Smoking

People take up and continue smoking for a variety of reasons. The effect on the health is well known to smokers yet they continue to smoke largely due to nicotine. Nicotine is very addictive but, unlike other well known addictive drugs, any withdrawal symptoms are very mild and nicotine is cleared out of the body in about 48 hours.

Shops are full of 'stop smoking' products that you can chew, suck or stick on to help you 'get through' the stopping procedure but these continue to supply nicotine! (My professional body, the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis, has had enquiries from people addicted to nicotine chewing gum!). A recent report published by the University of Geneva and reported on the BBC News Website highlights doubts about the efficacy of Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) Read Article

For a more worrying aspect of Oral Nicotine Replacement Therapy Read this article from the NHS Website

Hypnosis offers something different for the person committed to becoming a non-smoker, you learned to smoke so you can learn not to smoke. You will not be a stopped smoker, you will be a non-smoker. The treatment has been designed to encourage you not substitute food for cigarettes, nor get irritated, nor climb the wall, so that you just won't smoke and you will start to feel great!

People use many reasons for continuing to smoke such as;

• Lack of will
• Lack of motivation
• Stress Control
• Weight Control
• Fear of failure when attempting to stop
• Fear of changing their position in their social group
• Failure of previous attempts at smoking cessation.

Stopping smoking using hypnosis is a painless, effective and relatively inexpensive (20 a day costs about £1638 per year and £1376 of this is tax) way of breaking the psychological and narcotic addiction to cigarettes. Treatment costs less than 4 week's cigarette money (at 20 per day) and takes two sessions of about an hour each although one session of about 1½ hours can be arranged if required, in each case, you will gain the mental tools that, as long as you have the will to become a non-smoker, will help you to reach your goal of completely eliminating your desire to smoke.

Please be aware that your willingness to become a non-smoker is required so, if during our preliminary telephone conversation I get the impression that you are not sufficiently committed to the betterment of your life by becoming a non-smoker, then I will waste neither your money nor my time and treatment will be refused.

Smoking in enclosed public spaces in England was banned from 1^st July 2007, so what better time to rid yourself of this habit?
Or have you acquired a liking for standing in a draughty car park in the British weather? Government guidance re the smoking ban here

A study published in New Scientist in 1992 investigated the effect of hypnosis for smoking cessation and can be found here

November 2006: Research from Norway indicates that "cutting down" is not enough "cutting out" is your only option. BBC News Article

Jan 2010: BBC News Report about the effect of smoking on a baby's blood pressure BBC News Article