I had been smoking since the age of 14 and managed to give up after 34 years in 2018. The only way I gave up was to switch to vapes as I believed this to be better for me, which I soon started to do more that smoking real cigarettes and so this became a real addiction for 6 years. I had enjoyed smoking throughout my life, all of my friends and peers smoked, and it was part of what we had done together.

Bored have a cig, drinking have a cig, dancing with a cig, driving have a cig, on the beach have a cig, after dinner in a restaurant have a cig. I even remember smoking on aeroplanes at the back and upstairs on a bus, it’s crazy really. But it was part of that era, that time we all done it.

I wanted to stop vaping but was scared, it was part of who I am, what would I do instead. I couldn’t do it; I would miss it.

I heard about Sarah and her smoke free hypnotherapy session. I decided to give it a go and was apprehensive and worried about stopping because I would miss it so much. I didn’t think it would work.

I contacted Sarah who got back to me immediately with questionnaires for me to fill in for her. I done this and sent them back, we booked a date to go smoke free. The night before I smoked my vapes with my friends, delicious coconut, and melon, I felt bereft and didn’t want to go if I am honest.

I met Sarah at her clinic in Hove, I was nervous and already grieving my vape. Sarah was friendly, calming and reassuring and I felt at ease straight away (although thinking about my lovely melon and coconut vape) we sat down and chatted and the session began, I wasn’t convinced that anything was happening as I kept thinking about vaping. After the 2hr session I was suddenly sitting chatting with Sarah and didn’t know what to think. The time had flown by since I walked through the door.

I left with a list of things to do which is so easy to follow. I had to listen to a recording of part of the session twice a week which is 26 minutes. It’s a good excuse to have a chill. It was so funny to hear myself snoring on the recording whilst Sarah talks to me and although I thought I had been fully alert throughout the hypnotherapy session I clearly wasn’t, she had tapped into my subconscious and was in control of my mind.

Anyway, what you all want to know is does it work?......YES IT BLOOMIN DOES! For me it has been life changing I haven’t vaped for 3 months and I neither want to or even think about it. Now I have been in every situation possible where I would normally vape, on holiday, at the pub with friends, camping, dinner and wine at friends’ houses, in the garden relaxing, nobody can believe it.

I can’t believe it is me writing this, I feel like I have never even been a smoker.

Sarah is a miracle worker, and I will be eternally grateful to her for changing my life and making me smoke free. It’s such a feeling of freedom to be free of this stupid addiction and habit and a sense or such relief that I am no longer poisoning myself with these awful vapes.

If you have any doubts that is normal as I did but I would say, try it, you will be pleasantly surprised and most importantly be smoke free!

Thank you Sarah!