Quit Smoking · Hypnosis session
Quit Smoking Hypnosis Is Sold on Percentages. Here Is What the Trials Found.
About A$244 for ten sessions, which makes this the dearest thing on the site. No trial has ever tested a hypnosis recording for smoking — not a weak one, not one. So everything arguing against buying this sits above the price, and the free number with better evidence behind it comes first.
I earn a commission when someone buys a session through this site. It doesn’t change what you pay, and it doesn’t decide what I recommend.
Does this sound like your version of it?
- The first one on the back step at six, before the house wakes
- A quit date that has moved so often you stopped announcing it
- Patches in a drawer that you gave four days
- You stopped saying the real number, including to your GP
- Outside a restaurant in the cold, calling it a choice
Three of those and the page is for you. If none is your version, something narrower will suit better.
What does the evidence on hypnosis and smoking actually say?
Less than you have been told, and it fits in one sentence. Barnes and colleagues reviewed hypnotherapy for smoking cessation for the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews in June 2019: fourteen studies, 1,926 participants. Their conclusion, verbatim:
“There is insufficient evidence to determine whether hypnotherapy is more effective for smoking cessation than other forms of behavioural support or unassisted quitting. If a benefit is present, current evidence suggests the benefit is small at most.”
Two things there matter more than the conclusion. Of the fourteen trials only one was judged at low risk of bias; ten were high risk, three unclear. And the search closed on 18 July 2018, eight years ago, with no update since. Against attention-matched behavioural support the pooled risk ratio was 1.21, confidence interval 0.91 to 1.61, from six studies and 957 people — an interval that includes no effect. Cochrane rated all of it low to very low certainty.
Every one of those trials put a therapist in a room with a person. None tested what is for sale here.
Before anything on this page: Quitline is 13 7848Its counsellors do multi-session, tailored behavioural counselling, for vaping as well as smoking. The counselling is free — a call you make costs a standard call, and a callback you ask for costs you nothing. My QuitBuddy, from the federal health department, and iCanQuit, from the Cancer Institute NSW, are free too. All three have more evidence behind them than anything I could sell you.
That is not a courtesy line. Telephone counselling has its own Cochrane review, Matkin 2019: 104 trials, 111,653 participants, risk ratio 1.38 (95% CI 1.19 to 1.61), moderate certainty.
The comparison that ought to decide thisModerate certainty from 111,653 people, against low to very low from 1,926. And not one of the 1,926 was listening to a recording.
10 Steps to Become a Non SmokerUS$175.00 · instant download · full refund within 90 days if it isn’t right.
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“This is for someone who has already rung Quitline and had the GP conversation. It won’t make you a non-smoker on its own, and no trial has ever tested a recording for this. At A$244 the refund window is doing a lot of work.”
10 Steps to Become a Non Smoker
US$175.00one-off · no subscription · about A$244
I earn a commission if you buy through this page. It doesn’t change what you pay, and it doesn’t decide what I recommend.
Ninety days to change your mind, nothing to justify. Checkout opens on hypnosisdownloads.com in a new tab; priced in US dollars, and some cards add a foreign-transaction fee.
The publisher reports 4,579 purchases of this title.
What does this cost, and what would the same thing cost in a room?
The course is US$175.00. At 1.3967, checked 3 September 2026, that is about A$244, plus whatever your card adds to a US charge. Nine times anything else I recommend here, and the number belongs early rather than in your basket.
Now the comparison the trade would rather you made. Single quit-smoking sessions are advertised in Australia at $350, $450, $495, $550 and $795; a Perth clinic’s guide, current as at August 2026, gives $375 to $550. A NSW provider, publishing on 1 April 2026, says fees “typically range between $250 and $995 for a full program”. There is no Medicare rebate for hypnotherapy in Australia, so beyond a small extras benefit from some funds, it is out of pocket.
So A$244 sits under the in-person price, and it is not the same product. A clinician watches your face, changes tack when something lands badly, and can tell you this approach is wrong for you. Recordings do none of that. They play the same words in the same order whether they reach you or not.
Why does every other page promise you a percentage?
Because it sells, and nobody checks. In September 2026 I went through nine Australian quit-smoking hypnotherapy websites. Seven published a percentage, spread from 60% to 100% — the last one asterisked.
