Stop Smoking Strategy

James Parker is a Stop Smoking Specialist and a Member of the General Hypnotherapy Register

This means that his approach and experience to stopping smoking have been independently validated and recommended by the General Hypnotherapy Register.

The Health Behaviour Centre (www.ucl.ac.uk) funded by Cancer Research UK says the most successful way in sustaining energy and emotion in stopping smoking is by changing the way we think about ourselves and the person we want to be, for instance, not a smoker but an ex-smoker - is important. In this way we violate our own identity if we resume smoking.

Self violation is aversive - a sort of self imposed electric shock.

You may already be at the point of change, and I can either help you reinforce this new image or create these conditions for you to start thinking differently and stop smoking?

A major part of this is to get you to view what is to be gained by stopping smoking rather than what is lost.

Before the hypnotherapy your hopes and aspirations are discussed followed by an overall stress and life-style test.

Following this, options can then be discussed as to how you can use your time and resources more beneficially now you have stopped smoking.

During this time the image, idea and belief of you as an ex-smoker becomes clearer and stronger.

The exact content of the stop smoking hypnotherapy treatment varies for each client, but there is often plenty of mental rehearsal for situations where in the past you would have been tempted to smoke.

This prepares you for how to deal with those danger spots in your new life.

The rest of the stop smoking treatment will vary as the more specific and individual this is the more effective it becomes.

There is of course an element of commitment and determination on your behalf but I can help you use all of your mental strengths and resources to best effect in dealing with this once and for all.