Adam Cox

This client that I was working with was doing amazing things with their health.

They were getting stronger.

They were getting leaner.

They were making great choices.

They were reducing alcohol.

Generally, things were going really, really well.

But they had met up with some old friends.

And on that...

meet up they started drinking partly down to peer pressure and kind of connection and then afterwards they started again taking a nicotine pouch which they used to be really addicted to and then hadn't for about you know nearly two months but they started again and the problem with nicotine is that it's a very addictive substance

that gives very little and actually the main thing that it gives and there are some slight nootropic benefits of nicotine but it comes at a price and that price is that it can constrict the blood vessels, it can affect sleep, it can make people irritable and one of my favorite metaphors for nicotine is that it's like wearing shoes that are way too small just for the relief of taking them off.

because once you are addicted to nicotine the cravings and the withdrawals kick in quite quickly and then the only way you get to make them go away is by consuming nicotine and that's what traps you and most people will know someone that has tried to quit smoking

or vaping or some way of using nicotine for ages, and it's just got a vice-like grip on them.

This hypnosis session taps into two key things that were relevant to this client.

One is that their natural identity linked to freedom and vitality, that doesn't apply to everyone, but it did for this particular client.

And secondly, that they had had this experience fairly recently of having almost two months without nicotine and they felt great.

So they had evidence through their own emotions that life is better without that.

So you're going to hear some quite graphic metaphors that link to parasites and control and coercion.

partly because this particular client really wanted freedom as their core value and it really taps into that at the identity level.

It specifies nicotine pouches because that was the way that this client was getting their nicotine

For other people, it might be vaping, it might be cigarettes, it might be... I spoke with a lady a few months back and her thing was the nicotine mints, you know, the actual smoking cessation products she became addicted to.