Vaping & Nicotine · Hypnosis session
Hypnosis to Quit Vaping Has Never Been Tested. Not Once.
Fewer Australians vape than did three years ago. The ones who haven’t stopped are more likely to be daily users, which is a harder quit than the one in the headlines. The best-evidenced help is free, and here it sits above the buy button.
Quit Vaping
Twenty-nine minutes, aimed at the automatic reach for the device and the tension underneath it, rather than at the nicotine itself, which is what a pharmacist and Quitline are for.
US$18.95one-off · no subscription · about A$27
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Chosen by Ernest McLeodClinical hypnotherapist. An Adelaide practice, seeing clients across Australia by video. Fourteen years in practice. About Ernest →
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Is this roughly where you are?
- A charger in the car, a spare in the drawer
- First one before the kettle boils, last with the light off
- You took it up to get off cigarettes, and that worked
- You have quit for a Tuesday, twice
- Someone at home stopped asking, which was worse
Two of those and this page is for you. If none fit, the sessions below are sorted differently.
Before anything on this page: Quitline is 13 7848Its counsellors support people quitting vaping as well as smoking. The counselling is free — a call you make costs a standard call, and a callback costs you nothing. My QuitBuddy, from the federal Department of Health, and Pave, from the Cancer Institute NSW, are free apps doing the same job. All three have more evidence behind them than anything I could sell you.
Why is the quit harder now than it was three years ago?
Not because more people are doing it. Fewer are. The AIHW’s National Drug Strategy Household Survey 2025, released 20 August 2026 from more than 17,500 Australians aged 14 and over, put current vaping among 18 to 24 year olds at 14.0 per cent, down from 20.6. Among 14 to 17 year olds it fell from 9.7 to 6.4. Across everyone 14 and over, 7.0 to 6.0.
The useful part sits underneath it. Occasional use collapsed while daily use held roughly steady, so about six in ten current users now vape every day — 8.3 per cent of all 18 to 24 year olds. The social vaper left. The hourly one didn’t, and that is a different quit.
Quit VapingUS$18.95 · instant download · full refund within 90 days if it isn’t right.
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Has anyone ever tested hypnosis for quitting vaping?
No. Not a weak one, not a small one, not one anybody could quote at you. A title search of Europe PMC for hypnosis or hypnotherapy alongside vaping or e-cigarettes returns nothing. The Cochrane living review of vaping-cessation interventions screened every randomised trial to 1 July 2025 and includes fifteen; none is hypnosis.
No trial of a hypnosis recording on its own for nicotine, either. Every hypnosis trial in the Cochrane smoking review used a therapist in a room; the one that used a recording gave it alongside two in-person sessions, three phone calls and two months of patches.
What the smoking evidence says
Cochrane pooled 14 studies and 1,926 participants, and rated the whole body of it low to very low certainty. Word for word: “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.” One of the 14 was judged at low risk of bias, ten at high, and the literature was last searched on 18 July 2018.
I checked nine Australian quit-smoking hypnotherapy sites on 4 September 2026. Seven published a numeric claim about how many clients quit, from 60 per cent to 100, including “98% success rate” — and none mentioned Cochrane’s finding that the evidence is insufficient and any benefit small at most. None pointed readers to Quitline; one named it only to compare it unfavourably with itself. The best 12-month result for hypnotherapy in the literature is 15.0 per cent.
What does have evidence here
The same review found something. Text-message support for 13 to 24 year olds gave a risk ratio of 1.32, 95 per cent interval 1.19 to 1.47, with no disagreement between studies: two randomised trials, 4,091 participants, certainty rated low mainly because fourteen of the review’s fifteen trials were American.
You cannot enrol in the programme they tested; it is run by a US organisation. What it tells you is the shape of the thing that worked — free, structured, repeated. Quitline and My QuitBuddy are the versions you can get here. The review also found combination nicotine replacement no better than minimal support for quitting vaping (0.96, 0.73 to 1.25).
The comparison, and I can’t soften itA free text-message programme has two randomised trials and 4,091 participants behind it. Telephone counselling for tobacco has 104 trials and 111,653 participants at moderate certainty. A hypnosis audio for vaping has zero trials and zero participants.
What can you legally buy now, and does your state change it?
