Stop Smoking with Hypnotherapy

Stopping smoking with hypnotherapy is incredibly successful and surprisingly quick. It usually only takes one or two sessions to stop smoking for good.

Every unwanted habit has a positive intent. Smoking is often used as a stress reliever. It appears to be serving a purpose: helping alleviate stress albeit with serious long term health consequences. In fact, the stress that has people reaching for the cigarettes, may actually be the stress of nicotine withdrawal, not actual life stress. But we have linked the two in our minds.

Under normal circumstances, it can take a series of events to give us the motivation to quit - someone we know being diagnosed with a smoking related disease, waking up in the night coughing, gasping for breath when running for a bus, the constant smell of cigarettes on our clothes or hair: any number of factors combined together can make us feel the pressure to stop. The ironic thing is, the stress of these events, can have us reaching for the cigarettes!

Many people worry that if they give up smoking they’ll lose something. They see cigarettes almost as a friend. They like the camaraderie of hanging out with other smokers. They can’t imagine a morning coffee or an evening pint without a smoke. Others worry that they’ll simply rely on new, unhealthy habits to fill the gap, such as eating or drinking more.

Smoking is a habit and habits can be changed. After all, we are not born craving a cigarette. With hypnosis and N.L.P. we can find new ways to alleviate stress, boredom or anxiety so that smoking is taken out of the equation.

We can get to a place of being ready to stop without the stress. We’ll start with getting a picture of how you “do smoking”. When do you smoke? When you’re bored, tired, stressed, hungry? And then we’ll work on ways of handling those situations without feeling the need to smoke. At the same time, we can bring about a sense of revulsion at the idea of a cigarette. And then we can imagine a more positive, smoke-free future.

You’ll be guided through this every step of the way and you’ll be fully in control of the process.