Smoking cessation

If you are a smoker or live with a smoker, you will know how many times smokers think about or talk about quitting smoking without doing anything about it. Often, the main reason why people do not quit smoking is because they believe it to be extremely difficult. Even if someone has tried, they often venture back to smoking.

Who wants you to quit? The Government, despite its protestations, does not really want you to quit smoking whilst it is taking a massive 81.2 percent of the purchase price of a pack of 20 cigarettes in tax! While the average smoker costs the NHS £150 a year, they pay an average of £949 in tax, which is almost six times more. Tobacco growers and producers, and the manufacturers of nicotine replacement products such as patches and gum, do not want you to quit either; their profits would slump. All of these people have vested interests in keeping you a smoker. Ultimately, the only person can want you to quit smoking is you! What motivates you to quit smoking is your desire to become a non-smoker. It is not about the expense or because of the smoking ban or because friends and family keep going on about how bad it is for your health. Even when your health begins to suffer or you have been diagnosed with a smoking-related health condition; the only motivating factor is you wanting to quit smoking.

If you asked how long does it take you to become a healthy, free, non-smoker? You might think the answer is a few months or a few weeks? In actual fact, it takes just one tenth of a second because that is the length of time it takes to make a decision; a true, wholehearted decision to become a non-smoker and quit smoking. Once you have made that decision, quitting smoking can be far easier and faster than you may ever have thought possible. There is no more powerful a reason to become a non-smoker than you want to and that is simply all the motivation that you need to succeed, especially when hypnotherapy can help. No matter how strong your habit of smoking has been, and no matter how long you have had it, it has been created by your conscious mind. Your subconscious mind is far more powerful than either your conscious mind or your body! Hypnotherapy works on the subconscious mind and allows powerful messages for your health and well-being to be absorbed directly by the part of you that is most concerned with keeping you fit, healthy, happy, and alive.

It is important to realise that when you quit smoking using hypnotherapy that you are not becoming an ‘ex-smoker’, you are returning to the state in which you were born – a ‘non-smoker’.

According to ‘New Scientist’ in October 1992, here is a list of the tried and tested methods for quitting smoking and their success rates:

  • 88% hypnotherapy (based on one years’ follow up) (Kline (1970) International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis)
  • 60% Single session hypnosis using latest relaxation methods
  • 6% Willpower alone
  • 30% Suggestion hypnosis only or just listening to tapes or CDs
  • 29% Exercise and breathing therapy
  • 25% Aversion therapy
  • 22% Champix (drug, with side effects)
  • 21% Zyban (drug, with side effects)
  • 20% Nicotine patches (with side effects) and seeing a counsellor (The Advertising Standards Agency now recognises that hypnosis is twice as effective as nicotine replacement therapy; the NHS and Government preferred method of getting smokers to quit the habit).
  • 10% Nicotine gum (with side effects)
  • 1% Advice from a General Practitioner

Another statistic – 94% of 1,000 people stopped smoking with hypnotherapy for 18 months or more. (T. Von Dedenroth (1968), American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis).

Hypnotherapy can effectively help people quitting smoking to:

  • Return to being a healthy, nicotine-free, non-smoker
  • Thoroughly and rapidly eliminate the habitual use of nicotine products (cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, nicotine patches and gum, etc)
  • Dispel feelings of deprivation and moodiness caused by quitting smoking by other methods
  • Eliminate the fear of habit substitution (for example, gaining weight, or becoming addicted to chewing gum)
  • Feel pride and accomplishment about quitting a habit others struggle to
  • Manage the worry of how you might react when you come into contact with smokers and cigarettes
  • Be proud of your achievement
  • Maintain a calm, relaxed attitude without resorting to a nicotine fix
  • Become a positive role model for children, especially if you are a parent, a teacher, a team coach or a youth group leader, etc.

While undertaking the smoking cessation programme, you will attend a number of sessions rather than an extended-single session often promoted by other practitioners. You must commit to becoming a healthier, wealthier, non-smoker for the rest of your life.

Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation is not designed to replace conventional medical health care. You must continue with your agreed medical treatment, and comply with advice from your specialist or general practitioner, and advise them of your desire to undertake hypnotherapy and follow the medical advice given by your healthcare provider during any hypnotherapy treatment.

Hypnotherapy is a complementary therapy that can be used to assist in a range of health issues. If you have a particular issue or problem that you would like some help in addressing, then please contact me so that I can discuss how to help you. All contact is in confidence and does not commit you to engage me to work with you.

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