WHY DO PEOPLE FIND IT SO DIFFICULT TO STOP SMOKING?

120,000 people in Britain stop smoking every day....by dying of smoking related diseases, many of them distressing and painful, including lung cancer, throat and mouth cancers, emphysemia, thrombosis, heart and artery disease and many more.

You were not born a smoker, and it is not natural to smoke. The desire or habit to smoke is the result of conditioned responses. Your conscious mind knows all the reasons why you should, or you want to, stop smoking, but your subconscious mind has become programmed to believe that you enjoy, or need it, too much to quit, hence the conflict!

Using Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy, Toni & Rosemary work with you to uncover the underlying impulses that make you smoke and then help you to re-programme your subconscious mind by replacing those old responses with new positive ones, which set you free from your unwanted habits.

HOW EFT & NLP HELP YOU TO STOP SMOKING

EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique or Tapping) is a self-help procedure which combines fingertip tapping of key acupuncture points with focused thought. This simple procedure can help you to quell any cravings that may tempt you to light up even when you would prefer not to smoke, and tap away any anxiety, stress, negative thoughts or feelings.

NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is a powerful therapeutic process which can enable you to break old beliefs and patterns of behaviour and create new attitudes and behaviours using the power of the mind to visualise and create your desired outcomes.

Hypnotherapy, EFT & NLP used together are so much more effective than hypnosis alone. By accessing the power of your subconscious mind, you can replace those old negative feelings, responses and behaviours, with new positive ones, setting yourself free to feel good about yourself and enjoy a full and healthy life.

You won't be 'giving up'....you will be gaining....so much more in life!

Latest satisfied client:

'Hi Toni, Hope you are well. Thought I would drop you an email to give you an update since my hypnotherapy sessions. Well it will be 5 weeks tomorrow since I last my last (ever) cigarette – after our first session and I can honestly say I haven't really missed them too much at all. I have had a few cravings but they have mostly been mild, although I was out for dinner last week and some of the cravings I got that night were quite strong, however I applied the techniques that you taught me and they passed fairly quickly.

I do feel more energised and have been getting out on my bike a lot more and have already started to notice a considerable difference in energy levels. I also seem to notice the smell of cigarettes on other people far more than I did previously and to be honest I cant believe that's how I used to smell, it is disgusting. So thank you very much again for your help, your positivity and of course most importantly changing my mind set that I don't need/want to smoke anymore.' Nick. (March 2012)

WHAT HAPPENS DURING YOUR STOP SMOKING SESSION/S

Your Stop Smoking therapy may be carried out during one extended session of around two hours or more, or two separate sessions of one, to one and a half hours each. Toni & Rosemary will initially find out as much as possible about you, your previous experiences of trying to stop smoking, your particular stumbling blocks, your triggers to smoke, your particular reasons for wanting to stop smoking, your concerns, your needs & your desires.

You will then be shown how to use powerful NLP & EFT techniques to help you break habits and let go of limiting beliefs, followed by a personalised hypnotherapy session. A hypnotherapy CD is available to listen to at home should you feel the need to reinforce and strengthen your newly installed belief system and you will be given informative handouts to help keep you motivated avoid any possible withdrawal symptoms.

Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, NLP & EFT are very effective therapies and can make stopping smoking so much easier, however your motivation and commitment to quitting is a necessary factor for success.

HYPNOTHERAPY IS PROVEN TO BE THE BEST METHOD TO HELP YOU STOP SMOKING

In a major study carried out by the highly respected New Scientist Magazine, the success rate of methods to stop smoking was proven to be:

Top result - 94% with Hypnotherapy 

30% with Deep Breathing

29% with (outdated) Aversion Therapy

25% with Acupuncture 

20% with Nicotine patches

10% Nicotine gum

6% with Willpower

Everyone knows that smoking can cause devastating illness and even shorten your life, that the money spent on cigarettes would be best spent on something more positive and on top of that, the many negative side effects including coughs, shortage of breath, foul-smelling clothes, hair and breath, are completely undesirable but somehow, despite all of that, something makes it very difficult to quit smoking.

