Controlling Your Smoking Cravings with EFT Tapping Once You Quit

EFT tapping is a form of psychological acupuncture that can be used to control cravings for cigarettes once you quit. Here’s how it’s used.

EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Technique and the tapping involved in EFT is also sometimes referred to as meridian tapping. It’s a form of energy psychology that can be useful to control cravings.

Proponents of EFT believe that negative emotions occur because there’s an energy imbalance in the body and mind that needs correcting.

The techniques involved in EFT may seem a little odd at first but for a person who wishes to control their cravings it’s an easy therapy to learn and put to use. The procedure involves tapping well established energy meridian points on your face and upper body.

These points are similar to those used in acupuncture.

It’s not uncommon to crave cigarettes when you’re feeling a great deal of stress and anxiety and this is what EFT addresses – the emotions that underlie the behavior. It’s not willpower or lack thereof that makes people crave cigarettes but the unresolved emotions that lie beneath.

This is why many people fall back into the smoking habit once they’ve given it up. Smoking fills a need that hasn’t been replaced by anything else. What needs to be done to end the smoking “misery-go-round” is to bring your negative feelings and thoughts to the surface and neutralize them. Only then can you start to once again be in control of your life.

EFT is not just about tapping but about affirming to yourself a problem exists and then getting to the bottom of it. This emotional version of acupuncture is something you can teach yourself or you can learn from a qualified practitioner – as mentioned earlier many hypnotists teach the technique to smoking cessation clients to control post-session cravings.

EFT proposes to eliminate blocked emotional passages and then interrupt these negative habitual thought patterns.

Sometimes when doing EFT you need to get tough with yourself and it can be emotionally draining to do so. As you tap you need to tell yourself a story in order to get to the emotions, or event that got the addiction to nicotine started in the first place. For example you might tap and say to yourself:

Even though cigarettes make me feel good …
Even though I have been smoking for years …
Even though I know stopping for good is difficult …

Some people get a little meaner with themselves and use self-statements to zero in on how bad their addiction makes them feel about themselves by saying such things as:

Even though I crave cigarettes they make me feel weak.
Even though I love cigarettes I don’t want to rely on them to feel better.

EFT tapping and hypnosis can be effectively used to disable cigarette cravings and to set you down the path to healing. They’re both universal healing aids that can release you from the prison of cravings so you can get out of the smoking trap for good.

EFT tapping by itself is not likely to rid you of a challenging habit but when used in conjunction with other therapies such as hypnosis it can provide a tool to use to help control cravings when ever they appear quickly and effectively.

Finally, if you’re interested in more information about my own online or in-office sessions then check out my stop smoking hypnosis programs.

Erika Slater, CH
Director
Free At Last Hypnosis