Using hypnotherapy to quit smoking (everything you need to know)

There is no better time to improve your immune system than today. Smoking causes diseases and this is always the forefront of anti-smoking campaigns. However, smoking also weakens immunity against infections. You can use hypnosis to quit smoking, alone or with the help of a hypnotherapist. Continue reading to learn everything you need to know about using hypnotherapy to quit smoking. 

Does hypnotherapy work for smoking?

Hypnotherapy does work for smoking cessation, in addition to many other techniques used to help with stopping habits and addictions. The research shows that whilst there is no major difference between hypnotherapy and other behavioural interventions or pharmacotherapies, there is a benefit to using hypnotherapy rather than nothing. Studies also show a significant benefit to using hypnotherapy alongside other treatment when investigating the hypnosis to quit smoking success rate. 

Stop smoking hypnosis

In previous articles, I have written regularly about the different types of therapy available and how hypnosis itself is not the therapy. Rather, the therapeutic intervention takes place while the client is in the hypnotic state, and hypnosis provides the ideal environment for the technique to be effective.

Techniques can vary widely, and sometimes suggestion is the most powerful tool. Suggestion surrounds us constantly – in advertising, media narratives, government messaging, and the subtle cues of everyday social life. We all carry built-in response expectancies – mental frameworks that shape how we interpret situations and guide us toward certain outcomes. When you anticipate a particular result, your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours naturally align to help bring that expectation into reality. In this way, suggestion gently but profoundly influences our experience and actions. In a stop-smoking hypnosis session, the hypnotherapist might suggest you leave the room a non-smoker forever. 

If you expect to leave a non-smoker, you will. Hopefully, though your hypnotherapist will do more than merely sit there relying on your own response expectancies! 

Hypnotherapy to stop smoking includes metaphors, physiological information, addiction therapy and suggestions to help you leave the habit behind for good. Alongside this, it is important to become familiar with hypnosis as a form of feeling in control of yourself and your own mind.

If there is the possibility that you have a tobacco use disorder, withdrawal from tobacco might cause symptoms such as irritability, frustration or anger, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, depressed mood, restlessness, sleep difficulties or an increased appetite. Thankfully, hypnosis is useful in the management of each of these symptoms. 

When you meditate or use hypnosis, you train your brain to remain present in the moment. Strong mind control is the benefit of regular training. Just as you will lift a heavier weight with regular arm muscle training, you will manage stronger emotions with regular brain training. When you stop smoking, the symptoms of tobacco withdrawal make the process overwhelming. Within your hypnotherapy session, your hypnotherapist will work with you to reduce the symptoms of tobacco withdrawal – should you use tobacco enough to get them – and teach you self-hypnosis so you can mitigate or manage any symptoms. 

How much does hypnosis to quit smoking cost?

A common question, but an intriguing one when I consider the cost of smoking. Over the past thirty years, there has been a decrease in the average number of cigarettes smoked per day from 15 to 10. Based on this, the cost for hypnosis to quit smoking is probably less than you spend on cigarettes in a two-month period.

Calculated using the average cost of cigarettes and the price of my two-session hypnosis programme, you will save five times the amount you will spend in the year ahead if you quit smoking with hypnosis today.

If you want to quit smoking, hypnosis is an option that will provide you with a tool to enhance your life overall. Something you can use every day to perform better at work, manage anxiety, increase your confidence and more.