Open Minds

If you've clicked on the Smoking Cessation link you've probably already decided you want to become a non-smoker.

Stop smoking now quickly and easily with one hypnosis session. Join our list of delighted clients who have kicked the habit in only one easy session.

Over 85% of our clients stop smoking after just one session. However, a highly discounted follow-up session is offered at only £30 if needed within the following 30 days.

Book an appointment now and leave the session as a non-smoker!

Hypnotherapy is so successful as an application for smoking cessation because it can access both the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind. In this way we can challenge self-limiting beliefs about how stressful it will be to quit or any reasons you may have for continuing to smoke and replace these with positive feelings of calm, control and relaxation so that you have no desire to smoke.

In 2001, New Scientist reported the largest ever scientific comparison of ways to stop smoking. Of all the methods analysed, the survey found that Hypnotherapy was by far the most effective, five times more effective than willpower alone and three times more effective than nicotine gum.

New Scientist (Vol.136,issue 1845):
"... most techniques turned out to be hopeless. Hypnosis, however, came out as the most effective anti-smoking technique."

When smokers quit – The health benefits over time (source: ACS)

• 20 minutes after quitting:
Your heart rate and blood pressure drops.
(Effect of Smoking on Arterial Stiffness and Pulse Pressure Amplification, Mahmud, A, Feely, J. 2003. Hypertension:41:183.)

• 12 hours after quitting:
The carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal.
(US Surgeon General's Report, 1988, p. 202)

• 2 weeks to 3 months after quitting:
Your circulation improves and your lung function increases.
(US Surgeon General's Report, 1990, pp.193, 194,196, 285, 323)

• 1 to 9 months after quitting:
Coughing and shortness of breath decrease; cilia (tiny hair-like structures that move mucus out of the lungs) regain normal function in the lungs, increasing the ability to handle mucus, clean the lungs, and reduce the risk of infection.
(US Surgeon General's Report, 1990, pp. 285-287, 304)

• 1 year after quitting:
The excess risk of coronary heart disease is half that of a smoker's.
(US Surgeon General's Report, 1990, p. vi)

• 5 years after quitting:
Your stroke risk is reduced to that of a nonsmoker 5 to 15 years after quitting.
(US Surgeon General's Report, 1990, p. vi)

• 10 years after quitting:
The lung cancer death rate is about half that of a continuing smoker's. The risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, cervix, and pancreas decrease.
(US Surgeon General's Report, 1990, pp. vi, 131, 148, 152, 155, 164,166)

• 15 years after quitting:
The risk of coronary heart disease is that of a non-smoker's.
(US Surgeon General's Report, 1990, p. vi)

Smoking causes:
• 30% of all cancer deaths
• 17% of all heart disease
• 80% of all chronic respiratory disease

Each year in the UK 120,000 people die as a direct result of smoking
Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemical compounds, present as either gases or as tiny particles. These include carbon monoxide, arsenic, formaldehyde, cyanide, benzene, toluene and acrolein.