At North Kent Hypnotherapy, we’ve spent over 10 years helping people to stop smoking for good. Over that time, as you might imagine, we’ve gotten pretty good at it. However, there are only so many clients that we can physically see in each day, and we wanted to find a way to make a difference […]
Nicotine chewing gum, lozenges and inhalers designed to help people to give up smoking may have the potential to cause cancer, research has suggested. Scientists have discovered a link between mouth cancer and exposure to nicotine, which may indicate that using oral nicotine replacement therapies for long periods could contribute to a raised risk of […]
Time magazine reported this week that one billion people will die from smoking by the end of this century. According to the World Health Organisation, smoking related illness already kills a person every six seconds (that’s 100 million people in the 20th century alone). As stop smoking experts, we help people quit smoking every day. […]
Today is National No Smoking Day, and to celebrate we have launched our new FREE stop smoking programme – ‘5 top tips to Quit Smoking’. This programme is delivered by email over a month and is designed to follow your progress as you quit. Please let us know how you get on with it!
Wednesday 14th March is National No Smoking Day, which this year holds a special significance to many smokers faced with the reality of a total ban on smoking in public places coming later this year. The Smoking in the Workplace Ban, which has already been implemented in Ireland, Scotland and Wales, comes into force in […]
According to an article in New Scientist, smokers with lung cancer who continue smoking may prevent the chemotherapy treament from working. Nor are patches the answer, as it turns out it is nicotine that causes the effect. Srikumar Chellappan and colleagues at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa, Florida, looked […]
For many smokers wanting to kick the habit, National Stop Smoking Day on 8th March comes as a mixed blessing. For some, it acts as an encouragement to continue the good work they started at New Year; for others, it is a painful reminder that the “season of good willpower” is well and truly over. […]
According to Scotland Today, there are calls for hypnosis treatment for smokers to be funded by the NHS ahead of the public smoking ban. According to research into the most effective methods to stop smoking, hypnosis was found to be three times more effective than Nicotine Replacement Therapy (i.e nicotine patches or gum). A New […]
An article in this week’s Sunday Times highlights the benefits of NLP in helping people overcome habits and negative behaviours. As Anita Chaudhuri reports, NLP is a way of reprogramming the mind in order to change negative behaviour. It works by identifying subconscious pessimistic patterns, then zaps them by replacing them with new thoughts and […]
With Christmas fast approaching, many smokers are mentally gearing themselves up to quit – once the festivities have finished, of course – determined to make sure that this year the New Years resolution will stick. Certainly, as hypnotherapists, we see a marked increase in the numbers of clients wanting help to stop smoking around the […]