Nicotine Replacement Therapy - Does It Work?

You might feel like you’ve tried everything - nicotine patches, gum, even medications like varenicline - to quit smoking. And maybe, for a while, they seemed to help. But here’s the catch: instead of freeing you from nicotine, they’ve just kept it circulating in your system. You didn’t break free - you just changed the way you take it.

It’s like giving up heroin but still taking methadone every day - you haven’t really broken free, you’ve just swapped one chain for another. Real freedom comes when your body and mind are both done with it completely, like all those days before you ever started using it. Remember those days?

Nicotine replacement therapy might help you to stop smoking, but if you’re still inducing the chemical every day, have you really solved the problem?

Here’s a truth that most people don’t hear often enough and should bring you some hope:

After 72 hours of not smoking - just 3 days - nicotine is completely out of your system.

So if you're still feeling that itch to light up a cigarette on day 4 or 14 or 40... it's not about nicotine anymore.

It's about habit.

The Smoking Habit

Smoking becomes woven into your life. It’s the pause at work. The deep breath when stress hits. The reward after a meal. The going for a drinks with friends. The moment of “me time.”

What you're fighting now isn’t a chemical. It’s a deeply ingrained behaviour. A well-trodden mental pathway. A familiar comfort, even if it’s costing you your health.

And that’s where hypnotherapy comes in.

Why Hypnotherapy Works

Hypnotherapy bypasses willpower. It works at the level where the habit lives - your unconscious mind.

You weren’t born with the urge to smoke. It was learned. Repeated. Reinforced.
And anything that can be learned can be unlearned.

Through hypnotherapy, we speak to the part of you that runs that habitual behaviour, not to punish or shame it, but to understand it. Often, it's trying to soothe you. Allow you to fit in. To bring you comfort.

We help that part discover better ways to meet your needs - calm, connection, confidence - without cigarettes or nicotine.

Consider This:

• You don’t need to stay hooked on nicotine substitutes.
  After three days, your body has already dispensed it completely.

• Behaviours are learned and can be unlearned.
  Everyone who has ever quit smoking has learnt to live without it, and you can too.

• You already have everything you need to change.
  The strength, the courage, the wisdom. Tt’s all there. Hypnotherapy simply helps you access it.

Imagine This

Waking up and not thinking about cigarettes or nicotine.
Handling stress without lighting up.
Feeling genuinely free - not just from nicotine, but from the grip the whole thing had on you.

That’s what happens when you deal with the real issue - the pattern, not the product.

Evergreen Hypnotherapy
Helping you breathe easier - one step at a time.