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Second Addition ~ 2012 ~
Nick Terrone
Specialist Hypnotherapist
1300 883 272 (Sydney Australia)
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A word from the Author
The first thing you have to do is acknowledge yourself for even having reached this far
in your decision to quit smoking. This isn’t something you should be taking lightly, not if
you’re serious about quitting anyway. It’s a BIG decision to walk away from something
that you’ve probably been doing for all your adult life. It’s something that has probably
defined a big part of who you are for many years.
Like most of my clients, you’ve probably though of cigarettes as your little ‘friend’, the
thing that has always ‘been there’ for you. We all know these statements are ridiculous,
but that doesn’t change the relationship you have with them. One thing I can
unequivocally GUARANTEE is that you will get a lot out of this report. Having been a
specialist hypnotherapist for many years and having seen over 500+ clients to date,
I am confident that this report will provide you with important and helpful information to
either help you quit, or decide to book a session with me personally. I urge you to really
absorb this information. I’ve been a smoker, so I know what the journey is like. I also
know what it’s like to feel out of control and compelled to do something that most of
smokers agree has no REAL benefits at all. People who have never smoked just won’t
ever get it – but I do. I know this will become apparent to you as you go through this
material.
Finally, I just want to mention this. I know how important it is for a person to seek
assistance for a problem from someone who really understands the problem intimately.
It makes total sense that if I don’t understand your problem, how can I help you with it,
right?
To your health,
Nick
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About The Author: Nick Terrone .............................................................................. 4
PART I - INFORMATION FOR QUITTING.................................................................. 6
Preparing to Quit Smoking....................................................................................... 6
Tips for Quitting / Remaining a Non-Smoker.................................................................10
The Excuses That Have Kept You Smoking.......................................................... 11
PART II - HYPNOSIS AND USING IT TO QUIT CIGARETTES ............................... 17
You Have To Want To Quit for Yourself…............................................................. 17
3 Elements That Will Determine Your Success ..................................................... 20
Why The Body Experiences Withdrawal Symptoms.............................................. 24
Why You Don’t Have to Worry About Gaining Weight ........................................... 24
What Makes Quitting With Hypnosis So Powerful? ............................................... 27
Some Myths About Hypnosis................................................................................. 27
What You Can Expect While In The Hypnotic Trance .................................................31
The ‘Make Or Break’ Ways Of Listening ........................................................................32
The Final Secret Ingredient To Quitting ................................................................. 37
PART III - SMOKING, HOW BAD IS IT? .................................................................. 39
Some Tarred Facts… ............................................................................................ 39
Exactly What Are You Inhaling? ............................................................................ 41
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About The Author: Nick Terrone
As I have already mentioned above, I used to be a smoker so believe me, I know how
hard and frustrating the process of quitting can be. I know what it’s like to fight the
cravings especially when faced with such big triggers. Mine were coffee, after a meal
and alcohol. Breaking this ritualistic cycle seemed impossible for me at the time and I
even tried to quit several times. I stumbled across this powerful, simple system quite a
few years ago and I’d like to share the ins and outs of it with you here. When I realized
the power of this system, and how easy this can make smokers quit, something clicked
inside me. I had already been a counsellor in the therapeutic environment for many
years already, so I noticed how much of a great opportunity this was to make a HUGE
positive impact to people’s lives in just one session! Having been a smoker and quit, I
know what an amazing feeling it is when you finally overcome it and break free of the
chains of cigarettes. I have an undergraduate and postgraduate degree in Psychology
and have helped many people with many kinds of issues. I have also received training
in the areas of Kinesiology and Neuro Linguistic Programming (N.L.P).
The bottom line is: I’m committed to you achieving success as a non-smoker!
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What To Expect When You Quit Cigarettes – A Time Line
Ok, so let’s get started. Before delving into the aspects of quitting and hypnosis, I’d like
to share with you what actually happens and what you can expect from the very
moment you have your last cigarette:
 Within 20 minutes blood pressure returns to its normal level.
 After 8 hours oxygen levels return to normal.
 After 24 hours carbon monoxide levels in the lungs return to those of a non-
smoker and the mucus begins to clear.
 After 48 hours nicotine leaves the body and taste buds are improved.
 After 72 hours breathing becomes easier.
 After 2–12 weeks, circulation improves.
 After 5 years, the risk of heart attack falls to about half that of a smoker.
 After 10 years, the risk of lung cancer is almost the same as a non-smoker.
When you quit smoking the benefits are immediate. Blood cells that transport
carbon monoxide from cigarette smoke begin to transport healthy oxygen. Even though
quitting doesn't completely eliminate the risk of developing lung cancer, the risk of lung
cancer starts to go down dramatically. Only one year after quitting smoking your
chances of having a heart attack drops by half. The risk of lung cancer continues to
decline and drop significantly five to ten years after quitting.
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PART I - INFORMATION FOR QUITTING
In this section, I would like to share with you some tips and tricks on quitting WITHOUT
hypnosis OR the traditional methods of gum, patches or medication. The very fact that
there are so many people out there that have quit without anything at all, shows that it is
possible. This means that it’s also possible for you. Many people have quit using one or
a combination of the methods below; you might even know some people who have quit
via one or some of these methods. I’d like to share some of these methods from the
research I’ve done, give them a try and see if they work for you. If it does, fantastic!
Please get in touch with me and let me know what worked for you and how it helped, I’d
love to hear from you, together we could help others quit!
Preparing to Quit Smoking
The first thing you should know is that most smokers quit unsuccessfully several times
before they quit for good. You will most likely not be successful your first time around -
but you must keep trying! Each time you attempt to quit you come closer to finally
quitting for good.
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During or before you have your last cigarette, start to visualise yourself as a non-
smoker. Visualisation is a very effective psychological technique not only for quitting
cigarettes but for many other things as well.
There has actually been research to show
how powerful visualisation can be. One
that I recall, was a study done where
athletes were wired to a machine used to
measure muscle activity and asked to
visualise themselves in the act of doing
their event, say a 100 meter sprint. Then,
those same athletes were studied while
physically doing the 100 meter sprint. You
know what they found? They found that
the exact same muscles were active and
firing whether they were sitting in a chair
visualising themselves doing the sprint, or
whether they were actually doing the sprint
physically.
So what does this mean?
It means that your brain can’t tell the difference between your body physically DOING
something, or your mind simply visualising it. The implications of this are huge. So if you
start to visualise yourself as a non-smoker, your brain will begin to release certain
chemicals associated with that visualisation. Just by thinking of yourself as a non-
smoker your body will begin to make subtle changes that will assist your body to
experience this for real!
So just think about doing your everyday activities without a cigarette break and feel ok
about that. Think about all of the reasons that you want to quit smoking in the first place,
and do this as often as possible. Because at the end of the day, if you have no
worthwhile reasons to quit, why should you? Chances are you won’t. Think of as many
reasons as you can, perhaps write them down. Fully inform yourself about the health
benefits of quitting, not just for yourself but the people around you as well, such as your
children or other members of your family that are exposed to your cigarette smoke.
If money is a motivating reason for you, calculate
the amount of money you'll save when you quit.
Then think of something you'll use that money for,
really picture yourself using that money in a
different way; it’s the power of visualisation once
again. Also keep in mind, when calculating how
much money you’re spending, make sure to
consider the tax that you’ve already paid on that
money.
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Often people forget this. So be sure to add whatever tax you pay on your income and
this will give you a much more accurate figure. This figure would be the equivalent to
getting a pay rise from your boss just for quitting cigarettes.
It’s essential to get into the right mindset for quitting, especially when studies show that
trying to quit is 20% physical and 80% psychological. What does this mean? It means
that getting the right “psychology” around quitting is 80% of the battle won!
Once you’ve gained the right mindset. It’s then time to plan having your last cigarette.
So you have an idea of what will happen, understand that the human body is incredibly
resilient, and that your health begins to improve from the very moment you stop
smoking, by establishing a concrete and achievable plan to quit smoking you’ll increase
your chances of success. It is very important to understand that being in the right frame
of mind will affect your chances of success. Being fully aware of why you are quitting
and believing in yourself, in your attempt to quit, is also essential. Once you've stopped
and had your last cigarette consider yourself a non-smoker, and to help, remind yourself
of the health benefits you will be experiencing immediately after putting out that last
cigarette.
I’m always amazed at the human body, how it works and how it has this innate ability to
heal itself. You easily see examples of this all the time. If you accidently cut yourself,
you don’t have to ‘think’ about healing do you? Of course not, it just happens
automatically.
If you are able to facilitate a good environment for
the body and give it what it needs through good
nutrition and hydration, it will naturally repair itself.
The same goes for quitting cigarettes. Once you
stop introducing the 4,000 toxic chemicals into your
body, it will immediately begin to find its own
balance of health and wellbeing. But be prepared
that as it finds its balance again, you may ‘feel’ this
process. Some will not, we’re all different. But a
little later on in this report I’ll share with you some
very valuable information that will assist to
minimise these effects.
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How To Prepare For Your Stop Smoking Day
One popular way to quit cigarettes is to choose a “stop smoking day”. As the name
suggests, the point of choosing a day is to make the commitment to yourself that on a
particular day, you’ll stop smoking. Your goal is to fully load up on anything you may
need on your journey towards becoming a non-smoker. So, how do you prepare for this
day?
The first step is to write your intention and desire for quitting on a piece of paper, or an
index card. Write down what you want to do and why. Then every morning after you
wake up, read this note and reinforce your desire to quit smoking. You should also refer
to this card any time you are tempted to smoke after your “stop smoking day”. What you
want to do is really start to generate some strong emotional traction around quitting and
remaining a non-smoker. The more emotions you can develop around quitting and
remaining a non-smoker, the more likely you’ll be successful.
Sometimes telling your friends and family that you
are planning on quitting can offer support in your
decision. If you’ve got friends who also want to quit,
maybe choose a day that is good for both of you.
The alternative is to keep it to yourself to prevent any
unnecessary pressure from others. You may have
greater success doing this on your own. You’ll know
what works for you.
The next thing you want to do is remove any type of temptation from your immediate
surroundings. So, the night before your stop smoking day, collect anything that reminds
you of smoking (ash trays, lighters, etc) and throw it all out, including any remaining
cigarettes you may have floating about. Alternatively, some people have kept one small
item that is a reminder of their days as a smoker, perhaps their favourite lighter, or ash
tray. They might keep it somewhere out of the way, in a place where they will see it very
occasionally. Sometimes having this little reminder will actually make you feel good,
reinforcing yourself as a non-smoker. If you’re going to use this method, I would suggest
that at least for the first month or so, don’t keep it somewhere you’re likely to see it.
After about a month, then perhaps put that item somewhere you’ll ‘bump into it’ from
time to time. I’ve heard of some people putting their ashtray in a corner of their garden
in the dirt where it belongs.
After all is said and done though, there never is a perfect day, but the best day is today!
So why not empower yourself to tear up those cancer sticks, throw them away and start
living that healthy life. The longer you put off the decision to quit smoking, the harder it
is going to be to quit.
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Tips For Quitting & Remaining a Non - Smoker
This section is a compilation of tips and powerful techniques that have been found to
help people quit cigarettes, fight the urge for a cigarette and remain a non-smoker.
Obviously, don’t try to do all these at once, but I’d suggest perhaps give all of them a try
at some point. You never know what might work for you. It’s up to you to find one, two
or perhaps a combination of the following tips that you feel might work well for you.
Go for a walk - The easiest thing to do when you feel
like having a cigarette is to go for a walk. You don’t
have to go far, but sometimes some fresh air is all you
need to fight your cravings. Once you start to move
your body, in any way at all, it stimulates certain
biochemistry as well as mental processes that will help
to distract you from a craving that often lasts only a
few minutes anyway.
Take deep breaths - If you are unable to escape for a walk, taking several deep
breaths can help. By inhaling, you are opening up the lungs and by focusing on the air
coming into your airways; you can calm yourself and trick your body into forgetting
about the cravings. Getting more oxygen to your brain is the best method to relax, that’s
why so many meditation techniques focus on your breathing. I used to teach this often
to some of my clients to assist them in dealing with their anxiety and panic attacks.
Do Yoga - So what if you’ve never tried yoga! Focusing on the practice of yoga takes
you outside of yourself and forces you to stop thinking about your urges to light up.
Listen to music or motivation tapes -
Sometimes when you are craving nicotine,
all you need is a melodic piece of music or a
friendly word of encouragement. Take a
moment to listen to music that soothes you
or to the inspiring words of a motivational
expert. I can easy recommend many.
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Drink water with crushed ice - It may sound wired, but many people use this method
to fight their cravings. Take time to drink the water slowly and chew the ice. You may be
pleasantly surprised at how successful this technique can be.
Brush your teeth - Many people report that
when they brush their teeth they no longer want
to have a cigarette. This technique shifts your
oral fixation to your toothbrush and teeth instead
of to your cigarette and mouth. Also, some
people say that when their mouth and teeth feel
clean, they no longer crave the taste of a
cigarette.
Remind yourself why you quit - Every time you experience a craving remind yourself
why you quit. An excellent idea is to take a blank index card and list all the reasons why
you decided to quit smoking in the first place.
List as many as you can, the more, the better. If necessary, take the second index card.
Carry them with you all the time. Every time you feel the urge to smoke take the index
card and slowly read all your reasons why you decided to stop. After you finish reading
your urge will pass! (If not, read them one more time or come up with more reasons.)
Reward yourself - Make it a habit to give yourself a reward at the end of each non-
smoking week. Think of something you want. It doesn’t have to be something
expensive, a nice home made meal or hot bath will work. Take the index card and write
down what you would give yourself at the end of the week; and when the urge comes
take a look at the index card with your reward. Isn't it worth coping for 3 minutes?
