Every year, many people just like you, stop smoking using hypnotherapy... But why does it work?

Perhaps an explanation would be helpful: Many people who try to stop smoking by ‘willpower alone', will stop smoking at first, but will drift back to smoking within the first few days or weeks. You will probably have seen this in yourself or others... but have you every asked yourself why?

The reasons for this are quite simple; smoking is actually a relatively easy habit to break if you stop smoking with the right motivation... Unfortunately, most people who try to stop smoking on their own, don't have adequate reasons to stop smoking, (even though they might think they do), and this is why they find it hard.

1) Education: What is really in a cigarette?

2) Realisation: Connecting the fact that cigarettes are poisonous with the client; this really will happen to you! (Cancer, heart disease etc.)

3) Negative Progression: A virtual step forward in time to a point where the damage has been done and the client realises the folly of their ways.

4) Positive Progression: Another virtual step forward in time but on this occasion working through what life will be like as a healthy non-smoker. This builds the motivation for change. This technique is sometimes referred to as timeline therapy.

5) Hypnosis: The use of a hypnotic trance to pull all these elements together. In reality the hypnotist may have done his or her job well enough to have induced a waking hypnotic state already.

6) Celebration!: Well why not celebrate the fact that you have chosen a life free of the poison that tobacco carries. The client throws their remaining cigarettes in the bin and moves forward in their life.

What will it cost?

Prices in the UK vary widely for quit smoking sessions. In London (Harley Street) prices of £250 to £370 are quoted. In other areas prices may range from £75 to £200.

Why the wide range in price?

This is one area where it seems that price can be a pretty good indicator of success rates. If you can, check out the local reputation of the therapist you plan on seeing.

There is probably little point in asking for the therapist's  success rate as few if any have ever undertaken a scientifically validated test to determine this.

It's worth remembering that what you and the therapist are working towards is the ability to say no to tobacco...you already have the ability to say yes and you could choose to exercise it again in the future. That is the nature of free choice!