The addicton to smoking is one of the hardest habits to kick. Nicotine is an addictive drug in cigarettes which causes smokers to have a hard time quitting. Even as measures to discourage smoking grew more stringent in recent years, a new report indicates that the nicotine content of cigarettes rose, making it tougher for smokers to quit.

The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis had found that those who successfully completed the hypnosis sessions for smoking cessation, 81% had stopped smoking. Hypnosis has one of the highest success rates for smoking cessation, because it gets right to the source of your habit. Hypnosis is all about helping you make the changes you want in your life, but it doesn’t “brainwash” you to do something you really don’t want or aren’t ready to do.  If you want to give up smoking but need help in getting through the chemical and emotional withdrawal stage quickly and easily, hypnosis will be a powerful ally. If you don’t really want to quit, but are hoping that hypnosis will change your mind for you, then it is a waste of your time and money. Counseling, acupuncture, nicotine patches or gum may all be effective in their own way, but in my experience, no intervention is as fast or effective as hypnosis.

Example of a Hypnotherapist's Method to Quitting Smoking

"I start off a "quit smoking" session with a questionnaire and an in-depth talk about how you use smoking in your life and all the health, social and financial benefits you can expect from quitting. Few people realize that the death rate from cancer caused by smoking is one person every five minutes; this is more than road accidents, AIDS, drug abuse, suicides and alcohol abuse put together. When people become aware of the statistics, and see what the habit is really doing to their bodies, they to really start to change their mindset.

In order to achieve lasting effect, I need to put the client into deep hypnosis. This takes time - especially if you have not been hypnotized before, so that is why the session takes about two and a half hours.

After about an hour in hypnosis, most clients emerge never wanting to touch a cigarette again. Many tell me the experience for them appeared to take about ten minutes. As they leave the room I have to remind them to throw into the trash can the lighter and a half empty pack still lingering in their pockets." - Geoffrey Knight, Cht