Stopping smoking

Most people who smoke have already tried to stop, often more than once. That is not a failure of willpower; it is what a habit built over years does when you push against it directly.

These pages look at why stopping is hard, and at what smoking actually costs — in money, and in the things that are harder to add up.

In their own words

Patches, gum, cold turkey — I tried them all. I was amazed at how easy it was using hypnosis. My children won’t be brought up around smokers now.

— Angela G.

I stopped a 52-year, three-pack-a-day habit with hypnosis. I’m 72. I thought I would never quit.

— Louise T.

These are from clients of the original practice, given around 2006. They describe those people’s own experience; hypnosis does not work the same way for everyone.