Stop Smoking

Hypnotherapy to Stop Smoking
nr Wrexham & Chester

If you are a reluctant smoker, you’ll have come to believe that it is hard to stop smoking, and that you are addicted.... neither are necessarily true. While will power is admittedly needed to stop, it is not for the reasons many people imagine, and nowhere near the battle that many expect, and for a significant number not even a battle, as they realise that they were always able to simply stop. Ring Alan for advice if you live in the Chester, Wrexham, Oswestry corridor and would like to discuss how to stop smoking.

How Do I Know It Will Work?

You don't, but you can look for the same clues that Alan looks for when you phone him. Do you want to stop?... sounds daft doesn't it, but undoubtedly, of those who have seen Alan and started smoking again, the biggest group will simply have not wanted to stop in the first place, but instead felt that they should stop, which is very different. Hypnotherapy can take your desire and 'supercharge' it, but your desire has to be there.

As a guide, around one third of stop smoking clients walk away and just don't think about smoking again, about one third succeed with bumps along the way, and about one third start to smoke again, and of course the only guarantee against that kind of disappointment is not to try in the first place. Everybody who starts again will learn from the experience, will have taken another step in their journey to their eventual destination of being a non smoker.

Contact

Hypnotherapy - What to Expect

Stop smoking is the only presentation in which Alan does not require to have an Initial Consultation, he is happy to assess your situation informally when you ring (he will want to speak to you).

If you would like an Initial Consultation, to decide whether this is for you, then you are welcome, and if you go ahead, the cost will be knocked off your stop smoking session.

You will be asked to use a recording in preparation (unless you book in very soon after your enquiry) by listening to it every night as you fall asleep, and that recording will generally continue to be used for the first 6 weeks afterwards.

There are usually other exercises to do in preparation that start the ball rolling before the session has even happened.

The session itself is approx. 2 hours, about 60 minutes of which is discussional, and the balance is a prolonged piece of hypnosis rolling through several techniques including aversion, direct and indirect suggestion, metaphor and future pacing.

You should leave Alan's clinic feeling elated and fired up, armed with the knowledge of how to keep it that way, and if during the next 6 weeks you should find that you are experiencing a bumpy start, a back up session is included in the price, on demand.

Supervision

Habitual Behaviour and Habitual Thinking

The concept of smoking tobacco as an 'addiction' is one that plays well into the illness/treatment model that surrounds much of our thinking in these areas.

It also plays well into the hands of a very profitable nicotine replacement pharmaceutical industry and the increasingly popular vaping industry (though it would appear that the latter could be providing a legitimate 'step in the right direction' which represents a safer place for smokers to be.... the jury is out).

What if smoking was actually being propped up in your life by something as simple as your habitual thought patterns?

Our brain is very good at delivering us to our desires, when those desires are external to us, things we want added into our life, but matters become much less clear when we want to remove something from our life.

Our intellectually developed brain will allow the thing we want rid of to remain at the core of our thoughts, even though those thoughts may well be 'I wish it wasn't....I wish I didn't' etc. they are still pointed at the source of the problem, and that is not how we get what we want in other areas of our lives.

The explanation of how this works, and how those problem focused thoughts can be quickly replaced, forms the basis of Alan's stop smoking sessions, as well as understanding so called 'cravings', leaving you free to think about what you actually do want......

To breathe easily
To live longer and better
To have more energy
To smell fresh
To be a good role model to your children
To have greater self esteem
To have more time
To have more money (thousands more, every year, index linked to the price of tobacco)
TO BE FREE

Give Alan a ring and just get on with it.