stop Smoking script use Direct Suggestion, or Authoritative Hypnosis, a
style of therapy that sounds as if you are firing instructions at the listener. Each
suggestion is a single direct command, telling the smoker how to behave, what to do,
what to be. However, Direct Suggestion is actually quite subtle and very effective.
This Stop Smoking Hypnosis Script is used after finding out why, when and where
the client smokes.
The therapist notes these and selects the matching section of the script. If weight gain
is a worry then the section on not snacking is used, otherwise not.
Most smokers need convincing that they can stop, that there will be no cravings, that
they can deal with stress without a cigarette. The script deals with all of those, and
most other common issues.
Other psychological issues should be dealt with by weaving in one or more metaphor
scripts such as Bridge to Freedom as required.
Embedded commands are bold: use analogical marking with these phrases.
You do not need to use every part of this script. Use the Interview checklists to find
out what issues the client has and address only those.
INDUCTION SECTION
Lead the client into trance....
Use your normal induction and confirm level of trance, then start the
therapy section.... [See basic induction scripts]
DIRECT SUGGESTION SCRIPT

Target Dialogue L Technique
IDENTITY BOOST THE SELF IMAGE
CAPABILITY: YOU CAN CHANGE
as you are there now... eyes closed.... breathing gently... you are changing
Capability D non sequitur
...
You are becoming more resourceful... more sure of yourself.... more
Capability D
aware of your own ability to change....
Identity You think about yourself differently now.... D
Capability You know that you can change... you can feel yourself changing.... D
and this means you can change your habits... easily and quickly.... you
Capability >
know you can do this... with a bit of help.... and this is exactly the help

you need....
the way you think affects your behaviour.... what you do... what you can
Rule Truism
do... what you find easy to do....
And there is one thing you are going to do.... You are going to end that
Behaviour D
habit...
You are going to end that habit today. As of this moment you are a non
Identity D
smoker....
YOU ARE IN CONTROL
Because you are getting more and more control in every part of your life
Capability > Non sequitur
now...
You are becoming aware now of how much control you have... and
behaviour having that control means you have less and less anxiety in stressful >
situations...
You can deal with anxiety... and with any problems that come up in your >
Capability
day... D
And because of that you are more determined... more convinced... more
Behaviour
certain that you have had your last cigarette....
YOU WILL NEVER SMOKE, EVER
You are finished for good... You will never smoke again.... you will
never hold a cigarette again.... If you ever find a cigarette in your
Behaviour PHS
fingers... you will break it.... snap it... crush it out totally.... you will grind
it into the floor and enjoy doing it... It's over for you for ever.
There are no safe cigarettes... every puff is a danger.... every drag is
RULE
poison.... there is no 'just one'...
If you ever get too close to smoking you will feel an irresistible
compulsion to get up and leave... you will start walking away... find
Behaviour yourself somewhere safe... away from it.... and you mind will be filled
with alarm bells .... You will take deep breaths until the danger is over
and you are flooded with relief and calm again....
Behaviour you don't need cigarettes.... you no longer smoke....
CHANGE THE BEHAVIOUR

YOU DON'T NEED TO SMOKE TO RELAX
You find that you don't think about smoking any more
You are becoming less and less attached to smoking with each word you
Rule are hearing... because smoking was what was causing your anxiety.... more>more
giving up smoking means giving up anxiety, nervousness
Identity and not smoking gives you the sense of calm you used to have.... D
Because you know you can handle stress.... you used to ... and other
Capability people can do it .... and so can you.... the cigarettes were causing it... and
not they are gone... you can forget about the stress they caused...
And you will experience a strange feeling of calm in those situations
Capability
now.

YOU DON'T NEED TO SMOKE TO SOCIALISE
Smoking is not something you enjoy.... You never enjoyed smoking....
Identity what you enjoyed was the company... the people around you.. the feeling D Reframing
of belonging... being accepted.....
And from now on.. you know that you can feel part of the group... you
Behaviour can fit in with any people... be accepted... without using the cigarette as D
an excuse....
Because that's all cigarettes are... an excuse... an excuse to mix with other
Rule Reframing
smokers.... to share something.... to fit in....
and you don't need that excuse any more.... You are strong and you know
Identity D
who you are... what you are... you are good enough for any company....
From now on... when you are in a bar... or drinking... or sharing with
other people.... you feel part of the group... you know you fit in... you
Behaviour D
know it's OK to be there with them... and you don't need a cigarette as a
prop... you don't need to pretend to need a cigarette...
Identity You don't enjoy cigarettes.... you never really enjoyed them... D
Behaviour Cigarettes make you ill and you reject them now. D
YOU DON'T NEED TO SMOKE TO TAKE A BREAK
You can enjoy a drink without smoking... you can enjoy a meal without
Identity smoking... you can enjoy spending time with friends without smoking....
In all those situations... you no longer smoke.
Take a moment now and think through your day... all the times when you
take a break and used to smoke... and now imagine how it will look, how
it will feel... how it will be to enjoy those breaks without a cigarette...
take that feeling of enjoyment you get and multiply it.... because you are
Identity a non smoker now... and you will enjoy those breaks even more.... and
get more from them... imagine each one in bright colours.... and maybe
there's a piece of music you associate with triumph and success... maybe
you can play that music while you think about how it will be at breaktime
and you don't smoke....
and at work.... you can take a break... go for a walk... enjoy that few
Behaviour minutes away from the task... and you enjoy it more... now you know that
break is healthy and refreshing.... because now you don't smoke...
CHANGE THE PART THAT SMOKES
There is a part of you that wanted to smoke... a familiar part... You may
not know that part but it is there... and it is ready to change.... now.... at a
Identity
deep level you know it is time to change.... to let go.... that part had a
good reason to smoke... but things have changed now....
Tell that part that it is now to change... thank that part for what it was
trying to do... but it is time to change now... every part of you is
Capability valuable.... so you can convert that part to do something else.... that part
of you that used to want to smoke is now being converted to a useful
healthy purpose...
And that part of you will be glad... and it is changing now because you
Identity asked it to... and you can be surprised at how effective it can be.... and ambiguity
how you are different now...

EMPHASIZE HEALTH
Smoking is always a mistake. Smoking makes you ill. Every puff is a
Rule
danger.
You are not really giving up anything.... What you are giving up is
Rule coughing, breathless, tired, and what you are getting now is health and Reframing
vitality and vigour...
From now on you are getting clear skin... white teeth... bright eyes...
Rule glossy hair.... because that is what you get for giving up smoking.... you
are getting fresh breath... clean clothes....
hair that smells of soap the way it used to... remember when you were
first dating and how good that smell was... and you want all those things,
Memory
don't you? Because you have given up smoking now you are getting all
those things... and that's good isn't it?
The moment you stopped... you lungs started healing.... getting younger...
Memory
just like when you were growing up...
OTHER ADVANTAGES
Imagine now .... getting into your car... the clean smell... just like that
Memory Metaphor
new car smell... and you open the windows and taste that fresh air....
and you have more money... and you can start to get fitter... you will
enjoy exercise... when you don't smoke.... because you get stronger
faster.... you are more confident... you can really taste your food... you
Identity Metaphor
don't have to embarrass yourself by asking to leave company.... because
you don't smoke you no longer have people looking at you when you are
standing outside.... you don't have to be out in the cold any longer...
and you can be proud.... quiet confident pride in your own
achievement.... And now... bring to mind all the people who will be
Identity Visualisation
proud of you... the people who will be surprised... and delighted... and
impressed.... because you no longer smoke...
You will have more time... to do what you want... when you want... think
Capability
of what you are now able to do... now that you don't smoke....
YOU WILL NOT PUT ON WEIGHT
Capability And you trust your mind... to protect you... to keep you healthy.... D
Now that you have given up... you will just forget about smoking.... it
Memory just will not be part of your day.... you can forget about it now.... and you Presupposition
will find your day fills with other things to do...
And you can remember a time before you smoked... and how you don't
need to snack... You will not put on weight... giving it up means you are
Memory
getting healthier and fitter... giving up means you deserve to look the way
you want to look....
AVERSION TO SMOKING
Behaviour Every time smoking crosses your mind you feel a sensation of disgust. Sensory
The idea of smoking is revolting. When you think of smoking the most
Memory
disgusting pictures come to mind... you feel repelled by smoking... by

cigarettes.... by tobacco....
Every time you think of smokes you get a horrible taste in your mouth
Memory until you repeat to yourself... over and over... I don't smoke... I will never PHS
smoke...
And you take a deep breath and feel that healthy air cleansing your
Identity body... and deep inside you know you don't smoke now... it's over for
ever....
THERE WILL BE NO CRAVINGS
And you will feel nothing... nothing at all... it is as if you never
Memory smoked.... if you feel anything at all... it will feel like a distant memory...
smoking does not interest you at all... you can forget about it now...
Giving up smoking is easy... it actually is easy... and simple... as if you
never smoked at all...
You don't need cigarettes... you don't want cigarettes... you never liked
smoking... you are giving it up.... you have stopped.... you have had your
last cigarette.... You have nothing to do with smoking now... that is all in
the past.... You can see your future now and it's bright and clean and
healthy....
you have more money... better health.... more fun... more energy...
And you deserve to have a long and healthy life, don't you... and you
want to be fit and toned, don't you?.... and you want to have more money
and more friends don't you?... and deep down inside... you know you Yes set
have changed forever, ... you know you have given it up now... don't
you?
And every moment that passes you feel that satisfaction growing... and
that confidence and pride...
And when you open your eyes you realise you are seeing things
differently, that things have changed... that you have changed... you are a
non-smoker now.
I wonder what part you will enjoy the most?
DIRECT SUGGESTION SECTION

You are a non-smoker now
every cigarette is a problem... every puff is a danger.... and you can
imagine a cigarette in your fingers now... and you can imagine snapping
that weak fragile cigarette... and just snapping... crushing it ... and Post Hypnotic
Behaviour
throwing it away... grinding it into the ground... and everything it Suggestion
represents... because nothing will ever make you take that first puff
again... that's over with....
Because you have the power to change... [clientname] you know there is
nothing to fear... for you ... giving up cigarettes is simple and direct....
you will feel nothing... you will feel nothing at all.... you will be able to
Capability D
go through your day normally... and all those things that you used to do
will just not be there any more... you can forget about them... you can
forget about the habits....
You can say to yourself.... repeat this over and over... in your mind,
Behaviour
now....

Worldview I DESERVE to be a non smoker D
Capability I CAN BE a non-smoker D
Identity I AM a non-smoker D
Identity I DON'T smoke D
Behaviour I WILL NEVER smoke D
Identity I AM FREE D
Memory I had my last cigarette a long time ago D
And when you think about smoking ... somehow it seem to be a long time
ago .... in the past .... and whenever you think about a cigarette or
smoking... you take the image and move it far away to the place in your
Identity TIme distortion
mind where you keep things that are over and done with.. and it all seems
such a long time ago... in a different lifetime... when you were a different
person....
Match
Worldview Because you deserve to be a non smoker.. D
breathing
Match
Identity You are a non smoker D
breathing
Match
Behaviour Smoking was never something you enjoyed D
breathing
Behaviour And you can tell yourself that ....over and over... with every breath D Pacing
Match to
Identity "I never enjoyed smoking" D
breathing
Match
Behaviour "They make me sick" D
breathing
Capability I keep my habits under control... I am in charge... I am in control
Capability This is easy
Worldview I DESERVE to be a non smoker
Capability I CAN BE a non-smoker
Identity I AM a non-smoker
Identity I DON'T smoke
Capability I WILL NEVER smoke
Worldview It's over NOW
Identity I HAVE STOPPED FOREVER
And it’s like there is a little voice in you mind saying...
Capability I know how to make this work
Capability It's working now
Identity I am a non smoker now
Worldview It's OVER now
Rule Giving up is easy.
POST HYPNOTIC SUGGESTION SECTION

You have changed forever
Because you have the ability to take charge of your life... you have the
Capability Supposition
ability to decide what you want to do... you have the ability to take a

decision... you've already taken that decision ... you have changed
today... You're a different person... and so now you can look ahead to the
rest of the day and see yourself going through your day ... going back to
work perhaps... and you will have a different behaviour... and people
look at you differently...
And when they look at you differently that just reminds you ... how easy
it is ... and how good you feel.... and little things throughout the day and
the evening will keep reminding you .... of how good you feel... about Sensory
Behaviour D
yourself... about your decision... and about how other people regard you Distortion
now.... and when you wake up tomorrow... the first thing in your mind
will be a wonderful feeling... of how good freedom feels...
And there will be a few ... moments ... where your body begins to heal....
Behaviour and maybe you will cough more than you usually do ... but these are all Reframing
signs that you are getting healthy..
and they will remind you of the way that you can go through your day....
Amnesia
and never even think about it...
As each hour passes your resolve.... your capability... will get stronger
Capability D
and stronger.... as it is now...
And in your mind there is that certainty... that you will never have
Memory another puff.... you have had your last.... it is over... at last it's over and D
that's really good... isn't it?
And you know that you will be successful at this... and you can feel it
now I think, that feeling.... of certainty... of your ability... that nothing
Capability D
will sway you... that you are in charge and you are going to go forward to
a great success....
REORIENTATION SECTION
Back to the present....
Use your normal reorientation method....
David Mason www.key-hypnosis.com © 2008

Stop Smoking Script
This script is the transcript of an actual stop smoking hypnosis session conducted by
David Mason.
The Stop Smoking script is given in full with comments to explain what each
statement is doing.
The client was a man in his early thirties who had been smoking for fifteen years. He
was smoking between twenty and thirty cigarettes a day. Before the hypnosis began,
information was gathered using the Smoking Resources Checklist. Information about
smoking beliefs, resources, and fears was then used to create specific suggestions
unique to this client. For example, some statements in the script refer specifically to
the health fears expressed by the client at the beginning of the session.
INDUCTION SECTION
You can allow yourself to Relax
Just settle yourself into a comfortable position. D
Behaviour You feeling alright? 'Yes set' 1
Yeah
You ready to go into hypnosis? 'Yes set' 2
Yep
Looking forward to it? 'Yes set' 3
Yeah.
That's good. OK.
Simplified
What I would like you to do now is to just take a deep breath... and hold
Relaxation
it.
induction
And when you are ready... just let it go, and as you let it go.... let go of all
the tension in your body..... just relax....
Now take another deep breath and hold it... and this time really relax, just
Dissociation
think about all those muscles that have to relax...
That's good...and now take another deep breath... and in your own time let
it go... and let go of a-l-l the tension in you... just let it all go out.... That's Reassurance
excellent.... that's very good
Now allow your breathing to go back to normal... and you can begin to
I Supposition
appreciate that feeling of relaxation that you are getting.
Client: I could go to sleep
That's lovely... that's what hypnosis is like... a lovely feeling of
D
relaxation.... you won't go to sleep.... but you will get very relaxed...
So now I would like you to close your eyes...
That's good
And just think about your breathing.... Dissociation
Just become aware of how the air goes in through your nose and down
into your throat....

And then you breathe out again... and how it comes out warm and
comforting..... and how .... if you think about your breathing... it can make I Non sequitur
you so relaxed..... so comfortable....
and as you are lying in that chair... breathing gently... listening to my Pacing
D
voice... every breath out can make you more and more relaxed.... Non sequitur
and as you breathe out a little voice in your head says..."more relaxed...
D Self induction
more comfortable"
and with each breath out you feel yourself becoming more relaxed and
D
more comfortable....
and just allow that feeling to continue... that wonderful relaxation that you
can feel spreading around...
DEEPENER SECTION
You can relax more deeply still
And I wonder if you can imagine a big old house somewhere?..... Dissociation
a house with trees and.... a big fancy door.... and windows...... maybe
there is a garden and a fence... it’s the kind of house that's been there for a
long time... that somehow the sun shines on that house... it's a happy
place... and there have been birthdays... and candles.... and Christmas Connect to
trees and Easter eggs.... life has gone on in that house for a very long childhood
time... and people have grown up in there... and they have left to get memories
married and they have come back with their babies.... and little children
have grown up in the kitchen... crawling around and eating dirt and
laughing.. and there are toys.... it's a lovely place...
And there is always laughter in that house... and there are people having
meals... and in the evening they go into the living room... and maybe they
put on the stereo.... and they listen to soft gentle music... and that soft I
gently music makes them relax and drift away..... and nothing bothers
them...
And they lie there relaxing.... imagining that music... in that happy
house.... you can imagine them so relaxed... that they feel as if they are I Dissociation
sinking into the chair... as the chair is supporting them....gently....safely....
And I wonder if you can feel yourself sinking gently into that chair,
now.... and feeling yourself supported as if you are on a big fleecy cloud...
I Sensory
and just drifting down and down...into that cloud.... feeling yourself going
deeper and deeper... deeper and deeper...
Just allowing yourself to drift away now... nothing is important... nothing
D Supposition
matters... and you can feel yourself going down and down..
And my voice can become whatever you want it be... my voice can
become the sound of rain on the window pane on a winter's night.... or my
voice can be the voice of a teacher... or a parent... or a friend... and my Dissociation
voice can be the wind blowing along an empty street.... in summer... or
maybe... the wind is blowing along a street in autumn...
And picks up a leaf and that leaf gets carried away .... here and there....
and it goes left and right.... and up and down... and that wind... carries the
leaf safely and gently.... as it goes round and round... swirling and

swooping....
And then it goes down... gently .... swirling round.... as if it is in a spiral
stair case...
And I wonder if you can imagine a spiral staircase.... the way the spiral
staircase goes down and round and round... and you can imagine yourself
on that spiral staircase... and you can imagine going down that spiral
staircase.... and there can be a handrail and it's safe...
And you can count yourself down that spiral staircase.... and the first step
is TEN... and the next step goes down deeper NINE... and EIGHT feeling
more relaxed and more comfortable... and SEVEN drifting away... then
SIX down and down..... really relax.... then FIVE deeper and deeper... and
then FOUR... nothing matters.... nothing counts.... you have nothing to
do... you don't have to do anything... you don't have to think.... listen...
anything at all.... and then THREE nearing the bottom.... totally relaxed...
then TWO ... almost there .... and ONE... gone down... into some warm
dark place... where your mind can just drift away... if any thoughts come
into your mind just let them go... like little puppies running away wagging
their tails.... you can ignore them... they'll just go away... and then ONE...
you're at the bottom... feeling really good... totally relaxed... and you can
just enjoy that feeling of release and relaxation.... knowing that
everything's OK and you're OK.... and there are no issues... nothing you
have to do...
That's very good [clientname] you're doing very well...
RECONNECTION TO SUCCESSES SECTION

