Stop Smoking and Vaping
You have tried to stop smoking before but it didn’t last
By the time you have considered hypnotherapy as means to stop smoking or vaping, you may have tried all sorts of different methods. You may have used nicotine replacement products such as patches, gum or e-cigarettes. You may have been along to your doctor’s and got yourself a prescription for Champix or Zyban.
And for some reason that you can’t understand, it simply did not work for you. There is a very good reason for this. You believed, or you were led to believe, that your smoking habit was all about a physical addiction to nicotine. Well guess what? That statement simply isn’t true. What the research shows is that a smoking habit is only 5 to 10% about a physical addiction to nicotine. But the other 90% of the habit is psychological. So what this means is that even if you substitute the nicotine from tobacco with another source, you are still dependent psychologically on a powerful negative habit. Which might not seem very comforting to know, but it certainly explains the limited success of nicotine replacement products: they simply do not tackle the underlying psychological reasons for the habit continuing.
Why is hypnotherapy the best method to quit smoking and vaping?
Hypnotherapy tackles that 90% of the smoking habit that is purely psychological and goes right to the heart of the problem. It seeks to break the hold that smoking has on your daily life. By doing this, you are then better mentally equipped to ride out the temporary discomfort of nicotine withdrawal, and keep yourself focused on your goal of being smoke free.
Hypnotherapy uses relaxation techniques to engage the part of your brain that has kept you stuck in the vicious cycle of smoking. This part of the brain – the primitive, emotional, subconscious – is more open to positive suggestion when you are relaxed. These positive suggestions and relaxation techniques are intended to have long-lasting effects, because the whole point of the treatment is to enable you to remain smoke-free permanently.
The desire disappears
Many of my clients say that after the treatment, they no longer have any desire to smoke. They feel calm, confident and motivated to remain smoke free. They stop smoking immediately. Instead, they develop new and healthier ways to manage stress and make other lifestyle changes that make them feel better about themselves. Many of my clients get more physically active, taking up new sports hobbies or resuming old ones that seemed impossible to do whilst they smoked or vaped.
*Disclaimer: Results vary from person to person and the outcome of any hypnotherapy session cannot be guaranteed