OUR SHREWSBURY HYPNOTHERAPY AFTERCARE

We help people to stop smoking, but we also help heavy smokers to become light smokers – IF THAT IS WHAT THEY WANT. We have a book on this subject, and there are lots of pages you can read for free. You might like to do this before you come to our Shrewsbury hypnosis or acupuncture service. Here is a taster.

….. And in any case, so what if it does go up again? What are we saying, that if it goes up again you have failed and it wasn’t worth doing? Excuse me? If you smoke 20 a day and cut down to ten for a year, if we accept that smoking less is a good thing (for heaven’s sake, don’t let’s go through that again) is it not axiomatic that smoking less for a year is also a good thing, regardless of what follows? If you have been seriously ill for years, and your GP says hey, I can make you feel a lot better, but I’m afraid it will only last a year, are you going to say oh well in that case it’s hardly worth bothering, is it? Come on, let’s be very clear about this. It doesn’t matter in the slightest how long you cut down for, for two reasons. First because you will have all the benefits of having smoked less (you know, the ones about it saving you money and making you healthier and so on), and if you can cut down by, say, half, for, say a year (or even six months, or whatever), then it is also axiomatic that you can do it again. If you go around thinking I failed because I only cut down for a year, which proves I’m hopeless and have no control, then well, what do you want me to say? If, on the other hand, you go around thinking hey, I cut down by half for a year, and it felt good, and I saved a load of money and felt healthier, and it’s crept back up but if I did it before I can do it again and I know it’s definitely worth doing, well, what can I say? Well done. It is the old glass half empty / half full business, and in this case it really is a helpful analogy.