You are a success
And I wonder if there is someplace that you could go in your mind...
someplace that's safe and secure... someplace that's really yours... that you
enjoy.... a place that you can go to in your mind... where everything is just
the way you want it to be.... everything is ideal.... a place where only you
Safe Place
can go.... unless you invite others... where you will always feel safe and
well... a place where you are healthy, fit.. strong... a place where you feel
full of confidence and ability... a place where you know who you are...
and why you are.... and it's just the place you want to be...
and when you get to that place and enjoy it for a moment... I'd like you to Depth
say "Yes" Confirmation
Yes
And that place...you can always go back to ... it's always there for you...
it's always there in your mind... and in that place... you are strong.... and
healthy and in control... because you are in control of your life
Capability
[clientname] ... you can do whatever you want to do ... I know there are
some things you think you are not in control of... but in fact... you really
are in control of everything...
You can decide for yourself what you do... no one can tell you anything
Capability else... you can decide what to eat... you can decide what to wear... and you D
can decide when you get up and when you go to bed, can't you? And you

can decide what habits you want to have... and you can decide what you
want to get rid of.... and if something bothers you.... you want to stop it...
you've got the power to do that because you are in control... you have that
ability.... to be completely in control... and no matter how long something
has gone on ... you can stop it immediately... you just make the decision...
and you know that, don't you? And that's how you do it.
Because... just look at your life... you have achieved so many things...
there was a time when you couldn't ever tie your own shoelaces... and you
did that... and there was a time when making friends was a problem and
you did that... there was a time when getting a job... and getting through
school... meeting girls and all these things was a problem... you did all
these things... and now you are a [jobtitle] ... in control of people... you Equivalence
have achieved this... you have achieved this by your own willpower.... PAST
Capability =
and you have the ability to achieve anything you want.... and you've come SUCCESS =
here today because there is something you want.... there's something you ABILITY
are determined to do... and you now know you can do that ... because you
are lying there and you've made a decision ... and your decisions affect
your life... and you know you can do this... because you are in control...
you decide... and you act... and that's it... it's always been like that... and it
always will be....
SECOND DEEPENER SECTION

You can start to change
And I wonder if you can imagine being back in that house... that happy
house.... and inside that house there's a staircase...and that staircase goes
down towards a door... and you can see the door from the top of the
stairs... and as you go down those stairs.... you feel yourself going deeper
and deeper.... really really relaxed... really entranced... and you can go
down those stairs at any speed you want... and when you get to the bottom
of those stairs you'll be totally relaxed.... totally at ease... and at the
bottom of those stairs there is a door.... and behind that door is something
wonderful... something wonderful for you... so I would like you now
[clientname] to go down those stairs... at whatever speed you like...and
you go down each step you'll go deeper and deeper and more relaxed
and when you get to the bottom... I want you to tell me what colour the
Depth Test
door is...
Red
It’s red....that's good.... and can you open that door? Safety Check
Yeah
And is it OK to open that door? Safety Check
Yeah
That's fine

PARTS THERAPY SECTION
You can forgive old behaviour
Now behind that door [clientname] are parts of your self... there's all the Visualisation
Identity parts of yourself that make you who you are... there's all the parts in there +
of your creativity... of your intelligence... your humour...your ability... presuppostions
And you can imagine going through that door and finding yourself.... in
amongst all those good parts of your self ... and there's all the parts that
make you feel good about yourself... and you can imagine them... pressing
Identity
around you ... meeting you... and you feel so good because every part of
you ... is valuable... every part of you intends for your own benefit... every
thought you have ... every idea you have... is actually for your good...
And as you look around that room you can see all those wonderful parts...
and yet... there's a part missing... and you look carefully around that room
Memory
and you see on the far wall there's a door... this is a black door....and you
go to that door... and you open it carefully... and inside there's another
part of you... there's the part of you in there ... that keeps you smoking...
and you look around and there's a small frightened part... because this part
wanted to help you when you started smoking... it thought it was doing
something really good for you... but over the years it has realised it made
a mistake - you should never have started smoking... and now it is
frightened of what you will say and what you might do... but every part of
you is valuable... and every part of you means well.... and so.. I'd like you
to go down and embrace that part.... comfort it ...tell it ... you realise that
Rule
it made a mistake.....that it's OK to make mistakes... that the only thing
that's not OK is if you keep making mistakes....
and in your own way... however you can.... you persuade that part... it's
>
OK... that it can stop doing that now... that it doesn't matter any more... Mind reading
D
because you've made that decision...
and you can take that part and leave the room...now... and as you leave the
room the door closes behind you ..... and that small frightened part.... as it
D
goes in amongst all the other parts... begins to change and grow ... and
gets stronger...
You can create new behaviour
and you can introduce that part to the part of you that is creative .... the
part of you that knows how to do new things.... you can work with that
part that was smoking and you can come up with three creative things you
can do instead of smoking... that will give you the same benefits... and
will be amazed at how fast you can come up with three or maybe more
things that you can do.... that will replace that habit you used to have....
and it might be eating fruit and it might be brushing your teeth it might
be.... who knows? But the creative part of you.... that wonderful rich
creative part of you ... that's helped you all your life will help you now...
and you can substitute .... different behaviour for the one's you've had....
and you can get curious as to what those behaviours might be. Because
you will find them arriving naturally...in the next hours and days...
And every time that old habit comes to mind a new behaviour will replace
it. And that new behaviour will take over as if it has been there for ever....
and it will feel so natural... and so easy... that you just do it .... for as long
as you need to .... and when you don't need to you can stop doing it...

because you've got control.... and you can be really surprised at how often
you can do it....
And in that room... in amongst those parts... you look round ... to the back
wall where that black door is... and as you look that black door begins to [Metaphor
Behaviour shrink... and it gets smaller and smaller until it is the size of a CLOSING OFF
mousehole... and it gets smaller and smaller and it just disappears.... and OLD WAYS]
that place is sealed away for ever...
and you bring that part into the room with all the other parts... and just
getting in touch with all those parts... the part with your creativity... your
laughter... you friendship.... all the parts that make you feel good... they
all combine now and make you feel really good... and you feel as good as
D
you have for a very long time.... because you've made a serious decision
and you know it's the right decision.... and all those reasons you used to
have are gone... and that makes you feel so good because you know
you've done that....
And so with all the best wishes of those good parts you move towards the
other end of the room... and there's another door.... and this time you go
through into another room
MAGIC CINEMA SECTION

You can clear old images
and on the far wall is a giant video screen... and there's a movie playing...
and you go and stand in front of that movie... and on a small table there's
[metaphor for
a video controller... and you can make that movie go fast or slow or
CONTROL]
backwards or forwards... and you look at the movie and you realise that
movie is showing you ... you and your day...
It shows you getting up in the morning... it shows you you having
breakfast... it shows you driving to work... it shows you at work... having
Dissociation
breaks... driving home from work... and getting home and sitting watching
TV and going outside and coming back in... it's your whole day
And you watch the movie... and you are able to speed the movie and see
Behaviour your day go fast... and you can reverse it... and you can control your day I
any way you want....
But you look at it closely and you see that you are in all the scenes... and
there are so many scenes where you are holding a cigarette... and you see
yourself holding that cigarette ... and you realise that something's not right [Metaphor for
... and you realise with horror that there's a cord wrapped around the wrist ADDICTIVE
that is holding that cigarette... and that cord is coming out of the screen BEHAVIOUR]]
and it is wrapped around your own wrist.... and you are connected to that
...
And as you look in every scene there is a cord coming out tied around
your wrist... tied to that cigarette. But you are in control. And so you
wind that video back to the beginning and you see yourself waking up.... Deconstruction
Behaviour D
getting up... and you see yourself reaching for the packet of cigarettes ... of the metaphor
and you see the cord... and something sharp appears in your other hand in
that room.... and you reach out and you SLASH that cord....you break the

connection and as you do that picture of cigarettes disappears..... and you
see yourself with no cigarettes ... and a big smile on your face and feeling
really good ... and the movie goes on to another scene.... you're having
breakfast and you are feeling good at that... and then you see yourself
after breakfast ... and again there's that hand with the cigarette and the
cord... and you reach out and you slash that cord again... and as you do the
cigarette disappears ... and you feel so good... and you know that you
don't have to have that ... that connection is gone...
And you can go through now and see every scene in your day... and you
Stimulus can slash the cord ... you can cut away the connection between you and
that cigarette....
I want you to do that now, [clientname]... use that control and go through
your day as fast as you like... and at every scene.... every time you
Visualisation:
smoke.... reach out and just cut that cord... and you will see it falls off
Stimulus Action
both wrists... and you are free... and you can fast forward through that
Metaphor
scene... and cut every cord.... and when you have done that you'll have a
movie of your day with no cigarettes
And there's other movies on there... there are movies of you on holiday... Remove
Stimulus there are movies of going to see friends... there are movies of you in the triggers from
bar... at parties... and you cut the cord in all of them ... other scenes
You can visualise a new life after stopping
and when you have done that you can run that movie backwards... as fast
[alter how the
Memory as you can... like an old jerky black and white comedy... and just see your
memory is held]
day running backwards... and all those cigarettes disappear....
and when you get to the beginning.... run it forwards again... take a
moment to see yourself going smoothly through your whole day... and
there are no cigarettes... in that movie you are smiling and feeling good...
and you are doing those other things in place of cigarettes... and at the end
of the day you see yourself go to bed.... healthy and happy.... in control.... Visualisation:
Behaviour just thinking about how your decision has changed your life... and how Desired
your days will be from now on... and you can flip forward with that Behaviour
controller into the next day and the next day... and you can see your life as
it will be .... see your life as it is... fresh breath... more money.... fitter...
healthier... happier.... food tastes better... clear headed... completely
clean... and I wonder how good that makes you feel...
And you put down the controller .... and you start a new movie... and in
this movie...
BRIDGE TO FREEDOM METAPHOR

You are leaving the past behind
you see yourself walking across a bridge... and half way across the bridge
Dissociation
there's a tape... a paper ribbon of some sort...
... and you walk up to it, and on the other side of the bridge... there are
Incentive
people there, just waiting .... for you to cross.... to welcome you...
and you realise you can walk forward across that bridge and leave the past action for
Capability
behind... commitment

All you have to do is break that tape.... that flimsy bit of paper... that's all
there is to it.... snapping that tape means you are choosing to go forward... > = easy
crossing into a new life.... a different life... clean... and free...
And can you break that tape?... and go forward now? Breaking that tape
means you have decided to leave that habit behind.... make a clean > Bind
break...
And if you are ready to push through that tape now... and leave that habit Confirm
behind for ever... you can signal... by raising a finger or a thumb.... and > unconscious
we'll go on... commitment
[await response] Ideomotor
and you walk forward against that tape and it breaks... and flutters away
Identity harmlessly... and you realise that everything has changed... you have Reinforce belief
changed...
SELF ESTEEM SECTION

You are loved and respected
and all the people on the other side are all the people you know and love
and all the people who love you... and all the people you have known in
the past ... and they are all looking at you and applauding .... and you
come down from that bridge... and you feel really good because you have
left behind all that old stuff...
and you move among these people.... feeling good... and some hug and
kiss you, some pat you on the back... and they are shaking your hand and
you can hear them saying "that [clientname]... you know what he has
Kinaesthetic
done? .... He has changed his life... I always knew he could ... I always
Identity I and Verbal
thought he would be a winner." ... and over on the far side you hear
rewards
somebody saying.. "I am so proud of him ... I have always been proud of
him.... He's the best son I could ever have had..... and now look what he
has done... He's everything I ever wished he could be.."
And you move on and other people are saying... "You know that man will
Identity go far... he's done so much... and now he's doing even better.... he's a I
winner... a success"....
REMOVING TRIGGERS SECTION

You will act differently in old situations
And as you walk along you see all the people from work looking at you...
and you know from looking at their eyes... there's a new respect there...
Behaviour that you got rid of this problem... and they know you won't be going
outside... taking breaks and such.... any more... That will get rid of a lot of
problems...
And you move forward and you can see all the friends you go out with...
Behaviour and one of them offers you a cigarette... and you just look at it and you D
smile... and you say...no thank you... I don't do that any more....

And you realise what the cigarette is.... it is an offer of friendship... and
Behaviour Reframing
you accept the friendship.... and you push away the cigarette...
And there is another scene where you are at club or party or somewhere...
Post Hypnotic
Behaviour and there is a cigarette there in an ashtray.... and you pick it up .... and you
Suggestion
snap it in two...
because from now on [clientname] anytime you find a cigarette in your
fingers you just snap it in two... and you throw it down because it is
over....you will always do that...and as you walk out of there... in the new Post Hypnotic
Behaviour
life... all those good wishes go with you... and you feel so good about that Suggestion
decision... and you know that you will never never... go back ... do that
again... it's over
DOUBLE DISSOCIATION SECTION

You can experience the benefits of your new life
And you find yourself walking along by the side of a river somewhere...
or a lake maybe.... it's a lovely warm day... the sun is shining... and there
is fresh air blowing along... and there are flowers... and insects... and it's
the best day you ever had... and as you walk along... you can somehow Dissociation
see yourself walking along... as if from a distance... you can see how you
are dressed... how you walk.... and you can read the thoughts of that
person walking along... clear in your mind...
Address
You hear yourself think to yourself.... how healthy you are now... how
Identity specific client
getting rid of that habit has made your lungs clean and clear...
concerns
Because you know for your long term health... for your breathing... and
the winter coming up... you need to have clean clear lungs... and you
Repeat client
Behaviour don’t really enjoy that habit... you never did, really.... and you know it
complaints
makes you feel sick in your stomach... and it makes you feel horrible.. it
used to cost you a lot of money...
And now as you watch yourself walk along that road... you can hear
yourself think about how you've now got more money... things you can Reinforce client
buy... better health... a great future... you can see that you have lost requests
weight... you can see that you're feeling good about yourself...because ...
Think about what you have gained.... and what you have actually given
up... what you have given up is coughing, bad breath, smelly hair, dull
skin... and what you have gained is really tasting coffee.... really enjoying
Reframing
your food.... being free to enjoy being with friends again... your eyes
sparkle, your teeth are clean... and I wonder if you can feel a smile on
your lips...
And you look around and everything reminds you of how you have
changed. and you can be surprised over the next days and hours and
Seed the idea of
Identity weeks... how little things you notice will surprise you... will remind
health
you.... of how you have changed and how good it is.... and you can look
forward... to a long and healthy life...

CLINIC METAPHOR SECTION
You know smoking excuses are lies
And as you walk along there.. you find yourself outside a clinic... a
hospice... some kind of private hospital.... and you walk inside... and you
stop outside a room... inside that room... there's a man lying a bed... a bit Visualisation
older than you... and he is surrounded by family...and friends... and they
are all weeping...
and you listen... you listen to that man... and he is telling the people
around him... his family... his children... what he told himself .... why he
D
kept smoking... and he is telling them all the excuses he gave himself..
they don’t sound convincing, do they?...
I wonder if you know what reasons he told others.... told himself... and I
wonder if you can hear how false they are.... how ridiculous they
sound.... that it helped him concentrate... that it gave him something to do
when he was bored ... and he is lying in that bed... his life slipping [List client
Behaviour I
away... waste and regret... and his family are weeping.. and he weeps specific beliefs]
himself... at his selfishness and stupidity... and he will never come out of
that bed... and you wouldn't like to have to explain to people ... who love
you ... and depend on you....
And so you close the door on that scene... knowing that that will never
happen to you... that those excuses were false ... and those beliefs were
false... what that man believed... and paid for.... just isn't true... cigarettes Close =
Worldview D
never helped anybody do anything... and you walk away... proud.... proud metaphor
of yourself... determined.... and that changes you... you feel something
change inside you...

You are a non-smoker now
every cigarette is a problem... every puff is a danger.... and you can
imagine a cigarette in your fingers now... that image of the dying man
comes to mind... every time you think of a cigarette... an image of the
dying man appears... the desolation... fear.....and anger.... anger at the
Post Hypnotic
Behaviour waste... and an image of the family... crying, lost... and you can imagine
Suggestion
snapping that weak fragile cigarette... and just snapping... crushing it ...
and throwing it away... grinding it into the ground... and everything it
represents... because nothing will ever make you take that first puff
again... that's over with....
Because you have the power to change... [clientname] you know that the
only thing that stops you from stopping is an irrational fear... but there is
nothing to fear... giving up cigarettes is simple and direct.... you will feel
Capability nothing... you will feel nothing at all.... you will be able to go through D
your day normally... and all those things that you used to do will just not
be there any more... you can forget about them... you can forget about the
habits....
You can say to yourself.... repeat this over and over... in you mind,
Behaviour
now....

Worldview I DESERVE to be a non smoker D
Behaviour I WILL NEVER smoke D
Identity I AM FREE D
Memory I had my last cigarette a long time ago D
And when you think about smoking ... somehow it seem to be a long time
ago .... in the past .... and whenever you think about a cigarette or
Identity smoking... you take the image and move it far away to your left.... in your TIme distortion
mind... and it all seems such a long time ago... in a different lifetime...
when you were a different person....
Match
Worldview Because you deserve to be a non smoker.. D
breathing
Match
Identity You are a non smoker D
breathing
Match
Behaviour Smoking was never something you enjoyed D
breathing
Behaviour And you can tell yourself that ....over and over... with every breath D Pacing
Match to
Identity "I never enjoyed smoking" D
breathing
Match
Behaviour "They make me sick" D
breathing
Now I have something else... now I feel good... about myself... I keep my
Capability habits under control... I am in charge... I know what I am doing... I know
who I am... I am in control
Capability This is easy
Worldview I DESERVE to be a non smoker
Capability I CAN BE a non-smoker
Identity I AM a non-smoker
Identity I DON'T smoke
Capability I WILL NEVER smoke
Worldview It's over NOW
Identity I HAVE STOPPED FOREVER
Capability I know how to make this work
Capability It's working now
Identity I am a non smoker now
Worldview It's OVER now
Rule Giving up is easy.
POST HYPNOTIC SUGGESTION SECTION

You have changed forever
Because you have the ability to take charge of your life... you have the
Capability Supposition
ability to decide what you want to do... you have the ability to take a

decision... you've already taken that decision ... and that has changed
your life today.... hasn't it? You're a different person... and so now you
can look ahead to the rest of the day and see yourself going through your
day ... going back to work perhaps... and you will have a different
behaviour... and people look at you differently...
And when they look at you differently that just reminds you ... of your
decisions...and how easy it is .... and how good you feel.... and little
things throughout the day and the evening will keep reminding you .... of
Sensory
Behaviour how good you feel... about yourself... about your decision... and about D
Distortion
how other people regard you now.... and when you wake up tomorrow...
the first thing in your mind will be a wonderful feeling... of how good
you feel now...
And there will be a few .... moments .... where your body begins to
heal.... and maybe you will cough more than you usually do .... but these
are all signs that you are getting healthy.. that you are on your way to
Behaviour fitness... that you will be fit and ready for the next winter... that you will Reframing
never be bothered by these again... because those are healthy signs.... and
you can look out for them... and they'll all remind you... of how good this
decision is...
and they will remind you of the way that you can go through your day....
Amnesia
and never even think about it....
As each hour passes your resolve.... your capability... will get stronger
Capability D
and stronger.... as it is now....
And in your mind there is that certainty... that you will never have
Memory another puff.... you have had your last.... it is over... at last it's over and D
that's really good... isn't it?
And you know that you will be successful at this... You've been
successful at so many things.... Your mother did it... your father did it...
you are doing it.... and you have that other... dreadful reminder... your [List family
Capability grand parents... but you are going to be successful.... and you can feel it D experiences
now I think, that feeling.... of certainty... of your ability... that nothing with smoking ]
will sway you... that you are in charge and you are going to go forward to
a great success....
2ND DIRECT SUGGESTION SECTION

