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Clinical smoking-cessation hypnotherapy · Fremont & video

Put the cigarette down.
Leave the craving behind.

Three sessions. No patches, no gum, no white-knuckling it through week two. Prashant Rao has guided 400-odd smokers past the habit by working directly on the automatic urge — not just your resolve.

Book your free 15-minute call73% smoke-free after session two†

"The urge just went quiet."

Meera K., smoke-free 14 months

"You already know the health warnings. You've read the packet. What you haven't had is someone deal with the automatic reach for the pack — which is the part that actually keeps people smoking."

11.6

average years smoking before clients call Prashant

3.4

quit attempts made before they try hypnotherapy

73%

smoke-free by the end of session two

One program. Three sessions. A specific order.

Every client goes through the same sequence — the order matters more than any single script.

01

The intake session

50 minutes

We map exactly when and why you reach for a cigarette — stress, boredom, the drive home, the after-dinner ritual — before touching a single suggestion.

02

The rewiring session

75 minutes

Deep trance work targets the automatic behavior directly, so the craving loses its grip instead of you fighting it with willpower.

03

The lock-in session

40 minutes, two weeks later

A follow-up to reinforce the change and handle any situation that tried to pull you back — a wedding, a deadline, a hard week.

10 yrs

in practice

About Prashant

A former two-pack-a-day smoker who found the method that finally worked.

Prashant quit smoking himself in 2011 after nine years of trying — and failing — with patches, cold turkey, and sheer stubbornness. What finally worked was hypnotherapy, and it changed the direction of his career. He left a decade in operations management to train formally and has spent the last ten years focused almost entirely on tobacco cessation.

He runs a deliberately small practice out of Fremont, California, seeing at most six new clients a month so every case gets his full attention through all three sessions.

  • Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, National Guild of Hypnotists
  • Advanced training in tobacco-cessation protocols, 2014
  • Over 400 smoking clients seen since 2016
  • Member, American Society of Clinical Hypnosis

Clients who put it down for good.

I'd tried patches, gum, an app that fined me money. Three sessions with Prashant and the thought of a cigarette just went quiet. It's been fourteen months.

Meera Kadam

quit after 19 years, 1 pack a day

I went in skeptical — I'm an engineer, I like evidence. He walked me through the mechanism before we started. The session itself felt less like magic and more like maintenance.

Derek Oyelaran

quit after 8 years, roll-ups

The thing nobody tells you is how loud the urge to smoke is in your own head. After session two, mine dropped to a whisper. I keep waiting for it to come back. It hasn't.

Priya Chandrasekaran

quit after 11 years, socially plus stress

Questions before you call.

Patches and gum manage the nicotine craving while the mental trigger — reaching for a cigarette when you're stressed, bored, or driving — stays fully intact. Hypnotherapy works on that trigger directly, so there's less to resist in the first place.

No. You stay awake and aware the entire time — it's closer to a state of deep, focused relaxation than sleep. Most clients say it feels like a very good nap with a conversation running underneath it.

The program is three sessions over roughly three weeks. About seven in ten clients are smoke-free after the second session; the third locks it in. If you need extra support beyond that, follow-ups are billed at a reduced rate — never a new package.

If you attend all three sessions, follow the between-session guidance, and are still smoking, the third session is repeated at no charge. Full terms are covered on the intake call.

In-person at the Fremont practice on weekdays, or over video for clients outside the Bay Area. The technique works the same either way.

Free 15-minute call

Tell Prashant about your smoking, and he'll tell you honestly if this will work for you.

No pressure, no sales script. Just a straightforward conversation about your habit and whether the three-session program fits.

(510) 555-0148
prashant@quietmindhypnotherapy.com
37800 Niles Blvd, Fremont, CA — or by video