Be prepared for your urges! - Get yourself prepared for the urge to smoke in advance.
In most cases something triggers the craving (certain feelings, people, or places). You
have to know what triggers your urge to smoke.
Take a blank piece of paper and divide it into 2 columns. On the one side list your
triggers, like “stuck in traffic”, “drinking morning coffee”, ”arguing with colleague” etc...
and in the second column write down the alternative course of action.
For example, instead of smoking while drinking your morning coffee you could read a
newspaper. Instead of smoking after the heated argument with your colleague you can
take a walk around the block or write down everything you think about this person, then
tear up this piece of paper and throw it away. Don't be lazy, write it down! This exercise
really works! The point here is to remind yourself that there are millions of people who
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face stressful situations everyday and they don’t use cigarettes to ‘deal with it’, which
means you can too!
Call a friend - This method works very well, almost like a sponsor used in AA or NA
circles. If it can work for people addicted to these types of substances, it can work for
you. Call someone who can support you, who can talk with you for a couple of minutes.
You can call your non-smoking friend, or someone who's trying to quit smoking too.
Distract yourself with a quick task - Think of a
small task you have to do, something that would
take you 5-10 minutes. Make a call, send an email,
make yourself a cup of tea, water the plant in your
office. Anything! Your task is to distract yourself
until the urge passes. (Hint: Try to find an activity
that makes smoking impossible!)
Power Tip – It’s a disgusting one, but it often works. Print a small picture of a smoker's
lungs (I’ve put them here below for you, or you can go to:
http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/lungphotos.htm) and put it somewhere in your
wallet. I know they don’t look pretty, but something like this can stop you dead in your
tracks from lighting up. I often will see clients who have seen all the TV commercials
and simply want to avoid what they are seeing. Take a look at the pictures on that site!
Really! THIS could be your lungs! You love yourself, and you respect your body. Why
harm yourself?
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Reprogram your mind - Recall 4 times when you thought to yourself "I've got to quit",
or that you felt disgusted about smoking. Maybe you just felt really unhealthy, or your
doctor told you in a particular tone of voice 'You've got to quit' or somebody you know
was badly affected by smoking. Take a moment now to come up with 4 different times
that you felt that you have to quit or were disgusted by smoking.
Remember each of those times, one after another, as though they are happening now. I
want you to keep going through those memories and make them as vivid as possible.
The more vivid you make those memories; the easier it will be to stop smoking. See
what you saw, hear what you heard and feel how you felt. Now take a few minutes to
keep going through those memories again and again, overlap each memory with the
next until you are totally and utterly disgusted by cigarettes.
Do something different during breaks- Smokers sometimes use their habit to give
themselves little breaks during the day. Taking a break is good for you, so carry on
taking that time off - but do something different. Walk round the block, have a cup of tea
or a drink of water, or do some of the tips and techniques mentioned here.
Keep your sugars up- If possible drink a lot
of fruit juice. When you stop smoking the
body goes through a big change. Your blood
sugar levels will fall, digestion is slowed
down and your body starts to get rid of the
tar and poisons that have accumulated in
your body. Fresh fruit juice contains fructose
which restores your blood sugar levels,
vitamin C which helps clear out impurities
and high levels of water and fibre to keep
your digestion going. Also try to eat fruit
every day for at least two weeks after you
have stopped.
Reduce your caffeine intake- When you stop, cut your caffeine intake by half. Nicotine
breaks down caffeine so without nicotine a little coffee will have a big effect. Drink 8-10
glasses of water (ideally bottled) to help wash out your system. You’ve probably heard
that 75% of our body’s composition is water. Smoking actually reduces your cells ability
to absorb water. That’s why people who have smoked for so many years have such dry
awful skin. So drinking plenty of water will replenish your skin cells with water and very
soon your skin will feel VERY different.
Don’t be tricked by a situation- Be aware of making excuses for yourself. Some
people talk themselves into smoking, especially if they encounter a stressful situation,
which in the past they dealt with by smoking. If those old thoughts pop into your head,
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shout the word “STOP” in your head, to stop the thoughts from progressing. Nicotine is
a stimulant and actually elevates your body’s level of stress. It’s like that itch that can
never be properly scratched; the more you smoke, the more you have to. So say
“STOP” and steer clear of old slippery slopes.
When it comes to stress and dealing with it, it really helps to understand what stress
actually is. If we’re really honest with ourselves, we’ll realise that stress is simply our
reaction to something NOT having gone the way we THINK it should have gone. Think
about it, that’s what it actually is. Someone says or does something or an unexpected
situation arises where we say to ourselves ‘this should NOT be happening’. The fact is,
it’s happened; now it’s a question of how you are going to respond. The choice is yours.
At the end of the day we can’t control what people say,
what people do and some times unexpected things
happen in our lives that might be unpleasant or
unwanted. What you DO have control over is what
reaction you are going to choose. It’s always a choice
even though it doesn’t seem that way. You are always
completely in control of the MEANING that you attach to
a certain situation, the perspective that you are going to
adopt. Having this awareness alone can help you to be
more adaptable and flexible in situations, assisting you
to deal with stress the same way millions of other non-
smoking Australians deal with the exact same stressors
that you have been going through.
Try This POWERFUL Emotional Freedom Tapping (EFT) Technique- Now there is
an entire science behind how this works, it’s a bit too much to get into now. But in a nut
shell, this technique works on the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine (T.C.M),
which works with the idea of the energy flow around your body, or ‘chi’ energy. The idea
is that if the chi energy is flowing well and uninterrupted around your body, you
experience a total balance of body, mind & spirit. But if there is some sort of emotional
blockage along any of the specific energy path ways in our bodies, called Meridians,
this will lead to discomfort or DIS-ease in the body – physical and emotional. So by
following a very specific and simple process of tapping on certain points on your body in
a particular sequence, you can stimulate the flow of this energy and bring your body
back into a state of balanced wellbeing that it is designed to operate from naturally. I
can almost guarantee you’ll feel an immediate difference in the urge to smoke. To view
my video of exactly how to use this technique to get rid of a cigarette craving, just go to
http://youtu.be/2WN5ytbvWrk
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The Excuses That Have Kept You Smoking
At this point I’d like to address some of the common reasons, or excuses people might
give for continuing to smoke. That way we can firmly see that there really is no reason
to smoke at all
* I still enjoy it
When I hear this from my clients I tell them that it’s fine if they are still ‘enjoying it’. Just
because you might be enjoying it, that doesn’t mean that you’re not ready to quit. If you
are waiting for some time in your future when you hate every single cigarette before you
decide to quit, chances are that time will never come and you’ll just continue to kid
yourself.
If you think about all the cigarettes you smoke in a day, how many would you say that
you are really there, in the moment, ‘enjoying’ that cigarette? If you’re like most of the
people I’ve seen, probably not many. If you think about it, most of the cigarettes you’re
having are just getting in the way of something else and you’re not really enjoying it at
all. Often you might be having them in a rush, to just get your little ‘fix’ so you can just
get on with what you were doing before the cigarette. What an inconvenient hassle
right?
* Stress / it relaxes me
I’ve already touched on this, but let’s go into a bit more detail shall we. Many of my
clients will say that it’s stress that keeps them smoking. Or they’ll say they are going
through a stressful time, and hence they are not ready to quit. I’m sure you recognise
that this is not accurate at all. Simply because nicotine is a stimulant, it actually elevates
your body’s internal state of stress. It raises your blood pressure, increased your heart
rate and stimulates your nervous system – all the things that put the body into a state of
stress.
If you think about it, it’s all the things that
you are doing right after a stressful situation
that is reducing your stress, except the
cigarette. Let’s say for example you’re sitting
at your desk and something stressful has
happened. Or you’ve just had an argument
with your partner. What do then usually do?
You say ‘right, I’m going for a cigarette’. You
leave the room or the office, you go outside
the building, you go find a nice quiet place to
yourself to have a moment on your own.
Your taking some nice slow deep breathes, you’re thinking about the situation and what
you’re going to do to address it, you’re having some thinking time. Then you go back
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inside and psychologically you’ve DE-stressed, but physiologically, you’re actually in a
higher state of stress than before you went out the door!
I say to people, if you had done the exact same things, but you just left the cigarette out,
get up, go outside, find a place to yourself, take some deep breathes, have a moment to
think and then come back, you’ll find that you’ll be mentally AND physically relaxed.
You see, breathing is THE most important
thing in your entire life. We all know what
happens when you stop breathing. But any
benefits that you’re getting from the deep
breathing that is actually REQUIRED while
smoking, is all just gone from the 4,000
chemicals you’re inhaling at the same time.
However, if you take some slow deep
breathes during any kind of stressful situation,
you’re body will instantly react in a calming,
relaxing way.
One of the main jobs of your heart is to pump oxygen around your body. So the more
oxygen you give it, the more it slows down because the less it needs to work. The more
oxygen you send to your brain the more relaxed you feel. If you were take 20 slow deep
breathes right now, you’d instantly feel the positive difference in your body.
The funny thing about the flip side of the stress excuse is that people will often say that
they also smoke when they are relaxing, maybe on a holiday, not stressed at all. Hmmm
. . . . . . Does something seem a little incongruent here to you about this? The point I’m
making yet again is that all the ‘benefits’ you think you’re getting are simply illusory.
* Poor will power
Some people will say that they just haven’t had the will power, or they got poor will
power. The idea that will power can get you to quit is to assume that it’s your conscious
mind that is in control of your smoking, but it isn’t. At the end of the day, you can know
all the reasons on a conscious level how silly smoking is, how there are no real benefits
to it, which you probably already know. However it more than likely won’t be enough to
get you to quit because it’s not your conscious mind that is controlling your smoking. If it
was, then every single person would just wake up one day and just QUIT – cold turkey.
Some people can do it with the tips mentioned above, but a lot can’t.
I’ve heard many other reasons why people have not been able to quit. Some of these
include: everyone around me smokes, my partner, wife, husband, roommate smokes, it
helps me think when I want to take a break.
But at the end of the day, if you’re really honest with yourself, it’s not the fact that these
are reasons that have kept you smoking. You just used these as excuses because you
just weren’t ready to make the decision to quit. And I want you to know that this is
TOTALLY ok. It’s fine to just say, ‘I just haven’t been ready to quit’.
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PART II - HYPNOSIS AND USING IT TO QUIT CIGARETTES
This section looks at Hypnosis and how it could
help you. I’m going to dispel all the myths and
misconceptions about it, tell you how and why it
works and then share how it can work for you
specifically.
Crossing the line between Smoker and
Non Smoker
If you want to become a non-smoker, then as I’ve
already mentioned, you need to think like a non-
smoker. Studies have shown that cigarette
smoking is approximately 20% physiological and
80% psychological. The truth of the matter is that
nicotine gum, patches or traditional Nicotine
Replacement Therapies (NRT)’s won’t change a
smoker’s mindset. Knowledge and understanding
is the key.
I’m committed to having this report be of value to you,
whether you agree to book a one-on-one
session with me or not.
I am running the risk of being hounded by my professional colleagues for giving away
this information that usually is only given to clients who pay a high fee I just don’t care
what they say. I truly believe this information may help you change the quality of your
life for the better and replace those moments of worrying about your health and family to
moments of experiencing your health and vitality. This information is knowledge,
knowledge is power and I like to empower people. So if this information helps you to
quit without a one-on-one session, fantastic! If not, you have My Details to get in touch
with me so you can call and book yourself into a session.
YOU Have To WANT To Quit For Yourself!
Ok, now the very first and most important thing to mention is that for this system to work
there has to be one crucial element in place – and it’s not going to be a big surprise for
you to hear this. You have to WANT to quit cigarettes for yourself. If you don’t really
want to quit, it obviously won’t work. Now that might seem totally obvious to you on first
hearing that. But you’d be surprised how many people call me and after speaking with
them for a little while, we soon realise that they made the call predominately for reasons
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other than the most crucial reason: them wanting to quit for themselves “my partner
wants me to quit, my husband, my wife, my kids etc etc”. YES, it will be great for them
when you quit, they will feel better when you quit and yes, you love them, and you’d
love to quit for them. But if you don’t really want to quit for yourself, you probably won’t
get the success that you want. And I have turned people away for this reason.
Here’s is the reason why the WANT is so important. If you think about it, when a smoker
has come to the point of having decided that they now want to quit, what they are
essentially then looking for is something that takes away the cravings. The simple idea
being:
You wouldn’t smoke if you didn’t FEEL like a cigarette right?
Of course not. I’m sure you’d agree that any treatment out there has done its job for you
to the degree that you feel in control in any moment to make the decision NOT TO
SMOKE. If you are still feeling the urge and craving for a cigarette, than you can safely
say that whatever you have tried just hasn’t done its thing for you.
I’d like to offer you a simple, yet powerful analogy
that will help you decide whether the want is really
there for you and you’re ready to quit. Think of it like
a scale, on the left is the desire to quit, be a non-
smoker and get all the obvious benefits that you
know you’re going to get when you quit. On the right
is the perceived pleasure from smoking. Now, as
long as the scale is tipping in favour of the left – it’s
the right time for you to quit. But you see, sometimes
smokers might call me or even come to a session
when their scale is really tipping in favour of the right,
and they think that the hypnosis will somehow tip it
for them. It will never do that.
But you see the connection here is obvious. The more you want to be a non smoker, the
more that scale is tipping to the left, the easier it will be to make the DECISION NOT to
smoke, when you don’t feel like it. But the more the scale is in equilibrium the higher the
chance of you being in a situation where you don’t feel like a smoke, but you go ‘what
the heck’ and just have one anyway. I’m sure this is making sense to you.
