Quitting Smoking with Hypnotherapy

Quitting smoking is one of the best decisions that you can make for your life and your future but you already know this. We’ve known for decades that smoking has no benefits to our body whatsoever but as a society we still continue to light up day in day out.

As a smoker the idea of smoking has become ingrained into your life, it punctuates moments throughout your day, it’s there as a celebration tool, it’s there as a stress-reliever, it’s there without you even having to think about it.

And this is a huge part of the problem, you don’t even have to think about it.

Let’s say that you smoke 15 cigarettes every day, and let’s say that you’ve smoked for 10 years.

10 x 365 = 3650 days

3650 x 15 = 54,750 cigarettes.

Isn’t it truly incredible, and I mean this sincerely, that your brain has managed to remember to smoke 3,650 day in a row without forgetting a single time – amassing a truly breathtaking 54,750 cigarettes in that time.

Can you think of a single other thing in your entire life that you’ve managed to do that well and that consistently at?

I’m going to go with no.

Doing something so well and so easily means that it is not a decision which we are making consciously any more, it is a decision which is being made unconsciously – we are literally not thinking about doing it because it has become ingrained into our brains.

“Unconsciously? That sounds a bit airy-fairy for me!”

As soon as you mention things like unconscious/subconscious some people instantly think you’re speaking about something woo-woo or fluffy but it’s really not, allow me to explain.

Do you remember learning to drive? Do you remember how terrifying things such as roundabouts were? You’d have to slow down, possibly stop, look to the right, check if there was traffic and how fast it was going, there might be a queue of annoyed drivers behind you. Then you have to pull away without stalling, keep in the correct lane as you go around the roundabout, make sure you signal, possibly change hear, indicate to leave the roundabout and then navigate your way off again.

All in about 10 seconds.

It was terrifying and daunting to most people.

But if you think now about the last time you drove anywhere you probably had to negotiate several roundabouts and the chances are you didn’t even think about them.

I’d bet good money that you’ve driven places sometimes and have had no recollection of the drive whatsoever; it’s almost as if you just arrived.

This is a prime example of your brain working unconsciously and hopefully makes you realise that talking about things happening unconsciously isn’t as far-fetched and “out there” as you might first think.

How quitting smoking with hypnotherapy works

Hopefully I’ve convinced you that smoking is something that you do unconsciously and hence you understand that whilst you can consciously decide you don’t want to smoke any more, consciously stopping yourself from smoking each and every cigarette you would normally smoke is much easier said than done.

Quitting smoking with hypnotherapy attacks the problem from a number of different angles, here are some examples:

1. Allows you to communicate with the unconscious part of your brain to help find ways to stop the unconscious action happening. 
2. Build motivation but playing out imagined scenarios wherein you can see the benefits of quitting weighed against the risks of continuing. 
3. Suggestions can be made for cigarettes to smell or taste like the foods/smells that make you feel violently unwell. 
4. General relaxation
5. Motivation
6. Accountability
7. Good quitting smoking practice
8. Recognising lapse vs relapse

Quitting smoking with Dorchester Hypnotherapy

At Dorchester Hypnotherapy I’ve created a quitting smoking programme to help give you the very best chance of quitting smoking for good.

It starts with a free online consultation to chat over your fears, questions, desires and whether you’re ready.

After this you’ll have three appointments one week apart, the first one being one week after your consultation.

A non-refundable payment of £250 is made to cover the cost of these three sessions.

After your first session with me you will no longer smoke, the two sessions after this are to be further support to help you with any problems that you’re having along the way.

I guarantee that I will do my absolute best to help you quit smoking, I will employ the very best tools, techniques and advice in order to achieve this but it should be made clear that my quitting smoking program does not come with a guarantee that you’ll stop smoking.

To book in for a free consultation about quitting smoking with Dorchester Hypnotherapy complete the contact form below.

Contact Chris at Dorchester Hypnotherapy