Book Quit Smoking Session

Book Your Free ART Suitability Call

20+ Years Experience | Fully Insured | Online Worldwide

Vaping is often sold as “less harmful than smoking”, but for many people it becomes more frequent, more automatic, and harder to switch off — because it creates micro-reward cycles all day long.

Addiction Release Therapy (ART) helps you recondition the pattern behind vaping: the stress relief associations, the hand-to-mouth ritual, the boredom loop, the social cueing, and the identity attachment — so quitting feels calmer and more stable.

Format: Onlin via Google Meet • Private • Confidential • Worldwide

Break the micro-craving loop — and become the version of you who simply doesn’t need it

Quit Vaping Using Addiction Release Therapy (ART)

The Essentials

Many people don’t “decide” to vape. They just notice they’re doing it.

That’s because vaping often becomes a repeating loop of:

Cue → Reach → Inhale → Relief → Repeat

Common cues include:

  • stress or pressure

  • boredom

  • driving

  • scrolling

  • after meals

  • working at a desk

  • social settings

  • habit stacking (coffee + vape, phone + vape)

 

For a lot of people, the bigger trap isn’t the nicotine alone — it’s the constant repetition.

ART focuses on reducing both:

  • the chemical pull, and

  • the behavioural loop that keeps the vape in your hand.

Vaping isn’t just nicotine — it’s a micro-relief habit loop

20+ Years Experience | Fully Insured | Online Worldwide

Ready to break the micro-craving loop? Book your free suitability call.

Book Your Free ART Suitability Call

T — Thrive

We install the identity of a natural non-vaper — the version of you who doesn’t need it to cope, focus, relax, or socialise.

S — Stabilise

We build a practical stabilisation plan: what to do in cravings, boredom, driving, social triggers, and stressful days — so you don’t “white-knuckle” it.

I — Integrate

If part of you still sees vaping as comfort, relief, or identity, we resolve that conflict respectfully — keeping the positive intention while changing the strategy.

T — Transform

We recondition the cue → inhale pathway so urges weaken and the vape loses relevance.

R — Release

We reduce the emotional load behind the habit — stress, irritation, anxiety, pressure, overwhelm, or the need for a “pause button”.

A — Awareness

We map your vaping pattern: the moments, emotions, triggers, routines, and “permission thoughts” that lead to a puff.

The A.R.T.I.S.T. Method

The A.R.T.I.S.T. Method for quitting vaping

Become the artist of your future self

Quitting is easier when you change what’s driving the urge underneath. ART uses the A.R.T.I.S.T. Method:

What quitting vaping becomes when the pattern changes

The goal isn’t “resisting” — it’s removing the pull

This work is designed to help you:

  • reduce the intensity and frequency of urges

  • break hand-to-mouth automaticity

  • remove vaping as your default stress response

  • handle boredom and restlessness without reaching

  • detach vaping from social/identity cues

  • prevent substitution loops (snacking, doom-scrolling, impulsive behaviours)

  • feel calmer and more in control day-to-day

 

Important note: Your readiness, environment, and stress load matter. That’s why we start with a suitability call.

Many people vape because they used to smoke — and the brain keeps both patterns linked.

Common linked cues:

  • alcohol → nicotine

  • coffee → nicotine

  • stress → nicotine

  • socialising → nicotine

  • driving → nicotine

If you do both, we’ll work on:

  • breaking the shared triggers

  • building stable regulation

  • removing the “fallback” pattern (smoking after vaping or vice versa)

 

Links:

If you smoke and vape

(or switched from smoking)

Option 2: Peace of Mind Package (Supported)

The "Heavy User" Package

Cost: €695.00 Designed for those who vape constantly (chain-vaping) or use high-strength salts.

If the vape is essentially glued to your hand, or you panic if you leave it in another room, this is for you.

  • Everything in the Breakthrough Session.

  • PLUS: A Second "Anchor Removal" Session: We use this to target specific, stubborn triggers (e.g., vaping while driving, vaping with coffee, vaping while gaming).

