Hypnotherapy is the best way to quit

The combination of hypnosis and NLP is so successful in helping people to quit smoking because it effectively re-programmes your unconscious mind to work with you to achieve your goal.

In fact, Hypnotherapy was proven to be the best method of stopping smoking by a meta analysis of almost 72,000 subjects conducted at University of Iowa by Viswesvaran & Schmidt (1992), reported in New Scientist (1992 - Volume 136, Issue 1845, Page 6).

Their findings were as a result of an in-depth study of all methods of stopping smoking, and showed that Hypnotherapy in general is up to five times more effective than willpower alone and more than twice as effective compared with nicotine gum.

STOP PRESS! - It's not nicotine that makes you smoke

We like to think that it is the nicotine in cigarettes which makes it so hard to quit, but this is simply not true. If it were, the Nicotine Replacement Therapies (NRT) such as patches and gum would be 100% effective for everyone, and people who had quit longer than the 48 hours it takes for your body to get over its nicotine 'addiction' would never smoke again.

The real reason smoking is 'addictive' is that your unconscious mind has a faulty programme which believes smoking is serving a positive purpose. And because your unconscious mind is responsible for keeping you safe, it has many ways to override your conscious will, including making you feel tense and giving you cravings.

So how does it work?

Becoming smoke free with Hypnotherapy generally takes a couple of hours. Some people like to do the whole thing in one go, or you can do two one hour sessions. The first session is used to understand your relationship to cigarettes and finding the best way to help you, with the treatment session following a week later.

This is because stress is often a major trigger for smokers, and some clients are more relaxed in the second session - having already had one session. Also, you get to do specific things in the intervening week to help increase your conscious control of your habit, so you come back mentally prepared to succeed.

We also use the information gained in the first session to create an intervention which is specifically tailored to your particular needs - rather than using more generic material which your unconscious mind may or may not identify with. This combination of benefits means most smokers need only two (very occasionally three) sessions total, and because the cost to smokers is the standard rate (unlike some Hypnotherapists), you'll only pay for the number of sessions you actually need.

Avoiding Weight Gain and Cravings

People quitting with willpower or NRT often revert to other oral habits, such as nail biting or overeating because their unconscious mind still has a 'need' to fulfil.

Hypnotherapy deals with these faulty unconscious programmes, which means you will not need to substitute another habit for smoking.

Similarly, because you will quit without tension or unconsciously created cravings, you will not be easily tempted by others as the unconscious desire to smoke will be gone. 

It is never too late to Stop Smoking

Simple Smoke Free™ sessions are treated the same as other sessions - for more information click here or telephone 0794 880 1229.