Stop Smoking & Nicotine Withdrawal

Once you stop smoking nicotine is out of your system within 48 hours - carbon monoxide is out of your system within just 24 hours. These are great milestones to enjoy in the first couple of days and although most people find this time quite straightforward, during the stop smoking hypnotherapy session you will be given a simple self hypnosis technique to make the first few days even easier.

We are all creatures of habit and what most people think are cigarette cravings are actually habit associations. Most smokers have similar associations; the first one in the morning, the one after a meal, break time at work, or perhaps in the pub. Stop smoking hypnotherapy breaks these associations and then creates new positive ones with you as a non-smoker.

Memories from the past can add to this process. When you think about it, you were born to be a non-smoker. And all those memories of being a non-smoker are there inside you. Stop smoking hypnotherapy helps to access key memories that act as a reconnection to the feeling of being a non-smoker.

Many people smoke as a means of coping with stress. But nicotine is actually a stimulant and cigarettes are packed with harmful chemicals that stress the body rather than relax it. What helps people to relax are the unconscious associations with being more relaxed. Also if you are experiencing a stressful situation and smoking gives you an excuse to leave that situation, it is the break rather than the cigarette that is helping you cope.