Smoking

Stop Smoking with Hypnosis

I am Gavin Bowtell. I help people stop smoking with hypnosis in Chigwell, Essex.

I am an accredited practitioner with the Central Register of Stop Smoking Therapists.  If you would like to read about some of the dangers of smoking, or about some of the excellent reasons for stopping you can CLICK HERE.

I am trained in and familiar with a number of methods for assisting clients to become natural non-smokers.  I usually use the Easy Quit Smoking Programme in one session.
As someone who became a natural non-smoker around 2012 I have personal experience of the games the mind plays when you try to stop.

Natural Non-Smoker?

What does that mean?  When you come to see me for your Stop Smoking session you will hear me say this a lot.
You were not born a smoker.  So you are naturally a natural non-smoker.  At some point in the story of your life you became an unnatural smoker.  If you can remember your first cigarette you can probably recall the stench, the foul taste in your mouth, wanting to be sick, the smoke stinging your eyes or something else.  I have never yet met anyone who enjoyed cigarettes the first time they smoked them.  In fact what I have discovered is that most people had to persist with smoking at least for months, if not for years before they actually enjoyed a cigarette.  Quite often however, those who try to give up do not show the same dedication to stopping as they did to starting!  Interesting!

Looking back to the reasons you started: because everyone else did it, to look cool or grown up, because of peer pressure, because you wanted to know what it was like or to fit in – looking back on those reasons you can see without doubt that they were not intelligent reasons. Without doubt you recognise them as poor reasons.  Without doubt you know that you have more reasons to stop now than to continue damaging every single cell in your body.  Yet that process of thought does not, somehow produce the mental momentum, or the change of heart, you seem to need to simply stop once and for all.  Forever.  For Good. That’s where the Easy Quit Smoking Programme comes in. Will Power is Required!

The Easy Quit Smoking Programme

This is my preferred method of working. The programme was originally developed by Terence Watts, MCGI, an internationally renowned teacher, hypnotherapist and creator of BWRT® – or BrainWorking Recursive Therapy.
The programme has been written to help you become a natural non-smoker in one session. But before we go any further let’s be clear that there are very few guarantees in life. If you choose to try to smoke after the session you will succeed. Hypnotherapists are not in the business of trying to stop you from doing things that you enjoy, or from doing things that are silly.  My job is to help you become a better, healthier, fitter version of yourself by providing the best Stop Smoking Hypnotherapy I can. However, sometimes insurance doesn’t pay out, sometimes a film doesn’t meet expectations, sometimes relationships don’t work. Sometimes medications don’t work. Free will is still required.
Hypnosis doesn’t take away your free will, but it can bolster and support your resolution to STOP!

How Long Does it Take?

A single Stop Smoking Session can take up to 3 hours. There is a lot of material to get through, and the session is designed to be very interactive.
There are three stages to the Stop Smoking Hypnotherapy Session:

1. Information Gathering (who are you, how much do you smoke, why do you want to stop),
2. The Talking Bit (Conscious Working),
3. The Listening Bit (Unconscious Working).

What Happens During the Stop Smoking Session?

1. I gather information about you, your health, your relationship with tobacco (or nicotine in the case of vaping).
2. We look at YOUR reasons for wanting to stop.
3. We consider how your life will be different when you have stopped.
4. We look at the sort of future you can expect if you continue to smoke.
5. We talk about who will be right behind you urging you to succeed in stopping.
6. We will talk about who will want you to fail – yes really.
7. You will tell me a bit about what worries you about stopping.

Once we have gathered the information we move onto the The Talking Bit, or Conscious Working.

The Talking Bit – Conscious Working

This is the part where we talk about smoking and why you are going to stop.  No don’t groan, roll your eyes or think that you have heard it all before. There’s a very good reason for doing this.  You have a conscious mind and an unconscious mind. If they were both in agreement all of the time you would never experience any feelings of conflict inside yourself.  If they were both in agreement all of the time you would never find it difficult to do things you enjoy or need to do. You would never have that feeling that “one part of me knows I should this, but another part of me wants something else”.  And whilst it is true that you know all about the dangers, it is also true that you ignore the health warnings on cigarettes packets every time you pick the box up.  That you ignore the cough, the bad taste in your mouth. It is true that you ignore all the other reasons your mind and body give you for stopping smoking. This means that your conscious mind and unconscious mind are not in agreement.

