Q: Why should I give up smoking?

A: There are a number of good reasons, including health, money, pollution, smells, disease and nuisance. The most important reason is that smoking does not give you a high, nor does it relax you. The only thing smoking does is: give you temporary relief from nicotine craving, nothing else!

Stop accepting all those things being done to you. If you think about it objectively, you must feel angry, ready to fight and become determined with every fibre in your body to not let this happen to you anymore.

You can, if you really want to, become a non smoker today, using our help to get you there.

Q: Why do I smoke?

A: You basically smoke for one reason only: to feel normal. Until you finally quit, your brain will continue to ask you for nicotine. The way it does that, is by giving you withdrawal symptoms: making you feel irritable, uneasy and moody. Lighting the next cigarette stops the craving, until the moment the nicotine starts to leave the body again and the cycle of craving for more nicotine repeats itself.

Our hypnotherapy subdues and thus prevents craving and you stop supplying your brain with nicotine. Your brain stops asking for nicotine and you will feel normal all the time. You will save thousands and become far more healthy.

Q: Will I not suffer bad mood swings and terrible nicotine craving?

A: Hypnotherapy helps you to easily deal with cravings. Many heavy smokers, after our hypnotherapy, never had one single craving. The hypnosis creates ways to remove the craving. it also makes you feel positive and capable of quickly forgetting you ever smoked.

Q: What is the difference between Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis?

A: Clinical Hypnotherapy is hypnosis undertaken by professionals in order to solve problems of both a physical and/or a psychological nature. The hypnosis relaxes people and then allows the hypnotherapist to connect to people's own subconscious to deal with a problem or quickly and easily overcome an addiction without side or after effects.

Q: Will Hypnotherapy be messing up my brain?

A: Certainly not. Every single second, we are subjected and programmed to deal with thousands of bits of information around us. The information around us invokes responses, influences what we do, how we react, or just lets us store the data in our memories. Our brain continuously deals with all the information and adapts to it.

Hypnotherapy makes sure that, temporarily, all other bits of information (sights and sounds) are being locked out. This allows the brain of the person under hypnosis to relax completely, focus on one specific bit of information only and create a response to it. In case of smoking cessation, as the body has no natural need for nicotine, the brain can be programmed to switch off the demand for nicotine and therefore there will be no craving. The Hypnotherapist does not do the programming; the person under hypnosis programs his/her own brain under guidance of the hypnotherapist who uses suggestions, repetition, emphasis and persuasion. The success of the hypnotherapy depends on how much the person under hypnosis will accept the Hypnotherapist's guidance in the programming.

Allowing yourself to be totally and completely subjected to the hypnotherapy means top level programming and NO CRAVING AT ALL.

Q: Will Hypnotherapy work for me?

A: If you have normal intelligence & imagination and you do not query, resist or try to analyse the hypnosis, it will work for you. That is a fact!

Q: I smoke heavily, will it not be more difficult for me to quit?

A: The NSA Hypnotherapy programme is specifically tailored to long-term heavy smokers who are heavily addicted and have tried other methods before and given up. Those smokers benefit more from the sessions and therefore are more likely to become non-smokers for life.

Q: Smoking gives me a high, will I not miss that?

A: You are wrong in assuming that smoking gives you a real high. Smoking stops the craving for nicotine that your brain is addicted to. The “high” is not a “high” at all, it is the temporary absence of craving for nicotine that makes it feel like a high, but you are in fact just feeling normal. Compare it with hitting your head against a brick wall for a while and then stop. It feels absolutely great after you stopped, but all you have done is go back to normal. After your hypnotherapy, the brain will have stopped being addicted and is no longer craving for nicotine, so you will not need the nicotine to feel normal. Non-smokers have no nicotine craving and feel normal all time and so will you.

Q: Do I need patches, chewing gum or other nicotine replacement products (NRT) afterwards?

A: No, you do not need any, as your body will have stopped craving nicotine. It would actually be foolish to use any of those products after hypnotherapy as they all contain nicotine, which is the substance you have just given up on. Furthermore, a recent study claims that NRT does not work long term for nearly 99 percent of smokers.

Q: Isn’t hypnosis mind control?

A: No it is not! Look at it this way: your mind is currently being controlled by nicotine, which forces you to allow heavy toxins and poisons into your body that are likely to kill or severely damage you. Hypnosis assists you in dealing with craving and other withdrawal symptoms, by making you come to your (subconscious) senses and helping you to stop being controlled by tobacco products and prevent you from further destroying your body.

Q: What are the dangers of Hypnosis?

