Smoking costs a fortune now, and it isn't welcome anywhere. If you're still smoking in spite of all that, your attachment to it is strong.
This page explains why it has been so hard to stop, and how I can help you do it.
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A 20-minute video
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A 60-minute session
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A follow-up session, any time within 12 months
“It's just been like a miracle. The cigarettes, the desire, everything has just completely disappeared.”
– Rosemary, 20 a day for over ten years
Clem Kelleher, Clinical Hypnotherapist and Psychologist (MSc Psychology). In person in Limerick, or online anywhere in Ireland.
If that is you, keep reading.
Right now you have two competing feelings about smoking. One wants to smoke. The other wants to quit.
At the moment, the feeling for smoking is the stronger of the two. It may only be slightly stronger, but the stronger feeling always decides what you do.
To stop, your mind needs new information that changes what smoking means to you. When quitting means more to you than smoking does, not smoking becomes the stronger feeling, and not smoking becomes what you do.
Habit. You do it because that's what you do, at the times you always do it.
Coping. Smoking helps you deal with stress, discomfort or boredom. Your brain sees it as a solution to problems.
The program is built to deal with both.
Three parts: a video, one main session, and a follow-up session.
I send you a video to watch at home. It covers things about smoking you half know but have never heard explained this way, and some things you most likely never knew at all.
Its job is to make you curious. Curiosity is one of the most effective ways of getting new information into the brain.
We focus on changing how you feel about smoking.
Using hypnosis, we bring more information into your mind so that the feeling for quitting becomes much stronger than the feeling for smoking. When that happens, not smoking is what you do afterwards.
If you are struggling in any way after the main session, whether that is days, weeks or months later, come straight back. Do that even if you haven't smoked.
We find out what you're struggling with and help your mind create a new solution that doesn't involve smoking.
Breaking the habit doesn't remove the stresses that smoking used to help you with. They will still come up. Coming back early, as soon as you notice you're struggling, is the best way to make sure you don't just stop smoking but stay off cigarettes long term, because your mind has learned a new way to cope.
â–¶ Watch: how the stop smoking program works (3 minutes)
“I smoked forty a day for over twenty years and I haven't touched a cigarette for a year this September. When I'm with friends who smoke it doesn't bother me. It's like I never smoked before. It's just not relevant to me anymore.”
– M.Mc.
“We both came to see you last May in a bid to start the summer getting healthier and fitter. We were buying 10 packs a week between us. We're just back from a week in the south of France, largely financed by the money that we saved from not smoking. Best deal we ever made!”
– Cath & Dave, Ennis, Co. Clare
I'm Clem Kelleher, a clinical hypnotherapist and psychologist based in Corbally, Limerick. I hold an MSc in Psychology from the University of Derby. I'm a certified member of the National Guild of Hypnotists, a Graduate Member of the Psychological Society of Ireland and a Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society.
I've worked as a professional hypnotherapist since 2010, and helping people stop smoking has been part of that work from the start.
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Everything included
A pack of 20 now costs about €19. At a pack a day, that is around €570 a month.
Stop smoking, and the program pays for itself in under a month. After that, you keep around €570 every month.
The program is built around one main 60-minute session. You watch a 20-minute video beforehand, and a follow-up session is included for any time in the following 12 months, if you need it.
It is there for any point where you are struggling after the main session. Smoking was your way of coping with stress, discomfort or boredom, and those things will still come up. In the follow-up we find out what you're struggling with and help your mind find a new solution that doesn't involve smoking.
Yes. If you are struggling in any way, come straight back, even if you haven't had a cigarette. Dealing with it early is the best way to stay off cigarettes long term.
Yes. Hypnosis is a state of focused attention, a bit like being absorbed in a film. You hear everything, you remember it, and you can stop at any point.
Yes. Online and in-person sessions work the same way. I'll send you simple instructions for setting up at home.
Send me a message on WhatsApp. I'll reply myself and answer any questions you have.
