October 2012

Local practitioner provides support for “Stoptober” Campaign.

A Worcester based hypnotherapist is urging the public to look for practitioners registered with the Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) if they want to use hypnotherapy to help them give up smoking during the NHS’s Stoptober campaign.

Many people use hypnotherapy to provide extra help in the process of giving up smoking. The Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) is the UK regulator for complementary therapists that was set up with government funding and support.

Sally Coombs says: “Hypnotherapy is often used to help clients achieve the behavioural change needed to stop smoking but it’s so important the public use someone who knows what they are doing.”

“Hypnotherapy is a natural approach which works with the habit and psychological aspects of quitting smoking. Smoking Cessation Hypnotherapy starts with an initial session of about an hour and a half and a Hypnotherapy specific to quitting smoking. A cd of this Hypnotherapy is given at the end of the session for use at home once a day for three weeks to help during the period of nicotine withdrawal. Follow up face to face sessions are about an hour to reinforce this session and provide additional support.

Sally is a qualified and registered Hypnotherapist (CNHC) and an Accredited Quit4life Practitioner working at Healing Touch Complementary Health Care Centre, Worcester. Quit4life is a national Hypnotherapy quit smoking support programme. For more about this approach, go to www.quit4life.biz.

Sally Coombs added that: “Hypnotherapy is one of 14 therapies registered by the CNHC. There are over 5,000 practitioners on the register and members of the public can search the CNHC register to find practitioners in their local area. More than 170,000 searches have been carried out since the register first opened in 2009.”

For further information or to book an appointment in Worcester for Hypnotherapy Smoking Cessation, please contact Sally Coombs by phone on 07890 96288 or by email: sally@innermindtherapies.co.uk. For more information about Hypnotherapy with Inner Mind Therapies see: www.innermindtherapies.co.uk.

Visit the CNHC website for a list of registered practitioners www.cnhc.org.uk.