Does hypnotherapy for stopping smoking actually work?
That’s a fair question, especially if you’ve already tried to quit and it didn’t last. Stopping smoking is genuinely difficult and complicated, because nicotine creates dependency at multiple levels simultaneously: Physically, your body has learned to rely on nicotine for energy, focus, and calm, and when it wears off, the blood sugar crash feels like irritability, brain fog, and low energy that only a cigarette seems to fix. Emotionally, smoking has become a genuine source of pleasure, comfort, and stress relief. Socially, it’s woven into your relationships and daily rituals in ways that feel impossible to unpick. And underneath all of it, your subconscious mind - which controls 90 percent of your behavior - actually approves of you smoking! Which means your conscious decision to quit has at most 10 percent influence over what you eventually do.
How does it feel going through Andrew’s smoking cessation method?
The method shows you how unpleasant smoking is, so that even in the first session most people are shocked that they’ve been smoking for so long. You develop an aversion to nicotine that changes your relationship with smoking at a subconscious level, and over the five session course, cigarettes lose their appeal to you. The schedule of gradual reduction means there’s no withdrawal, just detoxing. You learn a simple meditation technique in hypnosis that replaces the need to smoke to reduce stress, giving you a calm sense of control by learning a simple skill - a natural way to relax your mind.
In your later sessions, you may struggle to finish the allocated cigarettes for the day because you already want to stop. The psychoacoustic hypnotherapy sessions let you rehearse a healthy active lifestyle, supporting your decision to quit, and between sessions your Gold Membership to the Soul Sanctuary lets you download supporting hypnosis audio tracks for meditation and sleep. By week five you’re someone who has gained a stress management skill that you’ll keep for life, and totally lost interest in smoking.
The AW Quit Cigarettes Hypnosis Package includes:
- 6 hours of psychoacoustic hypnotherapy ($648 at $108/hr)
- 1 first session (2hr) + 4 follow-up sessions (1hr each)
- FREE Gold Membership for life ($54 value)
Total value: $702 | Price: $648 | Save: $54
How does the 5-session Quit Cigarettes Hypnosis method work?
If you quit smoking cold turkey, you’re fighting the physical dependency and the subconscious craving at the same time, without a healthy alternative for handling the stress, that’s a big reason why you’re smoking. This method addresses all three of those elements. Your first session takes you back to your initial reaction to your first cigarette: burning throat, coughing, nausea… but through conditioning and repetition you taught your body to suppress that natural aversion to toxins. In hypnosis, we reconnect you with your nervous system and recognize your body’s natural aversion to nicotine so that you genuinely don’t want it anymore. Alongside this, I teach you to meditate in hypnosis, developing your ability to release stress naturally, so that by the time you stop smoking you already have a healthy replacement for the primary function that cigarettes used to have - stress relief.
The method works on a schedule that we figure out in your first session, where you start the program by doubling your normal daily tobacco intake, so you feel like you’re smoking way too much. Then we agree on a stepped reduction over the remaining four sessions until on your fifth session you become an ex-smoker. For example if you smoke five cigarettes a day: In your first week you smoke ten cigarettes a day every day until your next session. Then the second week seven, the third week three, the fourth week 1, the fifth week you dont have to smoke any more. So regardless of how heavily you smoke, the gradual reduction gives your body time to detox steadily without withdrawal shock. (Oikonomou et al., 2017; Fauziyyah et al., 2022)
What’s it like being hypnotized online?
When it feels like we’ve come to an understanding about how to resolve the issues we’ve been discussing in the first part of your session, I suggest that we begin hypnosis. If you agree, you make yourself comfortable so you can relax your head and close your eyes, I start the psychoacoustic soundtrack at a soft volume, and use a spoken relaxation technique to take you into a deep state similar to a daydream - dreaming but not sleeping - relaxed but aware of what I am saying. The soundtrack creates a world in which you can visualize or imagine what I’m saying more clearly and vividly, and with more emotional engagement than you would in a normal daydream.
You are conscious throughout and able to communicate, although most people don’t feel the need to say anything because the script I use contains only solutions that we spoke about before going into hypnosis. There are no surprises, just a rehearsal space free of judgment, where you can consider your options, try out solutions, and discern more clearly what you want to do. This is so rewarding for me - when I bring my clients out of hypnosis they’re usually smiling, feeling that they’ve had a chance to stop and consider their options, and feel the pull of the solution that works for them. We talk about the hypnosis session for a few minutes afterwards, to bring you back into your natural conscious state.
Is psychoacoustic hypnotherapy safe?
Yes - and it’s worth understanding why. The frequency following response is equally dependent on your consent, as your agreeing to be hypnotized. The soundtrack doesn’t “put your mind into a receptive state” - it only gives you the frequency, which if you agree to follow, makes your hypnotic state deeper and more effective, and helps you to focus on the session, eliminating distractions in the room around you. You recognize all the suggestions you receive during the session because we’ve been discussing and developing those solutions in the conversation part of the session, before hypnosis.
If your online hypnotherapist is a properly educated licensed professional with good reviews, it’s safe to leave danger in movies - but it’s important to talk about control. Hypnosis is a receptive state in which you are suggestible to what your hypnotherapist is saying. You could say this makes you the passenger and the hypnotherapist your driver - my job is navigating the subconscious mind, which is difficult for you to do, so you trust me to do it. In a taxi you can look around and reassure yourself that you’re going the right way, and hypnosis is not so different - you’re not paralyzed or incapacitated or knocked out - that’s stage hypnosis. When hypnotherapy is practiced correctly, you would reject any suggestion that is against your beliefs - you would get up and be irritated and angry. If I ever saw that it would mean I’m bad at my job!
I can’t make you do or say anything that you don’t want to. Using force in hypnotherapy is contradictory because hypnosis is consensual - if you like the solution we are discussing, you agree to rehearse it in hypnosis, along with other techniques I may select: Meditation training is standard, it helps you to relax and develop a calm authority in your mind. I quite often use a technique called “Inner Child” in which you imagine meeting yourself as a child, giving advice, and teaching your solution. I also use dream therapy, which allows suppressed memories and events to surface only when you feel safe and strong enough to deal with them. In this way, your subconscious mind is always in control of your memories, and will never let you remember anything that you’re not ready to deal with.
Ready to book your Quit Cigarettes Hypnosis Package with 95% success rate?
If you’re wondering why the success rate is 95% and not 100%, in my experience this occurs when a person starts the treatment, and after few weeks realizes that their partner who smokes, is a stronger influence than they anticipated! If this won’t be a problem for you, booking is strait forward:
- Select “AW Quit Cigarettes Hypnosis Package”
- Payment via Payfast
- Client intake form to save time in your session (skip if you are already a client)
- Calendar to select your appointment date and time
- Confirmation email: - Hypnotherapy appointment date and time - Doxy.me online session link - Soul Sanctuary Gold Membership link
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