Strategy-Based Cessation Mastery
A complete 3-course cessation training pathway for hypnotherapists who want a clearer, more structured way to help clients with smoking, gambling, and vaping behaviour.
Cessation work is one of the most valuable areas a hypnotherapist can offer. But smoking, gambling, and vaping are not all the same problem.
Each behaviour has its own habit pattern, emotional driver, client objections, identity issues, and session considerations. That is why Strategy-Based Cessation Mastery brings all three courses together into one complete training pathway.
You will learn the structure, thinking, pre-talk, session strategy, scripts, and protocols Ernest uses in his own cessation work, so you can approach cessation clients with more clarity, confidence, and professionalism.
- Commences Tuesday 21 July 2026
- Complete 3-course cessation training pathway
- 12 live video workshop sessions via Google Meet
- Ernest’s exact session scripts and protocols
- Lifetime access and lifetime re-attendance
- 10 CPD points per AHA recognised course
- Certificate of completion included for each course
- 7-day money-back guarantee
Includes the Smoking, Gambling, and Vaping Cessation Courses.
Enrolment closes soon — secure access to all three courses for AUD $97.
Programme at a Glance
| Enrolment | Strategy-Based Cessation Mastery |
| Courses included | Smoking, Gambling, and Vaping Cessation |
| Start date | Tuesday 21 July 2026 |
| End date | Tuesday 13 October 2026 |
| Time | 6:00 PM Sydney time — times in your timezone: worldtimebuddy.com |
| Format | 12 live video workshop sessions via Google Meet |
| Structure | 3 courses, 4 sessions per course |
| Recordings | Included |
| Access | Lifetime access |
| Re-attendance | Lifetime re-attendance for all three courses |
| CPD | 10 CPD points recognised by AHA per course |
| Total CPD | 30 CPD points recognised by AHA |
| Certificates | Certificate of completion for each course |
| Investment | AUD $97 |
| Guarantee | 7-day money-back guarantee |
Full Programme Dates
The full Strategy-Based Cessation Mastery programme commences on Tuesday 21 July 2026 and runs through to Tuesday 6 October 2026. All live sessions are held at 6:00 PM Sydney time.
(9 AM London / 8 PM Auckland). Delivered via Google Meet. All sessions recorded — re-watch any time. Times in your timezone: worldtimebuddy.com
Smoking Cessation Course
- Session 1: Tue 21 July 2026
- Session 2: Tue 28 July 2026
- Session 3: Tue 4 August 2026
- Session 4: Tue 18 August 2026
Gambling Cessation Course
- Session 1: Tue 25 August 2026
- Session 2: Tue 1 September 2026
- Session 3: Tue 8 September 2026
- Session 4: Tue 15 September 2026
Vaping Cessation Course
- Session 1: Tue 22 September 2026
- Session 2: Tue 29 September 2026
- Session 3: Tue 6 October 2026
- Session 4: Tue 13 October 2026
Enrolment closes soon
Enrol in Strategy-Based Cessation Mastery for AUD $97
Includes the Smoking, Gambling, and Vaping Cessation Courses.
Why Cessation Work Needs More Than Generic Scripts
Many hypnotherapists want to help clients break free from unwanted behaviours. But cessation work can feel inconsistent when you are relying only on scripts, isolated techniques, or generic habit-change ideas.
Smoking, gambling, and vaping may all sit under the broad banner of cessation, but they do not present in exactly the same way. You may wonder:
- How do I structure a cessation session with confidence?
- What needs to happen before the hypnosis begins?
- How do I handle doubt, ambivalence, and internal conflict?
- How do I work with the client’s emotional attachment to the behaviour?
- How do I help the client shift identity?
- How do I adapt the approach for smoking, gambling, and vaping?
- What makes gambling different from smoking?
- What makes vaping different from smoking?
- How do I work ethically and within scope?
- How do I avoid relying on generic scripts that do not fully match the client’s issue?
If you have ever wanted a clearer, more structured approach to cessation work, this programme is designed for you.
Cessation Is Not Just About Stopping a Behaviour
Many clients already know the behaviour is costing them something. Smokers often know smoking is damaging their health and costing them money. Vapers may know they are using the vape far more than they intended. Gambling clients may know the behaviour is causing real problems.
But knowing is not always enough.
The real work is helping the client change their relationship with the behaviour.
That includes:
- The habit loop
- The emotional driver
- The memories and meanings connected to the behaviour
- The identity shift required
- The client’s doubt and internal conflict
- The pattern that keeps pulling them back
- The strategy that prepares the mind before the formal hypnosis begins
This is why Strategy-Based Cessation Mastery focuses on the complete process, not just the hypnosis script.