You are finished with smoking
and you find these words going round and round in your head, over and
REPETITION
over, all day, all night....
Identity I DESERVE to be a non smoker D
Capability I WILL NEVER smoke D
Behaviour It's OVER D

CLIENT CONVINCER SECTION
You acknowledge and commit to change
So now I would like you think back over all those successes you have
had in your life.... and all those people with good wishes towards you....
memory visualisation
and all those people who support you .... and all the other things you have
learned today....
And bring that feeling of success ... of certainty... and focus now on your
hands... and just become aware of your hands.... I don't know whether
you'll feel one hand tingling or one hand heavier than the other or.... Sensory
Capability D
maybe one hand will move or a finger will move.... but you will know distortion
that that has happened. And you will feel the difference that makes a
difference...
And when you are ready to move on [clientname] I would like you to
Seek agreement
signal by allowing your subconscious to move a finger... or a thumb...
Identity from
that lets you know that you and every part of you... has changed forever...
unconscious
and we will just go on...
[await finger move]
That's fine. That's very good. That tells you that your mind has taken a
Identity final decision... by moving that finger your mind has agreed to do > Bind
everything needed... you are now a non-smoker
That that habit is now in the past .... that's your guarantee. You now know D
Capability
you have finished with this.... >
You will remember all these changes
And so with that certainty in mind.... and those phrases going through
your head all the time.... I am going to count from five to one... and when
I get to one you can come back to the present....not just yet... when I
D
count from five to one you will find yourself coming back ... and you will
be filled with that certainty... and all the things we have talked about are
so true.... and you will just know that you are different now...
in many many ways and you may surprise yourself at how different you
Behaviour
can be...
how easy it is... so simple... it's actually simple... and that's another good
Rule
thing....
So, counting now.... FIVE....FOUR.... beginning to get feeling back into
your hands and feet... THREE beginning to flutter your eyes and shrug
your shoulders.... beginning a new life.... and TWO you are getting ready
for a big stretch ... ready to open your eyes feeling good... and smiling...
ONE EYES OPEN.....back to the present
How do you feel about a cigarette now?
Laughs - I don't
And that's how it will continue... you'll just forget about it... it just won't
Post Hypnotic
Behaviour occur to you.... and you will find yourself doing new things... saying "Oh,
suggestion
OK, I'll do it like that" - your mind will supply this for you... you and

[wife] can reinforce each other and it will be a success....
Right, yeah
In order to replace the beliefs the client holds about smoking it is necessary to first
identify what those beliefs are. The checklists of questions that follow are used to
remind the therapist to cover every relevant aspect to reveal why, when and how the
client smokes. It may also identify resources the client has that can be used against the
smoking habit. These answers provide a unique set of targets and resources to use
during hypnosis.

Stop Smoking Habit Anchoring Script
This script is written for a Stop Smoking session, but just substitute [Nail Biting] or
[Over Eating] etc into the parts where it says [Smoking] and it becomes a script for
any habit.
It is intended to be used where a client has had treatment, has stopped the habit for a
time, and then felt compelled to start again.
Part of it is based the technique of anchoring and part on visualisation. It links the
client’s inner strengths and personal beliefs to external events, so that when the
external event happens they are reminded of their inner strengths.
The script uses three different anchoring strategies. One section uses a physical
metaphor to anchor feelings of determination to squeezing their fist shut. One section
uses the idea of a Magic Word. This is associated to a visual metaphor and is used to
remind them that they have the ability to succeed if ever they feel temptation to start
again. One section uses the anchor between a colour and the desired situation. The
script uses a post hypnotic suggestion of using the colour to constantly remind them
that they can succeed in not doing the habit any more.
Towards the end of this script it is often useful to use the Measuring Tape metaphor.
INDUCTION
[Do your normal induction]
[Make sure the client has their hands free]
DEEPENER
[Use your normal deepener]
THERAPY SECTION
Identity In this session you are going to learn how to use self hypnosis. This I You have
will give you the strength you need to get the result you want. You the ability
have a natural ability to go into trance anytime you want.
Capability This may not be something you are familiar with, but it is something D
you can do easily once you have experienced what it is like.
You already know the difference between tension and relaxation, so > Bind
you already know the basics of it, don't you?
You have been able to [stop smoking] at times, but something seems to Empathy
be leading you to think about starting again, even though part of you
doesn't want to....
Rule This is telling you something important... Reframe
Capability it is telling you that you need to be able to remind yourself whenever D
you need to, of why you need to stop...
and to remind yourself that you can stop... that you have that power... Reconnect
that you can succeed... to success
Capability With self hypnosis you will succeed in reducing the physical and >
emotional tension you feel after [stopping smoking].
Capability With this skill after you [stop smoking] you will experience things in a D Inevitability
new way, a way that gives you the confidence, strength and success
you need.
Capability It will help you reduce anxiety because hypnosis is a mental process >
that leads to physical relaxation and physical relaxation leads to easier
[smoking] resolution.

Identity You will feel stronger and more confident. D Outcome
With self hypnosis you will experience [stop smoking] from a new > Reframing
perspective, and this will let you dismiss temptation with confidence
and calmness.
CLENCHED FIST PHYSICAL METAPHOR
You are now going to learn how to boost your resistance to temptation.
While you are in this state of deep relaxation... your breathing is slow Pacing
and steady.... your body is relaxed... every muscle loose and heavy...
Identity This state is something that you have created... on your own.... and in Leading
your own way.... and the way you experience it is unique to you...
Identity You have the ability to return to this state any time you want to.... D Leading
Capability and when you are in this state you can perform the most amazing >
things... with the most amazing strengths... because your mind is
focussed
it is a state of inner strength... a state that lets you get in touch with D Connect to
higher powers... a state that lets you transcend your normal self... to beliefs
summon inner resources and create powerful... almost magical effects.
Capability And you have the natural ability to use this special unique state... D Ambiguity
And as you are relaxing there now... breathing gently... you can Dissociation
become aware of your hands... a feeling in your hands... and your mind
can select one hand or the other hand... allow your mind to decide... to
pick one hand...
And while most of your body becomes more relaxed you will find that Deepener
one hand begins to close, to clench into a fist... and then relax again...
and as that hand relaxes... you go deeper and deeper inside...
And as you go deeper and deeper inside... you become aware of Reframe
something... you become aware of something rising up inside you... physical
and you recognise that for what it is... a fierce determination to [never feeling to
smoke again]... a feeling of stubborn resistance to [the idea of smoking mental
again] toughness
And once again... notice your hand closing.... and notice the feeling
associated with this... as that hand closes... your mind focuses on why
you want to[ stop smoking], [the smell, the cost, the health, ... ]
And that makes you even more aware of what you get from not
smoking... and as you think about that... that feeling of determination...
of self confidence... that you can beat this... that you can stop for ever...
grows ever stronger...
And this is where you learn to control that power... as that feeling
grows... that strength... that determination... that knowledge of how to
do it grows... you use that to close your hand into a fist... and that
feeling surges through you ... to an absolute unstoppable power... to
succeed... thrust aside all obstacles to reach out and clear away those
thoughts.... those old ideas that are getting in the way....
And as you clench that fist you know that nothing can stand in your
way of getting what you want ... you know that it is over for ever... you
can beat this... you have beaten this...
And as that fist relaxes again... that feeling of triumph... of being
unbeatable... fills your mind...
And that is what your body has been telling you... that is what you

need to learn...
Behaviour You can get into this comfortable relaxed state anytime... all you need
to do is to take three deep breaths... and then relax your muscles... you
already know how to do that...
Capability And in that state... every time you form that hand into a fist you will > Physical
once again be filled with that feeling of unstoppable confidence... that metaphor
power surges up in you ... and nothing can stop you....
Behaviour In any situation... you will be able to call up that feeling... just by >
relaxing a little... and close that hand... and that surge of power will be
there for you... unstoppable power... power to resist... to succeed... to
show you can...
Capability And as soon as you feel that ... that temptation just melts away... V
vanishes instantly... like it had never been there...
Capability And you feel calm and strong and in charge and relaxed... and you can I Pre-
laugh at that temptation.... because you have learned how to use your supposition
own inner power now....
Capability From now on... you know... that anytime you feel that anxiety... or any = Physical
physical feeling that reminds you of [smoking].... you can call up that metaphor
invincible feeling... that sweeps away all those thoughts... by
deliberately relaxing the tension in your muscles and then forming that
fist... and the tighter you make that fist... the more power you get...
Capability And no matter how many times it happened in the past... now that you >
have learned this simple trick of self hypnosis... you can walk away
from that temptation... and all those thoughts will seem silly...
Identity and you can laugh at its attempts to interest you again... you are not Reframing
interested now and never will be... that is just not who you are any
more.
MAGIC WORD VISUALISATION METAPHOR
And when you look back on [smoking] you see it in dark colours, like V
a picture seen far away... dim and obscure... small and faded...
And think of the first [smoke] you can remember, see yourself as you
were then... and in your mind, rub out the [cigarette] from that
picture...
And relax... deeper and deeper...
And now think about the things you really don't like about [smoking] V
... really focus on them... and allow the feeling of disgust or resentment
or whatever word it is that sums up how you feel about [smoking]...
allow yourself to feel that totally... to reject [smoking] and everything
to do with it... think about how much you dislike the parts of
[smoking] you dislike... think about how that makes you feel... about
yourself ... about what other people think about you...
And then imagine sweeping away all that bad feeling... imagine you V Metaphor
can wipe it out... totally... completely... imagine it as a picture and
destroy that picture and you are wiping it out... tear it up, throw it in
the rubbish... grind it into the ground... throw pots of paint over it... do
whatever you want to do to destroy that picture...
Behaviour And you do so, say your power word aloud.... you will find the right D
word... some people say 'Strong', some say 'Be Gone' or use a special
made up word or a phrase like 'I cannot be beaten, I am a winner'.

Capability Just imagine those feelings, those feeling you get when something V Metaphor
inside makes you think about [smoking] and then say your word, and
imagine yourself wiping out those feelings... wiping them away like
cleaning a worktop... wring it out and flush it away... feel the power of
that work... the power that keeps you going... gets you through... makes
you feel good about yourself and about your own ability to be strong...
Behaviour And every time you feel that temptation coming... at the tiniest hint
you say your magic word... and that reminds you of that strength you
have... and that image of [cigarettes] is destroyed... and you can enjoy
destroying it... mastering it...
MAGIC COLOUR POST HYPNOTIC SUGGESTION
Now take a deep breath... and allow you your mind to drift.
Think about a time when you are confident you can resist [smoking]. V
See yourself in that situation... imagine how it feels, how it looks...
what is around you... when you are in the confident state.... the state
when you know you are not [smoking] and you feel good about that...
and you know you won't [smoke]...
And now think about another time like that... another situation... when V Connect to
you have that feeling of certainty... that quiet easy feeling that you successes
don't want to [smoke] and you are not even thinking about [smoking]...
Now think about those two situations, those times, and notice what V Connect to
they have in common... what is present in both situations... notice a more
colour that is there in both those situations, and then test it... think of successes
other similar situations... and notice what colour is present then...
Belief And that colour has special significance to you. D
Memory Whenever you think of that colour... you will think of those situations >
when you are confidently in control... and in those situations when see
that colour... you will immediately feel confidently in control...
Capability And as you go about the normal things in your day... you will notice >
that colour here and there... and every time you see that colour it will
bring to mind those feelings of calm... of confident control... and will
remind you that you are in control... that you can easily be in control...
Belief And really, that can become the colour of your life... you can find >
yourself constantly reminded of your own inner strength... of your
success... of how easy it is really....
Behaviour And every time you see that colour... it is like you hear a voice in the =
back of your head saying 'this is easy... I know how to do this... it is
working... I am winning.... I can forget all about that now.... and just
ignore it... ' and it is easy... and you will have succeeded.
REORIENTATION
So take a few moments now and enjoy that success to come... allow Pacing
yourself to settle down and get more comfortable now...
Memory And think over all the things you have experienced in this session... the ambiguity
powers you have awakened... the touch of that inner strength... the
feeling of having made contact... the inner knowledge...
Identity All that means that you have the power to succeed... to sustain the
change you are seeking... to be free of [smoking] for ever... easily,
comfortably... confidently
Capability You know how to relax... and that means that in any situation where Reinforce

you need to... you can close your eyes... relax inwardly... and clench FIST
that fist... and that will bring back that inner power.. the power to free
yourself.. to remind yourself of your own strength and ability....
Capability You now know how to wipe away those feelings... by visualising the Reinforce
negative images and watching them get destroyed with your power WORD
word... you can use that word anytime anywhere to give you power
over that temptation... to remind you instantly of that determination...
to push it away and dump it ...
Capability And as you go through your day... that colour will remind you of Reinforce
feeling calm and confident... and the constant reminder... looking out f COLOUR
or that colour... will make you stronger...
Capability and you can brush that temptation way like a stray hair... and forget all Post
about it... hypnotic
metaphor
And now... you can count to yourself quietly in your mind... from five
up to one... and when you reach one you will be back in the present...
fully alert and ready for the rest of your day....
So when you are ready... begin counting now.

Stop Smoking hypnosis with aversion
A hypnosis script for making cigarettes taste horrible
Many clients who want to stop smoking say they could stop smoking if you could just
make it taste horrible. This Stop Smoking Aversion script uses hypnosis suggestions
to make the cigarettes taste bad. It creates aversion suggestions for all the sensations
of sight, smell, taste and texture so the smell is nauseating, the sight is
repulsive, the feel is horrible and the very idea of smoking makes you
want to vomit. Every aspect of smoking makes you want to get away from
it and stay away. The Stop Smoking Aversion script makes even the idea
of putting a cigarette in your mouth revolting.
Countdown induction
I wonder if you can imagine being on a hillside somewhere on
a nice day... just imagine you are out there somewhere in the V
country on a nice day... and you begin to walk along...
and as you walk along you come to this sort of valley ...
amongst the hills... And down below it all looks cool and
inviting...
and there is a path going down... and you begin to go down that
path... and as you go down that path you feel things begin to
M
change.... to get cool and dark and secluded... and you feel
comfortable... relaxed... as you go down
and you come to some water and the water is trickling down
rocks like a little waterfall all mossy and soft and gentle... and
at the bottom there is a pool..
And by the side of the waterfall there are steps going down to
that pool... and you begin to go down those steps...
and there are ten steps down... and as you go down... each step
makes you more relaxed... more at ease... and going down those
count down
steps now... Ten... nine... more and more relaxed... and eight ...
induction
and seven... relaxing deeper and deeper.... and six... and five...
and four.... and three... deeper and deeper...
and then you are at the pool... and standing at the pool you
begin to think about drifting deeper still ... and you begin to V
dream about the pool and what is deep down below that pool...
Taste aversion Therapy Section
and you see yourself reflected in that pool... and you see
yourself there... going through your day... having a cigarette in
Memory the morning... and then one or two during the day ... and then V
going home... and you see yourself going through all the
normal things to do with your day ...
And then everything goes dark... and it’s another day... but this
Transition
day is different...
on this other day you decide to touch the water... and ripples go
M
across the pool... and that changes all the images...
and on this day you see yourself getting up... you see yourself

taking that cigarette out the packet... you see yourself lighting...
no not quite lighting it... you see yourself as you pick up that
cigarette... there is something really different about it... it looks
the same and feels the same but it is not the same....
and as you hold the flame up to it... the flame begins to move
and turn and curl... and it gets sucked into the end of the
cigarette... and you feel the taste in your mouth... and you
Kinesthetic
suddenly feel as if some kind of monster has gone through that K
aversion
cigarette... and it is filling your mouth and throat and you are
feeling it in there like hooks... like a cat clawing at you... like
being cut by a knife... and you spit the cigarette out...
and you have the most horrible taste in your mouth... that
cigarette tastes as if you have been eating road kill... as you
picked up some slimy maggoty thing and put it in your mouth...
you just want to spit it out.. absolutely revolting
you just want to run away and brush your teeth... and you get to
the bathroom you brush your teeth... and you look in the
mirror... and you smile... and you know that you have been
saved from that horrible cigarette...
its like all that stuff going down the drain is that monster being
washed away ...swirling around... and disappearing into some M
dark place where it dies and loses its power...
And you take a glass of water and you rinse your mouth out...
Behaviour Action
and you feel clean... and fresh...
and the taste of a cigarette disgusts you now D
Proximity aversion Therapy Section
And you are looking in that pool again on that day... and once
again you are going through your day... and you see yourself...
and then you become aware of a presence...
of that evil thing trying to get you to smoke again... and once
again it is as if you don’t notice and you reach out and you take
the cigarette but as soon as you touch it... you realize there is
something wrong.. this is not right... and once again you put it
up to your mouth... and as you put it near your mouth... you
suddenly feel your lips as if they are burning...
as if you have some burning chemical on it... those lips start to
feel hot... throbbing and breaking open... you feel as though
those lips are breaking open in huge sores as that cigarette gets
closer..
and once again... you smell the cigarette and it is revolting...
and you throw it back in the face of that thing that is trying to
make you smoke again...
and once again you rush off to the toilet... and you splash your
face with water... and those lips cool down... and heal and you
look in the mirror.. and once again you smile... that smile of
triumph... of success...
and memory of the pain in your lips as you brought the
cigarette near... remains with you ... and you know you will

never forget that feeling... but you take a glass of water and you
rinse your mouth out...
and its like spitting out all that disgusting stuff... you realize
you want to spit out that cigarette completely... and everything
to do with smoking...
you don't want to be anywhere near a cigarette now.... D
Touch aversion Therapy Section
And once again you look in that pool... and once again you see
yourself going through your day... and once again that feeling
V
comes over you... I have to have a cigarette... and you see
yourself going outside...
and you reach to get the packet... and even as you think about
the packet... as you open it you begin to feel nauseous... you
Behaviour begin to feel a wave of evil coming out of that packet... you see
the cigarettes there... and it just makes you want to vomit... just
the touch of the cigarette is revolting...
and imaging holding that cigarette it seems to be some slimy
living thing... like a snake coiling round your arm trying to get M
up to your mouth and you just throw it away...
you throw it on the ground and you stamp it out... you stamp it
>
into shreds and grind it down.. and that makes you feel safe..
and you throw the packet away... you throw it away some place
M
where you are free from it... where it will be destroyed...
and you walk away feeling relieved... and that horror you were
feeling in your mouth... and you imagine a sink and a
toothbrush and brushing your teeth... and so clean... it feels
right..and
Just the thought of the pack and all the horrible warnings on it
and the ugly pictures come to mind... and just the thought of it
makes you feel ill and you reject it... and walk away...
Smoking aversion Therapy Section
And you look back in that pool... and you see yourself at
night... going home ... going to bed... and you think about the
habit you used to have of having a cigarette..
and just thinking about it now... that idea of putting one in or
near you just make you feel disgusted.. ill...
you just want to get away from it... and you know what to do
now... you know that you just brush your teeth... it’s like Spitting out =
magic... the feeling goes away... and you rinse your mouth out rejecting
with water... spit it out... and you are spitting away all that cigarettes
evil... all that horrible stuff...
You think about all those warnings... and you think they are
Memory V
right...
And as you see that water vanishing down the sink... you just
know that that is the end of it... that you never want that
horrible taste in your mouth again.. that revolting taste... that
pain on your lips... that nauseating feeling... that dizziness...
that you get from that ... you reject them all...