A: There are no dangers, in the entire history of hypnosis and clinical hypnotherapy, NO person has ever suffered any negative physical or mental consequences as a result of hypnosis. Hypnotherapy cannot force you to do anything that you do not want. Your unconscious mind protects you from all harm and it will immediately reject any suggestions that are bad or in any way harmful to you. Hypnotherapy therefore is completely safe. Nobody has ever stayed in a trance or suffered an adverse effect from the trance. All cases where people have attempted to blame hypnotherapy for suffering negative after effects have been thrown out of court, as hypnotherapy cannot damage a person in any way whatsoever.

Q: I have never been hypnotised, how do I know that I will be under hypnosis.

A: Hypnotherapy works via suggestions. You are being bombarded with suggestions every day (see above). Advertisers hypnotise you to take on their messages at a subliminal level. Every time you watch a film, in the cinema or on TV, your eyes are fixated onto a screen, you become absorbed by the story and you feel that you are part of the film and the story. Horror films for instance plant suggestions that are aimed to frighten you: that in itself is a form of hypnosis. Also, every time you daydream you are effectively in a hypnotic trance.

Q: If I fall asleep or for some other reason, it does not work the first time, can I do it again and how long should I wait before doing it again?

A: You can do it as often as you want, but it is advisable to leave 24 hours between attempts. Sometimes it takes a little time before it starts to work. You will however notice immediately how awful your cigarette taste and smells when you light one, if you think it has not worked.

Q: I have seen stage hypnosis where people are hypnotised in doing all sorts of embarrassing and stupid things. How do I know that I will not be doing any of that after my hypnotherapy?

A: Stage hypnosis has very little to do with hypnotherapy. Stage hypnosis is pure entertainment where very outgoing people are manipulated to voluntarily do all sorts of odd things and act out all manner of funny situations. Those people certainly don’t do anything against their will. Stage “hypnosis” has given hypnotherapy a bad name as people fear that under hypnosis they can be made to do all sorts of funny things. Nothing is further from the truth, as under hypnosis, nobody can be made to do anything against their will.

Q: What is the difference between my conscious mind and my unconscious mind?

A: Your conscious mind is the part of your brain that allows you to think and make decisions related to every day life. Your unconscious mind is the part of your brain that regulates everything in your body and your brain, including your heartbeat, your blood circulation, your immune system, internal organs, glandular system, all sorts of signals, hunger, thirst, metabolism, secretion. It regulates your temperature, it keeps you healthy, it sort out your memory, deals with stimuli, preferences, pleasure, pain, maternal/paternal instincts, genetic programming, fight or flight responses, fear, happiness, hatred, likes, dislikes and everything else that you need in order to function as a human being. Your subconscious or unconscious mind even makes sure that most of us fall in love. The unconscious mind is the key to successful hypnotherapy. You will need to commit totally and allow the hypnotherapist to connect you with your subconscious mind for it to work.

Q: Why should I not query or resist the hypnotherapy?

A: The suggestions you are given are aimed at your unconscious mind. Your conscious mind has not been able to give up smoking as the addiction to nicotine is too strong, so your unconscious mind needs to come to the rescue and stop the craving for nicotine and the habit. Your unconscious mind has assumed that smoking is OK, as you have forced it to override your immune system so you can inhale dangerous toxic fumes. Via hypnotherapy, your unconscious mind will respond to a call for help to reverse that situation, but only if you support it, by allowing the suggestions to get through without query and resistance. The hypnotherapy makes you communicate with your own unconscious mind. The result is that between the two of you, you can give up smoking instantaneously without any side or after effects.

Q: What happens if I light a cigarette after the hypnotherapy?

A: Nothing happens! There is no bolt from the blue stopping you. However there is also no bolt from the blue stopping you from committing suicide or assaulting somebody or comiiting a crime. You posses a survival instinct that uses common sense and that stops you from doing anything foolish or stupid, including lighting a cigarette after our hypnosis. Listen to your unconscious mind, it will tell you that you have no need to smoke anymore and that is why you will not have the slightest need or interest to light a cigarette afterwards, or ever again.

Q: Why do I need to throw away all cigarettes, ashtrays and smoking paraphernalia before I do the hypnotherapy?

A: You will no longer be a smoker after the hypnotherapy, So you will not need cigarettes again. A non-smoker does not need to have cigarettes or other smoking related stuff in his or her possession. You will also still be absorbed by your new status as non-smokers. Don’t let things that represented your old status as smoker get in the way from your new non-smoking identity, so throw it all away beforehand and start as a non-smoker with the proverbial “clean sheet”.

Q: When will know if I be ready to stop smoking?

A: You are ready now, you read all the information, you are aware of the commitment that is expected from you. We are ready for you to start, and the quicker you start the first hypnotherapy session, the sooner you will be a non-smoker for life.