Smoking kills more than 114,000 people in the UK every year. Will you be one of them?

The aim of this website is to give you an insight into the options open to you as a smoker should you want to quit.

For more details on why you should quit smoking, see the articles page.

“Hypnosis is the most effective way of giving up smoking"...

...according to the largest ever scientific comparison of ways of breaking the habit. Willpower, it turns out, counts for very little” - New Scientist, October 1992

In 1992 a meta-analysis by Frank Schmidt and Chockalingam Viswesvaran reviewed 48 studies, covering 6020 subjects. They found that the average quit rate for those using hypnosis was 30%.

Numerous studies have shown that the success for stopping smoking using hypnotherapy is much higher than nicotine replacement products. In 1968 Von Dedenroth reported in the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis a success rate of 94% over an 18-month period.

It is considered that the success rate will depend on the techniques used by the hypnotherapist (and these will vary from hypnotherapist to hypnotherapist, as there is no standardized procedure) and the desire for the smoker to stop smoking.

Hypnosis works to help you break the habit of smoking. It can also help you become more calm, so that there are little or no withdrawal symptoms on stopping smoking. Many non-smokers report how easy it is to stop smoking using hypnosis.

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There are a number of methods that have been promoted as ways of giving up smoking. These include patches, gum, inhalers and tablets. These have a comparatively low success rate and rely on your willpower to break the smoking habit. Some of these methods have serious side effects. If you'd like to read more, see the articles page.

"England's smoking ban in public places prompted 800,000 smokers to try and kick the habit last year, it has been revealed."
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"Tobacco company Philip Morris has paid for cancer research at four Massachusetts universities since 2000, a practice that critics of the tobacco industry liken to the Mafia underwriting crime fighting."
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"A video editor with Sky Sports was prescribed the drug Champix to help him stop smoking. Two months later he had taken a knife to his wrists and killed himself. Was the drug to blame?"
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