Hello again, it’s been a while I know, but then again I’m sure hardly anyone has been back to see what I’ve been writing about for a while either, so let’s neither of us feel bad, sounds fair huh? I just thought I would write a little post about my ongoing battle with quitting the evil weed (yes, I do mean tobacco before you start wondering), I’m now thinking about using hypnotherapy to stop smoking once and for all.
I’ve been making half hearted attempts for quite a while now, in fact, it must be 5-10 years since my first attempt, so I decided to throw everything at it in one go, patches, will power and a hypnotherapist. I did toy with the idea of acupuncture too, but I just can’t face all the needles!
So you are probably wondering why this relates to any one of our three cities in question, well, being near to Swindon, I wanted to find someone locally, as if it’s a short course of treatments I don’t want to be hammering up and down the M4 to get there after work, whereas if I find someone in Swindon, I’ll try to book it for straight after work, that way by the time I leave, the traffic should have calmed down too and I’ll have a nice smooth drive home.
Why can’t you just stop the tobacco on will power alone I hear you cry (very quietly), the answer is: dunno! It’s a weird kind of addiction which you don’t even realise is there until you try to quit, then you suddenly want to smoke more then ever. It’s one of those feelings like when somebody tells you that you can’t do something, and that just makes you want to do it even more.
Anyway, in my search for a hypnotherapist in Wiltshire, preferably in Swindon itself, I found the National Smoking Cessation Institute, a body who have numerous approved acupuncturists and hypnotherapists who are specialists in their field, so that’s my first port of call to find someone to provide hypnotherapy to stop smoking, if I can’t find someone through them, I’ll look further afield, but would prefer to keep it local if possible, after all that’s also being a bit greener too!

