Stop Smoking with Hypnotherapy
FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions
Is it safe?
Hypnotherapy is gentle and safe. It is actually something we do to ourselves – almost non-stop, day in, day out, there’s a running commentary going on in our heads – often a negative one that limits our potential. Supposing, for example, we have the idea that it’s difficult to give up smoking – it will be, won’t it? Change that to the concept that ‘being a none-smoker is a feeling that’s far too good to miss (to quote one man I had worked with), and you’re filled with positive anticipation - you can’t wait for the experience.
No-one can make you do something that’s harmful to you in hypnosis – we always have ultimate control. That’s why stopping smoking with hypnotherapy isn’t 100% successful – it’s the most successful method, but not 100% - because if, deep down inside, we don’t want to, it can’t make us.
Does it work?
Yes, and yes again. As I just said, it’s generally considered to be the most effective method. Many times more effective than the NHS method. I really want to support you in every way possible if you work with me, so once you’ve stopped, you’re welcome to come back any time, free of charge, if you should feel wobbly about it.
Cost of smoking
The cost of a packet of cigarettes is about £5 so, if you smoke 20 a day, that’s £1,825 a year. Just think how much that is over a lifetime – even a smoker’s lifetime.
Health Benefits of Being a Non-Smoker
The number one reason for becoming a non-smoker is health, and the benefits are many and profound:
- Better all-round health – stopping smoking reduces the risk of 50 different illnesses and conditions
- Set a good example to children who are more likely to be non-smokers as a result
- Improved fitness and easier breathing – better at sports and getting up stairs
- Food and drink tastes better
- Better skin and complexion, and no early wrinkles
- Fresher smelling breath, hair, clothes, car and home
- Back in control of your life
- More mentally alert
- More focussed
- Free of wheezing and coughing
- Breathe more easily
- Walk up hills more easily
- Enjoy the scent of flowers
- Get back your sense of taste
- More relaxed
- Enjoy life more
Time Scale
| 20 minutes | Blood pressure and pulse rate will begin to decrease to normal |
| 8 hours | Nicotine and carbon monoxide levels in the blood reduce by half Oxygen levels return to normal Circulation improves |
| 24 hours | Carbon monoxide and nicotine eliminated from the body |
| 48 Hours | Decline in lung function and excess risk of lung cancer halts |
| Your chance of a heart attack begins to decrease | |
| 72 hours | Bronchial cilia start to grow back You begin to smell and taste things better. |
| 5 days | You begin to: Stop coughing Sleep better Have a noticeable increase in energy Increase your endurance Digest food better |
| 1 month | Appearance improves – skin loses its greyish pallor and becomes less wrinkled |
| 3-9 months | Coughs and wheezing a thing of the past |
| 1 year | The excess risk of a heart attack reduces by half compared to that of a smoker |
| 15 years | Risk of heart attack falls to the same as someone who has never smoked |