Set beside the Cochrane conclusion — insufficient evidence, a benefit small at most — the live claims are hard to square: “95.6% of our clients NEVER pick up nicotine again after the first visit”, “98% success rate”, “our LONG TERM success rate easily exceeds 90%”. Not one of the nine mentioned that review, or the low certainty. Not one pointed a reader to Quitline; one mentioned it only to contrast it unfavourably with its own service. I am naming none of them: the pattern is the point, and a hit list is marketing of a different kind.
For scale: the best-evidenced twelve-month figure in this literature is 15.0%, from ninety-minute group sessions with trained therapists in Germany.
What can you do this week that costs nothing?
Four things, in the order the evidence puts them. I would want you doing the first before you read another word here.
- Ring Quitline on 13 7848, or book a callback
Not a consolation prize and not a recorded message: multi-session behavioural counselling, tailored to you, with 104 trials and 111,653 participants behind the approach at moderate certainty.
The counselling costs nothing, and a callback costs you nothing. Aboriginal Quitline, interpreters and the National Relay Service are available.
- Install one of the free apps tonight
My QuitBuddy comes from the federal health department and covers smoking and vaping; iCanQuit comes from the Cancer Institute NSW. Both free, neither advertising.
They do not replace the phone call. They fill the gap between counselling sessions, where a quit attempt comes apart.
- Ask your GP about subsidised medication, by name
Patches are the only form of nicotine replacement subsidised on the PBS — not gum, not lozenges. Varenicline and bupropion SR are PBS-listed through Streamlined Authority. Since January 2026 the general co-payment is up to $25.00 a prescription, $7.70 with a concession card.
And the PBS requires subsidised quit medication to be paired with counselling. The system paying for your patches already assumes you rang Quitline.
- Practise not obeying a craving, twice a day
A craving behaves like weather rather than an instruction. It arrives, climbs and drops away over a few minutes whether or not you smoke, and answering it teaches it that answering is how it ends.
So pick two a day and do nothing with them. Name it once — there is the thought that I want one — then carry on, hands busy. I am attaching no number to that, because the published numbers come from other people’s cravings.
So can hypnosis help you stop smoking at all?
The largest and cleanest trial is Batra and colleagues, in Frontiers in Psychology in 2024, run at two German centres: 360 adults randomised, 359 analysed, six weekly ninety-minute group sessions in both arms, abstinence confirmed by carbon monoxide reading. At twelve months, continuous abstinence was 15.6% for cognitive behavioural therapy and 15.0% for hypnotherapy.
Read that carefully. It was designed as a superiority trial — the authors expected CBT to win — and failed to find a difference. No equivalence margin was set in advance, so it cannot tell you the two are equal, only that it detected no gap. On seven-day point-prevalence abstinence there was a gap, running the other way: 21.2% for CBT against 16.7% for hypnotherapy, significant at p=0.043 once suggestibility was controlled for. Two authors declare they are “members of the scientific board of the Milton Erickson Society for Clinical Hypnosis, Germany”, and the data were collected in 2010 to 2012 and published twelve years later.
The most favourable trial is weaker again: Hasan and colleagues, 2014, hospitalised cardiac and pulmonary patients at one US centre, 36.6% abstinent at 26 weeks against 18.0% on nicotine replacement, in arms of under forty. Cochrane judged its selective reporting at high risk of bias, could not tell how many participants were biochemically validated, included it anyway — and still concluded there is insufficient evidence.
What nobody has tested is the format you are looking at
Not once. The one Cochrane study using a recording gave it alongside two in-person sessions, three phone calls and two months of nicotine patches, so it says nothing about a file on its own. The nearest randomised test of recorded hypnosis sits in another condition entirely: Eaton and colleagues, 2023, gave 109 cancer survivors recorded hypnosis or recorded relaxation for 28 days and found “no significant between-group differences”.
I have worked with hundreds of smokers across fourteen years and I have a view of what the work does. That is experience, not evidence, and I am not dressing the first up as the second on a page asking you for A$244.
What is actually in the ten sessions?
Ten separate guided recordings, worked through in order rather than played once, from a publisher releasing this material since 1998. A course in the sense that it wants weeks of you. There is no preview, and I am quoting no running time I cannot verify.
10 Steps to Become a Non Smoker
US$175.00About A$244 at 1.3967, checked 3 September 2026 · one-off, no subscription.
- Ten sessions, worked through in order across weeks, not one recording played once
- Instant MP3 downloads plus the publisher’s app, unlimited listens
- No preview exists, so the refund window carries the risk, not a sample
- For someone already using Quitline or a GP’s plan, wanting evening work
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Is there a cheaper way to find out whether this suits you?
