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Hypnotherapy is a natural and easy way to stop smoking
There are all kinds of good reasons to stop smoking, such as increased health & fitness, saving money, cleaner clothes and homes, setting a good example to children, and living a longer and happier life. The only thing deterring many people is fear that quitting smoking may be difficult or uncomfortable.
Why does hypnotherapy help you to stop smoking more easily?
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Losing the smoking habit |
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Smoking is a learned habit, stored in your subconscious mind: · Most smokers tend to smoke more at certain times or in particular situations.
Hypnotherapy works directly with the subconscious mind, and can help to remove these unwanted triggers. In their place, it can install new, responsible and positive approaches to those old trigger situations. It can also strengthen your awareness of the unhealthy and antisocial aspects of smoking. Following hypnotherapy, smoking can suddenly become something you simply do not want to do ever again. |
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Physical symptoms of nicotine addiction |
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Smokers’ bodies become used to – perhaps even addicted to – the physical effects of nicotine. Sudden withdrawal can cause feelings of anxiety, restlessness, irritability and even mild depression. For some people, these symptoms may be reasonably mild or short-lived, but others may find them very hard to withstand. Nicotine replacement therapy – patches, lozenges or sprays – offers a way to withdraw more gradually, reducing the effects more gently. NRT may be freely available from your GP, or can be purchased from pharmacies. |
Please note:
Smokers who think they are likely to experience physical withdrawal symptoms from nicotine can choose to use NRT in conjunction with hypnotherapy. This is not ‘cheating’ – it can be an even more effective way of stopping smoking, particularly for clients who have smoked heavily for many years.
Success rates for stopping smoking through hypnotherapy
People often ask hypnotherapists about their success rates in helping clients to stop smoking. It is important to remember that the requirement for client confidentiality makes it impossible to check and verify the success rates claimed by any particular therapist, and therefore makes such claims rather meaningless.
However, wider studies have shown hypnotherapy to be extremely effective in helping people to stop smoking. In 1992, New Scientist Magazine published the results of an extensive clinical study on the most effective ways of stopping smoking*. They combined the results of more than 600 studies (involving over 72,000 individual cases), and showed that you are 10 times more likely to stop smoking after one session of hypnosis than people who use willpower alone.
They found the following success rates for different ways of stopping smoking:
Single session of hypnotherapy: 60% |
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Acupuncture: 24% |
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Nicotine Replacement Therapy: 10% |
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Willpower alone: 6% |
* Ref: New Scientist issue 1845, 31.10.92, ‘How one in five have given up smoking’ by Robert Matthews – link
Choice Hypnotherapy could help you to stop smoking
Vanessa’s experience as a Clinical Hypnotherapist has already helped lots of other clients to stop smoking. She is a registered member of both the Central Register of Stop Smoking Therapists, and of the National Smoking Cessation Institute.
Based in Stockton-on-Tees, she has appeared on BBC Radio Tees, discussing how hypnotherapy can make it easier to quit smoking.
In a single 90-minute session, Vanessa will provide hypnotherapy that is individually tailored to your particular situation and needs, designed to help you to stop smoking much more easily than you may have imagined.
For more information, or to book an appointment:
Call Stockton (01642) 654313 or Click here to e-mail
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