Stopping smoking or vaping can involve far more than simply deciding not to have another cigarette. Smoking can become closely connected with habits, routines, particular situations, emotions, stress and expectations about relaxation, concentration or taking a break. Understanding these different influences is important if we want to help clients make lasting changes rather than relying on willpower alone.
Breathe Easy Smoking & Vaping Cessation was developed around this broader understanding of smoking behaviour, giving hypnotherapists a structured approach for supporting clients who want to stop smoking. You'll learn how to combine hypnosis with wider therapeutic and behavioural approaches, helping clients understand and change established patterns, respond differently to triggers and familiar situations, and develop new ways of thinking and behaving that support life as a non-smoker.
Smoking and vaping rarely maintained by a single factor, and effective smoking cessation work needs to reflect that complexity. Clients may be dealing with nicotine dependence, established habits, emotional triggers, stress, social situations, routines, beliefs about smoking or strong associations between cigarettes and particular moments in their day. Breathe Easy Smoking Cessation explores these different influences and the importance of understanding each client's smoking patterns rather than assuming that everyone smokes for the same reasons.
The training takes a multimodal approach, showing you how hypnosis can sit alongside therapeutic conversation, psychoeducation, cognitive and behavioural approaches, habit change and practical strategies for becoming and remaining a non-smoker. Hypnosis provides an experiential way of working with triggers, expectations, automatic responses and future situations, while other therapeutic approaches help clients understand and change the wider patterns that have become associated with smoking. You'll learn how to bring these elements together within a structured smoking cessation approach, while adapting your work to the individual client and helping them develop changes that can continue beyond the therapy itself.
Breathe Easy Hypnotherapy Course
Breathe Easy Practitioner Training is externally accredited with the ACCPH and you'll receive Certification on completion of your course
Accredited Hypnotherapy CE
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Breathe Easy Practitioner Training is suitable for qualified hypnotherapists and other healthcare professionals. If your background is not in hypnotherapy, please get in touch for our free foundation level hypnotherapy training which provides extra context to this course.
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Breathe Easy Smoking & Vaping Cessation gives you the understanding and practical skills to work confidently with clients who want to stop smoking, moving beyond approaches based primarily on willpower towards a structured, multimodal approach that recognises the different factors that can maintain smoking behaviour.
Your training includes in-depth video lessons and written resources, an evidence-informed exploration of smoking behaviour, nicotine dependence and the factors that can maintain smoking, practical ways to combine hypnosis with therapeutic conversation, cognitive and behavioural approaches, habit change and psychoeducation, step-by-step guidance for delivering smoking cessation therapy, client intake forms and handouts, ready-to-use scripts, and practitioner-friendly marketing materials. Assignments are optional, and once you complete the course you’ll receive externally accredited certification. Dr. Claire Jack is also available throughout for support and guidance as you begin using Breathe Easy Smoking & Vaping Cessation with your clients.
Smoking & Vaping Cessation Training Questions & Answers
What is smoking cessation hypnotherapy training?
Smoking cessation hypnotherapy training teaches practitioners how to use hypnosis to help suitable clients stop smoking and change established patterns around nicotine use. Effective training should go beyond simply suggesting that someone no longer wants cigarettes and explore the habits, triggers, expectations, routines and nicotine dependence that can maintain smoking. Breathe Easy Smoking Cessation provides a structured, multimodal approach that can also be adapted effectively for clients who want to stop vaping.
Can hypnotherapy help someone stop smoking?
Hypnotherapy can be used to help clients change some of the learned associations, expectations and automatic patterns connected with smoking. It can also help clients prepare for situations in which they would previously have smoked and develop different responses to familiar triggers. Breathe Easy combines hypnosis with cognitive, behavioural and practical approaches to support smoking cessation.
Can hypnotherapy help someone stop vaping?
Hypnotherapy can also be used with clients who want to stop vaping. Although vaping and smoking are not identical behaviours, both can involve nicotine dependence alongside powerful habits, triggers, routines and learned associations. Breathe Easy provides a useful framework for vaping cessation, with the techniques and therapeutic approach adapted to reflect the individual client's vaping patterns and relationship with nicotine.
How does hypnotherapy for smoking and vaping cessation work?
Hypnotherapy for smoking and vaping cessation can involve working with the thoughts, habits, triggers and expectations that have become associated with nicotine use. Hypnosis provides an experiential way of working with some of these established responses, while wider therapeutic approaches can help clients understand their patterns, prepare for triggers and develop new habits as a non-smoker or non-vaper.
What will I learn in smoking cessation hypnotherapy training?
You'll learn how to assess a client's individual smoking or vaping patterns and identify some of the factors that may be maintaining their behaviour. Breathe Easy training explores nicotine dependence, habits and triggers alongside hypnosis, psychoeducation, cognitive and behavioural approaches and practical strategies, giving you a structured approach that can be adapted to clients who want to stop smoking or vaping.
Can hypnotherapy help with nicotine cravings and triggers?
Hypnotherapy can be used to work with some of the learned associations and automatic responses connected with nicotine cravings and familiar triggers. Because these vary considerably between clients, effective smoking and vaping cessation work should not rely on a single technique. Practitioners need to understand what maintains the individual's behaviour and help them develop different responses to those situations.
Is one hypnotherapy session enough to stop smoking or vaping?
Some clients may make significant changes following a single smoking or vaping cessation session, while others benefit from additional therapeutic support. There is no approach that can guarantee someone will stop after one session. Breathe Easy provides practitioners with a structured framework that can be adapted according to the client's history, individual needs and response to therapy.
Who is smoking and vaping cessation hypnotherapy training for?
Smoking and vaping cessation hypnotherapy training is designed for hypnotherapists and other appropriately trained therapeutic professionals who want to develop specialist skills in helping clients change their relationship with nicotine. Breathe Easy is particularly suited to practitioners who want to move beyond generic stop-smoking scripts and develop a broader approach that can be used with both smoking and vaping cessation.
Can I complete smoking and vaping cessation hypnotherapy training online?
Yes. Breathe Easy Smoking Cessation is available as flexible, self-paced online training. The course gives you an approach that can be used for both smoking and vaping cessation, allowing you to develop practical skills that can be incorporated into your existing hypnotherapy practice.
Breathe Easy Practitioner Training
Our understanding of smoking & vaping behaviour has changed considerably, moving away from the idea that stopping smoking is simply a matter of willpower. Smoking can be complex and individual, shaped by nicotine dependence, habits, emotions, social influences, expectations, routines, stress and the role cigarettes have come to play in everyday life. For hypnotherapists, understanding this complexity—and knowing how to work with the different factors that can maintain smoking behaviour—is essential when helping clients stop smoking and create meaningful, sustainable change.