One long session, one follow-up
Stop smoking
For people who have decided to stop and want another way in. It works alongside NHS stop-smoking support, and we recommend you use that too.
Let us be plain: reviews of the research have not shown hypnotherapy to be clearly better than other approaches for stopping smoking. Some people find it helps. It helps nobody who has not already decided to stop.
Help Me Quit, the free NHS Wales service, has the strongest evidence behind it, because stop-smoking medicine and support together make the biggest difference. Use it. There is no reason not to do both, and we will not be offended.
In the first session we talk about when you smoke, what it does for you, and what you will do instead at those moments. Then you relax in the chair while Mair talks you through it, and you practise a short routine you can use at the back door. The follow-up, about a week or two later, deals with whatever has come up.
What is included
- A ninety-minute first session
- A recording for you to use at home
- A follow-up within two weeks
- Details of Help Me Quit and how to use both
What it costs
Stop smoking is usually two sessions: £90 for the first ninety minutes and £65 for the follow-up, so £155 in all. There is no block booking. Most people have between two and six sessions, and we review at the third. The is it for me? page works it out by subject.
Questions about stop smoking
Will it make me stop?
No, you stop. It may make that easier, and for some people it does not. We will not promise otherwise.
I am pregnant. Can I come?
Please talk to your midwife first. They can put you in touch with specialist stop-smoking support, which is free and effective.
Start with ten minutes on the phone.
Free, and no obligation. We ask what you are hoping for and tell you honestly whether we think we are the right people, or whether you should see someone else.