Smoking Cessation

Ten Ways to Know it is Finally Time to Quit

1. Has your smoking habit begun to control your life? Have you ever not been able to go to sleep until you are sure that you have a cigarette available for morning?

2. Have friends and family told you that your clothing, hair and breath smell like an ashtray? If they haven't, you can be sure they are thinking it!! Are you spending almost as much in breath mints as you are in cigarettes? If you aren't embarrassed about your smoking then why are you trying so hard to cover it up?

3. Are professional colleagues shunning you now that they have quit smoking?
Let's face it… It is no longer "cool" to smoke. Your smoking is viewed as a lack of control issue. Exhibiting lack of control is not the way to get ahead in your job.

4. Do you sit in meetings focused only on getting to the break so you can rush outside to smoke? As a manager do you end meetings with things still left to accomplish because of your need to smoke?

5. Does your favorite restaurant not have a smoking section anymore? Non-smokers are now in the majority and they do not want to taste your cigarette with their expensive meal. Restaurateurs’ are attuned to the bottom line, not your smoking needs.

6. Are you standing outside smoking alone because your spouse doesn't allow it in the house? What do you think this is doing for your relationship? Between work and your smoking alone, how much time is available for your relationship. Remember that breath mint… he or she doesn't want to kiss an ash tray.

7. You're afraid to stop this dangerous habit because you fear the weight gain that so many people have experienced, but you are beginning to fear diseased lungs even more. Have you reached that "critical pack years" that almost assures your painful and agonising death? (1 pack-year = smoke equivalent to 1 pack of cigarettes per day per year. If you smoke 2 packs a day for 10 years you have reached 20 pack years) 25 is the critical number. You don't have much chance of beating it at this point.

8. What's up with those lines around your mouth? The continuous lip pressure on a cigarette has now begun to add years to the look of your face. Squinting to keep the smoke out of your eyes isn't helping them either. And most facial surgeons won't even schedule surgery until you quit. Their reputations are at stake because a facelift quickly deteriorates when you continue to smoke.

9. You get up in the morning and shower and use deodorant before heading out the door for work. Why? Because you don't want to offend anyone you come in contact with. Notice how people back away after your first cigarette? You might as well have gone to work dirty!!!

10. At work, do you smoke alone outside, in all weathers, sunshine, rain, wind and snow? If a colleague asked you to stand outside in the cold, wind and rain, and drink a cup of tea or coffee with them, would you think they had gone insane? Why would you be prepared to do it for a cigarette but not for anything else?

(Adapted from 'Nine Ways to Know it is Finally Time to Quit' by Nancy McCune)

Your unconscious mind holds all your beliefs and habits concerning smoking.

These are beliefs and habits you may not even be aware you have, and it is these that keep you smoking.

Your unconscious mind is very powerful, so no matter how hard you try to break a habit at a conscious level, the unconscious will always win, eventually causing you to go back to what it considers 'normal' behavior for you.

Hypnosis is simply a natural state of absorbed attention combined with heightened awareness. You will experience this state of highly focused attention naturally throughout each and every day. Common examples might include, day dreaming; when you are totally immersed in a book or TV show; engrossed in a favourite hobby or even when driving and can be thought of as an effective and speedy form of psychotherapy.

Using hypnotherapy, you are more in contact with your unconscious mind, the seat of all emotional and behavioural problems. Most other forms of therapy are carried out at a conscious level, and often they only work on the symptoms rather than the underlying cause of the problem.

Through hypnosis, we can speak directly to your unconscious mind and speed up the process of change by altering your smoking habits, limiting beliefs and building motivation to stay stopped, and even though your unconscious mind is more powerful than your conscious mind, it readily accepts new information when you bypass what we call the Conscious Critical Faculty, which is what happens during hypnosis.

As you can see, in order to stop smoking and make true, permanent changes in your life, it is necessary to get your unconscious mind in agreement with what you want to accomplish, rather than fighting and struggling to work against it.

The quit smoking treatment is one 2 hour session at a cost of £150, full treatment includes a CD, and a free backup session.

When you are ready to make the changes you want, call me on 07766250113 or contact by email for an appointment.  .