Yes, and this is the most useful paragraph here. The nicotine cravings session is US$18.95, about A$27, and carries a free preview you can play without spending anything. Voice is the commonest reason a hypnosis recording does nothing for someone, and this course has no sample.
So play it. If the voice puts your teeth on edge you have saved A$244. If not, spend the twenty-seven dollars, use it a fortnight, and find out whether this way of working reaches you before spending nine times more.
That advice costs me most of the commission, and it is still the right order.
Figures the publisher reports about itself: trading since 1998, 24,000-odd people trained in person, and 4,579 purchases of this course — roughly seven times its next best seller here.
All self-reported, none of it an outcome. A purchase count tells you what people bought, not what happened next.
Who is this course wrong for?
Two groups, and the first is most people reading this. If you have not rung Quitline, and not asked a GP about subsidised patches, you have not tried the things with the evidence behind them. A$244 first is the wrong order.
The second group is anyone for whom A$244 is a stretch. Don’t spend it here. Everything in the free section above is genuinely free, and the money is better kept for patches or for one session with a person who can answer you.
- You have not called Quitline, or asked a GP what is subsidised.
- A$244 would come off something else that matters.
- You want a promise that you will stop. Nobody can make one.
- A heart or lung condition has changed and nobody has reviewed it.
- Your smoking is holding down a mood problem nobody is treating.
- You have had thoughts of harming yourself, or of not wanting to be here.
Any of those and what you want is an appointment with someone who can sit with you and change tack when it isn’t working.
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Common questions about quit-smoking hypnosis
Does hypnosis work for quitting smoking?
The 2019 Cochrane review of fourteen trials and 1,926 participants found insufficient evidence to determine whether hypnotherapy beats other behavioural support or unassisted quitting, and said any benefit is small at most. Only one of the fourteen trials was judged at low risk of bias, and the search closed in July 2018.
Why do so many hypnotherapists advertise a percentage?
Because it sells and nobody audits it. Of nine Australian quit-smoking hypnotherapy sites checked in September 2026, seven published a figure, spread from 60% to 100%, and none mentioned the Cochrane review or the low certainty of the evidence. The best-evidenced twelve-month result in the literature is 15.0%.
What does quit-smoking hypnotherapy cost in Australia?
Single sessions are advertised at $350 to $795, and one NSW provider’s published range for a full program runs from $250 to $995. There is no Medicare rebate for hypnotherapy in Australia, though some funds pay a small extras benefit, so the fees are mostly out of pocket. This course is about A$244.
Is Quitline really better than paying for this?
On evidence, yes. Telephone counselling carries 104 trials and 111,653 participants at moderate certainty, against 1,926 participants at low to very low certainty for hypnotherapy. Quitline is 13 7848, the counselling is free, and a callback you request costs you nothing. Nothing on this page outranks that.
Are nicotine patches subsidised in Australia?
Patches are the only form of nicotine replacement subsidised on the PBS. Varenicline and bupropion SR are PBS-listed through Streamlined Authority. Since January 2026 the general co-payment is up to $25.00 a prescription, and $7.70 with a concession card. The PBS also requires subsidised quit medication to be paired with counselling.
What if the course does nothing for me?
You email the publisher with your order number and they refund you in full inside 90 days, without asking why. One refund per customer. Nobody can tell in advance whether recordings suit a particular person, and with no preview here that window is all that stands between you and a A$244 mistake.
Other sessions that may fit you better
- Nicotine CravingsUS$18.95, free preview — the cheap way to hear the voice first
- Quit VapingIf it is a vape rather than cigarettes
- The vaping and nicotine guideWhat the law says, and what is free
- Does hypnosis work for quitting smoking?The evidence against me, and the free option that works better, in full.
Whatever you decide about buying, ring 13 7848 this week and ask your GP what goes on a script. Both are free or near enough, and both have more behind them than anything I sell.
Ernest McLeod — clinical hypnotherapist. An Adelaide practice, seeing clients across Australia by video. Fourteen years in practice.
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Ten sessions, and three months to change your mind
If you have made the call and had the GP conversation and want something for the evenings, this is the price.
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These are self-help audio sessions, not medical treatment, a diagnosis, or a substitute for professional care. No recording is claimed to make anyone stop smoking. Quitline is 13 7848 and its counselling is free. Nicotine replacement, varenicline and bupropion are decisions for your doctor, and nothing here is a reason to change a medicine. New chest symptoms, breathlessness or an altered cough need a doctor, not a download. Never listen at the wheel. If you have epilepsy, check with whoever manages it.