OUR WARWICK HYPNOTHERAPY AND ACUPUNCTURE AFTERCARE

Sometimes, people come to us not to stop smoking but for smoking reduction. It’s a choice they make. We publish a book on reduction. It’s called, No, You Don’t Have to Stop Smoking. You might be interested to read some of it before you visit our Warwick hypnotist. Here is a little taster.

….. Now we come back, inevitably, to our earlier hypothesis that if you are not going to stop smoking it is better to cut down your smoking than do nothing. You will be told by medical people that this is not good enough in pregnancy, that the only acceptable thing is to stop altogether, but our starting point here is that you are not going to stop smoking come what may, for some reason which we are not going to go any further into.

Some of the content of each cigarette you smoke will be fed by your body to the foetus in your womb. You do need to understand that if you smoke in pregnancy, no matter, I’m afraid, how few you smoke, you will make your baby addicted to nicotine. This cannot be avoided, and the consequence is that when the child is born they will have to go through withdrawal from nicotine in the first few days of life. If the baby is at all sickly, this will increase the threat to their life, but you do need also to know that your medical attendants are very unlikely to have any understanding of this issue and are therefore not going to know what is going on. All I am saying here is that it’s something for you to be aware of. Why am I explaining this right now? Because we’re assuming you are not going to smoke, that you are, though, going to become a light smoker during your pregnancy, and while that is a good thing it will not alter what I have been saying about your baby being born addicted.