Now obviously every single quit smoking treatment you can think of out there has
helped many people stop smoking, all of them; hypnosis, patches, gum, medication,
acupuncture, Allen Carr, public courses etc. if these methods DIDN’T have the capacity
to work and if they weren’t in and of themselves effective at getting a result, then they
wouldn’t produce a single result for any single person. But the fact that all of the above
methods produce results every day for many people shows one thing. It’s no a question
of can that particular method work for you, it’s a question of YOUR particular mindset
and preparedness to quit.
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I find it a little amusing when people hear about hypnosis as a method for quitting and
they might say something like, “oh, I know someone that tried that and it didn’t work for
them”. They use one or two examples of people who it ‘didn’t work for’ as their
justification to never try it at all. Imagine if all smokers adopted the same approach for
gum, patches and pills. EVERY smoker will know MANY people who have tried these
and have failed. Pretty much everyone I treat has failed on these. Would you say, “oh,
patches, gum and medication, I know someone who tried them and it didn’t work”’. If
smokers went around with this approach to decide what they personally are going to try
– no one would ever use patches, gums or pills ever again! Imagine if we did the same
thing for other types of treatments like physiotherapy, chiropractic adjustments or
acupuncture. “Oh I know someone who tried all that on their sore back and it did nothing
for them, so none of them are going to work for me”. You wouldn’t say this would you?
The point I’m trying to make here is don’t let someone else’s experience of ANY
TEATMENT, not just hypnosis, sway you in making a decision to attempt something
that could definitely work FOR YOU! Just remember, smoking and quitting is a
psychological thing. All smokers will attempt different quit methods with different life
situations, mindsets and internal dialogues and that’s normal. What’s important is that
you try something that is a good fit for you and where you’re at with someone you feel
comfortable with.
At the end of the day, the bottom line is that you are looking for something that will give
you a sense of control to make the decision NOT to pick up a cigarette. No treatment or
method in the world is going to guarantee or stop you from reaching out for a cigarette,
picking it up and smoking it. Of course not. However once you have found something
that takes away that craving for you, all you have to do then is be committed to this
statement:
“If I don’t feel like a cigarette in any given moment, no matter what’s
happening around me, I’m just going to decide NOT to have one”.
It sounds simple right, but this is what it really comes down to. This is the best possible
outcome that any smoker could find when quitting.
I’m now going explain how this system does exactly this for a smoker.
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3 Elements That Determine Your Success
The three elements that will determine the success
of an alternative treatment like this are:
1) The actual treatment being a proven system
that actually works.
2) The skill / competency of the therapist to
administer that system.
3) The client’s mindset.
1. The actual treatment being a proven system that actually works
Now, I’m pretty confident that the first two points above are in place. Firstly, this system
has been in Australia for more than 10 years, first developed and practiced in the USA
and where the high success rate was established. Some people will call wanting to
know if ‘The System Works’ – I KNOW the system works, because it’s worked for
thousands of people. This is where I mention what I have already said above; it’s not
really a question of whether it can work for you. If this system didn’t work, then it
wouldn’t work for anyone. The fact that it has worked for so many of my clients already
is proof that it can also work for you. The real question is; have you come to that point,
and do you have the mindset required to allow the system to work for you? That’s the
entire point of this report, to give you all the information you need so you can determine
for yourself, if you think you have arrived at this point. Only a smoker knows when they
are ready to quit. It’s a personal journey and as much as loved ones around you may
want you to quit, no one will ever be able to ‘put you in that place’, you have to arrive at
that point for yourself.
2. The skill / competency of the therapist to administer that system
I am fully registered and board certified hypnotherapist and a member of The
International Institute for Complementary Therapists (IICT). I pride myself on giving a
comprehensive, professional service. I encourage you to call and gauge this for
yourself. I have worked in the therapeutic industry for many years. I am also
professionally bound by a code of ethics that I strongly uphold. I’ve been doing this
system for many years now and have seen more than 500 clients to day. Hence I’m
confident that this element is also addressed.
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3. The client’s mindset
So a big contributing factor to the success of this treatment is your mindset. I’ve ready
mentioned it a few times, and will mention it some more, simply because it’s a very
important element here.
You need to be ready to ‘let go of
cigarettes’. This is an important
thing to mention. Some smokers
may really like the idea of being a
non smoker, but they just aren’t
ready to quit cigarettes. Now a
smoker will know what I mean by
that. Some people will call me and
really want to quit, they really want
to be a non-smoker and gain all
the benefits that come along with
being a non-smoker, but, they
aren’t ready to walk away from
cigarettes.
Well, unfortunately you can’t have one scenario without the other. But sometimes I have
people call on behalf of a smoker and when I say that to them, they generally don’t
understand this concept. That is why I always like to speak to the person considering
the actual treatment to qualify them myself, prior to a booking being made.
So it’s important that you’re at that place where you’re ready to cut ties with what you
think has been your ‘little friend’. That thing that has ‘always been there for you’, but
really it isn’t a friend at all. In the end we all know it just stabs you in the back. As I’ve
already mentioned above, it’s a huge step to come to that mental place where they are
ready to leave behind an aspect of themselves that they’ve been doing for some many
years. Many people have spent their entire adult lives as smokers which has formed a
very strong idea that this is part of who they are and it can be a hard thing to leave
behind. And no one is going to tell you when you’re at that point, only you can know
when you’re at that point.
Now, I’d like you to answer this question for me:
Do you believe you are addicted to cigarettes?
If you’re like most smokers, you’ve said something like “yes, absolutely” to the above
question. Now, I’ll ask you this:
Do you think it would be easier to quit cigarettes if you WERE NOT addicted?
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Again, if you’re like most people, that question will seem a little strange at first and you’ll
say something like, “well, yeah”. Ok, I’m now going to submit to you that what is
happening for you MORE than a chemical, biological addiction to nicotine, is a:
Powerful Habit!
I’m not going to deny that there are addictive aspects to smoking cigarettes. After all,
another definition for addiction is “dependency”. I do believe that smokers are
psychologically dependent on using cigarettes, which is a far more powerful aspect of
smoking than the physical. Remember we mentioned earlier that studies have shown
that smoking is 20% physical and 80% psychological? It’s this fact that makes hypnosis
an effective treatment for quitting once and for all.
Let me now share with you some of the things that point to smoking being more HABIT
than drug addiction.
Firstly, if smoking was all about a ‘nicotine addiction’, then it would stand to reason that
patches should work 100% of the time for every single person. But they don’t. If your
replacing your nicotine ‘craving’ with a patch, then why aren’t they 100% effective?
Patches have actually been shown to be only 7% effective. That means that 93% of
people who try patches to quit fail! You see all nicotine replacement treatments have
one fundamental assumption, which isn’t entirely accurate. That is ‘the only reason
you’re smoking is because you’re addicted to nicotine, if we can give your body nicotine
in another way, other than puffing on a cigarette, you’ll quit’. If that’s true, and I’ve
already got nicotine in my body from a patch I’m wearing, than why do I still feel like a
cigarette? Why do I still want to smoke?
The simple fact of the matter is that no amount of nicotine running through your veins
will EVER address the biggest thing keeping a smoker smoking – the PSYCHOLOGY of
smoking. It’ll never address the ritualistic and habitualness’ around smoking. It’ll never
address the psychological connections you’ve got between certain activities and
situations in your day and a cigarette, they just go hand in hand don’t they?
And what about second hand smoke? If the chemicals in
cigarette smoker were truly addictive to the human
body, than anyone getting second hand smoke for long
enough would feel the need to rush outside and have a
cigarette. But they don’t do that do they? But the smoke
is definitely harmful to your body. This has been proven
by people contracting second hand illnesses while never
having smoked a cigarette in their life. This shows the
smoke is bad for the body, but the smoke itself doesn’t
get anyone ‘addicted’. Back when you used to be able to
smoke in bars, clubs and restaurants people who
worked there were surrounded by smoke constantly
may have even contracted illnesses because of it, but
they never started smoking just because they kept
breathing it in.
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Also, how do you form a habit? You form a habit by the repetition of an action. They say
it takes roughly 10 draws to finish a cigarette. So if you smoke a pack of 25 cigarettes a
day, like most of my clients, that means your doing the action of bringing your fingers to
your lips 250 times a day! What else do you do 250 times a day? Not much I’m sure. If
you were to do any action 250 times a day, I’m sure you’d agree that you would have a
pretty powerful habit in no time at all.
This brings me to another very important point worth mentioning at this time. Often
when people try to quit cold turkey or via other methods, they might experience some
things that they will automatically attribute to ‘nicotine withdrawal’. Things like irritability,
moodiness, agitation and frustration.
Now think about this. If you are so used to doing an action 100, 200, 300 times a day,
like brining your fingers to your lips, trying to STOP that all of a sudden is going to
cause some irritability, moodiness, agitation and frustration isn’t it? Of course it would.
But people will attribute all these effects to ‘nicotine withdrawal’ It’s simply not the case,
especially when we all know that the actual chemicals in cigarettes, including nicotine,
are completely gone from your body within 2 to 3 days. If that’s so, what could possibly
be causing that agitation days, if not, weeks later? It can’t possibly be the effects of
nicotine. It’s the psychology of smoking that causes this – the exact thing that hypnosis
deals with directly.
This is reason for feelings of withdrawal and very soon I’m going to share with you
another reason why you might experience these feelings. Something that I know will
shock you!
The final factor that I’d like to share with you about drug addiction is this. The number
one indicator of whether or not a drug or chemical is TRULY addictive to the body or
not, is what your body goes through when you STOP taking that drug or chemical all of
a sudden.
Now the truly addictive drugs out there are heroin,
cocaine and amphetamines. If you’re a daily user of
these kinds of drugs and you have been for a while and
you stop all of a sudden, your body experiences a
SEVERE PHYSICAL TRAUMA! I’ve seen the effects of
this first hand, and it’s awful! You experience vomiting,
nausea, night sweats, heart palpitations, anxiety, panic
attacks, delusions, shaking, severe muscle cramps as
well as insomnia. You’ll awake several times in the
night needing a fix.
You see their bodies have become so dependent on those drugs; their bodies need
them just to ‘function’, just to ‘feel normal’. And once the drug starts to leave the body,
they need more just to keep the withdrawal symptoms away.
This is why replacement therapies are very important for a true drug addict. A heroin
addict needs a replacement, synthetic version of heroin, such as methadone to help
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their bodies slowly and gradually adapt to functioning without heroin. But a smoker
doesn’t need nicotine to get them off nicotine.
Now let me ask you this. Have you ever seen someone go through those kinds of
withdrawals I mentioned above when they quit cigarettes? Of course not. You might get
the agitation, irritability and headaches, but you don’t physically ‘lose it’. Your body can
absolutely cope fine without nicotine in it.
To highlight this fact, I’m sure you can think of
times where having a cigarette was just out of
the question and you coped just fine. Taking a
flight is a perfect example. Maybe before you
step into the airport you’re puffing away like
crazy, but as soon as you walk in, something
in your mind just clicks “right, I just can’t
smoke for the next x amount of hours” and
you’re fine. But as soon as that plane pulls up
and you’re walking off, you’re mind then goes
“click, you can have a cigarette soon” and
now all of a sudden your running over people
to get outside, but for hours before hand you
were fine.
Or maybe you’re one of those ‘secretive smokers’ or maybe you have a job or regularly
go somewhere where smoking just isn’t possible. You’re probably fine in those
situations, but as soon as you’re on your own, or you jump in the car, step outside –
CLICK, you have to have a cigarette.
All these examples just show how often a craving for a cigarette is SITUATIONALY
triggered NOT biologically triggered. Because if you a true drug addict, addicted to a
drug, it wouldn’t matter whose around or where you are – you need a HIT and your
body will violently react until it gets it.
The fact that woman will often QUIT, just like that when they find out they’re pregnant,
also shows how psychological smoking really is. But if that same woman was truly
addicted to heroin, cocaine or amphetamines, would she be able to quit just like that?
NO WAY! She’ll keep using and her baby will be born addicted on his or her birth. But
even if a woman is not able to quit during her pregnancy, and I have seen a few who
haven’t, her baby is not going to be addicted and withdrawing from nicotine. Obviously,
we all know it’s not good for the baby and it can lead to birth defects, but more often
than not, they are generally ok. They are experiencing nothing as bad as what they
could be if their mother was on seriously addictive drugs.
Why The Body Experiences Withdrawal Symptoms
I’m now going to share with you why some people experience any withdrawal symptoms
at all. Now I mentioned that when you quit, you might get headaches, become irritable,
get dizzy etc. This is actually due to a drop in your blood sugar levels.
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I’m about to share with you a simple fact that will shock you.
What a lot of people don’t know about cigarettes is this. Soon after tobacco is harvested
from the fields, to get rid of that foul, bitter horrible taste of raw tobacco, and to make
them taste ‘smoother’, they dump the leaves into huge vats of SUGAR WATER where
many flouring agents are added.
Find that hard to believe? Well, the below is a simple cut and paste from Wikipedia. You
can verify the quote below by just going to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette
Additives
Various additives are combined into the shredded tobacco
product mixtures, with humectants such as propylene
glycol or glycerol, as well as flavouring products and
enhancers such as cocoa solids, licorice, tobacco extracts,
and various sugars, which are known collectively as
"casings". The leaf tobacco will then be shredded, along with a
specified amount of small laminate, expanded tobacco, BL, RL,
ES and IS. A perfume-like flavour/fragrance, called the
"topping" or "toppings", which is most often formulated by flavor
companies, will then be blended into the tobacco mixture to
improve the consistency in flavour and taste of the cigarettes
associated with a certain brand name.
[31]
I’m sure you’re a little shocked right now, along with every other client I tell.
I can almost hear the wheels turning in your head right now. This really explains a lot
doesn’t it? Maybe this has something to do with the bad teeth that smokers can get.
