One father of two was featured in the media this month after he quit smoking using hypnosis for his two young children.
56 year old Chris Carter from Woodley has two children aged two and six years old and having been a cigar smoker for 35 years, he decided it was time he put his family first and improved his health.
Methods such as chewing gum, nicotine patches and going cold turkey using willpower alone do work for some smokers but for many, these just mean bad moods for days on end before finally giving in to the pull of smoking again.
Using hypnosis, Chris Carter quit smoking with the help of a clinical hypnotherapist.
Hypnotherapy to quit smoking is one of the most well known reasons for using a hypnotherapist although other issues it can help with are becoming better known nowadays (more…)
Many people are coming round to the idea of alternative treatments such as hypnotherapy now and recognising that although they certainly do not replace conventional medicine or seeing your GP, they can have beneficial effects and are useful in many aspects of health and wellbeing for people.
Over the last few years, even employers have started to add healthcare programmes for employees in their benefits packages although not all include alternative treatments yet. Employers benefit from healthier, happy employers and a lower sickness or absence rate and employee gain access to alternative treatments or faster health treatment than they may otherwise have done.
One such company is Avanta. Avanta is a firm specialising in offering office space to small and medium sized businesses. The company has introduced a range of improvements to its benefits as it reviewed its entire benefits structure earlier this year.
Amongst new benefits such as salary sacrifice pension contributions, increases to maternity and paternity pay and medical insurance is an innovative offer to help its staff to quit smoking. For any member of staff who wants to stop smoking Avanta is offering an incentive to reimburse them on aids, and this includes any hypnotherapy treatment. Not all companies recognise alternative therapies in programmes such as this, which is a shame especially when hypnotherapy is recognised on the NHS as being a valuable aid for many people.
Today it has finally arrived, the 2009 National No Smoking Day, the day upon which many hundreds of thousands of people all across the UK will be pleding to quit smoking for at least one day and the day after the last cigarette of their lives for many people.
According to magazine New Scientist, hypnotherapy has the highest success rate of any method to quit smoking, which is (more…)
If you are looking to quit smoking, then hypnotherapy has no doubt been suggested to you at some point as many people have heard of the benefits and speedy results of this therapy.
Here is some advise to take into account for before you visit the hypnotherapist:
- Plan when to quit. This is not an excuse to put off smoking (more…)
Just one month from now, on the 11th March, it will be No Smoking Day and last year, over 1.2 million people made an attempt to give up smoking on No Smoking Day.
All over the UK, various promotional items advertising No Smoking Day and the benefits of giving up smoking, both to the smoker and to those around them, are appearing in places like nurseries, health centres and more.
For those who do really want to stop smoking, it is worth taking a few minutes now to consider their reasons why. The reasons you want to give up smoking are what can drive you and there is no real reason for you to wait another month before you quit.
There are all sorts of ways to help you get motivated and keep off the cigarettes, including nicotine patches, counselling and of course hypnotherapy.
Quitting smoking is probably one of the most famous treatments that hypnosis is (more…)
This week is National Fitness Week. All over the country there are events happening in local sports and fitness centres deigned to encourage people to start moving and stop sitting like couch potatoes every night in front of the television.
Initiatives and schemes such as this one are an ideal excuse for (more…)
In the Killeen Daily Herald last week, the newspaper reported the story of a gentleman called Chris Everett who started smoking with his parent’s permission at school and his addiction followed him for the next 45 years.
The story is not unusual in itself as particularly at that time many people started to smoke whilst at school and have struggled to kick the habit ever since.
What made the story slightly different was that Everett was a registered nurse and despite knowing all the health and financial risks, he could not kick the habit until a doctor’s nurse made a comment during an appointment.
The nurse said she had kicked her smoking habit using hypnosis.
Everett told the paper:
“I looked at her as if she was an alien. I asked her if she had any info and she went into her bag and came out with this number that she told me to call. But I really just thought of it as this clock or pendulum swaying back and forth.”
Despite feeling sceptical, Everett made an appointment with a hypnotherapist and went for his hypnotherapy. He listened to her speaking, closed his eyes and said he had thought that it could not possibly work.
Four years on and thanks to hypnotherapy, Everett has remained smoke free for four years and is saving the money he otherwise would have spent on a dream trip to Paris and Rome later this year. Quitting smoking using hypnotherapy doesn’t mean you have to believe in it; it can still work and often in as little as one session.
Unsurprisingly, the promise to stop smoking is one of the most popular New Year’s Resolutions every year. Perhaps for some it is even the ‘annual New Year’s resolution’, made and broken each year.
There are many different ways available now to try and quit smoking from nicotine patches and chewing gum, going cold turkey and replacing the habit with other habits at times when you know you are really susceptible to craving that cigarette. (more…)
Christmas is approaching fast and hopefully most of our Christmas shopping is done, however, no doubt in the final week’s run up to Christmas there will be plenty of people rushing round for a last minute present.
As the years have progressed, it seems to be getting more and more difficult to find a meaningful and thoughtful present for anybody at the time of year. In this age of gadgets and technology, most people seem to have everything that they actually need and another DVD or CD to add to the collection hardly seems a thoughtful gift.
One rather unusual gift, however, could be the gift of therapy. At this time of year, no doubt your friends and family are complaining about how stressed they are or how they want to lose a little weight and how in the New Year they will give seroius thought to how they will give up smoking or get fit. These are the things that really matter to our friends and family and the things we cannot just buy.
What we can do though is to help them find a way to achieve their goals. It is probably not the first thing that springs to mind when putting together a Christmas list, but a hypnotherapy session to quit smoking, hypnosis for relaxation or stress management or a visit to a hypnotherapist to help with weight loss could be an ideal present and could be presented as a gift voucher at Christmas.
Hypnotherapy is relaxing and yet at the same time can help us to achieve those life long goals and New Year’s resolutions permanantly and easily. If you really want to quit smoking, it can be done in just one or two sessions. Weight loss hypnosis can help motivate you to exercise, stop those cravings for cheese, chocolate or whatever food is your downfall or simply change your attitude to food.
This is the sort of gift that will last a lifetime – and certainly be more memorable than yet another DVD.
We have not even got to the New Year resolutions yet, where no doubt millions of people will be including ‘to give up smoking’ as one of theirs, and already No Smoking Day 2009 has been announced as Wednesday 11th March 2009.
Those considering giving up smoking in the New Year should not see this as an excuse to wait yet another three months before they try, but maybe they should instead consider No Smoking Day 2009 as their goal, so that by the time it comes around, they have already given up the habit.
Smoking cessation is something that people find very difficult. It is a habit, often inbred over years of use, and can be associated with so many different areas of one’s life.
The Christmas period is a time when people begin to look around at the family and friends and consider their life, and quitting smoking is something we can do to alter our lives for the better, especially if there are children around.
However, you don’t have to try to quit smoking alone. Therapies such as hypnotherapy and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) can help immensely, sometimes in as little as just one or two sessions of hypnosis. The only pre-requisite is that you must really want to give smoking up, as nobody can make you do what you do not want to do.