256 How To Stop Smoking And Lose Weight with Rita Black

Show Notes

If you’ve ever felt like willpower isn’t enough—whether you’re trying to lose weight, stop smoking, or break long-standing habits—this episode offers a completely different approach.

In this conversation, Stephanie Shaw sits down with Rita Black, a clinical hypnotherapist with more than 20 years of experience helping people create lasting change through subconscious reprogramming. Rita explains why traditional dieting, restriction, and “trying harder” often backfire in midlife—and how hypnosis works beneath the surface to realign beliefs, identity, and behavior.

For women navigating hormonal shifts, fatigue, weight resistance, and self-doubt, this episode reframes change as mastery, not punishment. Rita shares why habits like emotional eating, nighttime overeating, or smoking aren’t failures of discipline—but signals from the subconscious mind. When the conscious mind and subconscious beliefs are misaligned, even the healthiest intentions can feel exhausting or impossible to maintain.

You’ll also hear why metabolism, stress, and identity play a powerful role in midlife weight gain—and how hypnosis can help reduce internal resistance, quiet negative self-talk, and restore a sense of control. This episode is especially helpful if you feel overwhelmed, stuck in “all-or-nothing” thinking, or frustrated that what used to work no longer does.

If you’re ready to stop fighting your body and start working with your mind, this episode will shift how you see change—starting from the inside out.

What You Will Learn

• • Why habits like overeating or smoking are driven by subconscious patterns, not lack of willpower
  • How hypnosis works to realign beliefs, identity, and behavior for lasting change
  • The connection between stress, metabolism, and weight resistance in midlife
  • Why viewing health as mastery—not dieting—leads to more sustainable results
  • How subconscious reframing can reduce self-sabotage and negative self-talk

About Our Guest

Rita Black C.Ht. is a clinical hypnotherapist and leading expert in both the arenas of smoking cessation and weight loss. She is the author of the best selling From Fat to Thin Thinking:Unlock Your Mind for Permanent Weight Loss and the host of the Thin Thinking podcast. To learn more about our guest, click here: https://hellohotflash.com/episodes/stop-smoking-lose-weight

Additional Resources

• • • Learn how to feel clear, steady, and in control again. https://hellohotflash.com/assessments
    • The limited-series podcast Christian Women and Menopause teaches what the Bible says about stress, anxiety, health, and confidence in midlife. Listen here: https://hellohotflash.com/christian-women-and-menopause

Today’s Sponsor

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