Smoking Cessation

How many times in a lifetime does the average smoker attempt to give up? And how many times do they fail? This is for two main reasons:

Firstly, most smokers have no immediate and tangible reasons for quitting, much as they might want to.

Secondly, smokers have a well-founded and powerful belief that it's hard to quit. How could they think otherwise when even the NHS slogan, “Don't give up giving up”, is highly suggestive that stopping smoking is really difficult?

What's more, the NHS actually assumes that 60% to 65% of people who manage to quit for four weeks will have relapsed by the end of 12 months*.

The medical profession gives prominence to nicotine-replacement by either patches or gum. Yet if it is nicotine which keeps people smoking, the most popular nicotine replacement products would have 80% to 90% success rate, whereas the industry success rate is just 30%.

Research carried out in the USA by the University of Iowa in 1992 showed that hypnotherapy is the most successful method of quitting smoking. The least successful methods are will-power, advice from GP, self-help and nicotine gum.

Quitting smoking successfully is more to do with understanding why you smoke, and mastering your own mind, than just being a slave to a chemical cocktail. In addition, the use of hypnosis removes the misery of cravings and nicotine withdrawal that is often experienced by quitters using other methods.

I use a combination of hypnotherapy, psychotherapy and NLP to help you achieve success in just one session, and can boast a high success rate. All I require is that you truly want to quit, not that you think you ought to, or that somebody has told you that you should, but you really don't want to.

When you quit the habit of smoking, you're not ‘giving up' anything; in fact, you're gaining an awful lot.