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Smoking Cessation, Stop/quit Smoking Therapy

You to, can experience the wonderful enhancement that hypnosis can give you to help you to stop smoking with ease and without any of those cravings, feeling completely great and wonderful as a non-smoker. We use a combination of suggestion therapy, visualisation technique and positive thinking to make stopping smoking very easy. Over 95% smokers we have helped to quit smoking, gave up easily after just one session and remained a non-smoker. They became total non-smokers and felt as though they had always been non-smokers. A few years ago the largest study ever conducted into quitting smoking was undertaken. It studied nearly everything from the normal; will power, nicotine patches, positive thinking, placebos, chewing gum etc, and the conclusion was that hypnosis and hypnotherapy came out as the most effective smoking cessation technique.

Why is it so hard to stop smoking?

In our experience, generally most people find it hard to quit smoking because; they receive no immediate reward for doing so, they get no immediate feelings of reward, other than they may live for an extra ten years.

Let us give you an example: If somebody offered you ten pounds for your nice watch, would you take it? No, of course you wouldn't take that for your watch. So let up the ante and say £20?, £50?, what about £500? at some point, if the amount you are being offered keeps rising, then sooner or later the price would be met, an acceptable amount for your watch, even if it was a of sentimental value or a present from someone you loved dearly. You wouldn't give it up for nothing, you'd be mad! You'd want to be adequately compensated for your watch; The better the 'deal' you get, the better you begin to feel about it. The worse the 'deal' you get, the worse you feel about it. I am I started to make sense now?

Now.........


Part of you wants to smoke. You enjoy it. You need and love it.  You've probably done it for so many years that you cant remember when you started. It helps you to relieve your stress and tension. It makes you feel confident, when you are feeling insecure. It calms you down when you've been feeling stressed. It acts as a reward after a tough day at work. It makes you feel 'whole', and 'complete'. There are so many more I could go on and on.  Why would you want to give up all those benefits that smoking gives you?, and receive no initial reward for stopping smoking?

Why do you want to quit smoking?

You might think that by quitting smoking, you would; live a little longer, feel a little healthier, get nagged a little less from your partner or kids, save a few pounds, or have nicer smelling breath. The trouble is ..and here is the problem .. none of those reasons bring immediate rewards i.e. You don't feel healthier/fitter/richer/nicer smelling/less nagged, the day after quitting smoking. That doesn't sound like a good deal to me! - give up something I love, and in five years I may just feel a little healthier! No wonder people often get stressed, moody, stroppy, angry and depressed when they quit smoking by willpower alone. People want their rewards and benefits NOW - not in five/ten/twenty years time.

Hypnosis for smoking cessation very successful, because you receive these immediate rewards/ feelings for your efforts; you feel an intense sense of pride and satisfaction knowing that you've stopped smoking. You receive an immediate boost to your willpower knowing that something you thought would be difficult is actually very easy.

You gain a huge amount of confidence in your ability to remain a non smoker, Situations that used to make you feel stressed or anxious, now just cam and relax you this list could go on and on and on.....

Ask yourself this:

If you received a fantastic sense of well-being, calmness, pride and satisfaction every time you got yourself in a situation where you used to have cigarettes, why would you want or need to smoke again?

Hypnosis fact:

Using positive suggestions, during hypnosis, gives smokers the ability to stop smoking quickly, easily and effectively. Finding feelings of intense pride and pleasure in what they have achieved, feeling calmer and more relaxed after giving up their habit.

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