The Three-Course Cessation Pathway
1. Strategy-Based Smoking Cessation Course
Learn Ernest’s strategy-based approach to quit smoking hypnotherapy, including pre-talk, memory work, session structure, scripts, and protocols.
- The smoking habit loop
- The emotional attachment to cigarettes
- The role of identity change
- How to structure a smoking cessation session with more confidence
2. Strategy-Based Gambling Cessation Course
Learn how to approach gambling behaviour from both the habit angle and the emotional driver angle.
- Gambling as a behavioural and emotional pattern
- The role of hope, escape, shame, and repetition
- Client suitability, safety, and referral considerations
- How to structure gambling cessation work responsibly
3. Strategy-Based Vaping Cessation Course
Learn how to work with vaping behaviour as its own distinct pattern, rather than simply treating it as smoking with a different device.
- The vaping loop
- Automatic and frequent use
- Emotional attachment to vaping
- How vaping differs from smoking in real client work
What You Will Learn Across the Full Programme
Across the full Strategy-Based Cessation Mastery programme, you will learn how to:
- Understand cessation work as a behavioural, emotional, and identity-based process
- Structure the pre-talk so the client is mentally prepared for change
- Work with doubt before it becomes resistance
- Help the client separate from the old identity
- Address emotional attachment to the behaviour
- Use memory work where appropriate
- Understand the role of habit, reward, routine, and meaning
- Adapt your approach for smoking, gambling, and vaping clients
- Deliver structured cessation sessions with more confidence
- Use Ernest’s exact session scripts and protocols
- Think through follow-up and client support
- Work more safely and ethically within your professional scope
- Avoid relying on generic scripts without understanding the strategy behind them
Course Outline
Strategy-Based Smoking Cessation Course
Session 1: Memory Work and the 3-Step Framework
Learn the foundation of the strategy-based approach and how memory work fits into smoking cessation.
Session 2: Pre-Talk, Strategy & Emotional Components
Prepare the client for change before the formal hypnosis begins, and work with the emotional meanings attached to smoking.
Session 3: The Smoking Cessation Session Protocol
Learn Ernest’s structured session process, including the sequence, scripts, and protocols used in the cessation session.
Session 4: Business, Pricing, Marketing & Follow-Up
Position smoking cessation in your practice, explain the offer clearly, and support clients without creating unnecessary complexity.
Strategy-Based Gambling Cessation Course
Session 1: Beyond the Addiction Label
Understand gambling behaviour as a complex behavioural, emotional, and identity-based pattern.
Session 2: The Habit Angle & Behavioural Loop
Identify the repeated habit pattern, triggers, anticipation, reward loop, and familiar sequence that keeps gambling behaviour active.
Session 3: The Emotional Driver Behind Gambling
Explore the deeper emotional reason the behaviour has become useful to the client — escape, pressure, shame, boredom, hope, and avoidance.
Session 4: Structure, Safety, Scope & Practical Application
Structure gambling cessation work clearly, think through suitability and referral, and apply the framework responsibly.
Strategy-Based Vaping Cessation Course
Session 1: Vaping as Its Own Behaviour Pattern
Learn how vaping differs from smoking and why it often requires a different therapeutic strategy.
Session 2: The Vaping Loop, Triggers & Automatic Use
Identify the client’s vaping pattern: frequency, context, emotional states, automatic use, and reward.
Session 3: Emotional Attachment, Identity & Readiness
Work with the emotional meanings, identity issues, and internal conflict that can keep vaping behaviour active.
Session 4: Structure, Scripts, Protocols & Application
Structure vaping cessation work clearly using Ernest’s exact session scripts and protocols.
Your Enrolment Includes the Full Strategy-Based Cessation Mastery Training
When you enrol, you receive access to the complete Strategy-Based Cessation Mastery training pathway. This includes all three courses.
1. Strategy-Based Smoking Cessation Course
Learn Ernest’s complete strategy-based approach to smoking cessation, including the structure, pre-talk, memory work, scripts, and protocols used to help clients move towards becoming non-smokers.
4 weeks · 4 live calls · 90 min each
2. Strategy-Based Gambling Cessation Course
Learn how to work with gambling behaviour from both the habit angle and the emotional driver angle, so you can approach these clients with more structure, confidence, and clarity.
4 weeks · 4 live calls · 90 min each
3. Strategy-Based Vaping Cessation Course
Learn how to work with vaping behaviour as its own distinct pattern, so you can approach vaping clients with more structure, confidence, and clarity.
