Stop Smoking Now
There are increasing social pressures on smokers. Smoking is becoming an embarrassing habit. On 1 July 2007, the UK became totally smoke-free, and this has put even more pressure on smokers.
However, the main reason nearly all smokers really want to stop is because of the way it significantly damages health and shortens life. Insurance companies are not silly - they charge smokers more for life assurance because they know that it shortens life span by an average 10 years (but this can be reversed by getting rid of the habit). Even so many concerned smokers are unaware what the main health dangers are. Emphysema is a terrible, normally irreversible lung disease where the air sacs in the lungs lose their elasticity. Sufferers can end up unable to go anywhere without a portable oxygen supply. Nearly all emphysema is caused by smoking. Smoking is a major cause of heart disease and strokes. This all quite apart from the cancer that everyone knows about. Even with cancer however, many do not know that it is not just lung cancer that is caused by smoking but throat and oesophageal cancers as well.
Most people we work with stop in just one session. They also lose that craving that the few that do manage to get through 'cold turkey' say remains - even sometimes many years after they have stopped.
This is an approach that takes into account your whole life style and creates a recipe to stop smoking specifically for you.
Stopping smoking improves your health, self-esteem and confidence.
Treatment with NRT (nicotine replacement therapy - gum, patches) continues, despite the fact that various studies show success rates lower than 10%.
The Journal of Applied Psychology published results of more than 600 studies, totalling nearly 72,000 people, to find the most effective method to stop smoking. The results clearly showed that hypnosis was many times more effective than NRT (See New Scientist vol 136 issue 1845 page 6) or any other treatment. The average results for hypnosis nationally are that 60% of smokers remain stopped after 1 year.
The average smoker spends over £1900 a year on cigarettes (20 a day at £5.34). The price is rising regularly.
Client Fiona of Llandysyll told me she was sceptical when she came for her session. She'd been smoking for 19 years & had been trying to give up for the past year. She said: “I'm telling everyone it's absolutely brilliant! You made it so easy – I had no cravings & no withdrawal symptoms at all.”
Fiona stopped smoking after one session with me. She is able to see visual images in her mind and clients with this visual ability find it easier to do the work. Clients with less visual ability might need 2 or more sessions. Sometimes emotional blocks from childhood may prevent progress and need to be dealt with before the person is able to stop smoking.
Some people may need help to deal with other factors or stresses in their lives that prevent them from stopping smoking. The emphasis is that each person has their own unique personality and set of circumstances and therefore the stop smoking session needs to be individually tailored
It is essential that the person must be motivated to stop smoking.
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