Stop Smoking In Just One Hour And Save A Packet

May 15, 2009 - PRLog -- Katie Glen, consultant hypnotherapist and owner, is candid about her reasons for creating a dedicated stop smoking service for Liverpool.  “It’s simple, Liverpool needs additional resource to combat smoking, and we offer a very quick, effective therapy to help smokers quit for good.  With commitment, most people become ex-smokers, without withdrawal symptoms, in just one, one hour session.”

Liverpool is still one of the UK’s biggest smoking cities, with 30 per cent¹ of all adults smoking compared with national average of 22 per cent² men and 20 per cent² women.   Smoking not only very unhealthy, it’s expensive.  For example a 20 a day smoker spends over £2,000 each year on cigarettes.

There are several smoking cessation services already available in Liverpool. However, Glen, who lived in the city for 5 years, believes there's still much more that needs to be done to help people in Liverpool quit properly and permanently.  She claims that her therapy has an excellent success rate and is streets ahead of any other method on the market.

Success rates for staying off the cigarettes at least 12 months later range from 13 per cent using nicotine patches³, 20 per cent with nicotine patches combined with counselling³ and 22 per cent with the new drug, Champix⁴.  Hypnotherapy outperforms pharmaceutical treatments, but success rates vary from 30³ to 95⁵ per cent depending on the skill of the therapist and the techniques used.

In 1968 Von Dedenroth⁵ reported in the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis a stop smoking success rate, using advanced hypnotherapy techniques, of 94 per cent over an 18-month period with no less than a 1,000 smokers.    

Glen uses the Austin Technique, an advanced structured form of hypnotherapy, which has many similarities to Dedenroth’s work.  Glen says ‘Not surprisingly it has been able to reach a comparably high success-rate using advanced techniques and in a very concentrated hour of therapy. It’s a tried and tested method that has helped thousands quit smoking permanently worldwide.  And it’s not a hit and miss success – it doesn't matter how many cigarettes a client smokes, for how long or how often.’

The perfectly safe mind re-programming technique works because it changes attitudes towards smoking and replaces the satisfaction smokers get from cigarettes to something better for them. The treatment is not a temporary fix – with client commitment, it's permanent.   Back-up therapy is included in the price, but it’s rarely needed.

For more information or to book an appointment, please call Katie Glen on 0844 335 6383 or 0151 709 7622, or visit www.instinctivestopsmoking.co.uk

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References
¹ www.smokefreeliverpool.com/index.php/smoking-facts-resources/41-smoking-facts-resources/59-how-many-people-in-liverpool-smoke
² www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=313  
³ New Scientist (Robert Matthews, Issue 1845, October 1992). Collected from statistics from more than 600 studies, covering almost 72,000 people in America, Scandinavia and elsewhere in Europe and including 48 studies of hypnosis covering 6000 smokers.
⁴ ash.org.uk (accessed May 2009)
⁵ Von Dedenroth, T. (1968) American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis.

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