About The Stop Smoking Clinic
Focused support to help you become smoke-free
The Stop Smoking Clinic was created to help people stop smoking in a calm, focused, and practical way.
Most smokers already know they should stop. They know the health risks, the cost, and the frustration of feeling controlled by cigarettes. But knowing that smoking is harmful does not always make it easy to stop.
That is where the right approach can make a difference.
The Stop Smoking Clinic focuses on helping you change the habits, patterns, thoughts, and associations that keep smoking in place, so you can move forward as a non-smoker with more confidence and control.
Meet Michael Pengelly
The Stop Smoking Clinic is run by Michael Pengelly, an experienced hypnotherapist and trainer based in North Devon.
Michael has worked with clients for many years through MJP Hypnotherapy, helping people with a wide range of issues including smoking, anxiety, habits, confidence, fears, and personal change.
He also runs MJP Hypnotherapy Training, supporting others to learn and develop their skills in hypnotherapy.
This experience means the clinic is not based on a one-size-fits-all script. Each client is treated as an individual, with their own reasons for smoking, their own triggers, and their own motivations for wanting to stop.
Why focus on smoking?
Smoking can look simple from the outside: just stop buying cigarettes and do not light another one.
But for many people, smoking is connected to much more than nicotine.
It may be linked to stress, boredom, routine, social situations, alcohol, work breaks, driving, emotional comfort, or a sense of identity. For some people, cigarettes have been part of daily life for years or even decades.
That is why stopping smoking is not always just a matter of willpower.
The Stop Smoking Clinic was created to give this issue proper focus. Rather than treating smoking as a small add-on to general therapy, the programme is built around helping people become free from cigarettes.
A calm, respectful approach
You will not be judged, criticised, or lectured.
If you smoke, you already know the reasons to stop. You do not need someone making you feel worse about it.
The aim is to help you understand the pattern, change your relationship with cigarettes, and strengthen the part of you that is ready to move on.
The work may include hypnosis, NLP, relaxation, guided mental exercises, and practical change techniques. Everything is explained clearly, and you remain aware and in control throughout.
Hypnosis is not mind control. It is not sleep. It is a focused and relaxed state that can help your mind become more receptive to positive change.
Experience and professional background
Michael has over 20 years’ experience working with clients using hypnotherapy and related approaches.
He is certified through the National Guild of Hypnotists and is registered at trainer level with the American Board of Hypnotherapy.
Through MJP Hypnotherapy and MJP Hypnotherapy Training, Michael has developed a practical, down-to-earth style that helps clients feel comfortable, safe, and understood.
The Stop Smoking Clinic brings that experience into one specialist programme focused on helping people stop smoking.
In-person and online sessions
Sessions are available in person in Bideford, North Devon, and may also be available online depending on your needs and location.
If you are unsure whether the programme is suitable for you, you are welcome to get in touch and ask before booking.
Ready to stop smoking?
When you are ready to stop smoking, The Stop Smoking Clinic is here to help you take that step.
You do not need to wait until you feel perfectly confident.
You simply need to be ready to make the change.