you reject that totally... cigarettes have no place in your life
Behaviour D
now...
even the idea of a cigarette makes you feel ill... and you reject
Behaviour
them all...
and when you see other people smoking it just turns you off
D
totally...
you just want to get away from there... get outside and get some
Behaviour >
clean air... take a glass of water...
Social aversion Therapy Section
And in the evenings... going to a bar or a restaurant... you see
other people smoking you just want to distance yourself from D
them...
you just want to have a good time and you can enjoy your time
Behaviour wonderfully, you can enjoy a drink and a meal without a D
smoke... you can have a coffee...
you can do all these things... and you just look at these other
Behaviour people you feel sorry for them...you think how could they do D
all that horrible negative stuff...
and when someone pulls out a cigarette you suddenly feel
Behaviour alarmed... warning bells sound in your head... and you just have D
to get away from there...
and that horrible taste begins form in your mouth until you
distance yourself ... you feel like spitting and gagging... just the
D
idea of having a cigarette in your mouth ...having cigarette
anywhere near you....
would be like having hooks dug into your lips... painful
disgusting things come to mind...
and you take a drink of water and you just suddenly feel good
again and every time you do that the power gets stronger and
>
stronger... and everything you do gives you that power to walk
away and leave them..
It is getting easier and easier now D
you want nothing to do with them... cigarettes are other
D Reframe
peoples’ problem.
Your body rejects them... your body rejects everything about
Behaviour cigarettes and smoking and tobacco... the sight of an ashtray D
revolts you... Discarded cigarettes anger you...
you can be around people who smoke... you don’t care...
Behaviour they’ve got problems... let them deal with them.... you just let D
them get on with it... you can succeed
you just keep your distance...that's all you have to do... because
you know that you will never smoke again... you know that D
every puff is a danger...
and any time someone offers you a cigarette... you get that
D
horrible feeling again...
you push it away so it goes away... and you say 'No! no, they
Physical
Behaviour make me sick'...' I can’t stand the idea of what it is doing to my >
metaphor
body'... so you just turn away... and you are safe... and every

time you do that... it gets easier...
And you can feel safe all through your day... none of this
D
bothers you any more... because you are free...
Reinforcement of non smoking
And looking in that pool again... you see another you reflected
there... on another day... you see a day when you wake up with
big smile...
and you stretch and you get out of bed... and you feel clean and
you go to the bathroom and you take a glass of water and you
swirl it round spit it out you remind yourself of how good it is
to be non smoker...
that never again will you have to put up with that disgusting
D
stuff
and you smile in the mirror... and face smiles back at you...
V Desired state
happy content and sure
and you say to the mirror 'this is easy... I know how to do this...
Capability and the strange thing is that when you walk away from that D Affirmations
mirror you forget all about cigarettes and smoking...
and you see yourself going through your day normally... and all
the things you used to do but there are no cigarettes there now...
Memory PHS amnesia
and anyone else smoking... anything that reminds you .. you
just don’t see it... it is as if you have just wiped it all away...
and you can have a break and you can have lunch... and you
can really enjoy how good those things taste... and can go
Capability
outside... into the fresh air and you can enjoy feeling the
cleanness... in your mouth and nose...
and you can go through the rest of your day enjoying it all.. you
Capability
can laugh at that habit... how it tried to hook you again...
it is like every evening... you now know how to just brush it
Capability
away.... 'get out of my way... I am free'...
and as you do, that old feeling... that old need, just withers
away... and dies... and you are safe again... happy... another D
day... free, clean, clear... healthy and confident....
Reorientation
And imagine ending that day... going to bed... and in that bed
sleeping... dreaming... dreaming of someone beside a pool... in
a dark valley... and that someone realizes that in fact they are
waking up....
and it all just seems like a dream... a dream of power and
energy... and so begin now to go back up those steps... from
one up to ten... and as you do you feel yourself walking away
from that habit... leaving it down there and walking up those
steps now
One, two, three, four, five... and at five you can look back on
that habit and see it for what it is... horrible thing... a horrible
thing that disgusts you... and walking up towards that sunlight
now... is destroying that old thing.... it is dying there behind
you now...

and you are getting ready to come back to the present...six and
seven and eight.. almost back into the light... knowing that you
have left it all behind...
and nine and ten, back into that sunlit hillside stand there and
open your arms and take in a great breath of the clean fresh air
and now that you are free, see all the world around you as far as
you can see... free, clean and clear...
and when you are ready... open your eyes and come back to the
present... NOW.

Smoker's Hypnosis induction
A simple effective hypnosis induction Script to Stop Smoking
This hypnosis induction is specially written as the induction to begin a Stop Smoking
session. Your whole stop smoking session should be focused on stopping
smoking, right from the first words. This induction puts the idea of
stopping smoking into the smoker's mind as they go into trance and makes
the stop smoking suggestions more effective.
It is a good induction to use because even before your therapy to stop smoking begins
you are suggesting clear breath, giving affirmations of 'no more smoking',
visualizations of leaving behind the old habit and going to a clean green place as a
non smoker.
Stop Smoking Induction Script

Take a deep breath.... and let it go... now take another breath... and as
Capability you let it go.... really relax.... and now one more breath as you start I Bind
the process of becoming a non smoker....
That’s right.... and now let your eyes close... and feel that relaxation
Capability K Supposition
spreading.
And now notice your breathing... now that you have decided to stop
smoking... you might senses a difference in your breathing now... or
maybe later... you will find you can become aware of your breath as it Seeding
>
goes down into your chest... and thinking about how much you can relaxation
feel of each breath inside... as you breath out... allow your body to
relax... more and more...
And as you relax... imagine all that old stuff coming out of your
V
lungs... clearing and healing... relaxing...
And with each breath out... it is as if there is a voice inside taking
over... and you hear the words... 'letting it go... no more smoking'....'
A Reassurance
letting it go... no more smoking'... and allow yourself to relax into that
rhythm... ' letting it go... no more smoking'...
And I wonder if you can imagine being in a place outside
somewhere... and you look around... and everything seems stale and
Behaviour V Metaphor
tired... everything is old and worn out... and the whole atmosphere
feels dull and dark and pointless....
And you look around... and off to the side... there is an exit... and you
decide to take that exit... and behind the exit... there are ten steps a way out
going down...
and you want to go down those steps... but something seems to be
holding you back... and then you realize there is something weighing
you down... and you become aware that to go forward...you have to M Metaphor
leave something behind... to go down those steps... you need to let go
of something... to show it your power...
and you realize that part of you is holding on to an old pack of
M old habits
cigarettes... and there are ten inside...
and as you step down the top step... you take one of the cigarettes...
Countdown
and you throw it away... and as you go down... you say TEN... and go
induction
deeper... and on the next step... you throw away another cigarette...

NINE... and relaxing gets easier... and shredding another cigarette...
EIGHT... more and more relaxed now... and then SEVEN... another
cigarette destroyed... and SIX... going down deeper now... more and
more relaxed.... FIVE... and FOUR... and THREE... then only two
cigarettes away from freedom... TWO... and one to go... throwing
away the last ONE...
And just drifting away now... feeling clean and clear... and you find
yourself in a beautiful place... healthy and clean... green and soft and
filled with light...
And in that place you know you can relax now because the burden of
having to smoke has been lifted off you.. and you can feel yourself D
changing...
and some smokers know they are changing because they can feel
All
themselves getting lighter... other smokers feel themselves getting
possibilities
heavier as they are drift away from those old needs...

Stop smoking regression script
This script is an example of using regression to stop smoking, or rather to stop a client
from starting again. The majority of clients need only one session to stop smoking but
some habits are more persistent than others. The client had been for one session to
stop smoking, along with his wife.
He and his wife both stopped smoking immediately and with no cravings or side
effects, but after four weeks or so he began to think about smoking again, and in fact
bought a pack of cigarettes and smoked some, much to his wife's dismay and anger.
After four weeks without cigarettes, all the nicotine had left his body, and all of the
possible triggers had become extinct, so the only reason he would want to smoke
again was because of an unextinguished belief about smoking.
The regression therapy was used to find, identity and then remove the unconscious
belief he had about smoking. The regression process was embedded in a long
metaphor about scoring goals consistently. The metaphor chosen used rugby because
the client was a fan, but any sport could be adapted.
INDUCTION SECTION
You can relax the body
Hypnosis is basically a matter of relaxation. Or rather, whenever you go into
a state of deep relaxation you automatically go into a state of hypnosis. You Seeding
can go into hypnosis in other ways as well, but being relaxed is the simplest
So what I would like you to do is to put your hands like that [demonstrates
putting the hands palm up on the arms of the chair]. Now that's not very
comfortable, is it?
No.
If you were to just relax them like that, [demonstrates turning the hands over
and dropping them loosely into the lap] that's much more comfortable, isn't
it?
Yes
I want you to get that feeling of relaxation, that relaxed, that quickly. Just
drop into it.
OK
What I want you to do is to put your head back as far as you can,... look at
the ceiling, find something on the ceiling behind the chair...
Yep
Put your hands the way I showed you, and now lift your toes up off the
ground. Your heels are on the ground but your toes are pointing up. Now
that's a state of tension. What we are going to do is to release the tension, and
as we do you're going to go straight into hypnosis....
Uhuh
So, take a breath.... and as you breath out.... just allow your eyes to close....
take another breath... and as you breath out... just allow that head to fall
forward into a comfortable position... That's good.... Take another breath....
and make those shoulders shrug down and become very loose and relaxed....
Take another breath and just relax those hands like I showed you... that's
good.... Take another breath and just let those feet go to rest .... another
breath... now let your spine and all the muscles of your upper body go

completely relaxed.... relaxed and limp and free.... that's good.... that's
excellent....
your flickering your eyelids is showing that you are ready to go into Total elapsed
trance..... time 2:30!
DEEPENER SECTION
You can relax the mind
And now the body is relaxed...you can relax your mind....
I wonder if you can imagine a river.... a wide dark silent river... Dissociation
and it's night... and the river is flowing through a city....and city is bright
with lights... and there's traffic about ... and just imagine...if you can... that
you are floating safe and secure on that river.... and with each breath out that Metaphor
river flows a little further... and as it flows past... the lights along the
riverbank begin to go out ...
and the traffic begins to slow down... and with each breath you can sense the
river flowing, and more city lights go out... and as the river flows on the
darkness slowly spreads across the city... city becoming dark... and the traffic
slows and stops...
and still the river flows on... quiet, gentle, strong... flowing through that city
and as it passes more and more lights go out... until the whole city is dark...
and the river flows on.... through a darkened countryside.... calm and
Pace with
peaceful.... flowing down to toward a distant sea... far away.... where dark
breathing
waters merge and mingle... gently carrying you holding you ... and that river
spreads out into the warm welcoming darkness and you can just be carried
wherever it flows.... .
That's right... and you can just enjoy that feeling of relaxation and just allow
Dissociation
your mind to drift off... into a comfortable... dark... warm place..
that's good, you're doing very well....
and you can remember this feeling of relaxation and ease and comfort ...
Teach the
and any time you want to.... you can go into this state.... by going through
relaxation
those six stages I showed you... and you will be able to go right down into
technique
that state immediately ... and that's good isn't it?
Just allow yourself to go deeper and deeper ... and each comfortable breath Pace with
out.... takes you deeper and deeper.... more relaxed... more at ease.... breathing
That's very good [clientname] you're doing very well... Reassurance
METAPHOR FOR SUCCESS SECTION

You are a success
And now [clientname] I wonder if you can imagine a paddock somewhere....
a big open area of grass.... and near the end of that grassy field is a pair of Visualisation
uprights.... where people can practice rugby....
I wonder if you can imagine yourself... coming out of a dressing room....
Capability carrying a rugby ball... and you go out in the middle of there and you put the
rugby ball down ... and you set it just right.... and take a couple of steps

backwards... and you step up to it... and you kick the rugby ball.... and to
your surprise, it soars through the air.... tumbling end over end .... right
between the uprights.... and you think.... I can do this....
and you get another ball.... and you put it down.... and you set it just right...
and you take a bigger run up.... and you boot it again .... and it sails through
the air.... tumbling end over end... and you watch it as it goes through the
air.... and there it is.... right between the uprights.... almost perfect and it
bounces down on the other side ...
And you see yourself doing this... day after day... hitting the ball and it goes
Capability
where you want it to go....
and then after about four or five weeks .... you kick the ball and it begins to
spin off to the side.... and it hits one of the uprights and bounces back .... and
you wonder why that has happened... after getting it right for four weeks....
Capability
just going up there... not really knowing how you do it.... you get there... you
kick it... and it sails between the uprights.... and everyone's happy... you're
happy.... surprised maybe....
Equivalence
And then you pick up the ball again.... you set it just right.... and you kick it PAST
Capability =
and it sails between the uprights the way it should... SUCCESS =
ABILITY
MODEL THE BEHAVIOUR SECTION

Beliefs can affect your behaviour
And the next day you come along and you doubt ... you wonder whether it is
Belief
going to go through or not...
And you put the ball down carefully.... and you kick it... and this time you
watch it..... and you watch it... and it seems to be going straight... but
then...it's almost as if you are willing it.... to start deviating.... and as you
watch it goes off to the side...and it misses the uprights altogether..... goes
right outside.... and the next day you come back ... and again you pick up the
ball... and now .... maybe you are not so keen on this... you used to be able to
get the ball straight through... and then it missed once, and now you are not
sure ... and I wonder if part of you doesn't care?
I wonder if part of you thinks that that is the way it is supposed to be ... and
now when you go out there... you put the ball down every day .. you just
swing at it... you used to be so precise... so careful.... so exact... and when
you did it that way it was easy it was automatic ... it never failed.... and I Supposition
wonder what has changed... I wonder if you know what has changed...
because you put the ball down and you just stab at it.... and sometimes it
goes through and sometimes it misses... and sometimes it bounces off...
And I think, [clientname], that you really want to get back to that position...
when you could pick up the ball and run in from the side, place it down
centrally... and just gather yourself....take a good look at it.... line up and hit
that ball accurately.... automatically... with out thinking about it... like you
did over and over and over like you did for four weeks.... and that ball just
sails through the air straight and true....
Capability And I believe that part of you knows that you can continue to do that ... that

you still have that skill .. you still have that ability.... you have always had
it....
but there's some sneaky thing.... is giving you doubt.... and so now you can
put down that ball...and you can line yourself up and I would like you to ask
yourself .... do you really want to do this?... do you really want to succeed?
PARTS THERAPY SECTION

You can alter old behaviour
And I would like you to answer me by allowing your unconscious mind to
become aware of your hands.. and if you really want to succeed ... if you are
determined to succeed I would like you to signal by raising a finger or a
thumb or maybe even a hand...
[Await signal]
That's fine.....you are ready to succeed [clientname] and you really have to
examine why that ball keeps going off to the side when it is so easy to hit it
between the uprights....
And in a moment I am going to ask to speak to your unconscious mind...
your unconscious mind looks after you... your unconscious mind has been
looking after you all your life... whatever it does, it does to your benefit...
and it's unconscious mind that is keeping you from starting again.... missing Parts therapy
those uprights... and so [clientname] I'd like to ask you... would it be OK if I
spoke to your unconscious mind? Would your unconscious mind speak to
me?
You can say 'Yes' or 'No'.... just allow your unconscious mind to....
Yeah
Thank you.... that's good....
I would like to thank you for looking after [clientname] so well... for being
there for him.... 24 hours a day.... for bringing him to where he is now.... and
you can either let [clientname] know what we are talking about... or you can
choose not to... Is that OK?
Nods
OK.
Now I would like to ask you about this smoking business.... are you willing
to speak to me about smoking?
Nods
REGRESSION SECTION
Find the initial sensitizing event
Good. I'd like you to go back to the day... about two weeks ago... something
like that... when [clientname] decided he wanted to have that first cigarette...
and I would like you to become very aware of the reasons for that....

.... now [clientname] may not be aware of them himself.... but you know....
and I wonder if you can... tell me why he decided to take that cigarette?
What you thought it was doing for [clientname]? Why did he feel he had to
have that cigarette?
Long silence
Maybe you can allow him to remember a time in the past when he felt the
same way.... and maybe you can bring that memory to mind now... and let it
talk about how he felt at that time... when there was something he felt he
knew he shouldn't do but he was going to do for whatever reason.... and find
another time situation like that one... and when you have found that.... just
say 'Yes'.
Yep
That's fine.... so... What is happening in that situation? .... describe what is
going on...
I'm enjoying a head rush.... and smoke
Enjoying the head rush and smoke.... and what else? .... What age are you
then?
Fifteen
Fifteen. And you are fifteen and enjoying that head rush... and where is this?
Outside... bedroom.....
Uhuh.... and why is it so enjoyable....
It makes you feel light....
Uhuh... it makes feel light... and what else?
Dizzy
Uhuh .... and is that the only reason you want to do it... because it makes you
feel light and dizzy?
Relaxed
Uhuh... and relaxed..... and what else are you getting from that experience
that would make you want to do it again and again?
Time
Uhuh... and time... and what else about that time?
Something to do .... and fill in....
Something to do and fill in....
And is having time and something to do to fill in worth all the expense... the
money .... and the disapproval.... and feeling stupid...
no
.... and out of control....
So thinking back to that incident four weeks ago.... do you know now why
you bought that pack of cigarettes?
It's for the head rush and then.... just.... a habit... fill the time...
It’s for the head rush and a habit to fill the time.... But you are not really
happy about that decision are you?
No
And was the head rush worth it?
No
And what did you learn from the four weeks when you gave it up totally?

