People often cause themselves difficulty because they have a firm belief that it is difficult to give up smoking. With hypnosis, the suggestions are designed to make you into a non-smoker so you don't "give up", you just stop thinking like a smoker. This thought process may take you time to develop, so I often do a tape which records our session and you can then reinforce the desired behaviour and thinking patterns while you're at home.

Hypnotherapy works by encouraging the power of the unconscious mind. You've probably heard it said that most people only use 10% of their brain on a day-to-day basis. One of the most powerful and under-used parts of the brain is the sub-conscious.

When you are in a hypnotic state, your subconscious mind is more open to suggestion than usual. If we make the suggestion that smoking is something you don't want to do any longer, then, next time you reach for a cigarette, your powerful subconscious mind will instruct your conscious mind that you don't want it and you certainly don't need it.

Of course, you can carry on your other treatments and use them in conjunction with hypnotherapy. Whatever works best for you. You've recognised the problem and are willing to deal with it, otherwise you wouldn't be reading this now. More information about how hypnosis works to stop you smoking can be found in my article "Becoming a non-smoker". There is also a lot of information about how smoking effects your body on the web site of the Newport clinic.