STOP SMOKING

A stop smoking hypnotherapy session takes around an hour.

Time is spent getting to know you and your individual relationship with your smoking habit. There is ample time to discuss any concerns you may have about hypnosis and progress can only be made once you feel totally comfortable and at ease.

There will be a period of hypnosis during which you will experience a very relaxing trance, and when you awake you will be able to leave the session feeling relaxed and elated.

Clinical hypnosis works by eliminating the subconscious triggers which keep you smoking - in other words, by breaking the habit. It does this while helping you to feel calm and relaxed in the situations where you used to smoke. It also boosts your willpower to ensure that you can stop in the most appropriate way for you.

Whilst in a hypnotic state, the mind and body can relax deeply yet at the same time you can achieve a very high degree of concentration. As you allow yourself to enter this pleasant state, beneficial suggestions may be received directly and effectively by your mind. The existing pattern of thinking about smoking and having an uncontrollable urge to light up and smoke, can be replaced with a new pattern of not thinking, not wanting, not smoking!

The sessions can either be in person or online and, providing the setup is correct, the results will be equally effective.

• Because you won't have to fight the thought – you simply won't have the thought or desire.
• Because it works with your specific triggers – that is, the situations and activities which used to make you reach for a cigarette.
• Because it reduces tension and anxieties both of which can be a contributing factor in continuing to smoke.
• Because it eliminates negative thoughts and fears such as the (unnecessary) belief that you will put on weight if you stop smoking.
• Because it frees the individual from withdrawal symptoms by replacing them with a new sense of self-control, calmness and increased confidence.

Smokers often believe that if they stop smoking:

• they will put on weight
• they will get irritable and lose their temper
• they will have cravings
• they will have withdrawal symptoms
• they will be a different person.

The surprising fact is that there is no physiological reason for any of these things to happen.

• There is no reason for your dietary habits to change when you stop smoking. In fact many people start to lose weight once they stop smoking, as they start exercising again.
• The irritability and cravings are only experienced by those who don't actually want to stop, as their unconscious way of breaking out of the obligation.
• Contrary to what the sellers of smoking-cessation products might say, you are almost definitely not addicted so you will not get withdrawal symptoms.
• You will keep all your qualities as a person, lose one unpleasant one, and be more relaxed as a result.

However, because of the way our minds work - if we believe that these things will happen, then they will happen. That's not fair is it?

Don't worry. If you raise your concerns in the session, these issues will be addressed so that your mind completely understands that there are no negatives at all, upon stopping smoking. The only lasting effects are beneficial ones.