Stop Vaping Hypnotherapy
Do you actually know how many puffs you have had today? Probably not, but I bet you know exactly where your vape is right now, probably right next to you or in your mouth whilst reading this. If you left it at home you would go back for it because it’s got to be with you constantly.
That is the bit people do not talk about with vaping.
There is no packet to run out of, no last one, no going outside in the rain and it feeling a little off putting.
It is in your hand at your desk, on the sofa, in bed, in the car, all day, with no time built in like finishing a cigarette to make you stop.
Stop vaping hypnotherapy works on that automated subconscious response system. The part of you that automatically picks it up while thinking about something else entirely.
I am Emma, an award winning Solution Focused Hypnotherapist and I work with people who are completely done with vaping but cannot seem to stop. This is a single session, in person in Derbyshire or online anywhere in the UK.
Why vaping can be harder to stop than smoking
People are often surprised by this and then relieved to hear it said out loud.
A cigarette has an end. You light it, you smoke it, it is finished, and the packet eventually runs out. Every one of those is a natural stopping point, and each one gives you a moment where you could choose differently.
A vape has none of them. It sits there, it is silent, it is odourless enough to use anywhere, and there is no point in the day where it makes you stop and decide. So the habit gets to repeat far more often than smoking ever did, and repetition is exactly what makes a pattern automatic.
Add to that the fact that a lot of people vape indoors, in bed, at work, in front of the television, and the vape ends up woven into far more moments of your day than cigarettes ever were.
If you have found stopping vaping harder than you expected, that is why.
It is not that you are worse at this than other people.
How hypnotherapy can help you stop vaping
In Solution Focused Hypnotherapy we do a few things to break the vaping habit.
First we talk and understand the patterns and associations with the vape. We look at where vaping 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 vaping and nicotine 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 vaping 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 vaper.
You get a personalised audio recording from the session 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 vaping sits in your mind but then you still have to walk past the vape 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 Vaping Hypnotherapy FAQs
1) Where is my stop vaping hypnosis session held?
Most of my work is online. Stopping vaping 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 Vaping Hypnotherapy right for me?
It is a good fit if:
You have decided to stop and you want it to actually stick this time.
You have cut your nicotine strength down repeatedly and crept back up again.
You switched from cigarettes to vaping, got off the cigarettes, and now cannot get off this.
You vape more than you would ever admit out loud.
You are willing to put a little conscious work in on your side by listening to your audio tape and running through what we discuss in session.
It is not a good fit if:
You are here because your partner 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 Vaping 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 vaping?
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) Should i reduce my nicotine strength before the session?
No need. Carry on exactly as you are until the day.
The NHS suggests either stepping nicotine strength down gradually or stopping outright with support and if the stepping down route had been going to work for you, you would probably not be reading this page. Arriving mid taper and irritable does not make the session more effective.
9) Does stop vaping 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 vapng?
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.
11) I switched to vaping to get off cigarettes. Will stopping send me back to smoking?
It is the thing people are most afraid of and I understand why.
We are not just removing something. We are reinforcing you as someone who does not use nicotine at all, cigarettes included and giving your brain a clear picture of what it is heading towards instead.