Since 1 July 2024 vapes are pharmacy-only, and much of the advice online still describes the old rules. Health.gov.au: “It is illegal for any other business, such as tobacconists, vape shops and convenience stores, to sell any type of vape or vape product.” Zero-nicotine included.
Since 1 October 2024 an adult of 18 or over can buy a therapeutic vape of 20 mg/mL or less from a pharmacy without a prescription, after a pharmacist consultation. Above that strength needs one at any age; under 18 needs one regardless. One month’s supply per calendar month, flavours limited to mint, menthol and tobacco, and no vape is a registered therapeutic good here. Then the state rules sit on top, and they differ.
- Tasmania and Western Australia require a prescription even for adults.
- Victoria and South Australia need none for adults, but cannot supply under-18s at all, prescription or not.
- The ACT, NSW, the Northern Territory and Queensland: adults without a prescription, under-18s by prescription only.
Checked 4 September 2026Confirm the current rules at health.gov.au/vaping. This has changed several times in two years.
What if you took this up to get off cigarettes?
Then you already did the harder thing, and it worked, and I won’t write about that as a failure. A vape supplied for quitting smoking is meant to be time-limited, with a plan for coming off it and a move to registered nicotine replacement alongside behavioural support. The timetable belongs to whoever supervises it, and nothing here is a reason to change what you have been told.
The RACGP’s guidance: “It is reasonable to manage nicotine addiction from vaping similarly to that from smoking which includes behavioural support (eg. a referral to Quitline for behavioural counselling and/or information on digital tools such as the My QuitBuddy app) and consideration of smoking cessation pharmacotherapy.”
One difference gets blurred constantly. For smoking, nicotine patches are subsidised. For vaping, nicotine replacement is off-label, on a private prescription, not TGA-approved for the purpose and not subsidised. Same molecule, different paperwork, different price.
What can you start today that costs nothing?
Four things, in the order I would do them. The first has the numbers behind it.
- Ring Quitline on 13 7848, and stop treating it as the consolation prize
Cochrane’s review of telephone counselling for tobacco pooled 104 trials and 111,653 participants and found a risk ratio of 1.38, at moderate certainty — against low-to-very-low certainty from 1,926 people for hypnosis. The ranking is not close.
It is multi-session and tailored, and Queensland Health states outright that Quitline covers vaping as well as smoking. There is an Aboriginal Quitline, interpreters, and the National Relay Service.
- Put My QuitBuddy and Pave on the phone the vape lives next to
My QuitBuddy is the federal Department of Health app and it covers vaping. Pave is from the Cancer Institute NSW: free, no advertising, built for quitting vaping and co-designed with 14 to 24 year olds — which is not the same thing as trial-tested.
- Book the GP appointment and ask about medication by name
For smoking, patches are the only nicotine replacement the PBS subsidises — not gum, not lozenges — and varenicline and bupropion SR are listed through Streamlined Authority. Since 1 January 2026 a general prescription costs up to $25.00, a concessional one $7.70. The PBS requires subsidised quit medication to be paired with a support and counselling programme, which is the system agreeing with step one.
None of that subsidy reaches quitting vaping. Go anyway.
- Learn what a craving does when you leave it alone
It is not an instruction, and not a steady state. It builds, tops out somewhere in the next few minutes and falls away on its own. What teaches it to keep arriving on schedule is being answered. I am not attaching a percentage to that; the figures that exist come from smoking research.
Name it once as a thought rather than a decision — there is the wanting — put the device ninety seconds away, and do the next ordinary thing.
So what would a recording actually be for?
Not the nicotine. Nothing played through headphones changes what nicotine does to a receptor, and a page hinting otherwise is selling a chemistry it doesn’t have.
What is left is the other half: the hand that goes to the pocket before you have decided anything, the ten moments in a day paired with it for years, the tension that makes the reach feel reasonable. That is learned behaviour rather than withdrawal, and it is what a suggestion session aims at.
Whether it moves them in you I cannot say, and nor can anybody else, because nobody has run the study. I have worked with hundreds of smokers over fourteen years and I have a clear sense of which parts of this shift. That is experience, not evidence, and dressing the first up as the second is most of what is wrong with how this gets sold.
What is in the Quit Vaping session?
A single guided session of just under thirty minutes, made for repeated listening rather than one committed go. It works on the automatic reach, not the nicotine. You listen when nothing is happening.
