Everybody knows that smoking shortens their life and puts them at a much greater risk of contracting some seriously nasty diseases. They also know how much this horrible habit costs them every week. It's no longer cool or fashionable to smoke and is now illegal to do it almost anywhere you would really like to.

So give it up - after all how hard can it be?

Well, as every smoker knows it is very hard otherwise there would be almost no smokers left (apart from teenage girls who still strangely think it cool to have yellow fingers and teeth and smell like an old ashtray).

Why do we find it so hard?
Well smoking is both an addiction and a habit and you have to break both to be free of the cravings. There are many products on the market that aim to help you win the battle. These usuall revolve around giving you smaller amounts of nicotine in a healthier format to help break the addiction. Some people find these helpful, others don't. However, they can do little to break you of the smoking habits that have almost certainly been reinforced several times a day over many years.

Habits can be changed more easily if you can get to the source of them.

Hypnosis enables you to reach deep down in your subconscious mind and seriously weaken the grip those habits have on you. This can make all the difference in the world because when you decide to quit smoking the addiction goes quite quickly but those nasty habits can hang on and on.

Where does breathing come in?

Smoking is a breathing habit. Most people's breathing habits are very poor and this has a very bad effect on their physical and emotional wellbeing. I bet you are almost totally unaware of the dramatic effects good breathing will play on your health and your ability to cope with stress, particularly the stress of giving up smoking.