So during The Talking Bit we will work interactively, keeping your conscious mind focused on the thing that you want to achieve  – becoming a natural non-smoker.  You will have some of your beliefs challenged.  You will learn a bit about how hypnosis will help. You will discover something about the difference between addiction and habit. You will come to understand a bit more about how belief and fact are different, and how this can make stopping harder or easier. And you will begin to use your imagination in ways that will begin the work of you becoming a natural non smoker – even before you go into hypnosis.

The Listening Bit – Unconscious Work

So just as we have worked with your conscious mind, so in The Listening Bit we will work with your unconscious mind. This is the part where you get to close you eyes and settle down for a few minutes of relaxing hypnosis. The purpose of The Talking Bit and the Listening Bit is to make sure as far as we possibly can that your conscious and unconscious mind are working in harmony towards your goal of becoming a natural non-smoker – not against each other.
Working together as a team.

Will I Remember it All?

Possibly?  If you are the type of person who remembers every single word of every single conversation (do you really?) then you might remember every bit of The Talking Bit. But if you are a like most other people, you will hear and remember the bits that are meaningful, and forget what doesn’t work for you. That’s fine.  We all do that. That’s already taken into account.
However during The Listening Bit your conscious mind will be able to wander and drift wherever it wants to go, whilst I talk to your unconscious mind. It is generally believed that your unconscious mind will hear and remember everything – after all you cannot turn off your hearing. But consciously you might remember bits and bobs.  It doesn’t matter.  You don’t need to try to remember or even to try to listen all that much. Be curious and resolved. Allow it to happen. Follow my voice…..

How Much Does it Cost?

Currently my fee for Stop Smoking Hypnotherapy stands at £225.

The fee for Stop Smoking Hypnotherapy works out to be less than my hourly rate for 3 hours. But you get more than just my time, experience and expertise.

You will also receive absolutely free of charge:

1 x Stop Smoking Primer Self-Hypnosis Recording.  This will be emailed to you about 1 week before your appointment for you to use at home.  If you choose, I can send this to you as a CD instead as long as it is to a UK mainland postal address.  If you work for the British Armed Forces, I will send it to you wherever you are stationed in the world if a digital recording is not usable.  The self-hypnosis track will be the same whether is it digital or on CD.

2 x Stop Smoking Stay Stopped Self-Hypnosis Recordings.  The work that we will do is sufficient for many people never to smoke again.  But some clients feel a need for a little extra support. That’s fine.  You probably won’t need them but the first recording is for you to use everyday in the first week after your appointment. The second recording is for you to use every day of the second week after your appointment. If you wanted to you could continue using them for as long as you wanted. It’s up to you.

Notes and Information.  There will be an awful lot of material covered during The Talking Bit.  Some of it I will read to you word for word and then given to you in the Notes. These are for you to take home with you so that you can refer to them and refresh your memory.  Having had it read to you in my therapy room, when you read it at home it will resonate with you all the more.   I also have a number of resources about the effects of smoking on general health, reproductive health, children, blindness, Alzheimer’s disease and more.   If you have an interest in any of these information leaflets I can provide them to you without charge. You might want to take them to a friend or family member who you wish to encourage to stop smoking. After all once you have stopped yourself, you will become an inspiration to others to stop!

What Next?

Get on the phone and book your appointment 020 8172 0060.  Or email me hello@essexmindcoach.co.uk

Appointments must be paid for in advance. You can pay for your session by following this link BUY STOP SMOKING SESSION NOW.

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Gavin Bowtell is a registered as a practitioner of Slim via Hypnosis and OldPain2Go and an Advanced Practitioner of BWRT®   His clients come from all over London, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent and Cambridge, and even as far as Scotland, Bristol and Brazil!