Drug companies try their best to convince you to use their products, but you need to be aware of the great risks involved. People have even died as a result of taking a drug called Zyban and many others have felt ill on patches or gum. Even the latest drug on the market was only shown to be effective when accompanied by many weeks of counselling. Hypnotherapy allows you to tap into the massive powerhouse of your subconscious mind and achieve the best possible results in a safe, effective, and harmless way.

TOP REASONS TO STOP SMOKING

• Smoking related illnesses kill over 120,000 people in Britain every year, that is 14 deaths every hour.
• In the past 50 years, tobacco related diseases have killed over 60 million people.
• Smoking causes 50 different illnesses and 20 ways of killing you.
• 264,000 smokers are admitted to NHS hospitals each year.
• Smoking related illnesses cost the NHS £1.7 billion a year.
• Smoking related health problems take up 8 million consultations every year.
• A third of all cancer deaths could be avoided by stopping smoking.
• An average smoker burns away more than £30,000 over a life time.

FURTHER FACTS TO CONVINCE YOU TO STOP SMOKING

• Tobacco was introduced to Europe from the New World at the end of the fifteenth century. Smoking spread rapidly and was long regarded as having medicinal value. It was not until the 20th century, however, that smoking became a mass habit and not until after the Second World War that the dangers of smoking were fully realised and firmly established.

• Tobacco is the only legally available consumer product which kills people when it is used entirely as intended.

• Every year, around 120,000 smokers in the UK die as a result of their habit.

• Smoking kills around six times more people in the UK than accidents including road traffic accidents, poisoning, overdose, murder, manslaughter, suicide, and HIV infection all put together.

• About half of all regular cigarette smokers will eventually be killed by their habit.

• Smoking causes 30% of all cancer deaths (including at least 80% of lung cancer deaths), 17% of all heart disease deaths and at least 80% of deaths from bronchitis and emphysema.

• Polls show that people underestimate the health risks of smoking and the effects of passive smoking. It is estimated that several hundred cases of lung cancer and several thousand cases of heart disease in non-smokers in the UK are caused by breathing other people's tobacco smoke.

• About 13 million adults in the UK smoke cigarettes, 29% of men and 25% of women. In 1974, 51% of men and 41% of women smoked cigarettes, nearly half the adult population of the UK. Now at best, just over one-quarter smoke, but the decline in recent years has been heavily concentrated in older age groups, i.e. almost as many young people are taking up smoking but more established smokers are quitting.

• Adult smoking rates vary between different parts of the country. In East Anglia, 26% of the population smoke, and in the North West 30%, with Manchester top of the smoking poll at 35%! In Scotland, 30% smoke, in Wales 25%, and in Northern Ireland 29%.

• Smoking is highest among those aged 20-34: 35% of men and women in this age group smoke. Among older age groups prevalence gradually declines with the lowest smoking rate among people aged 60 and over: 16% smoke in this age group.

• More than 80% of smokers take up the habit as teenagers.

• In the United Kingdom about 450 children start smoking every day.

• Almost a quarter of Britain's 15 year-olds – 21% of boys and 26% of girls - are regular smokers, despite the fact that it is illegal to sell cigarettes to children aged under 16.

• Men and women in the unskilled manual socio-economic group are more likely to smoke than people in the professional group. 15% of men and 13% of women in the professional group smoke compared with 39% of men and 34% of women in the unskilled manual group.

• People do give up - 20% of women and 27% of men are ex-smokers. Surveys show that about 70% of current smokers would like to give up altogether.

• The UK government earned £9,616 million in revenue from tobacco duty and VAT in 2000.

• It is estimated that the tobacco industry currently spends around £57 million every year on advertising and promoting tobacco in the UK. A law to ban tobacco advertising and sponsorship was introduced in 2002.

• In December 1998, The Government published a White Paper on tobacco in which a commitment was made to spend £100 million over three years on health campaigns against tobacco use.

• ASH was established in 1971 by the Royal College of Physicians following the failure of the Government to act on the College's request for effective laws to reduce tobacco use.