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I must admit, I was sceptical about hypnotherapy before I visited Richard, however, being a smoker of 15 years was willing to give anything a try…. And I’m so glad I did! It’s now 3 months after my single session with Richard, and I have not had a single cigarette!

Review: “Hypnotherapy for stopping smoking: I saw Richard at Focused Hypnosis for help with stopping smoking. I chose Focused Hypnosis because they seemed different to other hypnotherapists. Richard explained during my free 30 minute consultation that he treats smoking the same way he treats all other issues and he charges the same price too. Some hypnotherapists I looked at [...]

Review: “I had been smoking since I was young and really wanted to quit for good. After trying various methods patches and will power just didn’t cut it. I’d tried hypnosis in 2006, although it worked and i didn’t smoke for a year, I did start again. This treatment was very different. Whereas the previous [...]

Instincts have been a part of who we are since humans became humans. They are hard wired into us and they are what allowed us to evade that sabre tooth tiger in prehistoric times and survive. Nowadays we are more likely to talk about surviving the January sales rather than an attack of a ferocious [...]

Yesterday the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) called for a ban on smoking cigarettes in cars and parks in a bid to protect children from having to breathe in second hand smoke. The RCP say it is time to keep up the pressure and progress made as a result of the 2007 smoking ban and [...]

A study conducted in America among 3,300 smokers has found that 28% of people would try and quit when they discovered that their second hand cigarette smoke could harm their pets. The study found that many pet owners were “devoted to their pet and that this devotion could be tapped into to spur people on [...]

If you talk the talk don’t you have to walk the walk? You go to the doctors because your chest regularly hurts and you are having difficulty breathing. After a check up where you are weighed, measured, stethoscoped and blood pressure is checked the doctor announces that you are overweight and that for the sake [...]

In Arizona people who are overweight and who do not lose weight after getting medical health advice and support could be fined under a proposed change in the law. The cost for failing to stick to an agreed weight loss programme will be $50 if the bill is passed. People who don’t stop smoking and [...]

She is a world famous model. Her party lifestyle has been all over the media and a few years ago when she was asked if she would ever quit smoking she said “absolutely not”. But that has all changed. Kate Moss is desperate to conceive and has been told that she will improve her chances [...]

Today is Wednesday 9th March and it is National No Smoking Day. In the news today is the story that the government will announce two ideas which are intended to reduce the number of smokers in the UK. The first idea is to ban displays of tobacco products in shops. This could be brought in [...]

A new study has shown that quit smoking hypnotherapy could give you a better chance of stopping smoking than other other methods like patches or gum.

NRT has become the government’s number one tactic to help people to stop smoking and has been for over 10 years, surely in that time there have been significant strides made in decreasing the number of smokers. Right? Well, not quite.

If you had no desire to smoke you wouldn’t need to use willpower to control that desire. Hypnotherapy tackles the root cause of the smoking habit instead of tackling the symptoms of that habit.

the NHS has paid Novartis, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline around £80 million for patches and other forms of nicotine therapy since they became available on the NHS prescription four years ago, and spent a further £90 million on smoking clinics that rely heavily on NRT.