Habits & Addictions
Hypnosis to quit cannabis
Step fully away from cannabis into a clear, present mind.
Quit Cannabis is a session for the evenings you do not want to lose, and it rehearses meeting an urge with a slow breath rather than reaching for something else.
It spends its time on the moments when the craving rises and falls without anything changing in your hands. The focus stays on a clear mind and evenings that are fully yours again.
You close the door and the evening is yours for a few hours, but the habit has already taken them. The bag comes out and the time disappears until the room is hazy and nothing got done.
You wake up the next day knowing you spent another night avoiding your own thoughts instead of resting.
What’s in it
A clear, present mind and the quiet freedom of evenings that are fully your own again.
Why do it
Each session rehearses meeting the urge with a slow breath instead of reaching, so the next craving is smaller and staying free gets easier.
- Theme
- Habits & Addictions
- Delivery styles
- 3
- Lengths
- Quick ~10mStandard ~20mDeep ~45m
- Ends
- Calm and present
- Stages
- 4
- On this shelf
- 23 sessions
Timeline: Start to Finish
The build focuses on the urge cresting and passing. The session spends its middle minutes growing the quiet freedom of a clear, present mind, so you are ready when the evening arrives.
3 of the 4 stages are named techniques with a published origin, credited under each.
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InductionStage 16 min
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
A classic head-to-toe relaxation. Tense and release, or simply soften, each muscle group in sequence.
After Edmund Jacobson PMR (1929); Dave Elman Hypnotherapy · what progressive muscle relaxation is
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DeepenerStage 23 min
Staircase Descent
Visualized stairs descending into a deeper level of trance. Each step takes you down.
After Ledochowski, Deep Trance Training Manual
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Suggestion ScriptStage 310 min
Quit Cannabis — Balanced
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AwakeningStage 42 min
Calm Alert Awakening
Awake and present, but calm rather than energized. Good for evening or pre-meeting use.
After Yapko, Trancework
Three ways to say it
The same goal, written three ways. You pick the one that sounds like something you would believe — and you can hear a different one tomorrow without rebuilding anything.
Balanced
A warm, shame-free session that clears the mind, lets the urge crest and pass, and grows the quiet freedom of a clear, present life.
Future self
Meet the clear-minded, free version of you a week, a month, a year ahead and bring that ease back to today.
New identity
Step into being a clear, present person now, with the habit a closed chapter and no shame to carry.
Where it sits
The things you keep doing, and stopping doing them.
Before you press play
Hypnosis is not for everyone. If you have epilepsy, a psychotic illness, or you are under psychiatric care, talk to your clinician before using this — here or anywhere.
Why this works — and what the research actually says
Group-level, not session-level: no study has tested this exact session, and we will not pretend otherwise. Every source below was opened and read on 2026-08-25 before it was quoted.
Why do it as hypnosis?
The urge is not a problem of logic; it is a habit that lives in the moment of feeling tense or bored. This works by letting you meet that moment in a safe place and rehearsing a slow breath instead of reaching.
Nothing forces you to stop; the repetition simply makes it easier to stay clear and present.
Quitting smoking: the honest answer is that nobody knows yet
Cochrane grades medical evidence for a living. It reviewed 14 trials of hypnotherapy for quitting smoking, covering 1,926 people followed for at least six months.
Its verdict was not that it works, and not that it fails — it was that there is not enough good evidence to tell. If there is a benefit, they say it is small at most.
- 14 randomised trials, 1,926 people, followed six months or more
- Verdict: insufficient evidence either way
- Only 1 of the 14 trials was judged at low risk of bias
Worth knowing: The review rates its own evidence as ranging "from low to very low certainty, as there was not enough information and many of the studies had issues with their designs".
One study was judged at low risk of bias overall, ten at high risk and three unclear. On safety, most studies did not report whether adverse events were even collected.
The exact wording and figures
A Cochrane review pooled 14 randomised controlled trials with 1,926 participants.
Its conclusion: "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."
We sell sessions for this. We are showing you the review that declines to endorse them, because you should know what the evidence says before you decide.
Barnes J, McRobbie H, Dong CY, Walker N, Hartmann-Boyce J (2019). Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, CD001008.
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