This is also why smokers stick to their brand of cigarette. 8 to 18% of one cigarette is
sugar and flavouring agents as mentioned above called “casings”. Brands taste
differently and attempt to distinguish themselves based on their flavour. I’m sure you
don’t chop and change brands from one day to the next. This is because you get used
to that brands ‘flavour’.
So what are the further implications of this fact? Well, if you’re having a packet of
cigarettes a day, that’s a heck of a lot of sugar right? This means that once you stop,
you’re blood sugar levels are going to drop. This is when you’ll experience similar
effects that diabetics report when their blood sugar levels drop. If you ask any diabetic
what they feel when their blood sugars are off – headaches, dizziness, shaking hands,
moodiness, frustration and irritability. Sounds like a lot of smokers when trying to quit
cold turkey right?
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Why You Don’t Have To Worry About Gaining Weight
Having mentioned the above interesting fact about cigarettes, this leads me to address
the common fear that you’ll gain weight once you quit. Why do a lot of people who quit
put on weight? Two reasons really. Firstly, when people are trying to quit via any means
other than hypnosis, especially cold turkey, they are essentially looking for any way to
deal with a craving other than having a cigarette. So they’ll turn to food. This is a
common ‘quick fix’ solution to keep your hands and mouth busy and distracted.
However the second, more important reason is
because they are subconsciously trying to increase
their blood sugar levels which have dropped. Now
eating a few extra little snacks here and there isn’t
really a problem. In fact, it’s pretty much common
knowledge that eating small regular meals is
actually beneficial for healthy weight management.
The problem is that in most cases people will reach
for unhealthy food and artificial sugars instead of
natural sugars and then they wonder why they have
put on weight.
We are justifying machines by nature and most of
us secretly like to eat junk food, and we can easily
justify eating it because we have kicked a MUCH
MUCH worse habit of smoking cigarettes! Who’s
going to argue with that?
All you have to do is be mindful of this fact and don’t
fall into the trap of ‘rewarding’ yourself with food
your body really doesn’t need.
There are two very important things to do once you quit cigarettes, no matter which
method you are using. I have already mentioned them in passing, but this is important
and worth mentioning again.
1) Have NATURAL Sugars. As you now know, your blood sugar levels are going to
drop when you quit. It’s important NOT to replace these sugars with artificial sugars like
soft drinks, energy drinks, chocolates, sweets, desserts etc, but with natural sugars.
Things like fruit, fruit juice or honey. Anything naturally sweet is great.
Our blood sugar levels have a LOT to do with our moods. Ever noticed what happens to
kids when they have too much sugar? They go crazy. It’s why parents are so vigilant
about how much they have. They become hyperactive. Adults are the same. But
because we’re older, we know better, we just get more passive instead.
Our bodies are very good at knowing what it needs and what it doesn’t. When you
introduce artificial sugar into the body, it knows that it doesn’t need it. So it uses it really
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fast and then gets rid of it really fast. Hence the sugar rush and then a crash, which
you’ll feel in your mood.
2) Drink more water. This is a VERY important
element and I can’t stress this enough. You probably
know that 75% of our body is water by cellular make
up. But the chemicals in cigarettes actually prevent
your cells from absorbing water. This is why smoking
has that aging effect on skin and appearance. The
cigarettes are literally sucking moisture out of your
skin! By quitting cigarettes, you’re cells will absorb
MUCH more water and when this happens your
circulation will dramatically improve, and in a VERY
short period of time. As your circulation improves so
will every single system in your body.
What Makes Quitting With Hypnosis so Powerful?
There is a combination of things that makes this system so powerful. One of the
reasons is the fact that I use your top 3 reasons for quitting. We get absolutely clear on
your specific reasons for coming to see me. So it’s not a ‘one-size-fits-all’ blanket
approach for everyone. I get your specific reasons and triggers which are then weaved
into the hypnotic script that you experience while in a relaxed trance state.
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Some Myths about Hypnosis
Ok, so now I’m going to discuss some of the myths and misconceptions about
Hypnosis. You see, many different things come to mind for people when they hear the
word ‘Hypnosis’. This is because most people will recall something they may have
either seen at a stage show, or on TV. As you can imagine, there is quite a difference
between hypnosis for entertainment and hypnosis for therapeutic purposes.
However they do both have one thing in common,
something I have already mentioned; it won’t get you to
do something that you don’t already want to do.
Whether that’s cluck like a chicken, or quit cigarettes. I
know this is true because I personally witnessed it once. I
was watching a show where the hypnotist made a
suggestion that when they would open their eyes the
people on stage would start to act very provocatively as if in
an adult film. When he clicked his fingers, the 4 men on
stage were acting very funny and entertaining. However the
one girl on stage shook her head and refused to participate.
You see hypnosis will never make you do something that
you feel uncomfortable with, goes against your values or
who you are.
If you think about it, everyone going to those shows is expecting to be entertained by
watching people doing silly things on stage. Now when the guy on stage inevitably asks
for VOLUNTEERS, do you think shy people are going up there? Of course not. What
you’ll find every time is that the people going on stage are the extrovert types. They are
the ones that would be doing the exact same silly things after a few drinks at the pub on
a Saturday night. You will NEVER EVER get a shy person on a hypnotist’s stage acting
silly, they’ll be under the table at the back of the room! Let’s not forget also, that often
these shows are done at R.S.L Clubs, where people have often had a few drinks
anyway. So the ‘stage is set’, so-to-speak for those silly things to unfold.
The bottom line is that YOU are in control of your body and mind. Words coming out of
someone’s mouth can never make your neurology do something it doesn’t want to do.
YOU are always in control to make the decision of whether you’re going to pass the
message of what you’re hearing onto your body, or not.
I mean, if hypnosis was some sort of mind control and had the power to make people do
things against their will, some hypnotherapists would probably be robbing all the banks,
running parliament and the world right? You see my point I’m sure.
The real power of hypnosis is experienced when therapist and client have come
together to work on a mutually agreed upon outcome. It’s really as simple as that.
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Your unconscious mind is in control of your smoking
I’m now going to explain the two aspects of the mind and explain how and why hypnosis
works. We all know that there are two parts of the mind, the conscious and
unconscious. The conscious part of our minds is that part of the mind that most of us
would describe if we were asked to define our minds. It contains all the frontal lobe
aspects of our minds; it does all of our critical thinking, executive decision making and
impulse control, it also has your concept of time – it’s what you use to recall what you
did last year, last month or last week.
As much as we like to think it’s our conscious mind that is responsible for our habits, it’s
not. Because if it was, you would have woken up one morning and decided that you
simply weren’t going to smoke cigarettes anymore, and that would have been the end of
that. Everyone would quit cold turkey. Since this hasn’t happened for you, it shows that
there is something else that is keeping you smoking – and that’s the unconscious
mind.
It has been said that only 2-4% of who we are,
what we do and our automatic behaviours is
governed by our conscious mind. That leaves
a lot to the unconscious mind. The analogy
that is often given to highlight this is the
iceberg. Often you can only see a very small
portion from above, but below is just so much
more.
Your unconscious mind has two roles to play
in your life. The first is to make your life easier
and the second is to protect you – both on a
physical and emotional level. It makes your
life easier by doing all your day to day tasks
that at first you had to really think about, but
over time you don’t have to anymore. Like
driving a car, when you first learnt to drive a
car, I’m sure you had to think about every
single step of the process.
However with the combination of time and repetition you can now do multiple things
while driving – it’s like another part of you has taken over this task.
Your unconscious mind also serves you emotionally and it’s the real reason you’re
smoking. You see, back when you had your first cigarette, chances are, your conscious
mind was saying how disgusting it was, the coughing, the taste. You probably wondered
how anyone could do such a thing. However, on an emotional level you would have
been saying the complete opposite to yourself. Things like; ‘Aren’t I cool, I look older,
people I look up to smoke, my parents smoke, everyone’s doing it, I don’t want to be a
nerd, I’m such a rebel, look at me’ etc. I’m sure if you thought back, you would be able
to remember some emotional benefits at the time you started, otherwise there would
have been no reason to continue smoking right?
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Your unconscious mind has very black and white thinking. When it comes across a new
experience in its development, it simply asks itself “is this good or bad for me? This
smoking thing, should I keep this up or not? Well since I’m getting all these good
positive feelings, this smoking thing must be a good thing”. So in that moment, your
unconscious mind decided that smoking was a good thing. It will hang onto the reality of
this decision until you can effectively communicate with the unconscious mind and give
it a powerful new story, the one that you now want to experience.
The hypnosis is like a reprogram of the subconscious mind’s relationship to smoking
cigarettes and quitting. The way you as the client then FEEL this reprogramming, is by
walking out and just feeling differently about smoking. You don’t have direct access to
this part of your mind during your day to day functioning. Both your conscious and
unconscious minds are separated by a barrier the keeps them apart. This barrier we call
the Critical Faculty and it can be bypassed but only with your participation and by
following the very simple relaxation instructions at the start.
It is the thinking and current programming of
unconscious mind which is actually keeping
you smoking, not an addiction to nicotine.
This is why the traditional methods for
quitting often don’t get you the success you
want and can leave you high and dry in the
process of trying. Traditional methods for
quitting cigarettes, the N.R.T’s, as mentioned
already, are all based on the assumption that
the only reason you are smoking is because
you’re a drug addict addicted to nicotine. If
you’re able to satisfy this aspect of smoking
in another way, you’ll quit. It’s important to
remember now that the chemical addiction to
nicotine is only 20% of the smoker’s plight.
What about the remaining 80%?
This is why some people who are trying to quit will report having a kind of mental tug of
war, ‘part’ of them wants to quit (that is, the conscious mind), but another ‘part’ is
drawing them to cigarettes (the unconscious mind). This is because your unconscious
mind thinks it’s serving you emotionally by smoking. It is still trapped back in the
mindset it created when you first learnt to smoke. Your unconscious mind is trapped in
the fantasy that smoking is beneficial for you, like a child manipulating their parents to
get what they want. Hypnosis is a powerful tool to directly tap into this part of your mind.
It won’t fell like we’re speaking to your unconscious mind, but you will KNOW that
something was going on when you open you’re eyes and suddenly you feel completely
different about doing that thing.
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What You Can Expect While Being In Trance
To help break down the myths around hypnosis even further, it’s important to share with
you EXACTLY what you can expect and what NOT to expect while experiencing a
hypnotic trance. To be honest, hypnosis can be described in 3 simple words:
RELAXED, FOCUSED, ATTENTION.
To go into more detail, firstly, you’re not going to ‘feel hypnotised’. That’s right, there’s
nothing to sit and ‘wait for’, there’s no particular ‘thing’ to wait for. All it will feel like to
you, all it would look like if someone were to be looking on, is your eyes are closed,
you’re really relaxed and you’re just listening to someone talk and talk and talk to you.
Almost as if someone is reading you a bed time story.
You might feel really light, or you might feel really heavy. This is just a personal thing.
There is no right or wrong way to experience relaxation in a chair and whatever
happens for you will be perfect for you. There’s no need to over analyse the process.
Most people at the end will however report a kind of ‘relaxation paralyses’, where they
may have felt like they couldn’t move. They might say their arms and legs felt like stone.
You might have the experience of feeling like you can’t move. But you always know that
you could move if you wanted to. In fact, at any moment, you could open your eyes, get
up and walk out if you want to.
You see, this is the power of suggestion and the power of
being in a state of allowing. You ALWAYS have the
choice whether or not you’re going to allow yourself to go
with the flow or not. The power of hypnosis really comes
from the well established and documented close
relationship between your mind and body. Your body and
neurology listens to YOU, NOT A HYPNOTHERAPIST.
The only question is, are you going to pass on the
suggestions you are hearing to your body or not. Simple
examples of this power are easy for me to see in that if
you are following along with the suggestions that you’re
hearing such as . . . ‘going deeper and deeper, more and
more relaxed’ . . . . then you might open your eyes and
find that your head is low and your chin is on your chest
whereas when you started your head was up high. This is
one sign of the power of suggestion.
You’re not going to fall ‘asleep’, wake up and have some sort of amnesia. Even though
the word ‘sleep’ is often used during the stage shows, no one is ever actually ‘sleeping’,
it only seems that way. As a matter of fact, you are totally aware of everything that is
happening around you at all times. This includes the sounds in the room, outside the
room, the sound of the therapist’s voice, perhaps the music that might be playing, the
feeling of the chair, temperature of the room etc.
You will be aware of thoughts going in and out of your mind, and this is also very
normal. Some people might say that they have a hard time relaxation, or perhaps that
they have a mind that goes ‘a million miles and hour’. This is also totally fine and ok.
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Often these are the sort of clients that get the most profound experience. As long as you
are able to follow instructions and keep most of your attention on what is being said and
how it is being said, you’ll naturally drift into that ‘there, but you’re not’ kind of state.
For those who might have racing minds, I actually
employ some strategies that enhance you’re
ability to pay attention. A part from the general
induction techniques at the start, I will also
engage you in some interaction. No words are
needed, but they are simple things like asking
you to nod your head here and there, asking you
to visualise, imagine or picture a particular event
of thing, and then nod your head again, and so
on. These techniques assist in keeping your
attention during certain moments of the hypnosis.
However, since we are dealing with the subconscious mind anyway, it doesn’t matter if
some mind wondering happens, a bit of this is inevitable. The part of you which really
needs to hear what is being said, will take in exactly what it needs to.
Another thing that will NOT happen during a hypnosis session is that you will not find
yourself doing something or saying something that you don’t want to say or do. This has
already been addressed above, but it’s important to reiterate that YOU are in control the
entire time.