Had more money
Reframe the experience
Trans-
And more money.... But I wonder if there wasn't something more important
Memory derivational
that you learned?
Search
I wonder if maybe you learned that you have the ability... to control Reframe the
yourself... to choose.... that after fifteen years... more or less... you were able meaning of
Capability
to stop instantly.... and you got rid of all those false ideas.... and you the
realised... that even after all that time ... you have an amazing power ... experience
you have an ability to stop just like that..... you just put your foot on the
Capability Metaphor
brake and it stops....
and I wonder how long you could keep your foot on that brake? Is it really
Supposition
only four weeks?
GESTALT INTERVENTION SECTION

You can change the past
And ask yourself [clientname].... do you really want to go back to smoking?
D
Because... you know... you don't have to....
I think that you have had a little experiment.... You wanted to see whether
you would still get the same feeling.... that you had when you started Reframing
smoking all those years ago at fifteen....
if you'd get that... and now I think you realise that you don't. D
Because if you rally think about those cigarettes.... they were not
satisfactory.... you got a head rush.... so what? There are other ways of
getting that... Sure it fills some time in.... but your life is not so empty that
that's the only thing you can do to fill in time.... you know better ways to fill
in time, don't you? And you know that that head rush ... is just a head rush....
D
So what? What does it do for you? It doesn't do anything for you really. And
you have memories associated with that that you wanted to bring back.... you
can have those memories.... you can have that wonderful feeling you used to
have.... you don't need cigarettes.. you don't need to smoke.... you can just
think about it... it's there for you... and deep down inside you know that...
And I'd like you to go back to that fifteen year old.... and the head rush... and
I wonder if you can see that fifteen year old outside the bedroom? I wonder
if you can imaging yourself as you are now.... at thirty years old... walking up
to that boy.... explaining to him.... that that's what children do... I wonder if
Gestalt
you can explain to him... that he wanted to grow up... that he wanted to feel...
Visualisation
different.... and he told himself that the head rush was a great thing.... I'd like
you to spend some time now... with that boy... I'd like you to wrap your arms
round him... to enter that body... to bring that wisdom that you have from
your thirty years or so.....
And in whatever way seems comfortable to you... whatever way you'd like to
do it... see yourself... explaining to that boy... see the boy looking at you with
respect.... and interest... and maybe not quite sure... but you can persuade that
boy... that it's really not what he wants to do... that all things he thinks of it...
are in fact.... just because he's fifteen.... that he doesn't really know how the

world works.... or even how his own body works... how his own mind
works.... and you can explain to him ... you can really make him
understand....that smoking is a mistake.... that he doesn't ever have to have
another cigarette.... that he can find ways to stop feeling like it... that he has
all the pleasure... of going back to that age... and enjoying being fifteen and
the power ... and the feeling of being in control.... having something to do
that makes you look grown up ... get you accepted... fits in... that all those
feelings can still be there.... and he doesn't need to smoke...
And so I'd like you to spend some time with that boy.... use your
experience... talk to him the way you would ...I dunno.... maybe your own
kid... or an employee.... a friend's kid.... really use those powers to explain to
him... that you don't need it any more... that it was a mistake... he thought he
was doing well... and there were some benefits... but the health benefit
now.... overweighs that... and the money is too important now... at this stage
in your life... that it has to stop.... and the appearance... and the attitude of the
people who love you... are too important now...and it has to stop...
So you can spend whatever time you need in whatever way you want and
talk to that boy... get him to see get him to truly understand at a deep level ...
that it is over.... that the little experiment of the last couple of weeks hasn't
worked....
CLIENT CONVINCER SECTION

You acknowledge and commit to change
Tell me when it's time to go back... and be ready to place that ball in the
park... and line up the uprights... and from now on... kick straight and true....
every day ....day after day.... explain to him that that.... is a much better....
goal.... than anything he ever thought at fifteen...
And being able to walk away... clean... wealthy... respected... healthy... is
much more important... so take you time to explain to that boy... and when
you are ready... your unconscious mind will select.... maybe the left side ... Get
Identity maybe the right side.... and you'll feel that hand just moving on its own ... and unconscious
that will let you know that you have made a decision to finish... so take that commitment
time now... and allow you own body.... your mind... to indicate when you are
ready to go on...
Yes [hand moves]
ACTION METAPHOR SECTION

You have defused the bomb
Now [clientname] you've gone back in time... and it's like someone in the
memory bomb squad going back and defusing a situation... that fuse has been burning visualisation
for fifteen years...
and you stamped it out once.... and it started up again... and now you can just
action
Capability yank it right out.... and throw into a bucket of water.... and it goes out D
metaphor
forever...

and you can just brush your hands together... and realise that that's another
Identity
job over... and you can walk out...
DOUBLE DISSOCIATION SECTION

You can experience the benefits of your new life
and imagine yourself in that football ground.... imagine yourself sitting in the
grandstand... and there... there's a fifteen year old boy... going out there....
addressing the ball... and kicking it straight and true.... again and again and
again.... and as watch that boy grows older... and gets better and better.... until
now that boy is your age and you can see yourself coming out everyday... Dissociation
lining it up... automatically... effortlessly... lofting it over... straight and true...
and knowing how good you feel about that.... and you can become aware of a
crowd behind you cheering each goal... each daily success.... that you were
not aware of before...
and as you sit there in that grandstand.... I'd like you to think about your
life.... your wife... your parents... your job... the people who work with you... Address
and all those friends who are so surprised ... you've given up totally... and specific
Identity
how surprised are they going to be now? Because you have extinguished client
that... that burning need has gone.... you don't have that smoke in your nose concerns
any more... you don't have that spark... you have extinguished it... it's out....
And think of how happy your wife will be.... and think of the respect you will
get from your parents... and think of the attitude of your colleagues at work....
Reinforce
Behaviour and just think of what you could buy with that extra money each week.... I
client desires
wonder if you'd rather get a new suit.... or a sports car... or something for the
house... maybe a nice present for the wife....

You are in control
All of that stuff is there now.... and as you sit that grandstand... you can feel
I Sensory
that determination again...
the same determination you had way back when you last spoke to me.... when Post
you left here... when you knew that you could light up any time... but you D Hypnotic
also knew you never would... Suggestion
And you can forget all about that boy... and how he felt... and instead I want
Memory D
you to focus on the goal...
I want you to really think about what it is to go through the day every day
getting it right.... and how it becomes automatic.... and effortless.... and think
Match
about other people's attitudes... and yourself...and the extra money... and how D
breathing
it is going to affect your career at work... and how it is going to affect your
home life....
and every breath reminds you of how wonderful it is to breath clean and fresh Match
D
air.... breathing
and you know you've skill to do this... you know that you can hit that goal D Pacing

every time...
you don't ever have to light again... because it's extinguished, isn't it? ... It's
D
gone.....
And so when you open your eyes in a few moments....not now... you will
bring with you all that determination you had originally... and that will see
D
you through forever... because that boy and his ideas is not going to bother
you again.... You've fixed that.
And just like you succeeded in the first four weeks the next four weeks and
the next four months and the next four years... and the next forty years.... >
you're going to succeed...
and no matter what happens between now and the future you will be able to
D
handle it ....
and if the idea of smoking ever comes into your mind again...you will just
laugh.... because you know you could smoke... but you also know you choose >
not to.... ..
And you know you don't need to... because you've given up for four
weeks...and that something you have proved to everybody...and you have
Capability proved it to yourself.... because if you can give it up for four weeks, you can >
give it up for another four weeks.... and another four months and another four
years and another forty years..
And from now on [clientname] you'll feel differently about it ... I
Behaviour you'll feel more in charge.... D
because you've been through this little period of... missing... it was just a test.. > Reframe
and you can go back to being right on target... every time... every day... every
time that ball sails through between those uprights.... you'll feel wonderful...
Capability D
you'll feel... sure of yourself... you know who you are... and you know why
you are doing it...
And you might be surprised at just how curious you can be about your change Supposition
... bind
about how different things are going to be from now on.... because you can
Capability >
pick up that ball... line it up and hit it every time....
and when it deviated before it was because you were thinking about it... and
Memory you don't think about it any more... and it just goes through automatically Amnesia
sailing...
and you can see it in your mind... that ball .... tumbling through the air ... dead
D Visualisation
straight.... right on.... and you can see it day after day....dead straight....
and I wonder how good that makes you feel? I wonder how good it is going
to make your wife feel?
You will remember all these changes
So now.... in moment you are going to waken up... and you are going to
Behaviour D Amnesia
remember to forget...
and you now have a new skill of being able to drop instantly into relaxation...
D
to really really reinforce this idea...

and you know you've changed ... I
so beginning to count now .... I'm going to count from five to one.... when I
get to one you will be wide awake feeling great...
FIVE... FOUR ... feeling coming back into your hands and feet.... THREE
getting ready to take a deep breath.. eyelids fluttering.... TWO eyelids
beginning to flutter....head beginning to move... getting ready for a big stretch
and a yawn.... ONE eyes open back to the present.
Funny how your hand goes to sleep
It went to sleep because I told you to.....[smiles] Reassurance
Behaviour Feel like a cigarette now?
Post
No . Hypnotic
suggestion
No. Not at all. You've given me a lot to think about.
Never miss an opportunity to insert a PHS when the client comes out of trance. In
those few moments of mild confusion after coming back to awareness the client is still
highly suggestible and you can slip in more suggestions as you think appropriate.

Preventing Smoking Relapse Metaphor
People giving up smoking often show black and white thinking, that is; things are
either perfect, or they are a total failure. Oftentimes smokers have no problems in the
first week, or the first month, but then they start to feel the need again but they are
OK. Then some event happens outside their control and they immediately reach for
the cigarette. The problem isn't the cigarette. It is that the person then thinks they are a
failure, that it has all been pointless, and they are back where they started.
The fact is that they aren't - having one smoke is not a failure. It is simply a step on
the road. This metaphor should be used in the stop smoking session as a sort of post
hypnotic instruction, putting the idea in their mind that one slip is not a failure, and
they can take a lesson from that one smoke and never do it again.
This metaphor reframes taking one smoke as being something that can be expected,
unfortunate, but something to accept on the way to finally giving up smoking. Taking
one smoke, does not mean that you have failed. You have inner resources that will get
you through. The message for the smoker is that even if you fail on the way to your
goal, you get to keep what you have achieved so far. You can give up smoking.
Smoking metaphor
When I was a student, I went out one winter's afternoon and I found that my old car
wouldn't start. I had been up all night getting my thesis finished...the final part of my
degree... I had spent so long on it.... In fact I had been working on it without sleep for
days....I was exhausted. I had finished 365 pages and it was all tied up. I had to get it
into the mail before my deadline. It was very important to me. If I didn't get it right
this time....well I didn't know what would happen..... and so I reluctantly set out to
walk to the Post Office ten blocks away. The weather was terrible, it was grey and
miserable....there was slush on the roads and icy patches on the pavement. After all
my hard work it was just so unfair to be held back like this.
I started to walk very very carefully at first... being very careful where I put my feet....
and then as I got going I got more confident.... I was in a hurry to get there...I began to
pay less attention... and suddenly I found myself flat on my back... sore and bruised...
I lay there winded.... and imagined everyone laughing at me.
I felt like giving up there and then, you know? Maybe my effort wasn't all that good
anyway....I could have spent more time on it....I had no idea if it would be good
enough....maybe I was kidding myself....maybe I wasn't going to pass anyway.... at
that moment I don't know if I even wanted the degree.....I didn't know if it had been
worth all that effort....Maybe I wasn't meant to pass.... the car, the sleep.... the snow....
But as I sat there feeling stupid and sore and disappointed and wondering what the
point was, I saw myself reflected in a shop window. I saw myself sitting there in the
snow and slush looking ridiculous. I looked so silly, I began to laugh. And the people
passing by began to laugh with me... and two of them, total strangers, helped me up.
And they didn't know it, but inside I was still laughing. Because I had seen something
else reflected in that shop window. I had caught a glimpse of how far I had come. I

realised that compared to how far I had come, I had really only a tiny way to go. Just
get to the Post Office and it was all over.
I had slipped and fallen quite badly... I had hurt myself....I had been laughed at....but I
could laugh at myself. You can always laugh at yourself, can't you? Looking back at
it,.... I had actually made a lot of progress along the road. Maybe I was unrealistic,
maybe I was trying too hard....but I realised that when you slip, you never slip all the
way back to the beginning. My fall was only an interruption.... I was still on my way
to the Post Office. It was a slip, it wasn't the end of the journey, but it wasn't the
beginning either. You get to keep what you have achieved so far, don't you?. The
distance I had covered was still there, and all the progress I had made still counted. I
could see where I was going.
So I rubbed my sore back, decided to pay more attention to bad patches in future and I
went on.... bruised and embarrassed, but proud of what I had achieved... and knowing
that I had learned something.... about myself... and about what I can do.

Stop Smoking Hypnosis Motivation Script
A hypnosis script for motivation to stop smoking
Many clients who want to stop smoking say they need some motivation to
get through the first few weeks. This Stop Smoking Motivation script
uses an usual effect, a story based on a woman going to consult a
hypnotist. That then leads to a magic place from childhood where the
reason for smoking is discovered and thrown away.
Then a second metaphor is used to create self esteem, to reverse any problems from
childhood that might be preventing stopping smoking. This returns to the first
metaphor of getting rid of the problem and reinforces it.
Finally the session finishes with a direct suggestion self esteem section.
Induction
[Do your usual induction]
Stop Smoking Metaphor Story Section
I wonder if I ever told about this woman I knew... about your age...
and she was not feeling really happy in her life... she was
wondering why things hadn't worked out the way she hoped... she Metaphor
felt she had done everything that she should have done... and yet
still it wasn't working
and she wasn't really sure what it was she wanted anyway... but she
knew that the way she was living now just wasn't it... there had to
be something else...
and so she went to this guy.... and asked him what to do... Resource
and he said.... 'Well... you know... you really have to go home...
Ambiguity
and look inside that house... look inside that place where you have
instruction
lived all your life... and you will find the answer there'.
And she didn't know what he was talking about.
But she went home anyway... she went to that place and she started
thinking about the whole of her life and how things had worked
out... about her parents and growing up.... meeting people... about
how she got a house... a partner... and her family and her children...
and she realized there was some sort of gap there... and she began
to look into the gap... to think about it... and in that gap... she
noticed that there was a way in... a way into that...
and so she found a way to get into the gap... she squeezed into it...
and got through to the other side...
Find the problem and discard it
and she found herself in this really strange old fashioned sort of
house... and there were rooms everywhere... and as she looked at
Metaphor
these rooms she realized that one of them was the earliest room she
object
could remember.... it was where she was when she was a little
kid...
and then there was another room after that... which was a bit Links to

older... it changed and there was the kitchen she remembered... and childhood
the hallway... and looking around she found there were all these
other rooms...
and then she noticed something she hadn't seen before... there was
a door there. Like a door to a cupboard... or a closet.. something New resource
like that..
and she thought... 'I have never been in there'.
and she opened that closet door... and it's quite small inside... and
there was a box... like a big toy box or something... or maybe it
was tool chest... it is hard to see in the dark...
But there was this box...and it had her name on it... and she
thought... it must be mine!
and with a feeling of excitement, she opened this box... and inside
was all sorts of stuff that she had forgotten about... and she picked
out the first thing... and it was a favorite toy from long ago... and
she remembered seeing that.. and thought 'Wow, I wonder what
else is in here? I had forgotten all about that!'
And she picked out different things... and one of them was a school
book... from years ago... and she could see her handwriting in it...
and marks from the teacher... and there were other things in there...
there were things from when she was a teenager that she had
forgotten about... there was clothes and shoes... all sorts of
jumble... all sorts of stuff in there...
and she began to take all these things out... and some of them were
not that nice... there was stuff in there that she thought 'Well I don't
want that any more'. She had forgotten about it... but there was a
good reason to forget about it... and those ones... she put aside... to
put into the rubbish to throw out later.
and she kept digging through... and she was looking at diaries...
reminders of
and photos... and stuff like that... and then she dug right down to
times past
the bottom...
and in the bottom was something wrapped up... wrapped up in
cloth of some sort... she wondered 'What will this be'.
and she reached in with both hands, it was quite heavy... and lifted
it out... slow but heavy... And she started thinking.. I think this is develop the
what I have been looking for... I think I have finally found out why metaphor
I am doing the things I am doing... what's making me keep doing object
this...
And she put it down on the ground and thought about it... and
wondered.. 'Do I really want to know?' And in the end she
thought... 'Yes, I am going to open it. I am going to see what is in
there'.
And she started unwrapping it... and she unwrapped it... and it
seemed a little lighter.. and she unwrapped it a bit more... and more Incremental
and more cloth and paper and stuff come off... and it got lighter change
still... and she got to wondering 'what on earth is in this?'
and she began to get quite excited... and she kept unwrapping it...
until eventually, right in the middle.... there was this little heavy

dark thing...
and she couldn't quite see what it was in the dim light... and she
weighed it in her hand.... felt the texture... and she thought 'Is this
it? Is this all? Is this what is holding me back?'
And she thought about that thing in her hand, and she thought... 'If
I throw this thing away... my life will be different'.
And she wondered... 'Am I safe to do that? Would it be OK if I
Safety
throw this away?' And she thought about that.
What do you think she should do, [Clientname]? Tell me what you Get
think she should do. permission
[Await response. Whatever the response is, develop it]
Throw it away.
Yeah, that's what she did. She threw it away. She put it out for the
rubbish collection, along with all that other stuff... all that old
stuff... and took all the good stuff, and put them back in the box...
and shut the box... and she shut the door... And she thought.. 'that's
my secret place... that's where I can go anytime I need to connect Develop the
with what is good... happy memories... any time I feel bad I can metaphor
look into the box... and take those things out and look at them...
remember all the good stuff... feel how good that is... all the happy
things... all the stuff I liked... and just knowing that box was there
made a difference to her.
And then she looked at all the other stuff... all those broken
things... and she got a brush... and swept them all together... and
gathered them up.. and dumped them into a bag... swept up every
last little bit... even the broken bits... and put them into the bag...
and then she sealed the bag... and just to be sure... she put them all
into another bag... and she sealed that...
and then she took a hold of it and lifted it... and it was actually
really heavy... and she dragged it out of that place... and she
dragged it through that old house... and you know... as she did...
everything began to feel light... everything began to feel right...
and she was dragging that bag... and she pulled it right through that
gap... right back outside again... and you know, once she was
through the gap... that bag looked really small... it looked quite
insignificant... and she thought... 'Well, I don't need this'. and even
just thinking that made her feel better...
And so she took that bag...and she went outside.... outside into the
sunshine... and as soon as the sun hit it... it got smaller still... and
Another
the time she got to the bin... it was just tiny... and she just dropped
metaphor
it in the bin, and put the lid on it... and went inside and washed her
hands...
and as she watched the water going down the drain... she realized
that it is all washed away now... and she felt clean and fresh...
And she said to herself 'I can do anything' quote
and you know that 'You can do anything now'. quote
She went outside again and everything looked different. Because
Behaviour
everything was different. She knew that that box was there... full of

good stuff, there when she wanted it... when she needed it... and
she realized that she had found that thing that had been holding her
back... and threw it away.
And you know what, the first thing that woman did was to take a
holiday... she just gathered up all the people she liked... and went
and had a break. I don't know if she went to the seaside or to the
country... maybe she went overseas... but when she came back.. it
was like she was different. You could tell she was different, she
Behavior I
took more pride in her appearance... she was choosing bright
colours... she laughed a lot... and she looked healthier... because...
you know... she had stopped smoking... she began to look after her
health... look after her body... she began to look a lot younger too...
everything about her was just radiant.
and the last thing I remember her saying was that 'it is like I
dropped some old ugly thing and walked away from it, and it's not Indirect
in my life any more, and it has been taken away and dumped and I quotation
don't even know where it is and I don't care'.
Identity It has gone out of my life for ever. I have changed. D
And from that day on, she was different. She had changed. And
that was the really good thing.
So now, take a deep breath, take a deep breath and just go Haaaa.... Test the client
And then one more breath and let your mind clear, allow yourself ha not gone to
to drift away. sleep
I wonder if you have some old thing that you can dump, or maybe
you have dumped it already? And you are ready to go on. I think Bind
you are ready to go on.
Seeing your Life on Stage Section
I want you now to think about going on a journey... to some town
you have been to before... a familiar place, but you find yourself in Second
M
a different part... and you realize that there are parts you have metaphor
never been to...
and you go down this side street and you come across this tiny
little theatre... and it used to be a movie theatre.... but that went
bust years ago... and now it's got seats inside, and it's got a stage...
and it's beautiful inside... all that old decoration from a bygone
age...
and you take a seat, and you look up at the stage... and on that
stage... the curtain opens... and out comes a woman...
and she says... 'this is a special performance for you. This is your
life'.
and on that stage she introduces your mother... and your mother
comes out... and you mother looks at you... and says to the woman Self esteem
'I think [clientname] was the best thing that ever happened in my section
life. I loved her so much. I still do. Maybe I never told her enough'.
And on that stage, your father appears. And he puts his arm around
your mother. And says 'We did good, didn't we. We did something Validated by
good in creating [Clientname]'. And they both look at you, and parents
they go and sit down on the stage.

