Okay, you’ve tried it all: the gum, the patches, the pills.  You’ve even tried going cold turkey.  But you failed.  You want to quit; you’re convinced you must quit, not only for the health reasons but for social and financial reasons as well. Yet you are ambivalent about your chances for success. Have you considered using using general hypnosis to stop smoking.

First of all, don’t be so hard on yourself.  Nearly everyone who has successfully quit the smoking habit has relapsed at least once—the average ex-smoker relapsed three to four times, before they achieve success. Hypnotherapy helps you quit smoking by dealing with all the elements that addicted you in the first place.

How It Works

Nicotine works on the cholinergic pathways of the brain.  It gives your body a wake-up call, it re-energizes you and gives you the ability to focus and increases reaction time. These characteristics are essential to your livelihood.  Hypnotherapy helps you helps you stop by substituting healthy thoughts and behaviors that will allow you to be alert, focused and energized without the need of chemicals.

Solution for Withdrawal Symptoms

Hypnosis plants behavioral strategies to cope with situations that trigger your desire to smoke. Smoking is often tied to daily rituals.  Perhaps you smoke after every meal, or while having a cup of coffee.  Maybe you smoke at certain times of the day because that’s when your buddies smoke and you can chat with them and have a cigarette.

Instead of fighting off the over-whelming urge to smoke after a meal, you will have the behavioral solution at the ready. Quitting smoking takes more than sheer will power, hypnosis to help quit smoking—offers solutions to those smoking triggers.

A study by University of Washington researcher, Dr. Joseph Barber, found that stop smoking hypnotherapy had been particularly effective.  Dr. Barber found that for a single session of hypnotherapy to quit smoking 25% of the participants remained non-smokers after a 6-12 month period.  Of the participants who had multiple sessions of hypnotherapy to quit smoking, 66% were non-smokers after a 6-12 month period.

Hypnotherapy is a powerful method to help you become a successful non-smoker.  Whether you choose a single session or multiple sessions, hypnotherapy will contribute to your success. Used alone or in tandem with nicotine replacement medications, hypnotherapy increases you chances for success.