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Article on 'Giving Up Smoking' Written by Sue Elward of "St. Helen's Hypnotherapy Clinic" of Swansea, South Wales.

For a hypnotherapist freeing people from the compulsion to smoke is generally one of the most straightforward, yet rewarding, tasks. Occasionally there are deeper issues which may need longer but generally one session of hypnotherapy is all that is needed.

People are sometimes afraid of giving up smoking, afraid of the terrible withdrawal symptoms they imagine will attack them when they stop!

There are two pieces of good news here:-

1. Hypnotherapy will make dealing with any withdrawal symptoms very, very easy.

2. Those withdrawal symptoms would only last about a week anyway and are not much worse than caffeine withdrawal. And who in the world is scared of giving up coffee?!

The main component of smoking that makes it difficult for people to give up is the habit. If for 20 years you have lit a cigarette each time you sit down for a cup of tea after a meal or when you get in the car you are going to think there is something missing when you stop doing it. In fact somebody who looked quite sensible actually said to me "oh I can't enjoy a glass of wine without a cigarette'... as if the flavour of the cigarette actually improved their taste buds.... This is a learned habit and it can very easily be unlearned.

The very fact that you have learned this habit and are stuck with it demonstrates exactly how powerful your subconscious mind is - so why not use this powerful tool you have to free yourself from this expensive compulsion.

Smokers often talk about freedom and who would not agree that we should all have the freedom to live our lives as we want to! So if you decide to free yourself from being a slave to tobacco then hypnotherapy is the quickest and most painless way of doing it.