And then someone else comes on stage. And it's a teacher from
long ago. And the teacher says to that woman... 'She was a lovely
girl. I remember her well. She was full of fun and joy and laughter, Validated by
all the other kids really liked her'. And as the teacher says that, authority
some younger people come out, and they say... 'Yes, we remember figures
being at school with her... she was great, we remember being out
there playing, laughing, having a good time... '.
And then more people come out... people from when you were a
teenager... and they are saying 'Yeah we remember her, still see her
now and again... she's a lovely woman... Everyone knows that. Validated by
Everyone likes her. And, yeah she was a bit of a troublemaker peers
sometimes... a bit unhappy sometimes... but that was OK. Mostly
she was great'.
And them more people come out. And you see old boyfriends, old
Validated by
girlfriends, and the stage is filling up with all these people.... all the
peers
people that your life has touched...
and then you own children are there... and their friends... all the
Validated by
people who used to come round to your house when they were
juniors
kids... and their parents...
and when you look at it, that stage is filled with people that you
have touched... whose life you have changed... people you have
helped, people you have spoken with... there are hundreds and Validated by
hundreds of them... and they are all looking at you... and they are friends
saying... 'it is time now, [clientname] for you get up and join us on
the stage. What is holding you back?'.
And you think.... 'I have this fear that I won't be able to stop
smoking. And I have some other fears. I fear I won't be able to
leave this place'.
and the people on the stage say 'Come one [clientname], you can
Capability I Indirect quote
do it'.
Leave the problem behind
And you stand up... and as you stand up, with that slight
movement, something changes inside... you feel something alters... Metaphor
and you move away from the seat... and you look back... and you action - use
see that there is something back there... something has detached the approval
from you... something left behind... something you never even to walk away
knew you were carrying.... and it is lying there... inert... from the
unmoving... and you look at it ... and you think... that was what problem
was holding me back....
but now I know differently... that's the thing I threw away... and
Identity D
now I have the power to walk away from it...
and at the side of the stage there are steps going up... and you start
walking up those steps... and with each step... it is like you are
M
coming out of a dark place... emerging out of a fog... and each step
makes it lighter... everything feels bright and happy... better...
and come up those steps... and you stand on that stage... and
everyone on the stage begins to applaud... and they gather around
you... and the woman who started it is standing there with that big
book... and she says '[Clientname]... this is the book of your life.

All these people here represent the past. But in the rest of this book
there are hundreds of empty pages'.
And she gives you the book. And says 'Now you can fill out the
rest of the book, with whatever you want, you can write in it to tell
how the story ends... to get the life you want... to fill the pages with
it with all the pe0ple you want round you... with pictures of
yourself the way you want to be... the way you can be.... because
now... you can be anything you want... '.
and you walk up to the centre of the stage... and you look out to
where you were sitting... and as you do.. the lights in the theatre go
down... so the stage is illuminated, but everything else gets dark...
and from the stage you can't even see the seats anymore...
and then you find that everything begins to shrink... and the stage
gets bigger and bigger... big and bright... and you realize that you
are beginning to spin around... and you feel y0urself floating out of
there...
floating out of that place and all those people are still applauding
you... and you are proud of what you have done.... and you realize >
that you are free now...
You will never ever feel that urge to smoke again. D
you learned the secret and you left it in that place... you threw it
away... that thing has gone now...
Self Esteem Direct Suggestion
And you find yourself back in the street... and you go round the
corner... and you are back in a familiar place... you recognize all
the buildings and the shops... everything... and you know you are
nearly home...
and everyone in the street is smiling as they pass you ... and you
smile back...
and as you walk along that street you see a shop window and you
stop and look in it... and it is filled with lovely things...
and you see yourself reflected in the window.. and in that
reflection... you see a beautiful woman... calm and serene... a
woman who looks confident... a woman who knows what she is
Identity doing and where she is going... a woman who has taken charge of I
her life... a woman who knows who she is and is proud of who she
is... who knows where she came from and knows where she is
going...
a woman who knows that now, finally, that old problem is over.
And she is taking control. And looks right into you, connects to
you... and you feel a warmth... a confidence... growing in you...
you feel that strength... you feel yourself standing upright...
Looking at yourself this way and that in the reflection, and you see
yourself beautifully dressed... at your ideal weight... exactly how
you want to be...
and in the background are all those people... smiling and
applauding... happy for you...
and you know now that you are ready to walk on... and all those

good things will always be with you... as you go forward now... to
a new life... a healthy life... a better life in every way... and you are
ready for that now... you are ready to shape a new life... to make
things happen... to get fit and healthy and happy...
and you can do this... you know you can do this... and its like there
Capability is a little voice in the back of your head saying 'I know how to do D
this, I have done this before... I can feel it working now... '
Capability and it is working now D
so when you open your eyes... you will be a different person. You
Identity
will feel different because you are different.
And you realize that this is the most important thing you have done
in your life... and you have a whole long happy life ahead of you...
Capability D
where you can choose what you want... and you can do what you
want... you can be what you want...
you can make it happen [client name]... it is time to show them... it
Capability is time to stand up... it is time to go forward... with strength and D
purpose... to start your new life... it's waiting for you...
Reorientation
And so in a minute... you can start counting from five up to one...
when you get to one you will be back in the present full alert ... and
ready to start that new life... and knowing that something
wonderful had changed for you... all that old stuff has gone... it's
over...
so when you are ready ... start counting silently to yourself ... from
five up to one.... Now.

Changing a belief about smoking
Many people want to stop smoking but are convinced that they won't be able to. In
most cases it is this belief that stops people stopping. If they believe it, then they
either won't try, or they will abandon their attempts to give up at the first tiny setback.
This will just confirm their belief and make it stronger.
This script is aimed at altering that belief. It does it by making the person aware of
other strong beliefs that they have had, and how these were changed once they
realized that the belief was not true. Hypnosis is an excellent way to get people to
totally change their belief in their own ability to stop smoking.
Countdown induction
Now shrug your shoulders and get comfortable... that's fine. relax the body
Now take a deep breath... and then just let it go...
take another deep breath... and... Hahhhh....
One more breath and just allow your eyes to close... that's right...
Now focus your attention on your breathing... become aware of the gentle
Breathing
in and out of your breath... focus on the breath out ... and as you breathe
induction
out... just think to yourself...
Relaxing more and more... [pace with breathing] ... relaxing more and lots of time to
more... relaxing ... respond
and just become aware of how relaxed your body can become... I
and as you relax... become aware of the air going into your body... Bind
become aware of the air in your nose... and notice how it feels... notice
how far down you can feel that air... you can feel it inside your head... you Focus of
can feel it going down the back... really focus your attention on that... attention
think about that and relaxing all the time...
and then just imagine what it would be like if your arms and legs were so
tired.. so heavy... that you just can't move them... as if they were made of Kinesthetic
lead or stone... heavy and tired... and think about the whole of your body induction
... heavy and tired... and relaxing...
and then imagine the whole of your chest and spine has gone like jelly...
loose and soft like butter... on a warm day... and imagine being out
somewhere on a warm day... lying on the grass perhaps.... or on a warm
beach... someplace nice... someplace where you can relax... and let go
now....
some place where you can be completely... relaxed.... on your own.. and
imagine the warmth of the sun on your skin, the gentle breeze... the
sounds around you beginning to fade... the whole of your body... very
relaxed.. completely at ease.. that's right...
and I wonder if you can imagine a big old house somewhere.... the kind of
house that generations of people have grown up in... and you can go into Countdown
that house.. safe and warm and comfortable... in that house there is a induction
corridor going down... and imagine now drifting down that corridor...

drifting down... into a warm dark safe place... and as you go down that
corridor you begin to realize you are looking for one particular room....
and in that room there are steps going down and each step will take you
deeper and deeper, more and more relaxed... and there are ten steps and as
you go down each step you get more relaxed... more at ease... and so
going down those steps now... [pace with breathing, or with every second
breath] TEN... and NINE more and more relaxed... and EIGHT deeper
and deeper ... and SEVEN down and down and SIX letting it all go... and
FIVE ... and FOUR ... relaxing more and more ... and THREE deeper and
deeper... and TWO ... and ONE... and after one there is just zero ...
and imagine now drifting floating, swirling... going down into the centre
of that dark velvety place... down and down to a place where nothing
matters.. where you don't have to think, you don't have to listen...
everything is completely relaxed... that's right... you are doing very well
and from now on every sound you hear will take you deeper... down and
down.. drifting away... and you can allow your mind to wander off... it
doesn't matter... nothing matters... the only thing that matters is enjoying
this deep deep relaxation... every breath is relaxing you more... as you go
deeper relaxed now... deeper and deeper. Just take a moment to enjoy that
feeling.
[do an eye catalepsy test for trance]
Metaphor for changing belief
and those eyes are telling you something important... those eyes are telling
you that you can control parts of your body that you didn't know you
Resource
could control... and that's because you can control parts of your mind that
you didn't know you could control...
and that's because you have a strong mind... and that strong mind of yours
is what is causing your problem... that strong mind of yours is holding a paradox
belief...
But that strong ming is also going to give you the solution to your
Hypnotic
Capability problem, because you need a strong mind to make that change... and you
logic
have a strong mind... so you can make the change...
and that is what you can have... because that strong mind of yours will not
let anything stand in your way once you tell it exactly what you want.
I want you to think back... to a time long ago... when you were little...
Memory
when you were a child...
when you were little you believed in Santa Claus, didn't you?
Every child believes in Santa Claus, if only for a short time. Children
believe in Santa Claus because everyone tells them it is true. And they do
get gifts, so it must be true... .
But one day, you realize that it is just some old man in a beard, that Santa
isn't real.
and at that moment, you cease to believe in Santa Claus. One moment you
do believe, and the next moment you don't.
And that is how it is with beliefs. One minute you are totally convinced,
and then the next minute you see that you have been misled, and you no
longer believe.
and the thing is, no matter how long you believed it, or how much you

believed in Santa Claus, once you see it, you can longer believe in it, and
nothing would make you believe in Santa Claus again.
and that is like smoking. You have had a belief that you can not give up
smoking. You have had this belief for a long time.
But now it is time to see it for what it is... a belief based on a false
Reframe
assumption...
[and continue with direct suggestion]

Bonus Scripts
Smoker's Hypnosis induction
A simple effective hypnosis induction Script to Stop Smoking
This hypnosis induction is specially written as the induction to begin a Stop Smoking
session. Your whole stop smoking session should be focused on stopping
smoking, right from the first words. This induction puts the idea of
stopping smoking into the smoker's mind as they go into trance and makes
the stop smoking suggestions more effective.
It is a good induction to use because even before your therapy to stop smoking begins
you are suggesting clear breath, giving affirmations of 'no more smoking',
visualizations of leaving behind the old habit and going to a clean green place as a
non smoker.
Stop Smoking Induction Script

Take a deep breath.... and let it go... now take another breath... and as
Capability you let it go.... really relax.... and now one more breath as you start I Bind
the process of becoming a non smoker....
That’s right.... and now let your eyes close... and feel that relaxation
Capability K Supposition
spreading.
And now notice your breathing... now that you have decided to stop
smoking... you might senses a difference in your breathing now... or
maybe later... you will find you can become aware of your breath as it Seeding
>
goes down into your chest... and thinking about how much you can relaxation
feel of each breath inside... as you breath out... allow your body to
relax... more and more...
And as you relax... imagine all that old stuff coming out of your
V
lungs... clearing and healing... relaxing...
And with each breath out... it is as if there is a voice inside taking
over... and you hear the words... 'letting it go... no more smoking'....'
A Reassurance
letting it go... no more smoking'... and allow yourself to relax into that
rhythm... ‘letting it go... no more smoking'...
And I wonder if you can imagine being in a place outside
somewhere... and you look around... and everything seems stale and
Behaviour V Metaphor
tired... everything is old and worn out... and the whole atmosphere
feels dull and dark and pointless....
And you look around... and off to the side... there is an exit... and you
decide to take that exit... and behind the exit... there are ten steps a way out
going down...
and you want to go down those steps... but something seems to be
holding you back... and then you realize there is something weighing
you down... and you become aware that to go forward...you have to M Metaphor
leave something behind... to go down those steps... you need to let go
of something... to show it your power...
and you realize that part of you is holding on to an old pack of
M old habits
cigarettes... and there are ten inside...
and as you step down the top step... you take one of the cigarettes... Countdown

and you throw it away... and as you go down... you say TEN... and go induction
deeper... and on the next step... you throw away another cigarette...
NINE... and relaxing gets easier... and shredding another cigarette...
EIGHT... more and more relaxed now... and then SEVEN... another
cigarette destroyed... and SIX... going down deeper now... more and
more relaxed.... FIVE... and FOUR... and THREE... then only two
cigarettes away from freedom... TWO... and one to go... throwing
away the last ONE...
And just drifting away now... feeling clean and clear... and you find
yourself in a beautiful place... healthy and clean... green and soft and
filled with light...
And in that place you know you can relax now because the burden of
having to smoke has been lifted off you.. and you can feel yourself D
changing...
and some smokers know they are changing because they can feel
All
themselves getting lighter... other smokers feel themselves getting
possibilities
heavier as they are drift away from those old needs...

Breaking the Cycle Hypnosis Script
How to break old habits and change old behaviour
The Break the Cycle hypnosis script is used as part of a hypnosis session to reinforce
earlier hypnotherapy suggestions, and to get the client to visualize making a public
commitment to the change they want. Breaking the Cycle lets them be proud of that
change, to commit to change in front of others.
Use the Breaking the Cycle script after a series of hypnotic suggestions to get the
client to own the change, to make a public declaration that the change has been made
and there is no going back. You suggest that the client has something new, some
power, etc. and they use that as their power to change.
The script uses Ericksonian techniques in the form of suggestions embedded in
quotations and metaphor to make a connection between past effects and present
behavior, and enables them to break out of the cycle of behavior.
Hypnotic Habit Transformation

[continues from earlier part... ]
And you are walking along.... and you come to this small building... an old strange
fashioned looking building.... and it's got like carvings on the outside.. and place =
different colors... power center
and you just feel compelled to go inside...
and you go inside that building... and at first you can't see anything.... it's past
M
all dark ... inability
and then, as your eyes adjust, you realize that it is much bigger than it
looks on the outside...
and you realize there are people in there ... hundreds... maybe thousands of
look back =
people... and they are all sitting there in rows... and you look back... as far
history
as you can see... there are all these people stretching back...
and right in the front... there is a chair... a big chair... like a throne or authority
something like that... and there is a figure sitting in that... figure
and all the people are looking at you... and you look back at them... and
exposure
you wonder what to do...
You look around... and then it comes to you... why you are there... then
your realize that you brought something in with you .... you can feel
something changing inside... you can feel a strength growing in you...
and you stand up..and you say in a loud clear voice... I have come here
today to tell you ... all of you... all the way back there... that as of today...
Capability I am taking control of my life... I quote
Capability as of today, I am breaking the cycle... in everything... quote
Capability as of today... I am my own man... quote
Capability I am taking back my life.... with both hands... quote
Capability I am deciding what I want to do quote
Capability I am deciding what my family is going to have... quote
Identity I am a new man quote
Behavior I thank you for what you gave me, but I am going my own way now... quote

acceptance
and there is an intake of breath... and they all look at each other... and
of the
them one begins to applaud... and then another... and another...
change
and soon the whole room is filled with applause... and all these people
stand up, and they are all applauding you...
and you feel... you feel something happening inside you... something alters
K
and moves....
And the figure in the chair stands up... and comes toward you... and you
Symbols of
feel something being put round your shoulders... and something hung M
reward
around your neck...
and suddenly... there is a warmth.... a connection... and you feel like you
have been approved, validated... that finally you have been accepted... for
what you are... in front of all these people...
you feel like you have finally proven who you are ... and you are proud of
Identity who you are...and you are proud of your own strength of purpose.... and ambiguity
you are proud of what you have done now... here... today...
and you are proud of your family and your upbringing and everything that
Identity has formed you.... everything that has brought you this place and has made
you what you are... and you can take your place among these people...
and you feel as if you have been blessed in some way...
and the figure goes back to the chair....
and again you feel you have to speak.... to get something straight...
Capability I have come here to this place to tell everyone...
Capability From today I have [whatever the change is]
Capability I will never again [whatever the change is]
Identity I am free... I have broken the chain...
and there is a huge roar of approval...
You feel like a rock star out there.... and you feel something welling up
inside you.. the spirit has moved... something has finally broken free...
something has finally released its grip...
and its a great thing... and it begins to fill you... and you feel like you are
ten feet tall... you feel yourself open up and love all these people...and you M
feel that love coming back... and it melts that chain...
and figure in the chair smiles... and you know it's time to move on...
and you leave that building... and you find yourself outside...
and it's a perfect day... just the kind of day you like....
[now... lead into the next part of the therapy]

Self Hypnosis script
Introduction to the client:
Self Hypnosis is simple and easy. This exercise shows you how to put yourself into
trance, anywhere, anytime. You can use it to go to sleep, or you can use it to allow
your mind to roam free. Self hypnosis can be very liberating. Many people feel a
spirituality, a deep connection with something when they go into trance. Everyone's
experience is unique.
Allow yourself to go into trance naturally and easily, and enjoy the experience. Then
practice it on your own whenever you can. Eventually, after some practice, you will
be able to slip into trance just by willing it.
Target The induction - Relax the body.... Technique