At the end of the day however, everyone experiences hypnosis a little differently. It’s
hard to say exactly how you’re going to experience it. Most people, at the very least, will
report a very deep feeling of relaxation. If you’re some one who practices some form of
relaxation techniques, you may have an experience of ‘going deeper’, but it really
makes no difference to your success. As you’ll soon read from the common questions
people ask, you’re not going to get stuck in hypnosis – it’s not actually possible, just like
you can’t get stuck in a daydream or one of those vacant gazes you probably go in and
out of every day.
The ‘Make or Break’ Ways Of Listening
This next section is very important indeed, and it’s the way that someone is listening
while being in trance. The way that you are internally reacting to what is being said to
you is very important. It’s basically that internal discussion with yourself. This really can
be a make or break factor when it comes to the success of hypnosis.
You see, when I share with people what I do, some people will ask me; “can anyone be
hypnotized? I can’t be hypnotized, not everyone can be hypnotized”.
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People will often say this when they have a misconception of what hypnosis ACTUALLY
IS, because if they knew what it was, they wouldn’t be asking this. However, I share
with them the simple fact that being in a hypnotic trance is a very normal, natural state,
you drift in and out of through the day often, and you just don’t realize it.
You don’t use the words, “opps, sorry I was in a
hypnotic trance, can you repeat that?” Of
course not. You say things like, “sorry I was in
the zone, I tuned out, I was a million miles
away, off with the pixies, lights were on but no
one’s home”. I’m sure you can relate to many
situations like this. Perhaps while watching TV.
You might be watching a movie or your
favourite show, you’re SO into what you’re
watching, you don’t even hear someone calling
your name in the next room, it’s like they aren’t
even there until they come and clip you on the
ears and you ‘snap out of it’, What have you
‘snapped out of’?, a hypnotic trance.
Or maybe you’re reading a book, you’re so into the plot of what you’re reading, the rest
of the world just seems to ‘fade away’.
Here’s an interesting little thing I’d like to add to that TV example. It is the most
commonly used thing for bringing people into a ‘trance-like state’, and advertising
companies know this and use it to their advantage all the time. When you’re in a trance,
you become more suggestible. This is why it’s no surprise to see TV commercials that
are very closely related to the subject matter of whatever it is that you are watching.
This is no accident but strategic. You might be watching car racing and so the
advertisements will be about car insurance, or auto parts. If you’re watching a cooking
show, pots and pans will be advertised, a weight loss show will be followed by gym or
supplement advertisements etc.
The most common example of a hypnotic trance is
when you’re driving, perhaps a long distance drive
and then all of a sudden you go, “oh, shoot, I was
supposed to take that last turn off, where am I
going?”. Or you might get to your destination and
you suddenly realize, you don’t remember the
route you took, you just got there.
This driving example shows two things, firstly is a
completely safe state for you to be in because you
can actually be driving and be completely
elsewhere. Secondly, YOU’RE IN CONTROL.
Because if a person were to step out in front of you
while in this state, you don’t run them over, you
‘snap’ out of it.
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The above example shows that you’re conscious mind is always present during these
situations, not completely gone. It’s always there ready to immediately take action in
case of any emergency, perceived or real, to bring you right back into the moment.
I use these examples of day to day trance to highlight to people that being in this state
is a normal thing that happens often. So the question doesn’t become CAN you
experience a hypnotic trance? But how resistant are you to allowing someone else’s
voice guide you into that state, in a particular moment in time?
You see, the only difference between the kinds of trance I just described above, and the
trance that someone experiences in hypnosis, is the ‘object of attention’. Instead of it
being the road, a book, or a TV screen, it’s someone’s voice, what they’re saying and
how they’re saying it.
It’s all simply a matter of an individual’s level of resistance while participating. Some
people are very allowing, very non-resistant and they just go with the flow so well they
experience the result very powerfully and may feel like they’ve always been a non-
smoker and not even think about it. Other people may have some form resistance that
is standing in the way of the result.
Luckily, the most common form of resistance is also the most easily addressed and that
is, the way you’re listening.
For hypnosis to be successful we have to attempt to remove all unhelpful mental
barriers between what is being said, and the way you are receiving the message. We all
know that we go through our daily lives filtering and judging all the information that we
gather from our senses and this usually serves us very well if it is a helpful filter or
barrier. However in hypnosis, there are some ways of listening that are not so helpful.
This is important because as you know that when
someone is talking to us, we are always listening to
two things really. One is the words that person is
saying; the other is what we are saying to ourselves
about what we are hearing. It’s important to realise
that this will not stop during your time in a hypnotic
trance. But as mentioned already, because your
conscious mind isn’t completely gone, then you do
have some control over the flavour or nature of that
internal dialogue.
There are 4 potential ways of listening while being in the hypnotic state and only one
way will give you the success you want and that is the first way of listening:
1) Positive Reinforcement
This may seem a little obvious, but the way you want to be listening should seem very
normal and natural when you hear the suggestions about becoming a non-smoker. You
want to be listening in a positive, accepting and reinforcing way. All you really have to
do is sprinkle what you’re hearing with some positive energy. You might say things to
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yourself like, “Yeah, I like the idea of that, that sounds good to me, I look forward to that,
that’s what I want”. Quite simple really.
The next 3 ways of listening are ways that you would want to avoid.
2) Disagreeing or Challenging
For example, if I were to say a suggestion like “smoking is horrible, disgusting, you don’t
want it, you don’t like it and you don’t need it”, you don’t want to be saying things to
yourself like. “hmm . . . I don’t know about that, I don’t mind one with a drink, it’s not all
bad, here and there is ok”. It’s the kind of listening where you are negating and
internally qualifying what you are hearing, which is essentially trying to lead you towards
the result that you have intentionally come to experience anyway.
3) An Unmotivated Way of Listening
This kind of listening doesn’t happen often, but it can happen so it’s important to
mention here. If someone has come for a session to predominately please someone
else, perhaps a wife, husband, partner, family member, parent etc, but THEY don’t want
to quit for themselves, it could translate in the way they are listening. If this is the case,
someone might be listening saying to themselves “yeah, yeah, of course I want to be a
non-smoker, whatever, blah blah blah”. They might walk out actually feeling differently,
not having a craving, but if the want wasn’t truly there, they’ll just look for the first
excuse to just pick up a cigarette so they can then say to the person they came for,
“You see, I told you so, I tried and it didn’t work, are you happy? Now leave me alone”.
4) Desperation of Hope
The final possible way of listening can be a tricky one. Someone people are SO
invested in the outcome, they are SO desperate for the outcome, they might be sitting in
the hypnosis chair listening along, desperately HOPING it works, HOPING it happens,
HOPING they quit. When you hope for something, there is a part of you that is
expecting failure. This is something you want to try and minimise as much as possible.
In my experience the people who fall into this category, are those that might feel they
have left quitting just a little too late. Maybe they just got the dreaded diagnosis of some
smoking related illness and then all of a sudden they just NEED to see me
YESTERDAY! This kind of listening can produce a ball or knot of stress and tension that
simply goes against the flow of the relaxation which hypnosis predominately is.
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What Can I Expect After A Session?
Once you’re session is complete and you leave, you’ll experience one of 5 possible
outcomes:
* About 20% of people will feel like they have never even been a smoker! The feelings,
thoughts and relationship to smoking and cigarettes are just SO different, it’ll feel like
they’ve never even had one.
* Another 40% of people, most people will fall into the next category, will feel very
similar, but they may get a very controllable fleeting thought here and there about
smoking. You may be doing something where in the past you would usually be having a
cigarette and you’ll actually notice that you aren’t smoking. This may feel like a kind of
‘adjustment period’ for you. You can’t necessarily stop the thought of smoking coming
into your mind, no better than you can stop the idea of a white bear coming into your
mind . . . . . . . what did you just think of? A white bear right? But what hypnosis does do,
is it address the crawling, craving feeling to want to ACT on that fleeting thought. It
addresses that escalating urge to smoke.
Some people have said to me that, they almost feel like they should be smoking, but
they just don’t want or feel like having one. It’s kind of like a new experience for some
people to be just going through the motions of their day without a cigarette between
their fingers, so it gets their attention. So the thought will leave your mind as quickly as it
came. As time goes by your memories as a smoker will just fade away more and more.
* Another 30% need to be careful and vigilant, not to be
tricked or manipulated into having ‘just a puff’, or being
coaxed into having ‘just one’. At the end of the day, if
you’re looking for a reason to start again, you’ll find one
in no time. But if you really want to be a non smoker,
you’ll stick to this decision. Some times you might tell an
old smoking buddy that you’ve quit, and they might say,
“oh, come on, you can have one, a puff won’t hurt, you
can quit tomorrow “.
DON’T LET THIS TRICK YOU. A PUFF AWAY FROM
A PACK A DAY!!
Often smokers who do that are just frustrated THEY
haven’t been able to quit and so they just want to see
you joining in so THEY don’t feel as bad about smoking.
You’ve heard the old saying ‘misery loves company’
right?
* Another 5% probably never really wanted to quit and might have just come along to
please someone else.
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*Another 5% may need to come back for that completely free second session and
that’s totally fine, no matter when it is, all you have to do is come back.
The Final Secret Ingredient To Quitting
This is a simple, but profound thing. I’ve also touched on this already, but I want to
elaborate on it here. Just DECIDE that you are going to quit. Now this might sound silly
and simple, but it’s important to mention. The word ‘decide’ is a powerful word. It comes
from that group of words like homicide, pesticide, suicide. It means to ‘kill’, to ‘kill off’.
When you DECIDE to quit cigarettes, you’re essentially ‘killing off’, the option of ever
entertaining the idea of having one ever again.
Let me share with you why this is SUCH an important concept. What I have found in the
years and hundreds of clients that I’ve seen up to now, for the ones who do need to
come back for that second session, I always notice a common theme. When I ask them
if they had a huge overwhelming craving for a cigarette in that moment that they had
one, almost always they’ll say “well, not really, BUT . . . “ and they’ll go onto describe
either one of two scenarios.
1) Alcohol was involved. This is very
common amongst the few that need the
second session. They’ll be out and
about, having a few drinks, socialising
and they’ll say. . “hmmm . . . . . I’m ok,
it’s been a while, I’m in control, maybe I
can have just one sneaky little puff” and
them BOOM! They are back on them
before they know it! What I say to every
one is that once you have done the
session and feel great, you have to treat
it like a recovering alcoholic. They can’t
just have a nip, or a little. It’s all or
none, and quitting cigarettes is the
exact same thing.
As much as some smokers would like to wish there was some treatment out there that
will make a full time smoker a part time, social smoker, there just isn’t. What you’ll find
with social smokers is that they have ALWAYS BEEN SOCIAL SMOKERS! I haven’t
met a social smoker yet that used to smoke a pack a day but now smokes just a few
here and here. Once you’ve jumped over that side of the fence, you have to make the
decision whether you’re ready to quit completely or not.
We all know what alcohol does, it reduces your decision making ability. So people might
be inclined to do something, like have a cigarette, when they otherwise wouldn’t have.
2) Some emotional moment, often an emotional low. This is the second most common
scenario that brings about the need for a second session. This is where some
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unexpected or lingering moment of an emotional low was present, and the person said
to themselves something like “bugger this, I’m just going to smoke”, or, “to hell with this,
give me a fag”.
You see sometimes we experience certain unwanted situations and emotions where we
are feeling so bad, that we’ll do anything at all to bring us to some better feeling place,
like smoke a cigarette. Even though, they might not have had a craving for a cigarette,
they just wanted to feel something else in that moment and somehow they thought a
cigarette was going to bring them to that better feeling place.
Getting back to the importance of decision, in both cases mentioned above, the person
didn’t have a craving for a cigarette, but they just DECIDED to have one. They were
basically in a situation where they could have gone without, but they had one anyway.
The important thing to reiterate here is that no quit smoking treatment will ever stop you
from deciding to have a cigarette, obviously. There’s just too much free will involved.
The basic fundamental aim of ALL quit smoking treatments is to give you a sense of
control, no matter what situation you’re in, to decide not to smoke. That treatment has
really done its job to the degree that you feel this control. That’s all it really comes down
to.
This is what hypnosis does in a nut shell. It leaves you with a sense of control, a sense
of empowerment that makes it easy to decide not to have one, even though you might
be in a situation where having one might seem totally justified.
Furthermore, on this topic of decision, I’d like to add one last point. It amuses me when I
hear about or see articles, scientific journals or studies that are comparing the ‘Long-
term effectives of this quit treatment over that treatment over that treatment etc’.
We have already established that smoking is more of a powerful habit, rather than a
drug addiction. Science has shown that it takes exactly 21 days to break a habit.
Basically, if you have gone for this long without doing a particular habitual action, you
have broken that habit. I know FOR A FACT, that if anyone has gone for more than 21
days without smoking a cigarette but they started up again, it wasn’t because they had a
craving for a cigarette, it’s because they decided to have one. Have you gone for more
than 21 days? If so, think back to the situation where you started again? Could you
have gone without in the moment? It makes no difference whatsoever what method got
you to 21 days, what got you there pretty much ‘worked’. Treatments and methods for
quitting don’t vary from one to another in terms of reducing or increasing one’s ability to
exercise their free will to pick up a cigarette at all. It’s up to the individual’s commitment
to decide not to pick one up, not on what they used to quit. Hypnosis can make that 21
days just seem so much easier than the rest.
Sometimes I get clients who say, “I tried hypnosis and it was great, it lasted 6 months”,
or a year, or two years etc. I say to them. Hypnosis isn’t necessarily ‘working’ on you for
that amount of time, it basically ‘worked’ from the moment you opened your eyes and no
longer felt like a cigarette. You were just committed to your decision NOT to smoke for 3
months, or a year or 2 years etc. I’m sure this is making a lot of sense to you.
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PART III - SMOKING, HOW BAD IS IT?
