Quit Smoking Hypnosis

Stopping Smoking: 5 Steps To Support Kicking The Habit

by Dan Regan | Oct 4, 2025 | Quit Smoking Hypnosis

Stopping Smoking: 5 Steps To Support Kicking The Habit

Stoptober is upon us and many smokers will currently be in full swing with their stopping smoking attempt.

Many people do, with or without nicotine replacement aids, successfully quit smoking for the whole month. And, of course, some smokers just wake up one day and decide enough is enough and just quit that habit with ease. However, many smokers struggle in their attempts at quitting. Either they find the habit is too ingrained, or they stop for a bit but end up going back to it.

Most attempts at stopping smoking rely on willpower or on nicotine replacements. The thing often overlooked is addressing the habitual psychological side of smoking. Smoking is based on habit, pattern and repetition. You smoke about the same amount each day and in the same situations, places and environments. You’ve done it over and over and over again. By now, your brain expects you to smoke in these situations.

And so you try to remove the cigarettes from your usual patterns and the habit and expectation kick in. You find yourself craving a cigarette. As humans we only have a limited amount of willpower. It gets harder to stick to your good intentions and it becomes easier to give in and just have this one. After all, it’s only one more you’re having, right?

Successfully stopping smoking also involves dealing with the associations and patterns around your habit. And that’s where hypnotherapy can help you to achieve your goal of being someone who used to smoke and who no longer does.

Quit Smoking This Stoptober

by Dan Regan | Sep 26, 2025 | Quit Smoking Hypnosis

Quit Smoking This Stoptober

Stoptober is almost here again and that means that many of you will be looking to finally quit smoking and end your habit.

You already know that continuing to smoke is a bad idea. For perhaps a few puffs that you might actually enjoy a day (if you even enjoy any of them), you gamble with your health, life expectancy and your looks. Many smokers operate in denial, only getting around to quitting smoking once it has already devastated their health. Many others recognise how absurd and disgusting a habit it is way before that and take action to quit.

No matter how long you have been smoking, or how many you smoke a day, the best time to quit will always be now. For the many hundreds of smokers I’ve helped to quit, health is always one of the main motivators. Is that next fag really worth the cumulative impact on your health and, in all likelihood, the days, months and years you will never share with your loved ones?

For others they are fed up of feeling controlled by cigarettes. There’s the going outside to light up, the anti social-ness, the being part of a dwindling crowd huddled outside even on the coldest day just to draw on their fag. I’ve helped people who are just embarrassed by their habit and who recognise that there is nothing pleasant, or necessary, about it. And, whilst not normally the main reason to quit, there is the saving of thousands of pounds a year that you could certainly put to much better use.

Smoking works on pattern and habit. You smoke in the same situations where you always smoke, like first thing, on a break, after eating, with a drink and last thing. It becomes part of your routine and your brain has learnt to expect it to happen. You do it on autopilot, probably while doing or thinking about something else the whole time. And, of course, you habitually don’t smoke, and may not even think about it, in situations where you have never smoked.

Every smoker can quit, can change their association with nicotine and can break the habit or any thoughts that cigarettes get you anything. This Stoptober, hypnotherapy, along with the right strategies and mindset, can help you to quit smoking for good.

Hypnotherapy For Vaping

by Dan Regan | Feb 5, 2024 | Quit Smoking Hypnosis

Hypnotherapy For Vaping

Vaping has enjoyed a boom in recent years. It has been recommended as a better alternative to smoking cigarettes, is easily obtainable and comes in a wide variety of strengths and flavours. More than that, it is not regarded as negatively as cigarettes and you can vape in far more places, circumstances and situations than you can smoke.

However, it’s possible that there are now signs that attitudes are changing and that vaping is going down a path where it is regarded less and less favourably. Disposable vapes are being banned, more people are getting fed up of being controlled by their vaping habit and there are growing concerns over the largely vague and still unknown long term health impacts. Vaping may be considered less bad than cigarettes yet that doesn’t mean there are no risks or health costs involved.

There are many overlaps between smoking cigarettes and vaping. Both involve a sense of habit where you smoke or vape in the same sort of places and situations each time. Your habits and nicotine fix gets linked to these environments and you find yourself doing the same old thing in the same old way. Nicotine has an impact yet more often it is the psychological habitual expectations and factors that lead you to reach for your vape (which explains why you can still feel a need to vape even when it is nicotine free). There are potential health impacts, a financial cost, an ongoing need to vape and that knowledge that you are not the master of your own behaviours. Your vaping habit still controls you.

Yet, as with quitting smoking, hypnotherapy for vaping can help you to take back control so that you don’t need your vape in order to get through the day.

More Reasons for Quitting Smoking – Hypnotherapy in Ely and Newmarket

by Dan Regan | Jan 5, 2024 | Quit Smoking Hypnosis

More Reasons for Quitting Smoking – Hypnotherapy in Ely and Newmarket

There are very few (if any) reasons for continuing to smoke and many, many good reasons for quitting smoking.