Quit Vaping
US$18.95About A$27 · one-off, no subscription.
- 29 minutes 52 seconds, narrated by Roger Elliott of Uncommon Knowledge, publishing since 1998
- Instant MP3 download plus the publisher’s app — any device, unlimited listens
- Built for most days across a fortnight, not one listen
- Suited to someone already using the free help, wanting something for the reach itself
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Will you be in control the whole time?
Yes. You follow what is said and can stop it mid-sentence. Not sleep, and nobody takes anything over. Suggestions you disagree with don’t take — which is why no session makes somebody quit who hasn’t decided to.
Figures the publisher reports about itself: trading since 1998, upwards of 24,000 people trained in person, and 613 purchases of this title.
Six hundred and thirteen is small, and I would rather show it than hide it. It says the title sells, not that it works.
Who is this session wrong for?
Anyone who has not rung Quitline. Not a formality: the free option has the better evidence by a distance, and buying a file first is how people spend six months on the weaker thing.
- You have not tried Quitline, My QuitBuddy or Pave yet.
- You are under 18, or buying for someone who is.
- Your vaping is supervised as part of a quit-smoking plan still running.
- You have had thoughts of harming yourself, or of not wanting to be here.
- It sits alongside drinking or other drug use you also worry about.
- Twenty-seven dollars is money you would notice.
If several of those are yours, this is the wrong purchase and the right one is an appointment. A GP can start medication with a subsidy behind it, and somebody you sit with week to week can adjust as you go. No recording does that.
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Common questions about quitting vaping
Does hypnosis work for quitting vaping?
Nobody knows, because nobody has tested it. There has never been a clinical trial of hypnosis for vaping cessation, and the Cochrane living review of vaping treatments includes fifteen trials, none of them hypnosis. For smoking, Cochrane found the evidence insufficient to say whether hypnotherapy beats other behavioural support.
What free help can I get to quit vaping in Australia?
Quitline on 13 7848 supports people quitting vaping as well as smoking, and the counselling is free. Ask for a callback and the call costs you nothing. My QuitBuddy is the federal health department app. Pave, from the Cancer Institute NSW, is free and built for quitting vaping.
Can I still buy a nicotine vape in Australia?
Only from a pharmacy. Since July 2024 no other business may sell any vape, including zero-nicotine ones. Adults 18 and over can buy up to 20 mg/mL after a pharmacist consultation, one month’s supply at a time. Tasmania and Western Australia require a prescription even for adults. Checked 4 September 2026.
I vape to stay off cigarettes. Should I stop?
That is a question for whoever is supervising it. A vape supplied for quitting smoking is meant to be time-limited, with a plan for coming off it and a move to registered nicotine replacement alongside behavioural support. Nothing here is a reason to change what you have been told.
How long does a vaping craving last?
A craving builds, tops out within the next few minutes and falls away on its own if it is left alone. Answering it is what teaches it to arrive on schedule, so the useful practice is noticing it as a thought rather than an instruction.
What if the session 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 a recording suits a particular person, and here there is no trial to consult either.
Other sessions that may fit you better
- Nicotine Addiction TreatmentThe publisher’s title, not a claim of mine. For the craving itself rather than the device, with a free preview
- 10 Steps to Become a Non SmokerIf cigarettes are still in it, or came back when the vape went
- Anxiety sessionsIf the reaching is mostly about the tension
The vaping guide sets the two sessions side by side.
Whatever you decide about buying, ring 13 7848 this week and ask for a callback. It is free, and it has 111,653 people behind it.
Ernest McLeod — clinical hypnotherapist. An Adelaide practice, seeing clients across Australia by video. Fourteen years in practice.
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Just under thirty minutes, and three months to change your mind
If the free help is underway and what is left is a hand that reaches before you decide, this is a small, private thing to try alongside it.
US$18.95Instant download · 90-day refund · about A$27
This is a self-help audio session, not medical treatment, a diagnosis, or a substitute for professional care. No clinical trial of hypnosis for vaping cessation exists, and no quitting outcome is claimed for this recording. Australian vaping rules vary by state: checked 4 September 2026. Nothing here is a reason to change a prescribed medicine or a supervised quit plan. Quitline is 13 7848. Never listen at the wheel.