Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy for Quitting Smoking
Article by Paul Douglass D.Hyp. Adv. MIAPH. Acc.
Paul is Avon Hypnotherapy’s Quit Smoking Specialist, author of the popular hypnosis download "Stop Smoking with Hypnosis, and Know How You Did It!", and host of The Stop Smoking Channel.
If you're looking to quit smoking and have thought that quitting smoking with hypnosis might be right for you, then on this page, I will help to explain which type of hypnotherapy might be the best for you to use.
For the vast majority of people who want to quit smoking with hypnosis and hypnotherapy, suggestion hypnotherapy is often the best one to choose, and is by far the most common one used.
Suggestion Hypnotherapy for Quitting Smoking
One of the major advantages to suggestion hypnotherapy to quit smoking, is that it can usually be done in a single session (in a one-to-one session with a hypnotherapist), or even using a download for you to use in the comfort of your own home.
Suggestion hypnotherapy is a nice, relaxing form of hypnotherapy where you get to put your feet up and relax for a while, as you listen to some nice relaxing words fro the hypnotherapist. Then, while in hypnosis, you listen to a series of positive suggestions that your mind can then use to help you to quit smoking.
As I said, you can either go for one-to-one sessions with a hypnotherapist in your area, or, you can use a downloadable hypnotherapy session. I’ll start with the downloadable session.
Quit Smoking Hypnosis Download
The one thing people have said to me at the end of the quit smoking sessions in my consulting room, is how much they enjoyed it! They may have come into the session nervous at first, but by the end of it they feel so relaxed, that they don’t want it to end!
Jane, Texas, USA
For a quit smoking hypnotherapy session to be this relaxing, we need to do five main things:
- Create a calm, and relaxed atmosphere for the session to take place
- Explain just how the hypnotherapy is going to work, so that it takes away ‘the unknown’ aspect of it
- Provide a comfortable place for you to put your feet up and relax
- Create an ‘immersive’ environment (headphones, low light, soft music)
- Use completely ‘positive’ suggestions, and have those suggestions provide more than simply quitting smoking
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In my own one-to-one quit smoking hypnotherapy sessions that I’ve done for people over the years, it often occurred to me that every one of these things could be done better as a download!.. why?
Because by having the quit smoking hypnotherapy session available as a download… |
- You can relax at home while you listen to the session
- I can explain the whole hypnotherapy process to you
- You can choose your own place to relax… in the lounge, in bed… it’s up to you!
- The ‘immersive’ atmosphere that can be created on a download is far more effective than can be achieved in a one-to-one session (the hypnosis part of my download uses over 50 individual tracks mixed into a stereo soundstage for use with headphones, so you’ll be right in the middle of it all!)
- Using the immersive atmosphere of a download allows us to get far more positive suggestions in, which means the session can do far more for you.
All this is available for immediate download for a fraction of the cost of a one-to-one session with a hypnotherapist.
Click here for more information on “Stop Smoking with Hypnosis, and Know How You Did It!”
One-to-One Quit Smoking Hypnotherapy Sessions
If you are looking to quit smoking, you might prefer to have a one-to-one hypnotherapy session with a hypnotherapist in your area.
You could come along for a one-to-one session with myself in North London, or if you can't get to London, I do have a list of hypnotherapists that can offer quit smoking hypnotherapy sessions, so if you are in the UK, do get in touch via our find-a-therapist service, and I’ll do what I can to put you in touch with someone in your local area.
Click here to find a quit smoking hypnotherapist in your area.
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Quit Smoking Testimonials
 Heya!
Its almost now 6 weeks ago that I had a smoking hypnotherapy from you.
And I just wanted to let you know that its going great since that day I never touched a cig or smoked one!
Its great, I`m feeling great.
Thanks a lot for that!
oh and the stawberries are lovely! 
Kind regards
Janice Rijken
(Name Used With Full Permission)
Hi Paul,
It's been nearly a year now since myself and my partner Ged gave up smoking with your help (16th June 2007) and I just wanted to say thank you and keep you up to date with our progress. I'm due to leave my current job next week (and this contact address) so I thought I better do it now before I forget.
Seeing you and the techniques you used really put the whole thing in prospective and from being very dependant smokers (but also two people who really enjoyed smoking) we can never see ourselves being smokers again!!
We have not become the smug type (ex smokers are always the worse for telling people what to do) but we are very proud of ourselves. So once again Paul, Thank you.
Kind Regards
Rachael
Rachael and Ged - Non-smokers from Bedfordshire
I went to Paul for some advice on giving up smoking and controlling my excessive eating habits.
Many months down the line I can safely say I haven't touched or wanted to touch a single cigarette.
In addition to this my life has been completely turned round in view of why and how much I eat.
I am now a positive person who enjoys all aspects of my life. I would recommend Avon hypnotherapy to anyone, if you're lucky like me, you will get more out of it than you could ever hope for.
Hi Paul, hope you are well,
Just wanted to let you know it's been a week now since my therapy and I haven't smoked. In fact in a way it feels like I've never smoked.
I haven't had any cravings and I have no problem being around other smokers. The therapy has worked so well for me, I feel great and things in my life seem to be coming together nicely.
I have recommended you to 3 of my close friends.
I will continue to recommend you to people who could benefit from your treatment as I am over the moon with results I have seen in myself.
I was going to get back to you earlier but decided to wait until i had been through everything and still not smoked.
It's been 5 weeks and i still have not smoked, i haven't even had a craving!!
I dont know how you've done it and im sure a lot of it is to do with wanting to give up, i have been on holiday, been to family gatherings and all my family smoke, and even had emotional upset and i cannot believe that through all that i have not had the urge to have a cigarette.
I wanted to say thanks
A quit smoking client from Bedfordshire
Pure Hypnoanalysis and Smoking
While Pure Hypnoanalysis isn’t a form of hypnotherapy specifically designed for quitting smoking, it does still need to be mentioned here, because for some people, it would be the therapy of choice.
For most people, smoking is simply a habit they would like to break, and for those people, suggestion hypnotherapy for quitting smoking can be very effective.
There are some people though, for whom smoking is more than simply a habit… You could think of is as more of a ‘symptom’ of something else.
Take for example, someone who feels very stressed in their life, or depressed, or feels badly about themselves somehow, and smoking is in some way a ‘symptom’ of that… it becomes a ‘coping’ mechanism.
Now if that’s the case, then we’re far better off looking to help that person with the actual problem, rather than trying to take away their coping mechanism, and that would be where Pure Hypnoanalysis would come in.
People who fall into this category usually feel that’s they right way to go for them as soon as they read that description. As a general rule of thumb, I would say that anyone smoking more than around 25 – 30 cigarettes a day should consider Pure Hypnoanalysis. If you’re in any doubt, please do contact me, and tell me a little bit about yourself.
Pure Hypnoanalysis is a very specialised form of hypnotherapy that can only be practiced by specially trained hypnotherapists.
If you're in the London area and would like to use Pure Hypnoanalysis, you can arrange to come along for an initial consultation, and have an informal chat about things.
Alternatively, if you're not in the London area (but are still in the UK), but would still like to talk to a therapist specially trained in this amazing form of hypnotherapy, make sure you check out the Find-a-Therapist service.
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