Top of the list whenever I help someone to quit is pretty much always your health. You know that smoking damages your health and, even if you’ve been able to make yourself ignore the unseen damage, there is always the lingering worry that sooner or later all those cigarettes are going to catch up with you. You could wait until you notice you get out of breath, that you have less energy, that you are coughing all the time and that things seem a bit harder for you now, or you could take action to change your habit and give up before the damage is too great.

Of course there are many other great reasons for quitting smoking too. You save an absolute fortune when you don’t smoke anymore. You’ll no longer worry about smelling of fags or needing to slip away and find the next opportunity for to smoke. And, of course, with fewer and fewer people smoking now, you can stop feeling like the odd one out when you are around others. You also get the freedom of no longer needing to rely on cigarettes, you will feel healthier as a non-smoker and you are no longer controlled by that old habit.

Many smokers think that their cigarettes help them to relax. However, there is nothing in a cigarette that does this, it’s just that you’ve got used to smoking in situations where you are already feeling calmer, such as when taking a break or having a few moments to yourself. And although nicotine plays a role, the biggest factor is your ongoing smoking habit is psychological. Having smoked so many times in the same situations, your mind creates a pattern that links the cigarette and the situation together and there is an ongoing psychological expectation of doing the same thing each time. That’s why smokers light up in the same sort of situations and may not even think about smoking when they are somewhere they have never smoked.

And as with any pattern and habit, with hypnotherapy and a bit of effort and action, it is certainly possible to quit smoking for good.

Help To Quit Smoking – Hypnotherapy in Ely

by Dan Regan | Nov 1, 2021 | Quit Smoking Hypnosis

Help To Quit Smoking – Hypnotherapy in Ely and Newmarket

Are you looking to successfully quit smoking? If so, you’ll already know all the good reasons why you should quit, yet somehow you either put it off or struggle to successfully kick the habit.

There’s no doubting all the good reasons for stopping smoking, and in this article I’m covering some recent research that looks at the estimated increase in risk of certain diseases from each cigarette smoked (not just from being a smoker but from each cigarette). Many smokers use cigarettes as a way of dealing with mental health issues such as stress and anxiety and you may worry about your mental health getting worse if you no longer have that crutch. If this is you, I’ve also taken a look at the association between smoking cessation and mental health in this article.

More and more people are being encouraged to switch to e-cigarettes because they are considered to be less harmful to your health than cigarettes. But does the evidence support e-cigarettes as helping you to stay off cigarettes?

I work with many people who want to quit their habit, and whether they are smoking 10-15 a day or more, and no matter how long you may have smoked, it is certainly possible to successfully quit. You may think you need to smoke, that you get something from it, and you may expect that giving up will mean all sorts of struggle and unpleasant withdrawal.

Yet with hypnotherapy, many people can and do quit for good. As with any goal, it requires some motivation, time and effort, yet the rewards for your health, for being their for your loved ones, for being free of having to always think about when you’ll get the next opportunity to light up, and for your finances, make a little bit of action very worthwhile. So as you know all the good stuff that will come with being a non-smoker, isn’t it time you made it happen?

Why Now Really Is the Time To Quit Smoking

by Dan Regan | Jan 14, 2021 | Quit Smoking Hypnosis

Why Now Really Is the Time To Quit Smoking

I’ve been helping people to quit smoking for over a decade. Whilst there can be many motivations and reasons for quitting, health usually features pretty highly. That could be due to an existing health issue that smoking exacerbates, worry over getting ill in the future, or fears, worries and hopes around wanting a longer life for you and to be there for your loved ones. Naturally there can be several other reasons and motivations yet not wanting to risk further damage to your health, or a shorter life than you could have, are pretty powerful reasons to quit smoking.

I mention further on, that research has now strongly suggested that being a smoker can increase the risk that you get Covid-19, and that if you do get the disease, that you will get more severe symptoms (increasing the risk of hospitalisation). If ever there was a time to quit, during the pandemic could therefore well be that time.

As it happens, I’m just about to start reading a novel that involves a lead character having hypnotherapy to stop smoking (Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain). I’m hoping that hypnotherapy is accurately represented because often all I ever see in films and read in books is a load of mumbo-jumbo that isn’t based on anything remotely like reality. According to the blurb on the back of the book the hypnotherapy is successful but overwhelming stress leads to lighting up again (incidentally, one of the reasons I cover in my stop smoking sessions, strategies for handling stress once you’ve quit). However, he finds that smoking doesn’t give any sense of release from the stress like it once did (perhaps because nicotine is a stressor and smoking doesn’t help you relax at all). He then stumbles upon some criminal way to recapture that nicotine joy…(although there really is little joy from nicotine and smoking and turning to crime is certainly not recommended!). I’ll let you know how I get on with it once I’ve read it.

