If your New Year’s resolution is to stop smoking, hypnotherapy will help you achieve that goal easier than nicotine patches or e-cigarettes. 
In fact, according to the BBC, three television adverts for electronic cigarettes have been banned, just weeks after the rules were changed so people could be shown using them. Two of the adverts featured a woman exhaling vapour which, according to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), appeared to glamourise the smoking of tobacco products.
According to the complaints and the ASA’s findings, another was said to be encouraging non-smokers to take up e-cigarettes. The ASA had received more than 200 complaints about the adverts.
Since November, manufacturers have been allowed to advertise the use of electronic cigarettes on TV, as long as they do not promote tobacco or target non-smokers or young people.
Critics of so-called e-cigarettes argue that the devices may encourage people to see smoking as acceptable.
Also, few smokers are aware that smoking ‘rots the body from within’, according to Public Health England (PHE).
The body’s graphic online and print billboard adverts feature a roll-up cigarette full of decaying tissue. While many smokers know the damage tobacco does to their hearts and lungs, they are much less likely to be aware of how harmful it can be to other parts of the body, says PHE.
Cigarettes can damage the bones, muscles, brain, teeth and eyes while current smokers are at double the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, for example.
Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies says the adverts have been designed to shock and educate, but smoking groups branded the campaign as poisonous, the BBC reported.
But hypnotherapists registered with the National Council for Hypnotherapy are experienced in helping people quit this habit. Smokers who have tried to quit before, using e-cigarettes and patches will know it is not an easy addiction to kick.
But a physical addiction to cigarettes can be over after just one week of hypnotherapy with research showing that by quitting smoking with hypnosis a person is three times more likely to give up than if they had used nicotine patches.
Hypnotherapy is an effective cure because it works directly with the subconscious, bypassing the critical mind and getting to the root of the issue so that changes can be made quickly and efficiently.
So, if you are a smoker, imagine how different your life would be if you stopped smoking, what you would gain. It is important to understand your motivation for giving up in order to stop.
You will not be like the man in the now banned KiK e-cigarettes advert who said: “I used to smoke normal cigarettes, but after I quit, I tried these. I actually prefer them.”
The ASA said: “We considered that the man’s statement could encourage non-smokers to take up using e-cigarettes and we therefore concluded the ad was irresponsible.”
To get rid of your smoking habit, simply look up a therapist near you by using the NCH’s directory and start the new year with a cleaner lifestyle.