This section addresses some facts and information about cigarettes and smoking. Now I
know many of you might have ‘heard it all before’. But when it comes to the negative
impact that cigarettes have and someone has come to that point where they seriously
want to quit, it can be a good thing to remind ourselves of all the negative aspects of
smoking. It can make quitting that much better don’t you think? Now a lot of the
research I’ve done and the figures I’ll present here are from the USA, but I’m sure it’s a
pretty good reflection of what would be happening here in Australia as well.
Some Tarred Facts
Research shows that the more and better informed people are about smoking, the
higher their chance of quitting. At the moment it is estimated that over 1 billion people in
the world smoke – that’s one in 3 adults on the planet are smokers!
The following statistics and figures have come from the National Health Interview
Survey (NHIS), Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and The National Centre for
Health Statistics in the USA.
 One out of every five deaths is caused by tobacco use.
 An average of 440,000 Americans die each year from tobacco use.
 Tobacco is blamed for many serious
pulmonary and cardiovascular
diseases.
 Tobacco and nicotine are some of the
most potent carcinogens and are to
blame for a majority of all cancers of
the lung, trachea, bronchus, larynx,
and oesophagus.
 Tobacco use also produces cancers in the pancreas, kidney, bladder, and cervix.
 Impotency is sometimes also experienced in male smokers because of its ability
to reduce blood flow.
 Smoking is an important risk factor for respiratory illnesses, causing 85,000
deaths per year from pulmonary diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease and pneumonia.
 Children and adolescents who are active smokers will have increasingly severe
respiratory illness, as they grow older.
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 Smoking during pregnancy causes about 5-6% of prenatal deaths, 17-26% of
low-birth-weight births, and 7-10% of pre-term deliveries, and it increases the risk
of miscarriage and fetal growth retardation.
 Cigarettes are responsible for about 25% of deaths from residential fires, causing
nearly 1,000 fire-related deaths and 3,300 injuries each year.
 The average smoker will spend $100,000 on cigarettes in their lifetime.
 Smoking cigarettes is the number one most preventable cause of death in the
world.
 The average smoker will
reduce their lifespan by 14
years by smoking cigarettes.
 If you continue smoking you
have a one in two chance of
dying from it.
 If you smoke more than 25
cigarettes a day, you are 25
times more likely to die from
cancer and almost twice as
likely to die from heart
disease.
 Each cigarette on average
takes 11 minutes off your
life.
 Fifty diseases are caused by
smoking. Twenty of them
are fatal.
 Nicotine itself is a colourless oily compound and if you were to inject it directly
into your bloodstream you would die almost instantly.
 Nicotine’s natural function in plants of the nightshade family is as an anti-
herbivore chemical to prevent the plant being eaten. This is why nicotine has
been widely used in the past as an insecticide. Keep this in mind next time you
smoke a cigarette or as you try to quit smoking.
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Exactly What Are You Inhaling?
I’m sure you’d agree that they are some pretty alarming facts and figures. When a
smoker inhales cigarette smoke the surface area of the lungs allows the nicotine to pass
into the blood stream almost immediately. This is the nicotine "hit" that smokers are said
to crave. There is, however a lot more to cigarette smoke than just the nicotine. In fact,
there are more than 4,000 chemical substances that make up cigarette smoke, many of
them toxic.
Cigarette smoke is composed of 43 carcinogenic substances. More than 400 other
toxins that are in smoke are also in wood varnish, nail polish remover, and rat poison.
As you can imagine an accumulation of these substances over time in the body and can
cause serious illnesses and disease to the heart and lungs. Some of the chemicals in
cigarettes include: Benzene - A poisonous gas found in petrol fumes known to cause
leukaemia, Butane - Lighter fuel. Ethanol - Used in anti-freeze. Methanol - Used in
rocket fuel. Ammonia - Used in many cleaning products. Acetone - Used in paint
stripper. Cadmium - Used in car batteries, known to cause cancer. Arsenic - Poison.
Toluene - Industrial solvent.
As most of us already know, cancer is the most common disease associated with
smoking. It’s the cause of 90% of lung cancer cases and is related to 30% of all cancer
deaths. Some smoking-related cancers include cancers of the mouth, pancreas, urinary
bladder, kidney, stomach, oesophagus, and larynx to name a few.
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Besides cancer, smoking is also related to several other diseases of the lungs.
Emphysema and bronchitis can be fatal and 75% of all deaths from these diseases are
linked to smoking.
Cigarette smoke isn’t just harmful to smokers, but also to passive smokers. The
dangers of breathing in second-hand smoke are well known. All sorts of health
problems are related to breathing in second-hand smoke. Children are especially
susceptible to the dangers of second-hand smoke because their internal organs are still
developing. Children exposed to second-hand smoke are more vulnerable to asthma,
sudden infant death syndrome, bronchitis, pneumonia, and ear infections.
Smoking can also be dangerous for unborn children. It’s been found that mothers who
smoke are more likely to suffer from miscarriages, bleeding and nausea. Research
shows that babies of smoking mothers have reduced birth weights or may be
premature. These babies are more susceptible to sudden infant death syndrome and
may also have lifelong health problems due to chest infections and asthma.
It is never too late to give up smoking, even people who have smoked for 20 or more
years can experience significant health benefits from giving up the habit.
The key to success is deciding you want it and then
backing that up with the right mindset!
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At the Risk of being repetitive, just a short reminder of the dramatic improvement you
can still make in your life;
From the very moment you have your last cigarette:
 Within 20 minutes blood pressure returns to its normal level.
 After 8 hours oxygen levels return to normal.
 After 24 hours carbon monoxide levels in the lungs return to those of a non-
smoker and the mucus begins to clear.
 After 48 hours nicotine leaves the body and taste buds are improved.
 After 72 hours breathing becomes easier.
 After 2–12 weeks, circulation improves.
 After 5 years, the risk of heart attack falls to about half that of a smoker.
 After 10 years, the risk of lung cancer is almost the same as a non-smoker.
I hope you have found the information in this report useful, and perhaps there were
things you learned here that will help you quit without even coming to see me for a one-
one-one. Either way, I wish you all the success you and your body truly deserve so you
can experience the health and vitality that you were meant to.
To your health,
Nick
BSc (Psych), Grad Dip Applied Psych
Specialist Hypnotherapist "Quit Cigarettes in 60 minutes"
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
Touch For Health
1300 883 272
www.quitwithnick.com.au

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Smoking, Quitting & Using Hypnosis To Quit

  • 1. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 1 Second Addition ~ 2012 ~ Nick Terrone Specialist Hypnotherapist 1300 883 272 (Sydney Australia) www.quitwithnick.com.au
  • 2. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 2 A word from the Author The first thing you have to do is acknowledge yourself for even having reached this far in your decision to quit smoking. This isn’t something you should be taking lightly, not if you’re serious about quitting anyway. It’s a BIG decision to walk away from something that you’ve probably been doing for all your adult life. It’s something that has probably defined a big part of who you are for many years. Like most of my clients, you’ve probably though of cigarettes as your little ‘friend’, the thing that has always ‘been there’ for you. We all know these statements are ridiculous, but that doesn’t change the relationship you have with them. One thing I can unequivocally GUARANTEE is that you will get a lot out of this report. Having been a specialist hypnotherapist for many years and having seen over 500+ clients to date, I am confident that this report will provide you with important and helpful information to either help you quit, or decide to book a session with me personally. I urge you to really absorb this information. I’ve been a smoker, so I know what the journey is like. I also know what it’s like to feel out of control and compelled to do something that most of smokers agree has no REAL benefits at all. People who have never smoked just won’t ever get it – but I do. I know this will become apparent to you as you go through this material. Finally, I just want to mention this. I know how important it is for a person to seek assistance for a problem from someone who really understands the problem intimately. It makes total sense that if I don’t understand your problem, how can I help you with it, right? To your health, Nick
  • 3. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 3 About The Author: Nick Terrone .............................................................................. 4 PART I - INFORMATION FOR QUITTING.................................................................. 6 Preparing to Quit Smoking....................................................................................... 6 Tips for Quitting / Remaining a Non-Smoker.................................................................10 The Excuses That Have Kept You Smoking.......................................................... 11 PART II - HYPNOSIS AND USING IT TO QUIT CIGARETTES ............................... 17 You Have To Want To Quit for Yourself…............................................................. 17 3 Elements That Will Determine Your Success ..................................................... 20 Why The Body Experiences Withdrawal Symptoms.............................................. 24 Why You Don’t Have to Worry About Gaining Weight ........................................... 24 What Makes Quitting With Hypnosis So Powerful? ............................................... 27 Some Myths About Hypnosis................................................................................. 27 What You Can Expect While In The Hypnotic Trance .................................................31 The ‘Make Or Break’ Ways Of Listening ........................................................................32 The Final Secret Ingredient To Quitting ................................................................. 37 PART III - SMOKING, HOW BAD IS IT? .................................................................. 39 Some Tarred Facts… ............................................................................................ 39 Exactly What Are You Inhaling? ............................................................................ 41
  • 4. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 4 About The Author: Nick Terrone As I have already mentioned above, I used to be a smoker so believe me, I know how hard and frustrating the process of quitting can be. I know what it’s like to fight the cravings especially when faced with such big triggers. Mine were coffee, after a meal and alcohol. Breaking this ritualistic cycle seemed impossible for me at the time and I even tried to quit several times. I stumbled across this powerful, simple system quite a few years ago and I’d like to share the ins and outs of it with you here. When I realized the power of this system, and how easy this can make smokers quit, something clicked inside me. I had already been a counsellor in the therapeutic environment for many years already, so I noticed how much of a great opportunity this was to make a HUGE positive impact to people’s lives in just one session! Having been a smoker and quit, I know what an amazing feeling it is when you finally overcome it and break free of the chains of cigarettes. I have an undergraduate and postgraduate degree in Psychology and have helped many people with many kinds of issues. I have also received training in the areas of Kinesiology and Neuro Linguistic Programming (N.L.P). The bottom line is: I’m committed to you achieving success as a non-smoker!
  • 5. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 5 What To Expect When You Quit Cigarettes – A Time Line Ok, so let’s get started. Before delving into the aspects of quitting and hypnosis, I’d like to share with you what actually happens and what you can expect from the very moment you have your last cigarette:  Within 20 minutes blood pressure returns to its normal level.  After 8 hours oxygen levels return to normal.  After 24 hours carbon monoxide levels in the lungs return to those of a non- smoker and the mucus begins to clear.  After 48 hours nicotine leaves the body and taste buds are improved.  After 72 hours breathing becomes easier.  After 2–12 weeks, circulation improves.  After 5 years, the risk of heart attack falls to about half that of a smoker.  After 10 years, the risk of lung cancer is almost the same as a non-smoker. When you quit smoking the benefits are immediate. Blood cells that transport carbon monoxide from cigarette smoke begin to transport healthy oxygen. Even though quitting doesn't completely eliminate the risk of developing lung cancer, the risk of lung cancer starts to go down dramatically. Only one year after quitting smoking your chances of having a heart attack drops by half. The risk of lung cancer continues to decline and drop significantly five to ten years after quitting.
  • 6. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 6 PART I - INFORMATION FOR QUITTING In this section, I would like to share with you some tips and tricks on quitting WITHOUT hypnosis OR the traditional methods of gum, patches or medication. The very fact that there are so many people out there that have quit without anything at all, shows that it is possible. This means that it’s also possible for you. Many people have quit using one or a combination of the methods below; you might even know some people who have quit via one or some of these methods. I’d like to share some of these methods from the research I’ve done, give them a try and see if they work for you. If it does, fantastic! Please get in touch with me and let me know what worked for you and how it helped, I’d love to hear from you, together we could help others quit! Preparing to Quit Smoking The first thing you should know is that most smokers quit unsuccessfully several times before they quit for good. You will most likely not be successful your first time around - but you must keep trying! Each time you attempt to quit you come closer to finally quitting for good.
  • 7. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 7 During or before you have your last cigarette, start to visualise yourself as a non- smoker. Visualisation is a very effective psychological technique not only for quitting cigarettes but for many other things as well. There has actually been research to show how powerful visualisation can be. One that I recall, was a study done where athletes were wired to a machine used to measure muscle activity and asked to visualise themselves in the act of doing their event, say a 100 meter sprint. Then, those same athletes were studied while physically doing the 100 meter sprint. You know what they found? They found that the exact same muscles were active and firing whether they were sitting in a chair visualising themselves doing the sprint, or whether they were actually doing the sprint physically. So what does this mean? It means that your brain can’t tell the difference between your body physically DOING something, or your mind simply visualising it. The implications of this are huge. So if you start to visualise yourself as a non-smoker, your brain will begin to release certain chemicals associated with that visualisation. Just by thinking of yourself as a non- smoker your body will begin to make subtle changes that will assist your body to experience this for real! So just think about doing your everyday activities without a cigarette break and feel ok about that. Think about all of the reasons that you want to quit smoking in the first place, and do this as often as possible. Because at the end of the day, if you have no worthwhile reasons to quit, why should you? Chances are you won’t. Think of as many reasons as you can, perhaps write them down. Fully inform yourself about the health benefits of quitting, not just for yourself but the people around you as well, such as your children or other members of your family that are exposed to your cigarette smoke. If money is a motivating reason for you, calculate the amount of money you'll save when you quit. Then think of something you'll use that money for, really picture yourself using that money in a different way; it’s the power of visualisation once again. Also keep in mind, when calculating how much money you’re spending, make sure to consider the tax that you’ve already paid on that money.
