Hypnosis creates an altered state of consciousness during which we're able to bypass aspects of reality, tolerate logical inconsistencies, and feel compelled to follow cues from an outside source i.e., suggestions given by a hypnotherapist.

Hypnotherapy tackles the causes as well as the symptoms. So often we start smoking for a reason, it serves some purpose in our life at that time, however, once we've done it for some time it becomes a habit and we just continue doing it despite not wanting or needing to. This is when it becomes a habit and hypnotherapy is very effective at helping us to break habits.

Consciously we know that smoking is unhealthy and harmful for us but an unconscious hangover creates a desire/need to continue smoking.

Hypnotherapy helps to resolve these un/conscious inconsistencies to continue to smoke.

Using methods of relaxation, focus, suggestion, visualization, and imagined experiences while in this altered state of hypnosis can instigate rapid change, even if someone has a history of smoking and relapse after quitting previously.

Suggestions given during this state will highlight the motivations & benefits of quitting as well as the detriments and consequences of continuing to smoke.

Hypnosis helps to change the smokers' cognitions regarding smoking, and reduce or eliminate nicotine cravings which are key to preventing relapse. 

Hypnosis induces a trance that is typically very relaxing, calming, peaceful and resourceful.

You may experience a range of psychophysiological sensations during the session depending on what interventions/suggestions your hypnotherapist is using and why. 

These could range from heaviness/lightness, tingling in the limbs or feelings of dissociation so we don't tend to, for example, feel pain and can deal with issues in a much calmer way. 

Once in a trance, hypnotherapy helps us to change our perceptions, thoughts, emotions, and behaviours in relation to the problem quite rapidly and this can be very enlightening, surprising and exhilarating for clients.

On leaving clients typically feel relaxed but alert, empowered, insightful and armed with a range of new resources to manage their issues successfully. 

Rebates from private health insurance can be claimed for the quit smoking hypnosis program.  However, this will depend on what insurer you're with and the level of coverage you have.

You would need to contact your insurer and discuss your policy with them.

Most certainly! The ability to manage cravings is a key issue that is covered in the quit smoking hypnosis program.

Cravings are thoughts which last only micromoments and no loger unless we allow them to.

This is simply our brain playing tricks on us making us think we need a cigarette to resolve a craving. These are called automatic thoughts which we're not typically aware of as they happen so fast.

Cravings are part of the healing process and a positive sign that your body is withdrawing from all the harmful chemicals in your body as a result of smoking cigarettes.

Even though we may not capture the thought, we may dwell on it by obessing about having a cigarette and then we become compelled to act and have a cigarette.

If we act on this compulsion we have a momentary lapse back into smoking again.

If we don't nip this in the bud and recover quickly, we're at risk of having a full blown relapse of having more cigarettes and going back to our old outdated habits again.

One of the common reasons people, especially teenage girls and women, start early in their smoking career and continue to smoke, is to manage weight. 

Cigarettes contain nicotine which activates a pathway in the brain that suppresses appetite.

Naturally, it's possible you may see a small increase in your weight when you stop smoking.

However, if you're using short-term nicotine replacement products or in control of your weight by eating a healthy diet, not overeating, and exercising regularly, this increase will be minimal.

Some fear putting on weight so much that they prefer to continue to smoke instead which is far more harmful to us than learning new ways to manage our weight.

Hypnotherapy tackles this very effectively by ensuring a client is resourced to manage their weight well before we work on quitting smoking.

This is covered in the quit smoking program.

Although there are no guarantees with any method of quitting smoking, including those available in conventional medicine, hypnotherapy has been shown in research to be one of the most effective as it tackles the causes, and symptoms, and provides strategies for building confidence and increasing motivation to successfully manage and recover quickly from relapses. 

What can be guaranteed is that we won't accept you onto the program unless we believe you are ready to succeed.
In addition, we guarantee we will be doing our best, using our experience and skills, to facilitate your transition to becoming a successful non-smoker. 

• Initial 20-minute free no-obligation video call with Karen to assess your readiness for the program.
• 2-hour assessment/intervention Quit Smoking Hypnosis/NLP breakthrough session.
• Access to support within the first month if required.
• Complimentary MP3 recordings to keep you on track.

We'll be using cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy and NLP to improve self-control, self-efficacy, positive reinforcement, resolving cognitive dissonance and ambivalence, assertiveness training, cognitive restructuring, and using relaxation, focus, suggestion, visualization, and imagined experiences to help you to think, feel and act differently in relation to smoking and stress-related triggers, thus preventing relapse.

Unfortunately, hypnotherapy is not currently available on prescription. 

Whilst the efficacy of hypnotherapy anecdotally is significant for smoking cessation, especially given the tailored and individual approach the therapy offers for people with substance dependence issues, there is a good reason it's not available on prescription.

There is a widespread inconsistency in training approaches for smoking cessation and no standardised efficacious approach for procedures used by individual practitioners. Because of this, it's really not as useful to measure the success of hypnotherapy for smoking cessation as we have for CBT protocols, for example.

Whilst it might be disappointing that research is thin on the ground in evidencing the efficacy of a one size fits all approach provided in research conditions, this doesn't map onto the real world where so many variables are at play.

The best we have is a recognition of practitioners offering it to clients amongst private health fund providers in Australia who rebate for smoking cessation sessions as long as the practitioner has reached a standard of training that allows them to join a reputable professional organisation to gain a private health fund provider number.

Learn more about the benefits of hypnotherapy over other approaches, and what its uniqueness has to offer in our blog 'Why can't I get to quit smoking hypnotherapy on prescription'

The Quit Smoking Hypnosis program is an individually tailored approach to quitting smoking.

Yes, the Quit Smoking Hypnosis program is designed to be used as an online or in-person program.

The Quit Smoking Hypnosis program is a tailored and bespoke program personally delivered to individual smokers.

Karen is an expert in her field and works in the most efficient and effective way possible to get results.

Your investment for the program is $495 (Australian dollars) or the equivalent in your local currency.

The next step is to schedule a 20-minute no-obligation free video call with Karen using this link: 

https://calendly.com/karenbartle/hypnosis-to-quit-smoking