  • PLUS: Advanced Stress Management: Tools to regulate your nervous system so you don't need the "pacifier."

  • Outcome: Complete disconnection from the device and a return to natural breathing.

Option 1: Quit Vaping Intensive (90 minutes)

The "Vape-Free" Breakthrough

Cost: €495.00 Perfect for the daily user or "social vaper" ready to stop.

This session focuses heavily on the behavioral loop of vaping.

  • 90-Minute Intensive Online Session: We disrupt the automatic "reach" for the device.

  • Pattern Interrupt Techniques: Learning how to stop the automatic hand-to-mouth signal.

  • Custom Audio Recording: To keep your hands still and your mind calm at home.

  • Outcome: A major reduction in the automatic pull and a clear “I’m done” shift.

Choose Your Path to Freedom

  1. Pre-talk + mapping (your cues, routines, identity language)

  2. Regulation (calm the system so change installs easier)

  3. ART change work (A.R.T.I.S.T. steps applied to vaping)

  4. Future rehearsal (driving, stress, boredom, scrolling, social settings)

  5. Stabilisation plan (first 72 hours + week one)

 

Online note: Many people find online sessions easier because they relax best at home.

What happens in an online session?

Simple, structured, and private

Frequently Asked Questions

Vaping is often a more frequent, ingrained habit than smoking, so it is natural to worry about how you will cope without that device in your hand. You might fear the anxiety of letting go or wonder if 'just one session' can really break such a constant cycle.

I address these specific concerns to reassure you that breaking the loop is not only possible but often easier than you think.

If you don’t see your question here, or if you simply want to talk things through, you are always welcome to reach out. You don’t have to figure this out alone—I am here to help you take the next step whenever you feel ready.

📧 Email: paul@paulmatthewshypnosis.ie

📱 WhatsApp: Chat with me on WhatsApp

 

All sessions are private, confidential, and conducted via secure Google Meet. Your transformation takes place in the comfort and privacy of your own home.

What if I vape and smoke?

We can address both. The key is breaking the shared trigger links (alcohol, coffee, socialising, stress) and preventing the “fallback” behaviour.

Does this work online?

Yes. Being in your normal environment often makes the cue work even more relevant — we can map the real-life triggers and recondition them.

Can you help if I chain-vape while working or driving?

Yes. These are classic cue environments. We target the “automatic reach” moments and rehearse new scripts for those specific settings.

What if I use vaping for stress or anxiety?

That’s one of the most common reasons people relapse. We break the association between stress relief and vaping, and build a repeatable calm response.

Will I feel restless without it?

Restlessness is common at first because the habit has been acting as a nervous system “pause button”. We install alternative regulation tools so you don’t have to rely on nicotine to calm or focus.

 

Why is vaping so hard to quit compared to smoking?

For many people, vaping becomes more frequent and more automatic because it fits into tiny moments all day. That constant repetition strengthens cue-reactivity. ART targets the cue-loop directly.

Book Quit Vaping Intensive

Book Your Free ART Suitability Call

← Back to The Nicotine Hub | 3 vs 6 → | Quit Vaping → | ART Hub →

20+ Years Experience | Fully Insured | Online Worldwide | No judgement | Structured support

The vape was supposed to be a temporary fix. Imagine getting through work, stress, social moments, and boredom without the vape constantly calling you.

Break the micro-craving loop 

and take your life back

  • Based in Dublin, providing confidential online hypnotherapy worldwide via Google Meet.

  • Clinical Hypnotherapist & Nutritional

  • Therapist specialising in PTSD, anxiety, addictions, and medical hypnotherapy for pain & IBS.

  • Mission: help 20,000 people reclaim calm, confidence, and control with structured, outcome-tracked programmes.

Paul Matthews Hypnotherapy

Support & Information

Core Services

Contact & Booking

© 2026 Paul Matthews Hypnotherapy. All Rights Reserved.