  • 8. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 8 Often people forget this. So be sure to add whatever tax you pay on your income and this will give you a much more accurate figure. This figure would be the equivalent to getting a pay rise from your boss just for quitting cigarettes. It’s essential to get into the right mindset for quitting, especially when studies show that trying to quit is 20% physical and 80% psychological. What does this mean? It means that getting the right “psychology” around quitting is 80% of the battle won! Once you’ve gained the right mindset. It’s then time to plan having your last cigarette. So you have an idea of what will happen, understand that the human body is incredibly resilient, and that your health begins to improve from the very moment you stop smoking, by establishing a concrete and achievable plan to quit smoking you’ll increase your chances of success. It is very important to understand that being in the right frame of mind will affect your chances of success. Being fully aware of why you are quitting and believing in yourself, in your attempt to quit, is also essential. Once you've stopped and had your last cigarette consider yourself a non-smoker, and to help, remind yourself of the health benefits you will be experiencing immediately after putting out that last cigarette. I’m always amazed at the human body, how it works and how it has this innate ability to heal itself. You easily see examples of this all the time. If you accidently cut yourself, you don’t have to ‘think’ about healing do you? Of course not, it just happens automatically. If you are able to facilitate a good environment for the body and give it what it needs through good nutrition and hydration, it will naturally repair itself. The same goes for quitting cigarettes. Once you stop introducing the 4,000 toxic chemicals into your body, it will immediately begin to find its own balance of health and wellbeing. But be prepared that as it finds its balance again, you may ‘feel’ this process. Some will not, we’re all different. But a little later on in this report I’ll share with you some very valuable information that will assist to minimise these effects.
  • 9. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 9 How To Prepare For Your Stop Smoking Day One popular way to quit cigarettes is to choose a “stop smoking day”. As the name suggests, the point of choosing a day is to make the commitment to yourself that on a particular day, you’ll stop smoking. Your goal is to fully load up on anything you may need on your journey towards becoming a non-smoker. So, how do you prepare for this day? The first step is to write your intention and desire for quitting on a piece of paper, or an index card. Write down what you want to do and why. Then every morning after you wake up, read this note and reinforce your desire to quit smoking. You should also refer to this card any time you are tempted to smoke after your “stop smoking day”. What you want to do is really start to generate some strong emotional traction around quitting and remaining a non-smoker. The more emotions you can develop around quitting and remaining a non-smoker, the more likely you’ll be successful. Sometimes telling your friends and family that you are planning on quitting can offer support in your decision. If you’ve got friends who also want to quit, maybe choose a day that is good for both of you. The alternative is to keep it to yourself to prevent any unnecessary pressure from others. You may have greater success doing this on your own. You’ll know what works for you. The next thing you want to do is remove any type of temptation from your immediate surroundings. So, the night before your stop smoking day, collect anything that reminds you of smoking (ash trays, lighters, etc) and throw it all out, including any remaining cigarettes you may have floating about. Alternatively, some people have kept one small item that is a reminder of their days as a smoker, perhaps their favourite lighter, or ash tray. They might keep it somewhere out of the way, in a place where they will see it very occasionally. Sometimes having this little reminder will actually make you feel good, reinforcing yourself as a non-smoker. If you’re going to use this method, I would suggest that at least for the first month or so, don’t keep it somewhere you’re likely to see it. After about a month, then perhaps put that item somewhere you’ll ‘bump into it’ from time to time. I’ve heard of some people putting their ashtray in a corner of their garden in the dirt where it belongs. After all is said and done though, there never is a perfect day, but the best day is today! So why not empower yourself to tear up those cancer sticks, throw them away and start living that healthy life. The longer you put off the decision to quit smoking, the harder it is going to be to quit.
  • 10. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 10 Tips For Quitting & Remaining a Non - Smoker This section is a compilation of tips and powerful techniques that have been found to help people quit cigarettes, fight the urge for a cigarette and remain a non-smoker. Obviously, don’t try to do all these at once, but I’d suggest perhaps give all of them a try at some point. You never know what might work for you. It’s up to you to find one, two or perhaps a combination of the following tips that you feel might work well for you. Go for a walk - The easiest thing to do when you feel like having a cigarette is to go for a walk. You don’t have to go far, but sometimes some fresh air is all you need to fight your cravings. Once you start to move your body, in any way at all, it stimulates certain biochemistry as well as mental processes that will help to distract you from a craving that often lasts only a few minutes anyway. Take deep breaths - If you are unable to escape for a walk, taking several deep breaths can help. By inhaling, you are opening up the lungs and by focusing on the air coming into your airways; you can calm yourself and trick your body into forgetting about the cravings. Getting more oxygen to your brain is the best method to relax, that’s why so many meditation techniques focus on your breathing. I used to teach this often to some of my clients to assist them in dealing with their anxiety and panic attacks. Do Yoga - So what if you’ve never tried yoga! Focusing on the practice of yoga takes you outside of yourself and forces you to stop thinking about your urges to light up. Listen to music or motivation tapes - Sometimes when you are craving nicotine, all you need is a melodic piece of music or a friendly word of encouragement. Take a moment to listen to music that soothes you or to the inspiring words of a motivational expert. I can easy recommend many.
  • 11. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 11 Drink water with crushed ice - It may sound wired, but many people use this method to fight their cravings. Take time to drink the water slowly and chew the ice. You may be pleasantly surprised at how successful this technique can be. Brush your teeth - Many people report that when they brush their teeth they no longer want to have a cigarette. This technique shifts your oral fixation to your toothbrush and teeth instead of to your cigarette and mouth. Also, some people say that when their mouth and teeth feel clean, they no longer crave the taste of a cigarette. Remind yourself why you quit - Every time you experience a craving remind yourself why you quit. An excellent idea is to take a blank index card and list all the reasons why you decided to quit smoking in the first place. List as many as you can, the more, the better. If necessary, take the second index card. Carry them with you all the time. Every time you feel the urge to smoke take the index card and slowly read all your reasons why you decided to stop. After you finish reading your urge will pass! (If not, read them one more time or come up with more reasons.) Reward yourself - Make it a habit to give yourself a reward at the end of each non- smoking week. Think of something you want. It doesn’t have to be something expensive, a nice home made meal or hot bath will work. Take the index card and write down what you would give yourself at the end of the week; and when the urge comes take a look at the index card with your reward. Isn't it worth coping for 3 minutes? Be prepared for your urges! - Get yourself prepared for the urge to smoke in advance. In most cases something triggers the craving (certain feelings, people, or places). You have to know what triggers your urge to smoke. Take a blank piece of paper and divide it into 2 columns. On the one side list your triggers, like “stuck in traffic”, “drinking morning coffee”, ”arguing with colleague” etc... and in the second column write down the alternative course of action. For example, instead of smoking while drinking your morning coffee you could read a newspaper. Instead of smoking after the heated argument with your colleague you can take a walk around the block or write down everything you think about this person, then tear up this piece of paper and throw it away. Don't be lazy, write it down! This exercise really works! The point here is to remind yourself that there are millions of people who
  • 12. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 12 face stressful situations everyday and they don’t use cigarettes to ‘deal with it’, which means you can too! Call a friend - This method works very well, almost like a sponsor used in AA or NA circles. If it can work for people addicted to these types of substances, it can work for you. Call someone who can support you, who can talk with you for a couple of minutes. You can call your non-smoking friend, or someone who's trying to quit smoking too. Distract yourself with a quick task - Think of a small task you have to do, something that would take you 5-10 minutes. Make a call, send an email, make yourself a cup of tea, water the plant in your office. Anything! Your task is to distract yourself until the urge passes. (Hint: Try to find an activity that makes smoking impossible!) Power Tip – It’s a disgusting one, but it often works. Print a small picture of a smoker's lungs (I’ve put them here below for you, or you can go to: http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/lungphotos.htm) and put it somewhere in your wallet. I know they don’t look pretty, but something like this can stop you dead in your tracks from lighting up. I often will see clients who have seen all the TV commercials and simply want to avoid what they are seeing. Take a look at the pictures on that site! Really! THIS could be your lungs! You love yourself, and you respect your body. Why harm yourself?
  • 13. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 13 Reprogram your mind - Recall 4 times when you thought to yourself "I've got to quit", or that you felt disgusted about smoking. Maybe you just felt really unhealthy, or your doctor told you in a particular tone of voice 'You've got to quit' or somebody you know was badly affected by smoking. Take a moment now to come up with 4 different times that you felt that you have to quit or were disgusted by smoking. Remember each of those times, one after another, as though they are happening now. I want you to keep going through those memories and make them as vivid as possible. The more vivid you make those memories; the easier it will be to stop smoking. See what you saw, hear what you heard and feel how you felt. Now take a few minutes to keep going through those memories again and again, overlap each memory with the next until you are totally and utterly disgusted by cigarettes. Do something different during breaks- Smokers sometimes use their habit to give themselves little breaks during the day. Taking a break is good for you, so carry on taking that time off - but do something different. Walk round the block, have a cup of tea or a drink of water, or do some of the tips and techniques mentioned here. Keep your sugars up- If possible drink a lot of fruit juice. When you stop smoking the body goes through a big change. Your blood sugar levels will fall, digestion is slowed down and your body starts to get rid of the tar and poisons that have accumulated in your body. Fresh fruit juice contains fructose which restores your blood sugar levels, vitamin C which helps clear out impurities and high levels of water and fibre to keep your digestion going. Also try to eat fruit every day for at least two weeks after you have stopped. Reduce your caffeine intake- When you stop, cut your caffeine intake by half. Nicotine breaks down caffeine so without nicotine a little coffee will have a big effect. Drink 8-10 glasses of water (ideally bottled) to help wash out your system. You’ve probably heard that 75% of our body’s composition is water. Smoking actually reduces your cells ability to absorb water. That’s why people who have smoked for so many years have such dry awful skin. So drinking plenty of water will replenish your skin cells with water and very soon your skin will feel VERY different. Don’t be tricked by a situation- Be aware of making excuses for yourself. Some people talk themselves into smoking, especially if they encounter a stressful situation, which in the past they dealt with by smoking. If those old thoughts pop into your head,
  • 14. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 14 shout the word “STOP” in your head, to stop the thoughts from progressing. Nicotine is a stimulant and actually elevates your body’s level of stress. It’s like that itch that can never be properly scratched; the more you smoke, the more you have to. So say “STOP” and steer clear of old slippery slopes. When it comes to stress and dealing with it, it really helps to understand what stress actually is. If we’re really honest with ourselves, we’ll realise that stress is simply our reaction to something NOT having gone the way we THINK it should have gone. Think about it, that’s what it actually is. Someone says or does something or an unexpected situation arises where we say to ourselves ‘this should NOT be happening’. The fact is, it’s happened; now it’s a question of how you are going to respond. The choice is yours. At the end of the day we can’t control what people say, what people do and some times unexpected things happen in our lives that might be unpleasant or unwanted. What you DO have control over is what reaction you are going to choose. It’s always a choice even though it doesn’t seem that way. You are always completely in control of the MEANING that you attach to a certain situation, the perspective that you are going to adopt. Having this awareness alone can help you to be more adaptable and flexible in situations, assisting you to deal with stress the same way millions of other non- smoking Australians deal with the exact same stressors that you have been going through. Try This POWERFUL Emotional Freedom Tapping (EFT) Technique- Now there is an entire science behind how this works, it’s a bit too much to get into now. But in a nut shell, this technique works on the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine (T.C.M), which works with the idea of the energy flow around your body, or ‘chi’ energy. The idea is that if the chi energy is flowing well and uninterrupted around your body, you experience a total balance of body, mind & spirit. But if there is some sort of emotional blockage along any of the specific energy path ways in our bodies, called Meridians, this will lead to discomfort or DIS-ease in the body – physical and emotional. So by following a very specific and simple process of tapping on certain points on your body in a particular sequence, you can stimulate the flow of this energy and bring your body back into a state of balanced wellbeing that it is designed to operate from naturally. I can almost guarantee you’ll feel an immediate difference in the urge to smoke. To view my video of exactly how to use this technique to get rid of a cigarette craving, just go to http://youtu.be/2WN5ytbvWrk
  • 15. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 15 The Excuses That Have Kept You Smoking At this point I’d like to address some of the common reasons, or excuses people might give for continuing to smoke. That way we can firmly see that there really is no reason to smoke at all * I still enjoy it When I hear this from my clients I tell them that it’s fine if they are still ‘enjoying it’. Just because you might be enjoying it, that doesn’t mean that you’re not ready to quit. If you are waiting for some time in your future when you hate every single cigarette before you decide to quit, chances are that time will never come and you’ll just continue to kid yourself. If you think about all the cigarettes you smoke in a day, how many would you say that you are really there, in the moment, ‘enjoying’ that cigarette? If you’re like most of the people I’ve seen, probably not many. If you think about it, most of the cigarettes you’re having are just getting in the way of something else and you’re not really enjoying it at all. Often you might be having them in a rush, to just get your little ‘fix’ so you can just get on with what you were doing before the cigarette. What an inconvenient hassle right? * Stress / it relaxes me I’ve already touched on this, but let’s go into a bit more detail shall we. Many of my clients will say that it’s stress that keeps them smoking. Or they’ll say they are going through a stressful time, and hence they are not ready to quit. I’m sure you recognise that this is not accurate at all. Simply because nicotine is a stimulant, it actually elevates your body’s internal state of stress. It raises your blood pressure, increased your heart rate and stimulates your nervous system – all the things that put the body into a state of stress. If you think about it, it’s all the things that you are doing right after a stressful situation that is reducing your stress, except the cigarette. Let’s say for example you’re sitting at your desk and something stressful has happened. Or you’ve just had an argument with your partner. What do then usually do? You say ‘right, I’m going for a cigarette’. You leave the room or the office, you go outside the building, you go find a nice quiet place to yourself to have a moment on your own. Your taking some nice slow deep breathes, you’re thinking about the situation and what you’re going to do to address it, you’re having some thinking time. Then you go back
  • 16. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 16 inside and psychologically you’ve DE-stressed, but physiologically, you’re actually in a higher state of stress than before you went out the door! I say to people, if you had done the exact same things, but you just left the cigarette out, get up, go outside, find a place to yourself, take some deep breathes, have a moment to think and then come back, you’ll find that you’ll be mentally AND physically relaxed. You see, breathing is THE most important thing in your entire life. We all know what happens when you stop breathing. But any benefits that you’re getting from the deep breathing that is actually REQUIRED while smoking, is all just gone from the 4,000 chemicals you’re inhaling at the same time. However, if you take some slow deep breathes during any kind of stressful situation, you’re body will instantly react in a calming, relaxing way. One of the main jobs of your heart is to pump oxygen around your body. So the more oxygen you give it, the more it slows down because the less it needs to work. The more oxygen you send to your brain the more relaxed you feel. If you were take 20 slow deep breathes right now, you’d instantly feel the positive difference in your body. The funny thing about the flip side of the stress excuse is that people will often say that they also smoke when they are relaxing, maybe on a holiday, not stressed at all. Hmmm . . . . . . Does something seem a little incongruent here to you about this? The point I’m making yet again is that all the ‘benefits’ you think you’re getting are simply illusory. * Poor will power Some people will say that they just haven’t had the will power, or they got poor will power. The idea that will power can get you to quit is to assume that it’s your conscious mind that is in control of your smoking, but it isn’t. At the end of the day, you can know all the reasons on a conscious level how silly smoking is, how there are no real benefits to it, which you probably already know. However it more than likely won’t be enough to get you to quit because it’s not your conscious mind that is controlling your smoking. If it was, then every single person would just wake up one day and just QUIT – cold turkey. Some people can do it with the tips mentioned above, but a lot can’t. I’ve heard many other reasons why people have not been able to quit. Some of these include: everyone around me smokes, my partner, wife, husband, roommate smokes, it helps me think when I want to take a break. But at the end of the day, if you’re really honest with yourself, it’s not the fact that these are reasons that have kept you smoking. You just used these as excuses because you just weren’t ready to make the decision to quit. And I want you to know that this is TOTALLY ok. It’s fine to just say, ‘I just haven’t been ready to quit’.