4 weeks · 4 live calls · 90 min each
Also Included
- 12 live video workshop sessions commencing Tuesday 21 July 2026
- Delivered via Google Meet
- Recordings of all sessions
- Course materials
- Ernest’s exact session scripts and protocols
- Certificates of completion
- 10 CPD points recognised by AHA per course
- 30 CPD points recognised by AHA across the full Strategy-Based Cessation Mastery training
- Lifetime access
- Lifetime re-attendance privilege for all three courses
- Email access for questions if you cannot attend live
- 7-day money-back guarantee
Attendance Bonus
Attend 3 or more live sessions and receive a complimentary 30-minute strategy call with Ernest.
Value: AUD $175
Investment
AUD $97
Includes the Smoking, Gambling, and Vaping Cessation Courses.
Lifetime Re-Attendance Privilege
When you enrol, you receive lifetime re-attendance privilege for all three Strategy-Based Cessation Courses:
- Strategy-Based Smoking Cessation Course
- Strategy-Based Gambling Cessation Course
- Strategy-Based Vaping Cessation Course
That means you can attend future live rounds again at no extra cost, refresh the material, ask new questions, and continue strengthening your confidence as the work evolves.
For Practitioners in the US and Canada
Because the live workshop sessions are based around Australian scheduling, many practitioners in the US and Canada prefer to watch the recordings rather than attend live.
That is completely fine. You will still receive access to the recordings, and you can email questions if you are unable to attend the live video workshop sessions.
So even if the live time does not suit your time zone, you can still complete the programme and work through the material at a time that suits you.
Who This Programme Is For
This programme is for you if you are a hypnotherapist or therapeutic practitioner who wants to feel more confident offering cessation work.
It is especially suitable if:
- You already work with habit change clients
- You want to add or improve smoking cessation in your practice
- You want to feel more prepared to work with gambling behaviour
- You want a clearer vaping-specific approach
- You have tried script-based training but still want more structure
- You want to understand the strategy behind the session
- You want access to Ernest’s exact session scripts and protocols
- You want to work more confidently with smoking, gambling, and vaping clients
- You prefer practical, structured training over vague theory
Who This Programme Is Not For
This programme is not designed for people looking for a magic script without understanding the strategy behind it.
It is also not designed to replace medical advice, mental health care, financial counselling, crisis support, or specialist support services when those are required.
As a practitioner, your role is to work within your training, experience, professional requirements, and local laws.
This programme will help you think more clearly about cessation work, but it does not encourage you to work outside your scope of practice.
Working Safely and Ethically
Cessation work can be a valuable area of hypnotherapy practice. At the same time, every practitioner should work within their training, experience, professional requirements, and local laws.
This is especially important when working with behaviours that may involve emotional, psychological, financial, relational, or health-related issues.
This programme is designed to help you work with more structure, clarity, and confidence. You will be encouraged to consider:
- Whether the client is suitable for hypnotherapy support
- Whether additional professional advice or support may be appropriate
- How to work within your own training and competence
- How to avoid overpromising outcomes
- How to explain the work clearly and responsibly
- How to approach cessation with care, professionalism, and structure
This is about becoming a more capable and thoughtful cessation practitioner, not making guarantees or working beyond your scope.
About Ernest McLeod
Ernest McLeod is an experienced clinical hypnotherapist, business coach, trainer, and founder of The Hypno Coach.
He has spent more than 12 years helping cessation clients and has trained hypnotherapists in his strategy-based cessation approach for several years.
Ernest’s approach is practical, direct, and designed for real-world client work. Rather than teaching hypnotherapists to simply read scripts, Ernest focuses on helping practitioners understand the strategy behind the behaviour, so they can work with more confidence and clarity.
Strategy-Based Cessation Mastery has been created for hypnotherapists who want a deeper, more structured, and more practical approach to helping clients break free from smoking, gambling, and vaping behaviour.
What Makes This Different From Script-Based Training?
Scripts can be useful. But scripts alone do not teach you how to think.
They do not always show you what to listen for. They do not explain why the client keeps returning to the behaviour. They do not always help you understand the emotional driver behind the pattern. They do not teach you how to adapt across smoking, gambling, and vaping.
This programme is designed to help you understand the structure of the problem, not just read words at the client. You will learn how to think through cessation behaviour as a practitioner, so you can approach clients with more confidence and purpose.
What Ernest Sees in His Own Practice
In Ernest’s own practice, the strategy-based approach has been designed so that many smoking and vaping clients can make the change in a single structured cessation session, with follow-up support used where appropriate.
These are Ernest’s own practice outcomes and experience. They are not a guarantee of what every practitioner will achieve, because client results depend on many factors, including client readiness, practitioner skill, suitability, and scope of practice.
