Many smokers who wish to stop try such methods as nicotine patches, gum, acupuncture, prescription drugs, and will-power. So, why use hypnotherapy?

Imagine how healthy you would feel every day if you were no longer inhaling tobacco smoke with all its poisons, into your body. Imagine how much younger, fitter, and more attractive you would become if your body was optimising your health and energy, rather than suffering additional damage every day.

Imagine how happy and confident you would feel knowing that you had lengthened your life by years, possibly decades, and knowing you had greatly improved your chances of avoiding health problems.

Imagine how many extra thousands of pounds you could spend on the things you really value. Things which would improve the quality of your life and not undermine it.

While there are several methods, some referred to above, available for giving up smoking, many of them are lengthy, complicated, and have a comparatively low success rate, and in some cases damaging side effects.

Hypnotherapy, by contrast, offers a method which enables the smoker to give up smoking immediately, permanently, and comfortably. New Scientist Magazine (October 1992) investigated the various stop smoking methods available in a huge study involving 72,000 people - and found hypnotherapy to be the most successful.

Now we at Crawley Hypnotherapy Clinic, after extensive research into the most effective smoking cessation methods available, have developed a system that we believe to be the ultimate Stop Smoking Programme.

From the smoker's point of view it could not be simpler. At the first of two one hour sessions the therapist gathers the facts about your smoking, then he teaches you how to eliminate those concerns and worries you have about stopping. Then he will train you in effective hypnosis techniques to assist and prepare you for the second session in seven days time at which you will stop. You can smoke in the meantime!

Seven days later is the day you will stop. After a review of the week the hypnotherapist will prepare you for the final stage which is main hypnosis session to put smoking in the past where it belongs. The two stage process has been found to be much more successful than rushing things in one session.

Everybody who smokes does so for a reason. When you started to smoke, the habit achieved something positive for you - that's why you kept doing it! Hypnotherapy helps you to develop new and better ways to achieve those positive outcomes other than through smoking.

Your experience as a smoker has been different from everybody else's. Your path to becoming a non smoker will also be unique.

Your sessions will be adapted to your individual experiences, and will emphasise the positive benefits you will achieve as a non smoker, and equip you with the skills and abilities needed to see it through, so your success is enduring.

You will find that hypnotherapy will help you to eliminate the concerns you may have about stopping, enabling you to permanently overcome the habit and building your confidence, belief, and motivation to ensure your success.

Scientific research studies show that hypnotherapy is a much more powerful help than willpower alone, gum, patches, and the other methods.

Most people stop smoking for ever at the second session, but for the small number requiring it within six months, there is a further session available at no extra cost.

You would be mad not to pick up the phone today and call for an appointment. I can see you weekday evenings and at the weekend.