So, what to do then? Is there a solution that makes a smoker give up immediately without craving, irritation or withdrawal symptoms? Is there something that stops all the anxiety, the craving and all that goes with it and turns a smoker into a non-smoker within a very short space of time and causes not one single psychological after effect?

The answer is: yes, there is indeed a solution for people who desperately want to stop, for those who hate to be addicted smokers, who have tried all the NRT products and the drugs and who have failed time and time again. The solution to giving up smoking is: Clinical Hypnosis or Hypnotherapy.

For some bizarre reason, hypnotherapy is regarded as an “alternative solution”. Hypnotherapy is frequently placed in the realms of quacks, snake oil, homeopathy, new age spiritualism, Reiki, and other alternative medicines.

It is also true that hypnotherapy still suffers from a bad reputation because of stage hypnosis, where clever manipulating “hypnotists” make audiences believe that they can make people on stage do whatever they want, for instance make them look totally ridiculous, make them jump around like chickens and even (pretend to) control people’s minds. Many people are frightened of Hypnotherapy, because they fear that their minds are being altered or that they are unable to wake up from their trance.

There is in the history of hypnotherapy never been any person who suffered any negative consequences from hypnotherapy.

What it looks like on stage is completely different from what it really is: a very clever spectacle that manipulates outgoing and imaginative members of the audience (specially picked as a result of their positive responses to a “hypnotic” audience participation exercise) in such a way that it looks real “hypnosis”. Although stage hypnosis is fun to watch, the whole spectacle has nothing to do with Clinical Hypnotherapy. Stage Hypnosis is as different from Clinical Hypnotherapy as Playing “Doctors and Nurses” is from Providing Professional Healthcare