What this programme gives you is the structure, thinking, scripts, protocols, and strategic understanding behind Ernest’s approach, so you can develop greater confidence and clarity in your own cessation work.
7-Day Money-Back Guarantee
You are covered by a 7-day money-back guarantee. Enrol in the programme, review the material, and make sure it is the right fit for you.
If you decide it is not suitable, simply request a refund within 7 days in line with the refund policy.
Frequently Asked Questions
When does Strategy-Based Cessation Mastery start?
Strategy-Based Cessation Mastery commences on Tuesday 21 July 2026.
When does the programme finish?
The final live session is scheduled for Tuesday 13 October 2026.
How many live sessions are included?
The full programme includes 12 live video workshop sessions delivered via Google Meet. There are 3 courses, with 4 sessions per course:
- Strategy-Based Smoking Cessation Course
- Strategy-Based Gambling Cessation Course
- Strategy-Based Vaping Cessation Course
What are the course dates?
Smoking Cessation:
- Tuesday 21 July 2026
- Tuesday 28 July 2026
- Tuesday 4 August 2026
- Tuesday 18 August 2026
Gambling Cessation:
- Tuesday 25 August 2026
- Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Tuesday 8 September 2026
- Tuesday 15 September 2026
Vaping Cessation:
- Tuesday 22 September 2026
- Tuesday 29 September 2026
- Tuesday 6 October 2026
- Tuesday 13 October 2026
Each session is at 6:00 PM Sydney time. (9 AM London* / 8 PM Auckland*). Times in your timezone: worldtimebuddy.com
Note: Times may change due to changes to summer/winter time in some time zones.
Are the sessions recorded?
Yes. All sessions are recorded, so you can watch the training later if you cannot attend live.
I am in the US or Canada. Can I still enrol?
Yes. Many practitioners in the US and Canada watch the recordings rather than attend live because of the time zone difference. You can also email questions if you are unable to attend the live video workshop sessions.
Is this only for Australian hypnotherapists?
No. The programme is suitable for hypnotherapists in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the US, and Canada. However, you should always work within your own local laws, professional requirements, training, and scope of practice.
Are CPD points included?
Yes. Each course includes 10 CPD points recognised by AHA. Because your enrolment includes the Smoking, Gambling, and Vaping Cessation Courses, you receive access to 30 CPD points recognised by AHA across the full Strategy-Based Cessation Mastery training.
Do I receive a certificate?
Yes. A certificate of completion is included for each course.
What exactly do I receive?
Your enrolment includes:
- Strategy-Based Smoking Cessation Course
- Strategy-Based Gambling Cessation Course
- Strategy-Based Vaping Cessation Course
- 12 live video workshop sessions via Google Meet
- Recordings
- Course materials
- Ernest’s exact session scripts and protocols
- Certificates of completion
- 10 CPD points recognised by AHA per course
- 30 CPD points recognised by AHA across all three courses
- Lifetime access
- Lifetime re-attendance privilege for all three courses
- 7-day money-back guarantee
Is this a script course?
No. This is a strategy-based cessation training programme. You will receive Ernest’s exact session scripts and protocols, but the focus is not simply reading a script. The focus is helping you understand the structure behind the behaviour so you can work with more confidence and clarity.
Do I need to already offer cessation work?
No. This programme is suitable if you already offer cessation work, or if you would like to feel more prepared before adding or improving cessation services in your practice.
Does this guarantee client results?
No. This programme does not guarantee client outcomes. It teaches Ernest’s strategy-based approach, scripts, protocols, and professional thinking so you can develop greater confidence and structure in your own cessation work.
Can I use this with clients straight away?
You can apply what you learn within your existing training, experience, professional scope, and local requirements. The programme is designed to give you a clearer framework, not to encourage you to work beyond your competence.
What is the refund policy?
The programme includes a 7-day money-back guarantee. Please review the full refund policy here: Refund Policy
Build a Stronger, More Structured Cessation Practice
If you want to feel more confident helping clients with smoking, gambling, and vaping behaviour, this programme gives you a clearer structure to follow.
You will learn the thinking, pre-talk, behaviour patterns, emotional drivers, scripts, protocols, and session strategies behind Ernest’s approach to cessation work.
You do not need another collection of disconnected scripts. You need a framework that helps you understand what is really happening and how to work with it more clearly.
Enrol in Strategy-Based Cessation Mastery for AUD $97
Includes the Smoking, Gambling, and Vaping Cessation Courses.
About
Ernest McLeod is an award-winning hypnotherapist specialising in helping therapists help more people such as through cessation work. He trains other hypnotherapists in the strategy-based protocols he uses with his own clients.
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