Its good to get all the help you can when giving up smoking. One of the new techniques that is becoming increasingly popular is the use of hypnotherapy. Now hypnotherapy has a jokey background, when people talk about being hypnotised they imagine people walking about on stage clucking like a chicken acting completely out of sorts, or the famous sketch from Little Britain “look around the eyes, not in the eyes, just around the eyes”. Now these kind of affects can be achieved but they will not help you give up smoking. You can however to get hypnotised to help kick that habit. Smoking has both physiological and psychological affects on the body, using nicotine patches and nicotine gum will assist with the cravings, but there is always that psychological affect, that wanting to hold a cigarette to your lips, with hypnotherapy you can restructure those cognitive lines to block out the need to puff on that cigarette, therefore reducing the cravings of smoking.