Why You Should Choose Hypnotherapy to Stop Smoking

A quarter of the uk population are smokers and of those around 78% wish they did not smoke. That equates to about 13 million people who are smokers and wish they were not. If you are a smoker who wants to quit smoking you are not alone. Many people who look for help in stopping smoking turn to their GP who invariably puts them on nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) but is this the best way to stop smoking?

The New Scientist Magazine interviewed an meta analysis of 600 studies which covered almost 72,000 people from America, Scandinavia and Europe. Their conclusion was that the right type of hypnotherapy could give you an up to 85% chance of stopping smoking. They found that the best chance of stopping came from having MULTIPLE sessions of hypnotherapy.

If this method can be so successful why do not more people use it? Well, the number of people getting hypnotherapy to stop smoking actually IS increasing but slowly because this is mainly due to word of mouth recommendations rather than government or NHS backing. GP's still see NRT as being the best option despite the fact that it only has a 10% success rate (at the very best). Not many GP's know just how effective hypnotherapy can be, despite hypnotherapy being a recognized medical practice since the 1950's. Even if a GP does know how effective hypnotherapy can be they often do not know how to find a good hypnotherapist.

Many people who try to stop smoking fail. The main reason for this is often because of their mental attitude towards the process of stopping smoking. Very few smokers need to wake up in the night to have a cigarette but ask those same smokers to go eight hours during the day without a cigarette and they would say it's impossible. This shows that the craving for nicotine is mainly psychological rather than physical. With the help of hypnotherapy you can stop smoking by adjusting how you mentally perceiving smoking. It can also help you to think differently about the benefits of stopping. Many smokers who are about to quit smoking start with a feeling of dread, apprehension and fear that they will fail or even worse, that they will succeed! This negative attitude means that very soon they are likely to go back to cigarettes or else spend the rest of their life battling with a psychological craving for tobacco.

With hypnotherapy you can go into the process of stopping smoking feeling optimistic, positive and energetic about relaiming your life and your desires. With this changed attitude you have the very best chance of stopping smoking and staying stopped. When you listen to all those other people out there who say what torture stopping smoking is and how difficult it is to quit cigarettes you subconsciously take on board this belief which can limit your attempts to stop. If however you receive hypnotherapy you can start to realize just how easy it is to stop smoking and stay stopped because you went into the process with the right attitude.