Stop smoking in one session

Stop smoking in one session or you get FREE Hypnotherapy sessions until you do!

Save money - call Balbir Chagger on 07944 931 437 to book your appointment and take advantage of the Special Offer for Limited Period - pay only £250 instead of £295.

 
Advanced Hypnotherapy – The Easy Way to Stop Smoking With No Weight Gain or Cravings!

Can I Really be a Non-Smoker with Hypnotherapy?

If you really want to stop – YES!

Benefits of Being a Non Smoker:

improved sex life     

feel healthier and fitter

you will save money!

hair, skin and breath no longer smell of tobacco smoke

sense of taste and smell improve

breathing is easier

a reduction in phlegm and smoker's cough

lung efficiency starts to recover to a rate similar to a non-smoker

better able to cope with physical exertion

you'll feel proud and positive about yourself for having stopped

Even More Benefits:

you will live longer and live better

quitting will lower your chance of having a heart attack, stroke, or cancer

the people you live with, especially your children, will be healthier

your skin will begin to feel and look better

your eyes may no longer burn, tear or the pressure may subside

your clothes, home, and car will no longer smell of smoke

allergies may be less severe

no more nicotine urges and cravings

a good role model for your children or grandchildren

fewer sore throats

no more complaints about your smoking

an end to smokers headaches

no more worrying about how many cigarettes you have left

What are the financial benefits?

Those who smoke between 20 to 40 cigarettes a day will save around £2,500 per year by becoming a non-smoker. You will also save 30% on your life insurance costs. That means you could save well over £100,000 during your lifetime by simply becoming a non-smoker

 

Physiological changes to your body when you Stop Smoking

Within 20 minutes of your last cigarette

Blood pressure drops to normal

Pulse rate drops to normal

Body temperature of hands and feet return to normal

8-Hours 

Carbon monoxide levels in the blood drops to normal

Oxygen level in blood increases to normal

24-Hours 

Chance of heart attack decreases

48-Hours 

Nerve endings start re-growing

Ability to smell and taste things is enhanced   

72-Hours 

Bronchial tubes relax, making breathing easier

Lung capacity increases

2-Weeks to 3-Months 

Circulation improves

Walking becomes easier

Lung function increases by up to 30%

1 to 9-Months 

Coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue, shortness of breath decreases

Lung cilia re-grow, increasing ability to handle mucus

Body’s overall energy increases

5-Years 

Lung cancer death rate for average the smoker almost halved

10-Years 

Lung cancer death rate down to almost that of a non-smoker

Precancerous cells are replaced by normal ones

Other associated cancer risks decrease

The Research

Article from the New Scientist Magazine

New Scientist vol 136 issue 1845 - 31 October 92

Hypnosis is the most effective way of giving up smoking, according to the  largest ever scientific comparison of ways of breaking the habit.

Willpower, it turns out, counts for very little. 

Smokers are coming under increasing pressure to quit. Earlier this month the Institute of Actuaries published the results of a study  it commissioned which showed that the mortality rate for smokers is twice as high as for non-smokers, and that on average, a smoker dies 6 years earlier than a non-smoker. Surveys suggest that three in four smokers would like to give up, according to the anti-smoking campaign Action on Smoking and Health (ASH).

To find the most effective way to give up smoking, Frank Schmidt and research student Chockalingam Viswesvaran of the University of Iowa carried out a meta-analysis, statistically combining the results of more than 600 studies covering almost 72 000 people from America, Scandinavia and elsewhere in Europe.

By combining the results from so many separate studies, the meta-analysis enables the real effectiveness of each technique to be picked out from the statistical 'noise' that often blights studies involving smaller numbers of subjects.

The results, published in the current issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology, show that the average success rate for all methods was 19 per cent: that is, only about one in five smokers is likely to succeed using methods covered by the study.

Patients told that they had serious cardiac disorders, and so a clear incentive to stop immediately, had the highest quitting rate, at 36 per cent. But for most smokers the most effective technique was hypnosis, in which smokers go into a state of deep relaxation and listen to suggestive tapes. The analysis of treatment by hypnosis, which included 48 studies covering over 6000 smokers, gave an average success rate of 30 per cent for this method.

'Combination' techniques, combining, for example, exercise and breathing therapy, came second with a success rate of 29 per cent. Smoke aversion, in which smokers have their own warm, stale cigarette smoke blown back into their faces, achieved a 25 per cent success rate, followed by acupuncture at 24 per cent.

The least successful method turned out to be advice from GPs, which appears to convince virtually no one to give up. Sheer willpower proved little better, with a success rate of only 6 per cent. Self-help, in the form of books or mail-order advice, achieved modest success - around 9 per cent, while nicotine gum was a little better at 10 per cent.

'We found that involvement of physicians did not have as big an impact as we expected,' said Schmidt 'We speculate that the reason is that it is the content of the treatment that matters, and not the status of the person giving it.'  David Pollock, director of ASH, said he was surprised by the success of hypnosis, which anecdotal evidence had suggested was not very effective. One organisation not surprised by the results is the British Society of Medical & Dental Hypnosis. Christopher Pattinson, the society's academic chairman, said that current hypnosis techniques are a far cry from their popular image of music-hall tricks involving swinging fob watches.

The latest relaxation techniques achieve success rates of up to 60 per cent from a single session, he said.  Richard Doll, the epidemiologist who carried out the pioneering studies of the risk of smoking, said that the apparent success of hypnosis and the high quitting rate of patients with heart disease backed his own observations.  He added, however, that he was somewhat surprised by the low success rate of those who resorted to willpower alone: 'The majority of people find it not too difficult to give up,' he said. 'The only way to succeed is to want to do it enough.  You have got to really appreciate what the risk is. I smoked and gave up without too much difficulty.' 

Robert Matthews

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