Hypnotherapy Can Help You Stop Smoking
If you're a smoker, you're probably facing sticker shock right now. The cigarette manufacturers are raising their prices, and the Federal tax on cigarettes just went up. Aside from all the non-financial costs of smoking, how much do you spend on cigarettes?

The cost for a pack of cigarettes averages from $4 to $6 per pack. If we take the average of $5, and you smoke 1 pack a day, You're spending $1,825.00 per year on cigarettes. Over a 5 year period that's $9,125.00, and over 10 years that's an astounding $18,250.

Yes, we understand that it seems easier to spend a few dollars at a time on cigarettes rather than more money on treatment to quit. Add up the cost and get back to us on which one costs less.

Hypnotherapy has a proven record of effectively helping millions of people quit smoking. Call us today and let us help you save a lot of money, not to mention your life.
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 The High Cost of Smoking

By Hilary Smith

If the threat of cancer can't persuade you to quit smoking, maybe the prospect of poverty will.

The financial consequences of lighting up stretch far beyond the cost of a pack of cigarettes. Smokers pay more for insurance. They lose money on the resale value of their cars and homes. They spend extra on dry cleaning and teeth cleaning. Long term, they earn less and receive less in pension and Social Security benefits.

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Tobacco tax increase expected to reduce smoking

By Brian Tumulty Gannett Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - For the estimated 20% of Americans who smoke cigarettes, the impact of a federal excise tax increase that takes effect Wednesday is already being felt.

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The addiction to nicotine has been compared to the addiction to heroin in its strength. Not only is the physical addiction strong, but the emotional addiction is equally difficult to break.Most likely you've quit smoking before, and though you got past the physical cravings, the emotional pull toward smoking never left. Even though you physically quit smoking, the desire to smoke never fully went away. You might have had the feeling that you were denying yourself something which was still desirable. Smoking becomes an ingrained part of your life, a ritual that accompanies certain activities, places and times of the day. Your life becomes centered around thinking about the next cigarette, the physical act of smoking, time spent buying cigarettes, and perpetual anxiety about running out of them. As the negative social stigma of smoking  increases, smokers have to seek out isolated places to smoke, and often must hide their habit from their employer. Smokers pay higher premiums for health insurance and limit their possibilities for relationships with non-smokers.

 


IMAGINE
  • feeling  in control of your life

  • the confidence you'll have after losing the heavy burden of smoking

  • having more energy to exercise and do the things you enjoy

  • the money you'll save

  • being able to take deep breaths and fully taste food

  • dealing with life situations more effectively in a calm and relaxed way

  • your hair, breath, car, clothing and living space smelling fresh and clean?

Smoking Cessation Statistics
  • Smokers who attempt to quit on their own without any help or support have a success rate of 2-5% after 12 months.

  • Smokers who quit using behavior modification and nicotine replacement together have a success rate of 50% after 12 months.

  • An examination of multiple research studies shows that smokers who engage in 4-5 sessions of Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation report an average success rate of 66% after 12 months.

  • Success rates for those using multiple Hypnotherapy sessions are 10 times higher than those who try to quit without any tools or resources.


What Can I Expect?
 

       
Your first session is two hours long. We will first have you answer a series of questions which will determine if you are left or right-brain oriented. This helps the Hypnotherapist to determine the most effective method to hypnotize you, and feed positive, reinforcing  messages into your subconscious mind  during the session. Then we will ask you to watch a short video called "The Mind Model". This video explains how our mind takes in and processes information. You and your Hypnotherapist will then talk about your history related to smoking, how the habit is affecting your life, and factors that  contribute to your smoking.The Hypnotherapist will then begin the Hypnosis. While under hypnosis, people report feeling very relaxed, yet aware and alert. Positive messages will be suggested by the Hypnotherapist that will bypass your critical mind and settle into your subconscious mind.At the beginning, these suggestions may lose their effectiveness over time. This is called depreciation. To counter this depreciation, it is usually necessary for the client to receive  multiple sessions. For smoking cessation, a client may respond after 1 session, while others may require 4-6 sessions

Health Issues Related to Smoking:
 
  • Coronary Heart Disease

  • Cancer of the lungs, mouth, bladder, intestines

  • Increased Risk of Stroke

  • Emphysema

  • High Blood Pressure

  • Decreased HDL (good) Cholesterol

  • Ulcers

  • Pneumonia

  • Pulmonary Tuberculosis

  • Chest Colds, Bronchitis and Asthma

  • Headaches

  • Insomnia

  • Stained Teeth

  • Wrinkles and Premature Aging

  • Impaired Hearing

  • Decreased Sexual Activity

  • Mental Depression 

 
So How Will Hypnotherapy Help Me to Quit Smoking?

If you've tried to quit smoking before, you know what it feels like to battle the urge to light a cigarette. You made a commitment to stop, but have to fight that nagging voice that says "Just one cigarette". This is because you did not become a non-smoker, but a smoker who is abstaining from smoking. Breaking our mind down into the conscious mind and the subconscious mind; it is estimated that the conscious mind accounts for 1 to 12% of activity, and the subconscious mind for the remaining 88 to 99%. The conscious mind handles our logic, reasoning, language and willpower functions. The subconscious mind controls all the automatic functions, associates and identifies with past conditioning, and handles our imagination and expectations. Your conscious mind has made the decision to quit smoking, and has reviewed all the reasons that brought you to this decision. But as soon as you encounter a situation that  triggers the subconscious back into action, you're reaching for a cigarette. The 1 to 12% of your mind that says don't smoke is struggling against the 88 to 99% of your mind that is pulling you back to the old behavior.