STOP SMOKING NOW

YES

YOU CAN

and you'll find it is remarkably easy to quit

Process includes:

• Analysis of your smoking profile.
• A personalised hypnotherapy session tailored to your profile.
• An extra session free within one year of your therapy session.

Please note that if you come with friends the session will be less personalised and  the back-up free session will not be available but an additional session will be available for the cost of £20 for one year following your therapy.

It's easy to stop with hypnosis

It's not magic

Hypnosis just helps you to change the way you think - so from a belief that you can't do without nicotine - see the thought change and wonder what you ever saw in it - it really is that simple.

Andrea Lowe is a trainer in smoking cessation and developed the Smokebuster method of quitting for good.

What it is then?

Hypnosis is simply a form of deep relaxation, the skill of the hypnotherapist is to use that relaxation to get in touch with the parts of you that are believing in the cigarettes and to help you to think differently.  Much of my work is carried out during the profiling when I will be finding out what makes you smoke.

Some political facts about quitting

Forget addiction:  I'll show you that you are not.  If you believe you are addicted you will have a really good excuse to go on the way you are - and believe it's not your fault.  Then if you are addicted, tell me - why can some people stop just like that? 

There are many people who encourage you to believe you are addicted - but look who they are - drug companies making money from nicotine replacement, cigarette companies making money from you not quitting.

The government has been manipulated by the wealth of these companies and their vested interest research.  If Tetley's set up enough research they could present figures to say you were addicted to tea and if you drink tea you know how hard it would be to quit that little indulgence.

Advertising tells us various forms of Nicotine replacement therapy are 'twice? ten times? more effective' .  What exactly does that mean?

I have had people coming to me  'addicted' to the Nictine gum.

Fact: The government have set targets for quitting.  Those targets are based on helping people to stop for one month and even then the success rate is only around 30% at best.  The government recommend the use of Nicotine Replacement (NRT).
The ads. also tell you that you are having therapeutic nicotine!  If it's therapeutic why quit?

Success Rates

When asking, or being told, about success rates you should have a clear idea exactly what information you are getting.

I have had people telling me that they have success with patches for a time and so will continue using them to stop (regularly)

Some therapists count success as someone walking out of their office not wanting a cigarette. Success for how long?

Some rely on people getting in touch with them and telling them if they have not quit.  Some won't. Some lie.

Some people send information asking if people have quit.  Not everyone will come back with answers even if it is just because some have moved.  No-one can prove 100% success long-term.

The only way that success can truly be measured is by getting all quitters back and testing them.

The only way to be relatively certain that someone has quit for good is by receiving recommendations from them or by getting cards, voluntarily sent, long-term telling you they are still smoke free.  Never will 100% of successes do those things.

Beware of people who say that have 100% or 90% success rates.  We all want to believe we have been successful, that's why we do it - but let's not get carried away with things we can't prove.

All I will say is that most of my smoking clients come from recommendation and that only about 20% come back for the free back-up session within the first twelve months.

So-called addictive personalities

No such thing

Addictive personailites are simply people with issues that need resolving and they use habits like smoking or over eating to cope with those issues.

There is no reason for them to continue using something destructive to rely on.  In most cases that can be changed to something more healthy.  In some cases I would recommend a course of therapy to deal with some of those problems before attempting the quitting.

If just a bit of you wants to quit. 

Call now and make your appointment.

For details of prices and times call 0161 764 1440

Green reasons to stop

 Every cigarette butt takes 10 years to biodegrade - 200 million per year!

What the independant scientists say:

The following article was taken from New Scientist vol 136 issue 1845-31 October 92, page 6: Cognitive reactions to smoking relapse by Elliot Wald, Tami J Eggelston PhD & Frederick Gibbson PhD. Hypnosis is the most effective way of giving up smoking, according to the largest ever scientific comparison of ways of breaking the habit. Willpower, it turns out, counts for very little. Smokers are coming under increasing pressure to quit. Earlier this month the Institute of Actuaries published the results of a study it commissioned which showed that the mortality rate for smokers is twice as high as for non-smokers, and that on average a smoker dies 6 years earlier than a non-smoker. Surveys suggest that three in four smokers would like to give up, according to the anti-smoking campaign Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). To find the most effective way to give up smoking, frank Schmidt and research student Chockalingam Viswesvaran of the University of Iowa carried out a meta-analysis, statistically combining the results of more than 600 studies covering almost 72,000 people from North America, Scandinavia and elsewhere in Europe. By combining the results from so many separate studies, the meta-analysis enables the real effectiveness of each technique to be picked out from the statistical "noise" that often blights studies involving smaller numbers of subjects. The results, published in the current issue of the journal of, show that the average success rate for all methods was 25%: that is, only about two in five smokers is likely to succeed using methods covered by the study. Patients told they had serious cardiac disorders, and so a clear incentive to stop immediately, had the highest quitting rate, at 36 per cent. But for most smokers the most effective technique was hypnosis, which included 48 studies covering over 6000 smokers, gave an average success rate of 80 per cent for this method. "Combination" techniques, combining, for example, exercise and breathing therapy came second with a success rate of 29 per cent. Smoke aversion, in which smokers have their own warm, stale cigarette smoke blown back into their faces, achieved a 25 per cent success rate, followed by acupuncture at 24 per cent. The least successful method turned out to be advice from GPs, which appears to convince virtually no one to give up. Self-help, in the form of books or mail-order advice, achieved modest success around 9 per cent, while nicotine gum was little better at 10 per cent. "We found that involvement of physicians did not have as big an impact as we expected", said Schmidt, "We speculate that the reason is that it is the content of the treatment that matters, and not the status of the person giving it." David Pollock, director of ASH, said he was surprised by the success of hypnosis, which anecdotal evidence had suggested was not very effective. One organization not surprised by the results is the British Society of Medical and Dental Hypnosis. Christopher Pattinson, the society's academic chairman, said that current hypnosis techniques are a far cry from their popular image of music-hall tricks involving swinging fob watches. The latest relaxation techniques achieve success rates of up to 80 per cent from a single session, he said.