Stop Smoking Hypnotherapy
You already know you want to stop smoking. That bit is not the problem.
The problem is the routine of it. One outside the back door with your morning coffee. The one in the car on the way home when your head is still at work. The one at the pub that appears in your hand automatically whilst having a drink. The one after a row to calm you down.
Stop smoking hypnotherapy works on the subconscious part of your brain where your habits are stored. Not the part of you that knows the facts, the part of you that runs on auto pilot reaching for the packet before you have finished the thought.
I am Emma, an award winning Solution Focused Hypnotherapist and I work with people who are completely done with smoking but cannot seem to stop. This is a single session, in person in Derbyshire or online anywhere in the UK.
Why stopping is hard when you genuinely want to stop
Nobody smokes because they have not read the health warnings. You have read them. You have probably read them on the side of the packet while smoking.
What keeps a smoking habit going is not information. It is association. Years of the same cigarette at the same moment have wired the two together, so the moment now produces the urge on its own. Kettle on, hand moves. Car keys in the ignition, hand moves. Stressful email, hand moves.
That is not weakness. That is a brain doing exactly what brains are built to do, which is to automate anything you repeat often enough so you do not have to think about it.
The catch is that this happens below the level of your conscious decision making. Which is why willpower on its own is such hard work.
You are trying to out think something that is not happening at the level of conscious thought.
Hypnotherapy is one of the few approaches that works at that level.
How hypnotherapy can help you stop smoking
In Solution Focused Hypnotherapy we do a few things to break the smoking habit.
First we talk and understand the patterns and associations. We look at where smoking sits in your day, what it is currently doing for you and what you actually want your life to look like without it. A brain that has a clear picture of what it is moving towards works very differently to a brain that is only being told what it can no longer have.
We learn and understand what smoking actually does in your brain because knowledge is power and as humans we are curious creatures, if we know what is going on up there we are better equipped to solve it.
We also use some specialist techniques to break down the smoking habit further and remove any lasting reasons to actually want to smoke.
Then we use hypnosis, which is a focused, deeply relaxed state you have been in many times without calling it that. Driving a familiar route and not remembering the last two junctions. Getting lost in a film. Daydreaming.
In it, the analytical, arguing part of the mind quietens down and the mind becomes more receptive to new suggestion. So instead of you spending the week trying to talk yourself out of a cigarette, we spend that time reinforcing you as a person who does not smoke and loosening the automatic link between the trigger and the hand.
You stay awake. You stay aware. You can hear me the whole time.
Afterwards, you leave the session as a non smoker.
You get an audio recording to use at home in the days that follow, which keeps reinforcing the work while everything settles.
I also include WhatsApp support, so you can message me after the session with any questions. I do not disappear once you have paid, I want to support you through this huge change. That is, if you even feel that you need me of course!
The honest bit
Hypnotherapy can carry a lot of it. It cannot carry all of it. The session does the heavy work of changing how smoking sits in your mind but then you still have to walk past the shop. Hypnotherapy is not mind control.
If you are hoping to be made into someone who never has another thought about it, without any effort on your side, I am the wrong person and Solution Focused Hypnotherapy is the wrong approach. I will say that on a discovery call rather than take your money.
If you are ready and you want something that works with your brain rather than against it, this is worth your time.
Stop Smoking Hypnotherapy FAQs
1) Where is my stop smoking hypnosis session held?
Most of my work is online. Stopping smoking is the one I genuinely prefer to do face to face, so I offer both and I will happily do either.
In person sessions are near Long Eaton in Derbyshire, DE72, which is a straightforward run from Derby, Nottingham, Ilkeston, Beeston, Sandiacre, Draycott, Breaston and Borrowash.
Online sessions run on Microsoft Teams and are exactly the same session.
Same length, same structure, same recording.
You need a quiet room, a laptop, phone or iPad, and somewhere comfortable to sit where you will not be interrupted. People often find they relax more deeply at home than they would in an unfamiliar room, which makes sense as our brain sees it as our safe place.
If you are outside the UK, online works across time zones and I have worked with clients well beyond Derbyshire.
2) Is Stop Smoking Hypnotherapy right for me?
It is a good fit if:
You have decided to stop and you are looking for support to make it hold.
You have stopped before and started again and you want to understand why.
Patches, gum, vapes or willpower have not worked and you want a different angle.
You are willing to do a small amount on your side between deciding and doing.
It is not a good fit if:
You are here because your partner, your GP or your children want you to stop and you do not.
You are looking for something that requires nothing from you at all.
You want a 100% guarantee. Nobody honest can give you one.
3) How much is the Stop Smoking Session?
£250 for the one time session, in person or online it lasts for approximately 2 hours.
That includes the pre session prep, the session itself, your personalised audio recording to keep and message support afterwards.
Before you book anything you can have a free thirty minute discovery call, which costs nothing and commits you to nothing. It is a conversation to work out whether this is right for you. If it is not, I will say so.
4) How many sessions will I need to stop smoking?
One.
If something else is going on underneath, anxiety, high stress, a difficult period in your life, that may be worth working on separately and I will tell you if I think that is the case.
5) Will I be asleep or unconscious?
No. Hypnosis is not sleep, you are not ‘put under’ and it is not unconsciousness. You will be relaxed, aware, able to hear me, able to speak and able to open your eyes whenever you want to.
It feels like meditation or daydreaming you can move or open your eyes at any point.
6) Can you make me do something I do not want to do?
No. That is stage hypnosis with a volunteer who has agreed to play along in front of an audience and it has very little to do with what happens in a clinical hypnotherapy session.
You stay in control the entire time.
7) What if I have already tried patches, gum, vapes and everything else?
That is most of the people I see.
Nicotine replacement works on the chemical side. It does not touch the association side, which is why people can be fully patched up and still find their hand going to the pocket at the exact moment they always did. That association is what we are working on.
8) Do I need to have stopped before the session?
No. Smoke normally right up to it. Some people have their last one on the way.
Turning up already three days in and running on fumes makes the session harder, not easier.
9) Does stop smoking hypnotherapy work online?
Yes. Online sessions are the same session, on Microsoft Teams, and hypnosis works perfectly well through a screen because the work is happening in your mind, not in the room.
I offer in person for this one because I like doing it face to face, not because online is a lesser version.
10) Will I put weight on if I stop smoking?
Some people worry about swapping one habit for another and it is a fair thing to raise.
We cover this in the session and reinforce you as someone who is looking after themselves generally but I do give the option to replace the behaviour lightly with something else like drinking more water or squash instead which are great for our body and skin and wellness. Bring it up on the discovery call and we will plan for it.