I have helped thousands of people stop smoking during my career over many years. For many, many years, hypnotherapy has undoubtedly been one of the leading methods to help people who want to stop smoking. It is one of the stock-in-trade treatments that all well-trained hypnotherapists learn very early in their career. I am kept really quite busy throughout the year with people who come to see me to stop smoking in Sydney.
Primarily I see people first of all for a two-hour session, which includes the consultation and treatment and I always see people for a one-hour follow up session (there is no good medicine without follow-up). For most people, this is all they need. Occasionally someone may need an extra session, but that is quite unusual. Lots of clients ask me on the telephone how long it will take, and I tell them that I work with cognitive behaviour therapy and that the treatment is ended when we achieve the behavioural change. Therefore we are aiming towards 100 per cent effectiveness.
I often see clients who fly from abroad and across Australia to my clinic in Sydney for help in stopping smoking, and only manage to get to see me for the first session. In such cases I will make exceptions and see a person for one session and then may do a follow-up session over the telephone or by Skype. Every client is given a recording made in the session, to take home with them, which extends the treatment program and adds to its effectiveness.
People are often surprised and thrilled at how effective hypnotherapy is in helping people to stop smoking is, and the funny thing is, I often get people telephoning me two or three years later who knew someone who knew someone who came to see me. Stopping smoking is one of the most positive health benefits you can do in your life. Hypnotherapy makes that possible.
Of course you may have seen adverts purporting to help people stop smoking in one hour. But remember that in changing your life with something as big as stopping smoking it is important to give yourself the right time to make that change and time to ingrain that change deep into your unconscious mind. One hour is unlikely to do that for most people.
When I work with people to help them stop smoking I use a hypnotic method that produces an extremely high rate of success. Of course that requires you to commit more time to the process but the results are far greater and longlasting. I am a results therapist. I want my clients to get the best effective results. I never compromise on the quality or service I offer.
