Smoking Cessation Hypnotherapy Practitioner Course

Quitting smoking, as with quitting any addiction, is not easy. Many smokers will have already tried other methods of giving up the habit, generally through will power or low doses of nicotine, alone. Where hypnosis differs, and why it works, is that is alters the mindset and subconscious of the smoker, rather than trying to ignore or mask cravings. The Smoking Cessation Hypnotherapy Practitioner Course gives students all the tools they need to help their clients to give up smoking, by employing powerful hypnotherapy techniques.

Who Would Benefit from the Course?

With its comprehensive study materials, the Smoking Cessation Hypnotherapy Practitioner Course is accessible to anyone, regardless of previous study or experience. While novices to hypnotherapy are able to take the course, with its specialised role within hypnotherapy this course is also excellent for existing hypnotherapy practitioners or students to work through, to add this topic to their current services or knowledge base.

What You'll Learn from the Smoking Cessation Hypnotherapy Practitioner Course

1. Getting to Know Your Client
2. Working With Your Client
3. Trust and Rapport
4. Hypnosis 101
5. Induction techniques
6. Hypnosis Scripts
7. Specialized Techniques
8. Creating Custom Scripts
9. Business Vision and Marketing

Course SyllabusModule 1: Getting to Know Your Client

• Introduction
• Hypnosis Sessions in This Course
• The Dangers of Smoking
• Five Stages of Change
• Stages of Change Model
• The Client Interview
• The Client Interview Process
• Background history - intake form
• Module 1 Self-Assessment

Module 2: Working With Your Client

• Explaining How Hypnosis Works
• Autonomic nervous system
• Memories
• Stage Hypnosis
• How does Self-hypnosis work?
• Visualization
• The Lemon Test
• How to Test Hypnotic Imagination
• Lemon Cutting Script
• Typical Questions You Might Be Asked
• Suggestibility Tests
• Hypnosis Benefits
• Pricing Your Sessions - How Many Do They Need?
• Put it Down on Paper - Is Your Client Ready to Quit?
• Identifying Triggers - Roadblocks to Success
• The Art of Script-Writing
• Setting SMART Goals
• Creating Custom Suggestions
• 100+ Typical Smoking Cessation Hypnotic Suggestions
• Typical Forms
• SMART Goal Worksheet
• Goal Setting Worksheet - Step One
• Goal Setting Worksheet - Step Two
• Creating Custom Suggestions - Step One
• Creating Custom Suggestions - Step Two
• Client Questionnaire
• List of ten "positive suggestions" associated with this goal
• Intake Appraisal Form
• Session Notes
• Smoking Cessation Client Questionnaire
• Release Statement - Please Sign
• Consent to Film
• Module 2 Self-Assessment

Module 3: Trust and Rapport

• Building Trust and Rapport
• Indicators of Rapport
• Matching and Mirroring
• Representational systems
• Sensory Acuity
• Practicing With Your Voice
• Enlisting Support From Family and Friends
• The Four D's
• Module 3 Self-Assessment

Module 4: Hypnosis 101

• What is Hypnosis and How Does it Work?
• Getting the Mind and Body in Sync
• The Power of Hypnotic Suggestions
• Hypnotic Language Patterns
• Advanced Hypnotic Language Techniques
• Words that Move
• Conversational Hypnosis
• The 4 Stage Hypnotic Protocol
• Typical Embedded Commands
• Typical Weasel Phrases
• Signs of Trance
• Module 4 Self-Assessment

Module 5: Induction techniques

• Typical Progressive Relaxation Induction
• Eye-Fixation Induction Method
• Rapid Induction Techniques
• Rapid Eye De-Focus
• Direct Gaze Method
• Rhythmic eye Movement
• Pattern Breaking
• Alternate Pattern Breaking Induction
• Magnetic Field Inductions
• Hand Rotation Induction
• Module 5 Self-Assessment

Module 6: Hypnosis Scripts

• Session 1 - The Smoking Bully - Self-Sabotage
• Session 2 - The Five Stages of Change
• Session 3 - The Rotting Garbage Dump
• Session 4 - A Fork in the Road - Overcoming Obstacles
• Session 5 - Self-Sabotage and Parts Therapy
• Session 6 - Remain a Non-Smoker
• Session 7 - Complete Freedom
• Self-Hypnosis Session
• Read Aloud Stop Smoking in its Tracks Self-Hypnosis

Module 7: Specialized Techniques

• Reframing Technique
• NLP Sub modalities - Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic
• The Swish Technique
• Swish Pattern
• Systematic Desensitization
• Post-Hypnotic Suggestions and Anchoring
• Therapeutic Metaphors
• Metaphors for Smoking Cessation
• Regression Techniques
• Module 7 Self-Assessment

Module 8: Creating Custom Scripts

• A Step-by-Step Guide to Effective Hypnosis
• Hypnosis Program Tips
• Advanced Techniques to Try
• Module 8 Self-Assessment

Module 9: Business Vision and Marketing

• Business Vision
• How to Attract Clients
• Will You Make a Profit?
• Who is Your Ideal Client?
• Ways to Attract Clients
• Advertising
• Social Media Marketing
• Module 9 Self-Assessment

Conclusion: Putting it All Together

Final Assessment

References

The Smoking Cessation Hypnotherapy Practitioner Course will take you up to 150 hours to complete working from home. There is no time limit for completing this course, it can be studied in your own time at your own pace. The course comes with a course assessment in the form of quizzes, written questions and short essays, once you have completed your course assessment please email or post it back to us for marking, you will then receive your feedback and certificates.

This course is ideal for those that wish to work as a Hypnotherapy Smoking Cessation practitioner or those that want to add more techniques to their therapeutic tool box.

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Certificate of completion

Digital certificate - Included