By dramatically dialling down your 'love' of smoking, hypnotherapy helps you to discover the benefits of becoming a non-smoker instead.

Additionally, using hypnotherapy to quit is:

• A targeted intervention that aims to alter how you perceive smoking. This compares favourably with a difficult, physical withdrawal and can help weaken the desire to smoke.
• Not a short-term fix – it is designed to create sustainable, lasting change.
• Non-invasive – so there's no pain or chemicals. If it helps you to boost confidence in your treatment, hypnotherapy for smoking can also be used in combination with other treatment methods, such as patches.
• A key part of any overall wellbeing goals you have and can help improve other aspects of your life – as well as building resilience and empowerment and positive behavioural change. It can also help with relaxation and stress management.

Quitting smoking using many traditional methods such as nicotine patches, gum or going 'cold turkey' comes with a number of challenges.

These include:

1/ Your emotional triggers. Out of habit, when stressed or angry, reaching for a cigarette may provide a sense of calm. It's your 'safety blanket’.

2/ Ingrained behaviours. A smoke on the walk to work or first thing in the morning can be hard to let go of.

3/ Coping mechanisms. Many people believe that instant access to a cigarette when they need it helps them to cope better. It probably doesn't, but you believe it does – and that's something we need to work on.

4/ Your internal talk. Virtually everyone has a version of "just this one," "screw it," or similar. That will need to be changed

5/ The compulsion and urge to smoke. You need to be able to stop having this once and for all – which is difficult when you're trying to stop smoking with gum or a patch.

Many quitting methods fall flat because they cannot address the above concerns. They fail to stop all of those aspects that drive your habit and tell you what pleasure and comfort you get from smoking.

Take a second to think about those moments you reach for a cigarette. When you smoke, you probably don’t spend a lot of time thinking about it – you just do it.

Yes, you might be stressed, you might get a craving, you might be having a drink – or it could be a specific time of the day that makes you think, "Time for a smoke."

Quite simply, you respond to those cues and ‘just’ smoke. You do this both unconsciously and automatically. To put it another way, you enter a smoking ‘trance’.

Clinical Hypnotherapy for smoking works by helping to eradicate this smoking trance. It channels your motivation to stop – and enables you to do so automatically.

We will deal with all of your cues and give you some post-session tools to manage them, just in case. Most people, however, don’t need them.

More conscious-minded approaches such as gums, patches and self-help books can’t change the way you feel about smoking. Hypnotherapy, however, aims to do exactly that.

The idea is to stop cigarettes from being something you want. And if you no longer want something, then you no longer feel the need to do it.

During a tailored, 90-minute smoking hypnosis session with me, we'll work on changing everything you ever felt about cigarettes. The aim is to make you be free from nicotine and for it to no longer appeal to you.

After booking your smoking hypnotherapy appointment, I will ask you to do some preparatory work before seeing you. This is very important because this information helps me tailor your session for you.

Additionally, at an unconscious level, it’s a commitment to yourself that you really do want to stop smoking.

This work consists of answering some questions about your smoking habit, along with any relevant history, thoughts and beliefs that you may have.

You’ll also keep a log for a few days that tracks when you smoke, who you’re with and how you feel when you smoke each cigarette.

Then, when we meet online or in person, we go through your answers and using clinical hypnotherapy and NLP, we can begin to help you ‘unlearn’ your habit.

Here’s how we tackle all aspects of your habit head-on. We’ll:

• Help you to overcome compulsions and cravings.
• Teach you how to manage those emotional triggers.
• Deal with all of those circumstances that prompt you to smoke or vape – both now or in the future.
• Change that internal voice that is giving you permission to smoke.

Without trying to sound glib, you’re ready when you’re ready! It’s a personal choice.

Essentially, it boils down to two interrelated factors. First, have you had enough and are hacked off with your habit? Second, have you had a health scare, or are really noticing the effects of your smoking habit?

This is where the initial consultation call comes in. I will ask you questions such as, ‘On a scale of 0-10, how motivated are you to stop smoking?’ If you’re not in the right place when you answer these questions, trying to use hypnotherapy to stop smoking is not going to work.

During your session, we may need to resolve any internal conflicts you may have, such as, "Part of me likes smoking/part of me hates it."

Your willingness to quit smoking often comes with a growing awareness of the negative impact of smoking. A lack of enjoyment about the habit can be a powerful motivator, too.

During our smoking hypnosis session, we can deal with any underlying beliefs you may have about either your ability to stop or the conviction that smoking relaxes you.

From there, you’ll experience very relaxing and powerful clinical hypnosis to help you make the change.

And it really is possible. Imagine a world without cigarette smoke. Without feeling like you were damaging your body in unimaginable ways.

And think of the potential savings! With smoking hypnosis, your lifelong habit could be just a few hours away from being broken.

Experience: I have now completed more than 5,000 hypnotherapy sessions with clients.

Approach: I am personable and focused, and I only want to work with people I wholeheartedly believe I can help.

Training: I have now completed more than 2,000 hours of training.

Results: I am highly results focused and want you to feel like you can move on from whatever is holding you back in the fewest possible sessions.

This depends on your background. As well as clinical hypnotherapy, the four main tools at my disposal are Havening, Time Line Therapy, NLP and TFT.

I have enjoyed considerable success with all of these, both individually and in various combinations.

There are almost too many to list. As well as the positive effect on your wallet (literally thousands of pounds a year for even a moderate smoker), your body will thank you almost straight away.

According to the American Cancer Society, the timeline of health benefits is as follows:

After 48 hours – all carbon monoxides caused by cigarettes leave your body. Your sense of taste and smell starts to improve.

After 2-12 weeks – your circulation starts to improve.

After 1-9 months – coughs and breathing problems associated with smoking start to improve.

After 1-2 years – your risk of a heart attack has been greatly reduced compared to a smoker.

After 5-10 years – your risk of mouth, throat and larynx cancer is cut in half.

By continuing to steer clear of cigarettes, you also slash your risk of lung cancer, type 2 diabetes, bone disease and dementia.

Given the current cost of living crisis, I am offering 10% off my standard fee. A potentially life-changing 1-1 session with me today costs just £390 +VAT per 90-minute session (most hypnotherapists' sessions are only 50 minutes long).

There is no extra fee for my pre-prep work, such as my analysis of your pre-session briefing questionnaire.

Additionally, every new client benefits from a free 20-minute consultation by phone.

Booking is easy – please just fill in the contact form, or call me on freephone 0800 122 3073.