Take a deep breath... and let it go... Slow down
Now take another deep breath... and as you breathe out... just allow your
the breathing
whole body to relax and go limp.....
and on the next breath... allow your eyes to close... eye closure
Now become aware of your body.... notice if there is any tension
anywhere.... try shrugging your shoulders and letting them drop..... tense
Physical
your legs and let them relax.... roll your neck and let it relax.... anywhere
relaxation
that is not loose... just tense and relax... until your whole body feels loose
and heavy.... and allow that feeling to continue.
First Deepener - count down
And now I want you to imagine a line.... or a chain or something like
that... and I want you to imagine the numbers one to ten are spaced out Always offer a
along that line.... and I want you to make the distance between number choice of
memory two and number three double the distance between one and two... and the V possible ways
distance between three and four is twice the distance of the distance to form the
between two and three... and so on.... each number is separated by twice line.
the distance of the previous number....
And just imagine going along that line... from one to two.... and two to
Capability three... and three to four.... and the distances between each number gets
longer and longer....
And as you think about that line.... just imagine that in your mind you are
sliding along the line... and as each number passes you get more relaxed...
more at ease.... and you can just feel yourself sinking .... down and I
down... and just keep doing that... and your breathing will get slower...
and your pulse will get deeper.....
And as each number comes along it gives you more time to relax... to let
go...
and when you reach ten.... you can just allow yourself to drift down and
down some more... deeper and deeper.... more and more relaxed.... down >
and down...
allow that feeling to develop... you don't have to think... you don't have to
I
do anything... all you have to do is to enjoy that lovely feeling of deep,

deep relaxation....
and you can forget about everything... just allow your mind to drift
D
away...
and if any day to day thoughts come into your mind.... that' s OK... you
can just stack them off to one side.... and deal with them later.... they're D
not important.... nothing is important now....
... and each breath out is taking you deeper and deeper now... more and breathing
>
more relaxed... deepener
Second Deepener... Visualization
And now allow your mind to think of something you can write letters on...
options
a blackboard or a big blue sky... whatever you want.....
imagine writing the letter 'A' .... and then just imagine wiping away the
V
letter 'A'...
and then imagine the letter 'B'... and then just imagine letter 'B' being
V
wiped away... disappearing... in any way that makes sense to you....
and keep on thinking of the next letter.... and as you wipe away the next
disappearing =
letter.... you can feel yourself... loosening... relaxing.... getting more and >
relaxing
more comfortable... letting go....
and as each letter disappears you can become more and more relaxed....
>
more at ease....
And you can continue putting the letters there... and fading out... and who is
>
getting more comfortable... 'fading'?
and you relax more and more.... until it becomes too much trouble to think
D amnesia
of the next letter...
and then you can just relax completely.... I 'when' bind
allow your mind to drift away... to a place where there is nothing to think
V Dissociation
about... nothing to worry you... relaxed and peaceful and calm....
Self Convincer
and as you drift deeper and deeper.... become aware that one of your
fingers or perhaps a thumb will feel the need to move... and that will be a Give time -
signal to tell you that you are in trance... your body can just move on its allow for those
I
own... without thought... just allow that to happen .... don't assist in any with a slow
way.... a finger or a thumb will want to move... and that will a signal that sub conscious
you have achieved the state of trance...
It may be just a tiny tremor... and you may be surprised at what you Accept any
V
experience.... signal
and while you are in this state, notice everything about this state... and Anchor the
learn .... so you can recognise this state.... feeling
a state of unconscious awareness... of being in two minds.... peaceful and
relaxed.. and you can stay in this state as long as you like. And in this > Reassurance
state many things are possible....
The visualisation - will be different each time
Now... allow your mind to just wander... do not force anything.... do not
strive or try or do anything except accept what comes...
an image or a memory or a feeling will form.... just accept it... whatever
comes is right... sometimes you will find a muscle moving... it can be
anything.. allow it to develop and observe....

[Long Pause]
[If nothing comes, that's OK. You have learned how to go into trance.
That is enough. You should not expect to get something every time. Some
days you just don't think of anything but relaxing and drifting. It is very
therapeutic.]
[If you get something, just regard it with curiosity. Become aware of what
it does. Be an observer. Do not try to make sense of it, do not challenge it.
Nothing in your own mind can ever harm you. It may just fade, it may
transform into something else. There are no rules. What you experiencing
is a metaphoric representation of what is going on in your own
subconscious mind. Sometimes you will recognise the metaphor,
sometimes not. ]
[If you learn the principles of Clean Language you can begin to interact
with the image or symbol or feeling or whatever comes up. Otherwise just
treat the whole thing as if it was a dream and allow it to develop in its
own way. ]
[The whole dreamy, drifty thing will go on for some time and you may
get more than one. Seeing parts of faces is very common. It doesn't mean
anything.]
And then, when you are ready... you can begin to return from trance....
The Reorientation
And so before coming back to full awareness..... presupposition
take whatever time you need now... to consider those ideas... those
images... to allow your mind to examine things from every aspect... like a
jeweller looking into the heart of a diamond...
and the lessons and possibilities... consider them deeply... absorb them
bind: best
deeply... into your very being.... thinking about how best to apply them....
And when you have had enough time to process and learn from this
session.... then it is time to bring this session to a close, a comfortable I bind: time
close...
and you can start coming back to the present.... at whatever rate is right
for you.
So take as long as you like to consider these things...
And when you are ready .... you can come back to the present...refreshed
and awake and alert and ready for the rest of your day.


Hypnosis Relaxation Script
A Guided relaxation visualization
This hypnosis relaxation script uses a hypnotic visualization of a relaxing vacation to

a tropical island. Using this guided relaxation script you go into a luxurious state of
self hypnosis relaxation. The hypnosis relaxation script guides you to the perfect place
to relax and enjoy hypnotic suggestions of peace and calm and letting go of stress.
The hypnosis guided relaxation guides you on a hypnotic journey using healing
metaphors for hypnotic relaxation. As you relax the hypnosis visualization guides
your mind gently deeper and deeper until your worries wash away in the warm blue
sea. By following the guided relaxation script you learn to stop racing thoughts, and
empty your mind.
The first part is a relaxation induction, then the hypnotic metaphors work on removing
stress and anxiety, and the final part of the hypnosis relaxation is used to teach self
hypnosis relaxation. If you need a relaxing hypnosis experience then try this Hypnosis
Relaxation Script. The Hypnosis Relaxation Script can be used for self hypnosis,
guided relaxation and a gentle relaxation induction.
Target Hypnosis relaxation Induction Technique

I wonder if you can imagine lying on a soft cushion.... on a warm day....
Memory with nothing to do.... maybe on vacation somewhere.... or in a favourite V Dissociation
place....
Memory or even in a warm bath in a hot steamy room.... V
and as you lie there.... relaxed, breathing gently in and out... nothing to
I Pacing
think about... nothing to do.... just letting go...
you can close those eyes and imagine it if you want to imagine... arms and
Sensory
legs.... comfortable... floppy... your head supported... eyes closed....
eyes relaxing, face smoothing, muscles easing and softening.... a feeling, a muscle
heaviness in your arms and legs.... relaxation
as if they are sinking down into the cushion.... and then a feeling of
floating.... held safely and securely... as if you were sinking down and
down into a wonderful soft luxurious bed....
totally relaxed.... just letting go.... allowing your thoughts to drift away....
nothing to do... nothing to think about... just enjoying that relaxation...
and as you relax every breath relaxes you more.... as your mind drifts
>
deeper... and you can enjoy that wonderful feeling of drifting down ....
Hypnotic relaxation of racing thoughts
And maybe you can imagine an island... far away... summer... warm... soft
V
light.... gently breeze....
and there is the smell of the sea... and maybe a smell of spices and strange
Smells
ingredients....
or a feeling of being rocked gently.... as if you are on a boat.... tied near Memory of
the shore.... rocking
and down below... multitudes of bright coloured fish darting this way and FISH
V
that.... a smooth sandy bottom... Metaphor
the water is waist high.... warm and clear.... Safety!
and watching those fish.... you notice that at first they are like thoughts... M

darting here and there.... at first.... shooting off suddenly in any
direction....
but as you snuggle deeper and get more comfortable.... just relaxing now... Deepener
the fish start to pair up... to gradually begin to move in the same direction
at the same time... and soon they are forming schools.... shoals of similar
fish....
as each shoal gets bigger.... the fish move closer together.... and the whole
group slows down.... and the fish form a gentle swaying moving mass of
colour and beauty....
gently gliding this way and that... flashes of dark and silver.... responding
to some unseen current ..... settling into a pattern that calms and steadies...
and anytime a fish becomes aware of another fish a natural instinct takes
over....
all those fish swim together naturally... enjoying each other's company....
getting grace and direction from each other.... like partners dancing M
underwater ...
and as you watch they slow down and move and merge in formations of
light and colour... peaceful and serene....
Hypnosis relaxation: Emptying the mind
and that peaceful feeling stays with you .... D
like swaying at ease in a hammock between two trees... or in a swing seat Memory of
V
looking out to sea... totally at ease.... lounging
there's a cool drink by your hand... beads of condensation run down the
Memory V Tactile
side....
and the soft lapping of nearby waves.... the waves roll up the beach and
Repetitive
then pull away.... and the rhythm of the waves matches your breathing.... V
sounds
and each wave rolls gently out again....
the sound is relaxing and calming.... > Deepener
and as each wave rolls down the beach it swirls the sand grains around...
and lets them settle.... and swirls the sand grains around... and lays them SAND
M
down softly.... and swirls the sand grains again... silently, pattering Metaphor
smoothly down....
like a gentle slow motion rain.... M
smoothing out every bump.... every footstep... endlessly smoothing and
rounding and polishing.... until the sand is smooth and flat....
like a mind totally at ease... with nothing to think about... a flat expanse of
perfect white sand.... stretching unbroken around the island...
and maybe you can imagine that sand sloping all the way down to the blue
depths of the ocean... perfectly smooth.... going on and on... stretching smooth =
M
from the sunlit warm shallows to the cool deep blue depths.... like a mind calm mind
at peace....
a current can carry the imagination across that smooth sandy surface....
just drifting on and out.... or gliding effortlessly through the clear warm
shallows without a care.... without a thought.... just content to let the water
carry you ....
free to move or float or drift or just remain surrounded by warm
gentleness... sliding and gliding..... soundless wordless....
like colours fading and merging... or vague shapes and silent harmonies..... M

and a feeling of deep rest.... relaxation.... letting go....
Hypnosis relaxation: Getting Perspective
letting go... allowing your mind to soar free....
like a tropical bird in an empty blue sky... and down below.... trees...
streams.... roads.... houses.... people.... and from up in the sky you can BIRD
M
look through the bird's eyes.... give your mind a wide horizon.... a bird's metaphor
eye view.....
in your mind's eye.... ride the wind with the bird as it begins to circle...
height =
high in the sky... away from everything.... peace and silence.... nothing but
perspective
clean air and the feel of the wind rippling....
and you can see far into the distance.... and you can see the ground far
below.... as that bird soars onwards into the sky... leaving the dull earth >
behind..... it's as if you were leaving everything behind...
and through that bird's sharp eyes you can see yourself.... lying there
totally relaxed... and from that distance everything looks very small... Dissociation
almost insignificant...
the bird gives you a new perspective on things.... > Reframe
and as the bird soars.... further and further away, but still somehow
connected... it lets you think about yourself.... and the people around
>
you.... and your situation... what's going on.... from a different view
point....
And maybe you can see yourself.... as a part of a bigger thing, and the
actions of those others as part of a bigger thing.... but from the bird's point
of view.... everything is really quite small... isn't it?
And from a distance... patterns become clear.... patterns form and break
and merge and you can see how things change....
and can you can make them change.... and how everything depends on
how you look at it.... one thing blends into another thing.... doesn't it....
Reframe
and really... putting some distance between yourself and a situation might
give you the chance for a different perspective...
you can think about possibilities.... and give yourself all the space you
need... room to move.... to stretch.... to grow.... to enjoy a feeling of
lightness and ease.... as if you've left so much behind...
and just enjoy the moment.... the comfort... the relaxation.....for as long as
you want...
Anchoring hypnosis relaxation
And, if you want to, if it is safe to, you can drift off to sleep.... a natural
restful sleep.... a steady blissful relaxation.... and wake up at your normal
time....
or you can continue to enjoy this dreamy relaxed state for as long as you
want... and come back to the present feeling wonderfully refreshed....
when you are ready... as if you had a long sleep....
you can choose.... whatever is best for you....
and you can choose to remember this state of relaxation.... anytime you
want....
in the future... in a busy day maybe.... you can find a moment or two....
and you could choose an image from this session.... or a sound... or a Select the
particular feeling you enjoy... or you might call up something different to best anchor

remind you...
and when you bring that to mind.... you will recall this wonderful relaxed
feeling... every time... your body will relax... your mind will relax... for as Link the
>
long as you want... a moment or a hour.... you can choose to slip into feeling
relaxation.... mind and body.... whenever you need to ...
all you need to do now is to choose... to drift away or gradually come
come back... you can choose a gentle hypnosis relaxation, any time any Options
where....
Post
and that thought will stay with you whatever you do.... now. Hypnotic
suggestion


Client Documentation
These are documents you send to the client before the session. It helps to clear up any
misconceptions about hypnosis and the session you will have with them.
They are also useful to hand out if you are giving a talk or presentation to a group.
What is Hypnotherapy?
Hypnotherapy is the therapeutic application of hypnosis. It is a powerful form of
communication that uses psychological procedures to generate healing and change.
The medical use of hypnosis began thousands of years ago, and the hypnotic trance
has been used ever since in many different forms.
We all experience trance every day in various forms: if you have ever driven home
and not remembered how you got there, or if you have been so absorbed in a book,
movie or computer game that you lost track of time, you were in trance. Trance is
natural and normal and everyone can do it.
In trance, you are able to communicate with your inner mind directly. That is how the
changes get made. A good hypnotist will take you into trance gently and
imperceptibly, and in the same way that you can’t tell exactly when you cross over
into sleep at night, the crossover into trance is subtle and goes unnoticed. Once in
trance the therapist will begin to get you to work with your inner mind.
Hypnotherapy is nothing like stage hypnosis. Part of your mind remains alert and you
are in charge the whole time. You will not be asked to do anything you wouldn’t feel
comfortable with.
Will I lose control?
Movies and promoters of stage hypnotists have built up a myth about mind control.
The opposite is actually true: you need to be in control in order to let go. You can
choose to accept the suggestions, but you can also choose not to. Should you feel
uncomfortable with the process, you can stop it at any time.
Will I say things I will regret?
You won’t be giving away any secrets. You are in control of what you say at all times.
And you won’t be doing anything you don’t remember. Trance is a special state so
remembering the things that were talked about in trance is sometimes difficult once
you are outside trance. However, if you think it might be an issue for you then ask for
special suggestions to be given to remember everything that went on in the session.
Will I fall asleep?
Hypnosis is not sleep. Natural sleep is measurably different from hypnotic trance.
However, trance usually involves deep relaxation, so people don’t move much.
Hypnotised people might look as they are asleep, but they only deeply relaxed.
What if I can’t be hypnotised?
Everyone can be hypnotised. In fact the more intelligent the person is, the easier it is
to hypnotise them. Modern induction methods are fast and reliable – no swinging
watches, no staring eyes, just a gentle voice guiding you into a relaxing trance.

What if I don’t do it right?
The therapist will be monitoring you all time and constantly changing the words to fit
your particular needs. All you have to do is to enjoy the experience of trance. You
will find your mind drifting away as if in a dream. Nothing else is required from you.
You don’t have to think, you don’t have to do anything except enjoy it.

What happens in a Hypnotherapy session?
You will be able to ask any questions you might have about hypnosis before it starts.
A typical session will involve sitting relaxed in a comfortable chair, while the
therapist talks to you. You might only listen, but most sessions you will be actively
engaging in some visual imagery exercises. You will be able to move and talk, but
you will still be in a profound trance. You are always an active participant in the
session, and not just lying there while things happen to you. The average session time
is about an hour. The number of sessions depends on the nature of the problem and
the individual person. However, hypnotherapy is goal-oriented, and is a quick and
elegant therapy, so it is normal to need only one or two sessions. You should notice a
definite change immediately after the first session.
Hypnotherapy Techniques
Hypnotherapists use a mixture of techniques to suit the individual. The therapist will
not usually offer any sort of diagnosis. Hypnotherapists act on the principle that your
problems arise because for various reasons unique to you, you have acquired a poorly
fitting model of the world, and hold self limiting beliefs about your own skills and
abilities. Hypnotherapy clears those self-limiting beliefs so that you can get on with
your life the way that you were supposed to. Everyone already has everything they
need to get on with their life, they just need a bit of help in finding those resources.
These are some of the therapeutic approaches used in hypnotherapy:
• Active imagery and Guided visualisation: The language of unconscious processes

differs from conscious, logical thought. Activating the sensual communication
channels via imagery and visualisation helps to encourage unconscious processes,
to occupy the conscious while change-work is done, and to intensify the trance
experience.
• Metaphor therapy: Metaphor therapy is one of the most influential and effective
approaches in hypnotherapy. It is a subtle conversation with your unconscious
mind, when what appears to be a nice story becomes the theme in the change-
work. The use of the client's resources such as creativity, life experiences and
imagination is the core of Metaphor therapy.
• Goal-oriented meditation: For those experienced with meditation, Hypnotherapy
will seem familiar. The therapist can work together with the client from within a
meditative state, incorporating deeper healing processes.
• Mental Rehearsing: When we use our imagination, we activate the same pathways
in the brain that we use when the real activity is being done. Mental rehearsing is
effective in dealing with things like performance anxiety and confidence issues.
Mental rehearsing is especially useful artistic people. It is also a good way to get
past ‘mental blocks'.
• Visualisation: Our unconscious mind is not logically organised and you can hold
conflicting ideas at the same time, but in different parts of the brain. Visualisation
therapy can change how you feel about things that happened in the past. You can’t
change the past, but you can change how you let it affect you today.
• Self hypnosis: Learning self hypnosis is a valuable skill. It allows you to practice
relaxation outside the therapy room, to reduce stress (and blood pressure) and to
stop things building up to where they become a problem. Self-hypnosis will last
long after the therapy session is over.

• Stress-management techniques: Many clients unknowingly suffer from high levels
of stress that are causing other complaints. Stress is a major component in almost
every modern illness. Stress management techniques can remove many symptoms.
• Inner-journey / dream-work: Healing oriented hypnotherapy can be a journey of
self-exploration and self-healing. When appropriate, deep processes of inner-
journeys or dream-work can be taken. Therapeutic processes of that type are of
great advantage to spiritual and creative clients.
What can Hypnotherapy help?

