Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for smoking cessation – let us help you stop smoking
Smoking cessation with CBT - break the cycle & let us help you stop smoking. At Pinnacle we offer specialist Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to quit smoking
Smoking cessation therapy explained
Smoking is one of the biggest causes of death and illness in the UK. It is responsible for around 78,000 deaths each year and increases your chance of developing more than 50 serious health conditions. Some may be fatal, and others can cause irreversible long-term damage to your health.
Stopping smoking can be difficult, many people get trapped in an endless cycle of trying to quit and taking it up again. Smoking is both physical and psychological - it affects both mind and body. Giving up is not easy, this is where we can help.
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Physical and psychological dependence
Nicotine is the addictive substance found in cigarettes; there are two strands to nicotine dependency that make successful quitting so difficult.
The physical side is well documented: cravings, irritability, low mood, and lack of concentration. Although these symptoms can feel insurmountable at the time, they peak relatively early and gradually disappear.
A psychological dependency can be just as hard to overcome as a physical dependency. We will work with you to uncover and understand your triggers, habits and behaviours. For example, why do you always have a cigarette at the end of a meal? Or do you smoke to calm your nerves, overcome shyness, or even boredom? By understanding these triggers we can increase your success rate of quitting for good.
Our approach - using CBT for smoking cessation
We believe that therapy is an effective way to help you quit smoking. The use of therapy helps to target both the symptoms, the cause(s) and the triggers behind your addiction.
We understand that ‘one size doesn’t fit all’ and that each of our clients is different and has their own set of unique needs and circumstances. We use a combination of therapies for smoking cessation, one of the primary treatments is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
What is CBT
CBT is about looking at the relationship between your thoughts and feelings, and how they make you ‘default’ to certain behaviours. It’s seen as a different kind of ‘talking therapy’ that aims to solve a person’s current problems. In effect it helps you become your own therapist, where you use the skills you have learned.
By using CBT, we can help make you aware of what your own defaults are: sometimes they help us, sometimes they don’t – CBT helps you recognise those different responses for what they are.
“We all have our default ways of dealing with situations. Most of us aren’t even aware of what they are. And some of the time they work. But like a tradesmen who turns up to every job with the same couple of tools, there will be situations where those tools just aren’t the right ones. CBT is particularly helpful in treating someone who wants to stop smoking. Therapy helps make you aware and gives you a versatile practical set of life skills to become more agile and resilient for whatever life throws at you.”
Richard Reid - CEO, Therapist & Coaching Psychologist
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How Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for smoking cessation helps
CBT has good results when applied to someone who wants to stop smoking. Using cognitive therapy, your therapist can help you to tackle negative thought patterns and trigger points you may direct at yourself or that you perceive from the world around you.
After you have recognised when these negative thoughts and trigger points occur, you can work to replace them with something more rational and positive which will allow you to build and develop your confidence, change your behaviours and stop smoking for good.
CBT is a way to rewire the software of your brain, rehearsing troubling situations in your mind in order to create alternative ways of thinking when that situation arises again. In effect, you’re creating new mental circuitry by challenging and changing old responses that feel hardwired in, but aren’t.
With CBT, the therapist acknowledges that there may be behaviours that you cannot control through rational thought. Rather, these harmful coping strategies are as a result of prior conditioning from the environment and other internal or external stimuli.
By taking (what can feel like) insurmountable tasks and teaching you how to apply a pragmatic and objective viewpoint to these issues, CBT gradually changes the way you look at everyday challenges.
What can you expect from a CBT smoking cessation session?
Our therapy sessions are tailored to suit your needs. Sessions usually lasts from 30 minutes to an hour; and courses usually consist of around 6 to 12 sessions.
“How can I thank you? I smoked for over 20 years until I came to see you. For what you do, you don’t charge enough!”
Jim, Twickenham, London
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