And so back to the research about the association between being a smoker and Covid-19 risk.

Hypnotherapy To Help You Stop Smoking

by Dan Regan | Nov 7, 2018 | Quit Smoking Hypnosis

Hypnotherapy to help you stop smoking:

When it comes to quitting smoking with hypnosis and hypnotherapy, we need to be clear from the outset. Any quit smoking programme involves motivation, commitment, effort and doing stuff. There is no way of passively becoming a non-smoker (successfully) – even someone switching to e-cigarettes has to take some action and go and get them and use them.

All of which, of course, means that there is no single system that will help everyone. And, in my opinion, there is no way to quit without putting in that effort, and for some, a good deal of determination and persistence.

This weekend I worked with a lovely lady who wanted to quit smoking her roll-ups. She’d smoked them for fifteen or more years and had never said no to a cigarette and had never gone a whole day without one. Before I sit down with anyone for the hypnosis session, there are several pre-quitting actions to take. Again, the more someone invests there time and energy in these the greater the likely reward. In this case, by taking those steps this lady went from 20 a day to averaging less than six a day during that week before she actually quit. Now that is solid motivation and commitment.

Of course, results vary from person to person, but hypnotherapy certainly is a valid option for many.

Just recently I was invited to write for the awesome Good Zing website about how hypnotherapy can help someone to quit smoking.

Quitting Smoking – Cut Down or Stop Completely?

by Dan Regan | Jan 27, 2018 | Quit Smoking Hypnosis

Quitting Smoking – Cut Down or Stop Completely?

This weekend just gone I spent Sunday with a lovely couple who had travelled over fifty miles to see me for help quitting smoking, having been referred my way by a friend who had also stopped smoking with me. One thing many smokers have tried in their previous quitting attempts is to start cutting down.

It’s perhaps long been assumed by many smokers that cutting down their habit must lead to a proportionate reduction in the risk of harm to their health. That is, if you go from a twenty a day habit down to ten a day, the surely the health risks must also be halved?

However, recent research published in the British Medical Journal has found that, in the case of cardiovascular disease (the risk of developing coronary heart disease or having a stroke),

As they conclude in their findings, “Smoking only about one cigarette per day carries a risk of developing coronary heart disease and stroke much greater than expected: around half that for people who smoke 20 per day. No safe level of smoking exists for cardiovascular disease. Smokers should aim to quit instead of cutting down to significantly reduce their risk of these two common major disorders.”

That’s pretty hard hitting stuff if you are currently a smoker and you thought that cutting down was safer in some way, the fact is, it just isn’t that much safer with regards to heart disease and stroke risks. And perhaps this is even more alarming when you consider that, as reported by the BBC, “cardiovascular disease, not cancer, is the greatest mortality risk for smoking, causing about 48% of smoking-related premature deaths”.

Quit Smoking Now with my Quit Smoking Hypnosis Programme

by Dan Regan | Dec 4, 2017 | Quit Smoking Hypnosis

Quit Smoking Now with my Quit Smoking Hypnosis Programme:

There has never been a better time to quit smoking, especially if the cost of smoking is an important factor to you. Last month’s UK Budget saw the price of cigarettes increase by 4.9% and tobacco increase by 5.9% (as reported in the Daily Mirror)

Of course, when it comes to your motivation to quit smoking, it may be that money is only part of the picture.

After all, health issues are normally way up that list of reasons to come and see me for quit smoking hypnosis. It may be noticing that you get out of breath more and more frequently or perhaps you or a loved one have had an illness scare that has tipped that balance to taking action. There are plenty of other reasons to quit smoking too, including the smell, worries about your kids copying your habit, the impact on your skin and the ever growing anti social nature of it that can mean you find yourself standing alone outside in all weather.

Recently I’ve had a large influx of people coming to see me after other stop smoking hypnosis clients have referred them to me.

Quit Smoking and Stop Being a Social Smoker

by Dan Regan | Sep 28, 2017 | Quit Smoking Hypnosis

Quit Smoking and Stop Being a Social Smoker:

With Stoptober upon us once again, thousands of people will be attempting once again to successfully quit smoking. And, knowing the detrimental impact of cigarettes, I applaud each and every person attempting to take back control over their life and end their habit.

As part of all the advertising, there is a huge push towards stop smoking medication, patches and, more recently, e-cigarettes. Yet there is often much less emphasis on the mindset and habit aspects, aside from suggesting replacing one nicotine habit with another or telling everyone about your attempt and asking for their support.

It was a little disappointing that the NHS should have decided to push e-cigatettes as the answer to all smoking ills. After all, whilst they are considered to be a better option that cigarettes, they still leave you at the mercy of nicotine and the habits that go with it (and that’s even if we overlook that no one is quite sure what the long term health impacts of e-cigarettes may be).

Surely it would be far more benefical to teach people how to end their smoking and nicotine habit completely?

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