Smoking Cessation
People start smoking for various reasons; peer pressure, being grown up, being more sophisticated and mature, establishing independence, social reasons, feeling secure and confident. Having started, the tobacco companies do a good job of reinforcing positive associations with smoking. They make smoking appear sexy, cool, socially acceptable, and even healthy, by featuring young good looking men and women acting confident and enjoying the pleasures of life. Health warnings are now placed on packets of cigarettes and this has done little to deter young people starting their smoking careers.
Some years down the line it begins to dawn on us that we are not invincible, the threat of serious illnesses such as lung and throat cancers, heart disease and asthma become a reality. Smoking becomes less cool and attractive. Sexual potency of smokers decreases more rapidly, women who smoke during pregnancy threaten the lives of their babies, passive smoking is a recognised threat to families and friends and generally smokers are considered less welcome than in the era when smoking was “the done thing” – of course now you are addicted. But it’s not all bad news! Hypnotherapy is the most effective intervention for smoking cessation.
We work with you to identify the most effective approach for you, considering all the factors that have been employed to keep you a smoker. We will address the dissociation and denial strategies that you employ, which enable you to ignore the health warning messages and adopt the “it won’t happen to me” syndrome.
We will identify all the reasons why you have not been successful in giving up in the past, and we will dispel all the myths that you may have installed that smoking is of benefit to you in some way! Smoking cessation requires that you want to go back to being a non-smoker. If this is the case, hypnotherapy will work…and we will not treat anyone who I do not think is sufficiently motivated to give up.
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