Hypnotherapy can assist with any issue that involves the mind. Since even pain is
perceived selectively through the mind, almost everybody can benefit from trance-
work to some extent.
The following examples are common applications of hypnotherapy:

• Stopping Smoking: end smoking with no cravings or weight gain.
• Weight Loss: Hypnosis is very effective at stopping bad eating habits.
• Anxiety and phobias: Using various methods, hypnotherapy is now recognised as
an efficient treatment to phobias and other anxiety disorders, which limit the life
of the sufferer. So why go on suffering?
• Habit control - Hypnotherapy can help control all forms of bad habits such as nail-
biting, hair pulling, teeth grinding.
• Enhancing self-esteem, self-confidence: Extremely important in many cases of
relationship problems, lack of assertiveness and lack of confidence, as well as in
many anxiety disorders.
• Eating Disorders: Most problems with eating (bingeing, bulimia, anorexia, yo-yo
dieting) are actually due to emotional problems in which the person thinks that
love equals food. Hypnotherapy can fix these beliefs and allow the person to have
a normal relationship with food.
• Guided visualisation and spiritual journeys: You don't have to be ill in order to
benefit from hypnotherapy. Improvement in many realms can be achieved with
hypnotherapy, as well as self-exploration and other elevating experiences.
• Sexual and physical abuse: assisting with self-acceptance, assertiveness and
confidence; building confidence and supplying support and compassion, to enable
you to continue with your life in the way you want to.
• Emotional Growth: You can achieve deep levels of self-knowledge and
acceptance, to communicate better with your unconscious and utilise it for growth
and healing: hypnotherapy only strengthen these natural tendencies.
• Public Speaking: Hypnotherapy is very effective for dealing with the dread of
speaking in public.
• Sexual disorders: Most sexual dysfunction is at least partly in the mind, and for
these people hypnotherapy can remove the source of the problem, reducing stress
and anxiety, and ending their fear of failing.
• Personal Exploration - Hypnosis is often used to assist people who want to explore
alternative consciousness or to get in touch with their own spirituality. It is also
useful in helping people to access past life experiences.

Why choose Hypnotherapy?
Hypnotherapy can assist with any issue that involves psychological states. However,
no matter how much you believe in the mind-body nexus or that the mind controls
how the body works or that everything is influenced by a universal consciousness,
hypnotherapy will not cure everything. Nobody ever got taller by wishing for it or got
rid of baldness by affirmations. Hypnosis in not magic, it is about applying proven
scientific procedures that change the basic structures of the mind.
The mind does affect the body: the way you behave can affect the way you think, the
way you think can affect the way you feel., the way you feel can affect your physical
health. Many things afflict humanity, and there are several complementary routes to
good health. There are medical solutions, behavioural solutions and psychological
solutions.
Your first stop should always be to consult your normal medical professional. The
vast majority of doctors are skilled and experienced in their work. Standard medical
procedures and interventions are the best way of treating physical conditions. There is
no doubt that modern pharmaceuticals do work. I am a hypnotist but when I have a
headache, I take an aspirin. If I had a broken leg, I might try to distance myself from
the pain with self hypnosis, but my next stop would be the emergency room of a good
hospital.
Behavioural processes also work. These can control unruly children, get rid of bad
habits and encourage you into better modes of thinking. Just changing your behaviour
can direct influence your health. Walk to work, eat only at mealtimes and so on,
simple behaviours like that can have dramatic effects.
But for some people their behaviour is the problem, and they just cannot seem to
control it. That is where hypnotherapy can help. Hypnotherapy deals with the
psychology of behaviour. Before there is a behaviour there must be a thought. Control
the thoughts and you can control the behaviour. That is the aim of hypnotherapy. It
gives you a better way of reacting to the world around you, giving you more choices
so that you can behave differently in problem situations.
Working with your health professional.

Before undertaking a course of therapy in any treatment style it is a good idea to clear
it with your doctor first. Most doctors are supportive of hypnotherapy and understand
its uses. You can show this document to your doctor if you want to raise the matter of
alternative support services. If you want to, you can ask your doctor to call me to
discuss what you want to work on.
My name is David Mason PhD, and the number is 029 773 4400.
More information is available at www.key-hypnosis.com
Hypnotherapy can be a valuable part of a balanced health program. If you think you
might have some issue that needs to be addressed, give me a call. I look forward to
meeting you.

What to expect in the first session
A session usually takes about an hour and a half. The session starts with you
describing in detail what it is you want to change. I will clarify some points and make
sure I understand what I need to do. Then I'll explain hypnosis, what it can and can't
do, and after discussing various approaches, we'll agree on how to proceed.
Normally I will then begin the induction and guide you to into a gentle hypnotic
trance. Everyone can go into trance. You don't have to know anything, you can't do
anything wrong, it doesn't depend on any special skill you have to have. All you have
to do is relax and focus on your breathing. I do everything else.
What is hypnosis like?

Many people don't know what to expect the first time they go into trance.
Remember:
Hypnosis is safe and enjoyable.
You will be aware of what is going on at all times
You cannot be persuaded to do anything against your own values
You will be able to come out of hypnosis any time you want to
You are always in control of what you say and do.
You will not experience mental fireworks or get touched by some cosmic energy.
What you will feel is amazingly relaxed, you will feel totally detached, that nothing
really matters right now, that you could do anything you wanted but you can't be
bothered, that you just want to go on lying there and enjoying this amazing feeling. At
the end of the session you will feel deeply relaxed and refreshed.
What happens in a hypnotherapy session?

You will be asked to sit in a comfortable chair and after checking that you are ready I
will then begin an induction. The induction is a form of words designed to lead you
into a relaxing and comfortable trance. If you are nervous, then I will demonstrate
your hypnotic abilities by taking you briefly into trance and out again so that you
experience it firsthand. That way you get to understand the amazing power of
hypnosis.
Although you are deeply relaxed you are actively involved in the process at every
stage. In hypnotherapy you are not a passive observer, you are always aware of what
is going on and following what I am saying, and actively working with me.
I might ask you at various points to open your eyes, to move a hand or to speak to me.
These tasks are all designed to let me know how you are progressing, and to let you
know that things are going smoothly. You will not go to sleep. I will make sure that
you do not get so relaxed that you go to sleep - I need you to be able to communicate
with me all the time.
Once you have reached the level of trance that's right for you, I will begin the process
of helping you to make the changes you want. I will usually start by gently taking you
to a place where you can feel safe, warm and content. From there I will possibly take
you on a guided journey where you overcome obstacles, meet wise leaders, or interact

with people you used to know. The exact content depends on what you are wanting to
achieve. I will also usually mix in a lot of suggestions about your own capabilities,
assumptions, perceptions and behaviour. I will also usually invite you to some future
situation where you will act with complete confidence with your new found abilities.
At the end of the session I will guide you out of trance again. You will come out of
trance feeling refreshed and alert. Most people feel as if they have just wakened from
a long nap, and feel really relaxed. Most people find the whole experience very
enjoyable.
Sometimes you will have to return for another session if what you want changed
cannot all be done in one day but you can expect to get a major change after the first
session.
Will I remember everything?

Usually you will remember everything that was said to you and how you felt about it.
Very occasionally a client will get so relaxed that they will have no recollection at all
of what went on. This shows that they went into a really deep trance, and is a good
thing. They actually do remember it, but not consciously. If I say "Do you recall me
talking about a rose?" they will say "Oh, yes, actually I do, now you mention it".
What very often happens is the client says afterwards "Look I'm sorry. I must have
fallen asleep during the trance, there are parts I just don't remember". This is an
indication the client was going up and down in trance and remembers the parts where
they were lightly hypnotised, but when I touched on things of real importance they
went deeper into trance and cannot recall those parts consciously, because they were
not processing them with their conscious mind. If I put them into trance again they
can give complete details but cannot recall a thing when awake. This is known as
State Dependent Memory and is quite harmless.
What if I get it wrong?

Everyone can be hypnotised. Hypnosis is a natural ability we all have. Going into
trance is something you already know how to do. All is I do is guide you in, like the
air traffic controller guiding a plane down on to the right runway. It is always you
flying the plane, not me, all I do is to give you some suggestions about when you
might want to turn left or right.
Types of Therapy
I mainly work with hypnosis but I also use other techniques. Sometimes I do not use
hypnosis at all, depending on the problem. Some people feel more comfortable with
one approach rather than another, and some problems are easier to solve using one
particular therapy style, so I use the style best suited to each client. Each session is
carefully designed to match your individual needs and the most effective approach
may combine one or more therapies. The main thing is to find the right way to get the
result you want.
If you have any worries at all, just ask. Call me on ....

Nine Things You Can Do to Be Happy right now
Surprising ways to instantly improve your mood.
by Gretchen Rubin
Being happier doesn't have to be a long-term ambition. You can start right now. In the
next 30 minutes, tackle as many of the following suggestions as possible. Not only
will these tasks themselves increase your happiness, but the mere fact that you've
achieved some concrete goals will boost your mood.
1. Raise your activity level to pump up your energy. If you're on the phone, stand up
and pace. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Put more energy into your voice.
Take a brisk 10-minute walk. Even better...
2. Take a walk outside. Research suggests that light stimulates brain chemicals that
improve mood. For an extra boost, get your sunlight first thing in the morning.
3. Reach out. Send an e-mail to a friend you haven't seen in a while, or reach out to
someone new. Having close bonds with other people is one of the most important
keys to happiness. When you act in a friendly way, not only will others feel more
friendly toward you, but you'll also strengthen your feelings of friendliness for other
people.
4. Rid yourself of a nagging task. Deal with that insurance problem, purchase
something you need, or make that long-postponed appointment with the dentist.
Crossing an irksome chore off your to-do list will give you a rush of elation.
5. Create a more serene environment. Outer order contributes to inner peace, so

spend some time organizing bills and tackling the piles in the kitchen. A large stack of
little tasks can feel overwhelming, but often just a few minutes of work can make a
sizable dent. Set the timer for 10 minutes and see what you can do.
6. Do a good deed. Introduce two people by e-mail, take a minute to pass along useful
information, or deliver some gratifying praise. In fact, you can also...
7. Save someone's life. Sign up to be an organ donor, and remember to tell your
family about your decision. Do good, feel good―it really works!
8. Act happy. Fake it 'til you feel it. Research shows that even an artificially induced
smile boosts your mood. And if you're smiling, other people will perceive you as
being friendlier and more approachable.
9. Learn something new. Think of a subject that you wish you knew more about and
spend 15 minutes on the Internet reading about it, or go to a bookstore and buy a book
about it. But be honest! Pick a topic that really interests you, not something you think
you "should" or "need to" learn about.
Some people worry that wanting to be happier is a selfish goal, but in fact, research
shows that happier people are more sociable, likable, healthy, and productive―and

they're more inclined to help other people. By working to boost your own happiness,
you're making other people happier, too.
Source: http://www.realsimple.com

What you have to look forward to...
In 2009 scientists found the DNA code for lung cancer. It has more than 23,000
errors largely triggered by cigarette smoke exposure. From this, the experts estimate
a typical smoker acquires one new mutation for every 15 cigarettes they smoke.
Although many of these mutations will be harmless, some will trigger cancer.
It's never too late to stop smoking. Studies show that provided a person stops, even
after 20 to 25 years of smoking, their chances of developing lung cancer are actually
quite low. The body begins to heal within minutes of the last cigarette. Most people
get no cravings at all....
Benefits are almost immediate ...
Within 20 minutes of your last cigarette:

Blood pressure drops to normal.
The pulse drops to its normal rate.
Body temperature in your hands and feet increases to normal
8 Hours
The carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal.
Oxygen level in your blood increases to normal.
24 Hours
Chances of heart attack begins to decrease.
48 Hours
Nerve endings start re-growing.
Your ability to smell and to taste things starts to come back.
All nicotine has left your body. Any effects now are purely in your mind.
72 Hours
Bronchial tubes relax, breathing is easier
2 Weeks to 3 Months
Circulation improves.
Walking becomes easier
Lung function increases up to 30 percent.
Your body's overall energy level increases.
1 to 9 Months
Coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue and shortness of
breath disappear.
The tiny cilia that clean the lungs grow back, increasing your ability to handle
mucus, clear the linings and reduce infection.
5 - 10 Years

The lung cancer death rate for the average smoker drops to 12 deaths per
100,000 (almost to the rate of non-smokers) as pre-cancerous cells are replaced
by healthy cells. Risks for other cancers reduce to almost the rate of non-
smokers
Source: The American Cancer Society

Stop smoking interview checklists
BEHAVIOR
Checklist
ABOUT STOPPING IN THE PAST
Have you ever given up?
How long did you stop for?
Why did you restart?
What worked for you then?
What was it like when you stopped?
What was the best bit about being a non smoker?
ABOUT STOPPING NOW

How many do you smoke a day now?
How motivated are you to stop 1 - 10 ?
Why do you want to stop now?
Do you believe you can stop for ever?
What do you need from me to make sure you stop?
ABOUT NOT STOPPING

So why don't you just stop?
When you think about not having smokes available to you
in future, what feelings come to mind?
Do you have any hesitation or doubts, about stopping?
What do you expect to feel when you stop smoking?
ABOUT CURRENT SMOKING

When do you smoke? Describe your day.
What would be the most difficult one to give up?
What is the best one?
What do you like about smoking?
Are there any triggers for smoking?
Is there a special feeling you get when you need to
smoke?
How do you know when to have a smoke?
What is the single worst thing about smoking?
ABOUT PAST SMOKING
When did you start?
Why did you start?
What was that first one like?
What was going on in your life at that time?

MOTIVATION
Checklist
EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
What will other people say when you stop?
Do you know other people who have stopped?
Will other people support you when you stop?
Is there one person you would really like to show?
PERCEPTIONS
What do other people think about your smoking?
What do you think when you see other people smoking?
NEW BEHAVIOUR
What are you going to do instead of smoking?
What situation or time would be most risky for starting again?
How are you going to reward yourself for giving up?
BENEFITS
What will be different when you give up?
What will you be able to do when you give up?
What will you do with the extra time?
What will you spend the money on?
What will be the biggest benefit?
HEALTH AND STOPPING

What will happen if you keep smoking?
What symptoms do you have now?
Do you know anyone who got ill through smoking?
Do you find it easy to relax?

Are you the kind of person who daydreams?
The therapist would not normally ask all these questions directly. Most of the
information will come out naturally as the client describes their smoking behaviour.
The check list is just to ensure that no potentially useful areas are missed.
As well as being a source of resources for the therapist, the constant reiteration of
'How will you stop, when will you stop, what will people think when you stop' etc.

works on the client by priming the subconscious mind to think about stopping even
before the session begins.
The New Behaviour section is important. Most clients have no clear idea of what life
would be like after they give up. The literally cannot imagine it. They are unlikely to
offer this information unprompted, so any time spent in this section will put positive
images into their mind that can be used as a resource once the session starts.

Research evidence on the effectiveness of hypnosis:
90.6% Success Rate for Smoking Cessation Using Hypnosis
Of 43 consecutive patients undergoing this treatment protocol, 39 reported remaining
abstinent from tobacco use at follow-up (6 months to 3 years post-treatment). This
represents a 90.6% success rate using hypnosis.
University of Washington School of Medicine, Depts. of Anesthesiology and
Rehabilitation Medicine, Int J Clin Exp Hypn. 2001 Jul; 49(3):257-66. Barber J.
87% Reported Abstinence From Tobacco Use With Hypnosis

A field study of 93 male and 93 female CMHC outpatients examined the facilitation
of smoking cessation by using hypnosis. At 3-month follow-up, 86% of the men and
87% of the women reported continued abstinence from the use of tobacco using
hypnosis.
Performance by gender in a stop-smoking program combining hypnosis and
aversion. Johnson DL, Karkut RT. Adkar Associates, Inc., Bloomington, Indiana.
Psychol Rep. 1994 Oct;75(2):851-7.
81% Reported They Had Stopped Smoking After Hypnosis

Thirty smokers enrolled in an HMO were referred by their primary physician for
treatment. Twenty-one patients returned after an initial consultation and received
hypnosis for smoking cessation. At the end of treatment, 81% of those patients
reported that they had stopped smoking, and 48% reported abstinence at 12 months
post-treatment.
Texas A&M University, System Health Science Center, College of Medicine, College
Station, TX USA. Int J Clin Exp Hypn. 2004 Jan;52(1):73-81. Clinical hypnosis for
smoking cessation: preliminary results of a three-session intervention. Elkins GR,
Rajab MH.
Hypnosis Patients Twice As Likely To Remain Smoke-Free After Two Years

Study of 71 smokers showed that after a two-year follow up, patients that quit with
hypnosis were twice as likely to remain smoke-free than those who quit on their own.
Guided health imagery for smoking cessation and long-term abstinence. Wynd, CA.
Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 2005; 37:3, pages 245-250.
Hypnosis More Effective Than Drug Interventions For Smoking Cessation

Group hypnosis sessions, evaluated at a less effective success rate (22% success) than
individualized hypnosis sessions. However, group hypnosis sessions were still
demonstrated here as being more effective than drug interventions.
Ohio State University, College of Nursing, Columbus, OH Descriptive outcomes of
the American Lung Association of Ohio hypnotherapy smoking cessation
program. Ahijevych K, Yerardi R, Nedilsky N.
Hypnosis Most Effective Says Largest Study Ever: 3 Times as Effective as Patch
and 15 Times as Effective as Willpower.
Hypnosis is the most effective way of giving up smoking, according to the largest
ever scientific comparison of ways of breaking the habit. A meta-analysis, statistically
combining results of more than 600 studies of 72,000 people from America and
Europe to compare various methods of quitting. On average, hypnosis was over three

times as effective as nicotine replacement methods and 15 times as effective as trying
to quit alone.
University of Iowa, Journal of Applied Psychology, How One in Five Give Up
Smoking. October 1992.

Other publications from Key-Hypnosis
How to write a hypnosis script
If you are completely new to doing hypnotherapy there is a separate document called
How to write a hypnosis script that shows in detail how to create an original script for
a specific problem.
Hypnotic Inductions
If you are interested in developing and expanding your hypnosis skills there is a
separate book called Hypnotic Inductions. It lists dozens of different ways of putting
people into trance. The inductions range from a beginner’s tutorial for how to
hypnotize somebody to advanced instant inductions. Overall it explains the logic of
why these inductions work and how to create your own original inductions. The
scripts are complete with introductions and comments showing how they work and
when to use them.
Special Offer
As a purchaser of the Stop Smoking scripts collection you can get two free upgrades
to the latest versions by putting a link to www.key-hypnosis.com on a website.
Then if you see that the scripts on the website now include scripts that you do not
have in your collection you can email to ask to be sent a copy of the current version.
You can only make two requests for upgrades. After that, this offer expires.

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Helping Smokers Quit

Stop Smoking Hypnosis Scripts ................................................................................ 17

Bonus Scripts .............................................................................................................. 73

Client Documentation ................................................................................................ 84

David Mason © 2007-2012

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Meeting the client

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Starting the session

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Building rapport with Clean Language

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Check for previous experience

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The smoking test question

Smoking Emotional Test

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Two Simple Smoking Scales

Choose the right induction

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Improve your success rate with a convincer

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Is the client listening?

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Find the reason for smoking

Ending the session

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Use what the client brings you

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Listening for metaphors

Listening for Black and White thinking

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I did an elaborate and multipart induction, using a breathing induction, a staircase

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I wonder if she will ever resolve it.

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See the Table of Contents for a list of all the scripts.

Guide to the scripts layout

Meaning of the codes used in column three:

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DIRECT SUGGESTION SCRIPT

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CHANGE THE BEHAVIOUR

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DIRECT SUGGESTION SECTION

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POST HYPNOTIC SUGGESTION SECTION

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RECONNECTION TO SUCCESSES SECTION

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SECOND DEEPENER SECTION

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MAGIC CINEMA SECTION

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