Sarah Jons | Therapy & Breathwork
If you’re fed up of planning your day around cigarettes, hiding it, bargaining with yourself, or feeling like you’re permanently “quitting soon” — this is the kind of stop smoking work built for that.
This is an intensive session (around 2 hours). It’s designed to give you what you need to stop, without dragging it out for weeks.
Sessions: online worldwide and in person in London (Barbican & Bounds Green).
Investment: £295 (GBP).
Smoking usually runs on a predictable loop: trigger → urge → cigarette → short relief → stronger learning next time.
The point of this work is to interrupt that learning and update the automatic response — so you’re not stuck riding it out.
Also: this is the work that brought me here. I stopped smoking myself after seeing a hypnotherapist many years ago. It finally stuck because we dealt with the habit where it actually lives: expectation, identity, and automatic response.
Evidence note: Hypnotherapy isn’t a gimmick. It’s a structured way of changing subconscious habit responses. Reviews suggest it can help some people stop smoking, especially when the work targets cues, cravings and expectation (e.g., Barnes et al., 2010; Lynn et al., 2010).
Length: around 2 hours.
Before we meet, I send you a pre‑session questionnaire so I’m not guessing. It covers triggers, routines, smoking history, previous quit attempts, and any linked habits.
In the session, we do the subconscious work and then future‑rehearse the risky moments — stress, pubs, driving, after meals, work breaks — so your brain has a new plan ready.
For many people, one intensive session is enough. If there’s more going on underneath (heavy substance use, trauma load, complex anxiety), we’ll be straight about what’s realistic.
It’s an intensive session (2 hours). For many people, that single session is enough. If smoking is tightly linked with heavy drinking, cannabis use, or deeper trauma responses, we’ll talk honestly about whether extra support makes sense.
You don’t need to feel confident, but you do need to be motivated.
This work works best when you want to stop. If a partner is dragging you here, or you’re doing it to keep someone else happy, it usually doesn’t stick. That’s not a failure — it’s just how habit change works.
If you’re still bargaining with yourself (“after this trip”, “after this deadline”, “once work calms down”), that’s a sign to pause rather than push. In that case, a short conversation first is often more useful than booking from a pressure or panic moment.
When there’s willingness and a clear decision — even if you’re nervous — this work has something solid to work with.
Both. Online is straightforward and often easier logistically. In person is there if you prefer being in the room.
A slip doesn’t have to become a relapse. We build a plan for high‑risk moments and for what to do if you wobble, so you don’t spiral into all‑or‑nothing thinking.
Investment: £295 (GBP) for the intensive stop smoking session (around 2 hours).
If you want to ask a question first: send an enquiry.