Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy for Stopping Smoking

Article by Paul Douglass D.Hyp. Adv. MIAPH. Acc.
Avon Hypnotherapy’s Stop Smoking Specialist.

If you're looking to stop smoking and have thought that stopping 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 stop 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 Stopping Smoking

One of the major advantages to suggestion hypnotherapy to stop 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 stop 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.

Stop Smoking Hypnosis Download

The one thing people have said to me at the end of the stop 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!

For one of my stop smoking hypnotherapy sessions to be this relaxing, I 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 stopping smoking

In my own one-to-one stop 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 stop 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.

I listened to your whole program last night.  Woke up this morning with no desire to smoke even with coffee! Thank you…
Jane, Texas, USA

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 Stop Smoking Hypnotherapy Sessions

If you are looking to stop 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 stop 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 stop smoking hypnotherapist in your area.

Pure Hypnoanalysis and Smoking

While Pure Hypnoanalysis isn’t a form of hypnotherapy specifically designed for stopping 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 stopping 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.

What To Do Next

• Download the stop smoking hypnosis session – “Stop Smoking with Hypnosis,and Know How You Did It!”
• Use the ‘Find-a-Therapist’ Service to find a stop smoking hypnotherapist in your area for a one-to-one session
• Read more about Pure Hypnoanalysis

Related Pages

• Stop Smoking Hypnosis Download

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