The media tells us that, during the Covid 19 pandemic, medical services noted a 100% increase in Alcohol Addiction referrals( The Times, September 2021). Further to this, they tell us, local councils received a 200% increase in Cocaine Addiction enquiries (The Telegraph, October 2021).
This, rightly, or wrongly, gives the impression that both medical and local services are overwhelmed. Matthew Hall would like to offer private services to all those that need them through hypnotherapy. This is offered either in person from Hillingdon Heath UB10 0PS, or online – via Zoom.
SMOKING ADDICTION
Nicotine is highly addictive, and many smokers feel that they cannot function without it. The addiction can be almost immediate – our bodies crave nicotine to avoid withdrawal symptoms and our minds integrate use into daily routines. Scientifically, the physical addiction to nicotine lasts four days. So, if a smoker can last four days without smoking, they have broken the physical addiction.
However, they may have also built up a psychological addiction – smoking when stressed, when bored, when angry, or just, at a particular time of day. It is estimated that it may take several months to break the psychological addiction. So, it is likely that most cigarettes you smoke are from a psychological addiction.
Hypnotherapy offers a way to escape the addiction, by installing an aversion to smoking and persuading you that you neither want or need to smoke. You emerge from your trance committed to living life as a non-smoker. Matthew makes an MP3 recording, which he asks you to listen to – every day, for at least a month. This helps to break psychological addiction. If you then relapse to the smoking habit, within 12 months – he will provide FREE further sessions to stop you again.
Smoking Cessation is offered at £299.
VAPING ADDICTION
It may seem safer to use vapes rather than to smoke, and many vapers may switch from smoking to vaping as a preliminary to giving up. Getting away from the 4000+ chemicals in cigarettes is admirable, but vapes contain chemicals too, some harmful and poisonous –
Nicotine – a highly addictive substance.
Propylene Glycol – a food additive.
Carcinogens – chemicals known to cause cancer
Formaldehyde – used in the preservation of dead bodies.
Acrolein – A weedkiller herbicide that causes lung damage.
Diacetyl – The chemical linked to the lung disease known as bronchialitis.
Diethyline Glycol – A toxic chemical used in antifreeze – causing lung disease.
Heavy metals – such as nickel, tin and lead.
Cadmium – A toxic chemicl that causes breathing problems
Benzene – A chemical found in car exhaust.
And,
EVALI ( E cigarette of Vaping product – Associated Lung injury ) – Causing severe lung damage, leading to coughing, shortness of breath, chest pain, and death.
Hypnosis can help users stop for good. It targets the subconscious mind – altering ingrained behaviours that maintain addiction. It instills calm and control in those that need to relieve stress, countering symptoms like anxiety, irritability, and restlessness, and reframes triggers that lead to the habit foundation.
Vaping Addiction is offered at £299.
Many vapers may be smoking recoverers. Hypnotherapy can help them to be free of nicotine forever.
ALCOHOL ADDICTION
People have used alcohol for centuries to celebrate and relax. There is nothing wrong with this, in moderation, besides the damage done to the liver. But if it becomes an obsession and an addiction, then it can be very unhealthy.
We do not subscribe to the opinion that a dependency on alcohol is a disease, that people have no control over. Effective Hypnosis believes that alcohol use is a choice, and that people can choose to take another choice.
Effective hypnosis offers programs to either stop drinking completely, or to drink moderately – being fully satisfied with just one drink. We do this with a three session program, generally over a six week period. MP3s are provided, to listen to in between them.
The program will aim at eliminating the need, want, or desire for your substance. it will look at what started you using in the first place, and look forward to a time when you are a non-user. At the end of the program, you should have been hypnotised every day for at least six weeks, but will have noticed changes much sooner.
Alcohol Addiction is offered at £249.
COCAINE ADDICTION
A similar method to the alcohol program – yet here there is no moderation – you should stop completely.
HEROIN ADDICTION
As with Cocaine Addiction
CANNABIS ADDICTION
As with Cocaine Addiction
GAMBLING ADDICTION
Matthew Hall did a Masterclass in 2018 in Gambling Hypnotherapy. The program is aimed at stopping gambling completely.
SEXUAL ADDICTION and PORN ADDICTION
There is much debate about whether or not “Sex Addiction” is an illness, or something else. Neither the British Medical Association, nor the American Medical Association accept that is an illness. But psychiatrists do diagnose “Sex Addiction” and provide treatment. It is possible that this may be about qualifying for insurance claims.
Effective Hypnosis takes the position that “Sex Addiction” is an obsession with sex and sexual things. Hypnotherapy is used to treat obsession as well as addiction.
Porn addiction is also treated as an obsession. Effective Hypnosis does not seek to judge use of pornography. But rather, to recognise it, and deal with it – as it may affect the users relationship with their partner, as well as their own mental wellbeing. If you see that it is a problem, then we can help.