  • 17. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 17 PART II - HYPNOSIS AND USING IT TO QUIT CIGARETTES This section looks at Hypnosis and how it could help you. I’m going to dispel all the myths and misconceptions about it, tell you how and why it works and then share how it can work for you specifically. Crossing the line between Smoker and Non Smoker If you want to become a non-smoker, then as I’ve already mentioned, you need to think like a non- smoker. Studies have shown that cigarette smoking is approximately 20% physiological and 80% psychological. The truth of the matter is that nicotine gum, patches or traditional Nicotine Replacement Therapies (NRT)’s won’t change a smoker’s mindset. Knowledge and understanding is the key. I’m committed to having this report be of value to you, whether you agree to book a one-on-one session with me or not. I am running the risk of being hounded by my professional colleagues for giving away this information that usually is only given to clients who pay a high fee I just don’t care what they say. I truly believe this information may help you change the quality of your life for the better and replace those moments of worrying about your health and family to moments of experiencing your health and vitality. This information is knowledge, knowledge is power and I like to empower people. So if this information helps you to quit without a one-on-one session, fantastic! If not, you have My Details to get in touch with me so you can call and book yourself into a session. YOU Have To WANT To Quit For Yourself! Ok, now the very first and most important thing to mention is that for this system to work there has to be one crucial element in place – and it’s not going to be a big surprise for you to hear this. You have to WANT to quit cigarettes for yourself. If you don’t really want to quit, it obviously won’t work. Now that might seem totally obvious to you on first hearing that. But you’d be surprised how many people call me and after speaking with them for a little while, we soon realise that they made the call predominately for reasons
  • 18. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 18 other than the most crucial reason: them wanting to quit for themselves “my partner wants me to quit, my husband, my wife, my kids etc etc”. YES, it will be great for them when you quit, they will feel better when you quit and yes, you love them, and you’d love to quit for them. But if you don’t really want to quit for yourself, you probably won’t get the success that you want. And I have turned people away for this reason. Here’s is the reason why the WANT is so important. If you think about it, when a smoker has come to the point of having decided that they now want to quit, what they are essentially then looking for is something that takes away the cravings. The simple idea being: You wouldn’t smoke if you didn’t FEEL like a cigarette right? Of course not. I’m sure you’d agree that any treatment out there has done its job for you to the degree that you feel in control in any moment to make the decision NOT TO SMOKE. If you are still feeling the urge and craving for a cigarette, than you can safely say that whatever you have tried just hasn’t done its thing for you. I’d like to offer you a simple, yet powerful analogy that will help you decide whether the want is really there for you and you’re ready to quit. Think of it like a scale, on the left is the desire to quit, be a non- smoker and get all the obvious benefits that you know you’re going to get when you quit. On the right is the perceived pleasure from smoking. Now, as long as the scale is tipping in favour of the left – it’s the right time for you to quit. But you see, sometimes smokers might call me or even come to a session when their scale is really tipping in favour of the right, and they think that the hypnosis will somehow tip it for them. It will never do that. But you see the connection here is obvious. The more you want to be a non smoker, the more that scale is tipping to the left, the easier it will be to make the DECISION NOT to smoke, when you don’t feel like it. But the more the scale is in equilibrium the higher the chance of you being in a situation where you don’t feel like a smoke, but you go ‘what the heck’ and just have one anyway. I’m sure this is making sense to you. Now obviously every single quit smoking treatment you can think of out there has helped many people stop smoking, all of them; hypnosis, patches, gum, medication, acupuncture, Allen Carr, public courses etc. if these methods DIDN’T have the capacity to work and if they weren’t in and of themselves effective at getting a result, then they wouldn’t produce a single result for any single person. But the fact that all of the above methods produce results every day for many people shows one thing. It’s no a question of can that particular method work for you, it’s a question of YOUR particular mindset and preparedness to quit.
  • 19. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 19 I find it a little amusing when people hear about hypnosis as a method for quitting and they might say something like, “oh, I know someone that tried that and it didn’t work for them”. They use one or two examples of people who it ‘didn’t work for’ as their justification to never try it at all. Imagine if all smokers adopted the same approach for gum, patches and pills. EVERY smoker will know MANY people who have tried these and have failed. Pretty much everyone I treat has failed on these. Would you say, “oh, patches, gum and medication, I know someone who tried them and it didn’t work”’. If smokers went around with this approach to decide what they personally are going to try – no one would ever use patches, gums or pills ever again! Imagine if we did the same thing for other types of treatments like physiotherapy, chiropractic adjustments or acupuncture. “Oh I know someone who tried all that on their sore back and it did nothing for them, so none of them are going to work for me”. You wouldn’t say this would you? The point I’m trying to make here is don’t let someone else’s experience of ANY TEATMENT, not just hypnosis, sway you in making a decision to attempt something that could definitely work FOR YOU! Just remember, smoking and quitting is a psychological thing. All smokers will attempt different quit methods with different life situations, mindsets and internal dialogues and that’s normal. What’s important is that you try something that is a good fit for you and where you’re at with someone you feel comfortable with. At the end of the day, the bottom line is that you are looking for something that will give you a sense of control to make the decision NOT to pick up a cigarette. No treatment or method in the world is going to guarantee or stop you from reaching out for a cigarette, picking it up and smoking it. Of course not. However once you have found something that takes away that craving for you, all you have to do then is be committed to this statement: “If I don’t feel like a cigarette in any given moment, no matter what’s happening around me, I’m just going to decide NOT to have one”. It sounds simple right, but this is what it really comes down to. This is the best possible outcome that any smoker could find when quitting. I’m now going explain how this system does exactly this for a smoker.
  • 20. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 20 3 Elements That Determine Your Success The three elements that will determine the success of an alternative treatment like this are: 1) The actual treatment being a proven system that actually works. 2) The skill / competency of the therapist to administer that system. 3) The client’s mindset. 1. The actual treatment being a proven system that actually works Now, I’m pretty confident that the first two points above are in place. Firstly, this system has been in Australia for more than 10 years, first developed and practiced in the USA and where the high success rate was established. Some people will call wanting to know if ‘The System Works’ – I KNOW the system works, because it’s worked for thousands of people. This is where I mention what I have already said above; it’s not really a question of whether it can work for you. If this system didn’t work, then it wouldn’t work for anyone. The fact that it has worked for so many of my clients already is proof that it can also work for you. The real question is; have you come to that point, and do you have the mindset required to allow the system to work for you? That’s the entire point of this report, to give you all the information you need so you can determine for yourself, if you think you have arrived at this point. Only a smoker knows when they are ready to quit. It’s a personal journey and as much as loved ones around you may want you to quit, no one will ever be able to ‘put you in that place’, you have to arrive at that point for yourself. 2. The skill / competency of the therapist to administer that system I am fully registered and board certified hypnotherapist and a member of The International Institute for Complementary Therapists (IICT). I pride myself on giving a comprehensive, professional service. I encourage you to call and gauge this for yourself. I have worked in the therapeutic industry for many years. I am also professionally bound by a code of ethics that I strongly uphold. I’ve been doing this system for many years now and have seen more than 500 clients to day. Hence I’m confident that this element is also addressed.
  • 21. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 21 3. The client’s mindset So a big contributing factor to the success of this treatment is your mindset. I’ve ready mentioned it a few times, and will mention it some more, simply because it’s a very important element here. You need to be ready to ‘let go of cigarettes’. This is an important thing to mention. Some smokers may really like the idea of being a non smoker, but they just aren’t ready to quit cigarettes. Now a smoker will know what I mean by that. Some people will call me and really want to quit, they really want to be a non-smoker and gain all the benefits that come along with being a non-smoker, but, they aren’t ready to walk away from cigarettes. Well, unfortunately you can’t have one scenario without the other. But sometimes I have people call on behalf of a smoker and when I say that to them, they generally don’t understand this concept. That is why I always like to speak to the person considering the actual treatment to qualify them myself, prior to a booking being made. So it’s important that you’re at that place where you’re ready to cut ties with what you think has been your ‘little friend’. That thing that has ‘always been there for you’, but really it isn’t a friend at all. In the end we all know it just stabs you in the back. As I’ve already mentioned above, it’s a huge step to come to that mental place where they are ready to leave behind an aspect of themselves that they’ve been doing for some many years. Many people have spent their entire adult lives as smokers which has formed a very strong idea that this is part of who they are and it can be a hard thing to leave behind. And no one is going to tell you when you’re at that point, only you can know when you’re at that point. Now, I’d like you to answer this question for me: Do you believe you are addicted to cigarettes? If you’re like most smokers, you’ve said something like “yes, absolutely” to the above question. Now, I’ll ask you this: Do you think it would be easier to quit cigarettes if you WERE NOT addicted?
  • 22. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 22 Again, if you’re like most people, that question will seem a little strange at first and you’ll say something like, “well, yeah”. Ok, I’m now going to submit to you that what is happening for you MORE than a chemical, biological addiction to nicotine, is a: Powerful Habit! I’m not going to deny that there are addictive aspects to smoking cigarettes. After all, another definition for addiction is “dependency”. I do believe that smokers are psychologically dependent on using cigarettes, which is a far more powerful aspect of smoking than the physical. Remember we mentioned earlier that studies have shown that smoking is 20% physical and 80% psychological? It’s this fact that makes hypnosis an effective treatment for quitting once and for all. Let me now share with you some of the things that point to smoking being more HABIT than drug addiction. Firstly, if smoking was all about a ‘nicotine addiction’, then it would stand to reason that patches should work 100% of the time for every single person. But they don’t. If your replacing your nicotine ‘craving’ with a patch, then why aren’t they 100% effective? Patches have actually been shown to be only 7% effective. That means that 93% of people who try patches to quit fail! You see all nicotine replacement treatments have one fundamental assumption, which isn’t entirely accurate. That is ‘the only reason you’re smoking is because you’re addicted to nicotine, if we can give your body nicotine in another way, other than puffing on a cigarette, you’ll quit’. If that’s true, and I’ve already got nicotine in my body from a patch I’m wearing, than why do I still feel like a cigarette? Why do I still want to smoke? The simple fact of the matter is that no amount of nicotine running through your veins will EVER address the biggest thing keeping a smoker smoking – the PSYCHOLOGY of smoking. It’ll never address the ritualistic and habitualness’ around smoking. It’ll never address the psychological connections you’ve got between certain activities and situations in your day and a cigarette, they just go hand in hand don’t they? And what about second hand smoke? If the chemicals in cigarette smoker were truly addictive to the human body, than anyone getting second hand smoke for long enough would feel the need to rush outside and have a cigarette. But they don’t do that do they? But the smoke is definitely harmful to your body. This has been proven by people contracting second hand illnesses while never having smoked a cigarette in their life. This shows the smoke is bad for the body, but the smoke itself doesn’t get anyone ‘addicted’. Back when you used to be able to smoke in bars, clubs and restaurants people who worked there were surrounded by smoke constantly may have even contracted illnesses because of it, but they never started smoking just because they kept breathing it in.
  • 23. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 23 Also, how do you form a habit? You form a habit by the repetition of an action. They say it takes roughly 10 draws to finish a cigarette. So if you smoke a pack of 25 cigarettes a day, like most of my clients, that means your doing the action of bringing your fingers to your lips 250 times a day! What else do you do 250 times a day? Not much I’m sure. If you were to do any action 250 times a day, I’m sure you’d agree that you would have a pretty powerful habit in no time at all. This brings me to another very important point worth mentioning at this time. Often when people try to quit cold turkey or via other methods, they might experience some things that they will automatically attribute to ‘nicotine withdrawal’. Things like irritability, moodiness, agitation and frustration. Now think about this. If you are so used to doing an action 100, 200, 300 times a day, like brining your fingers to your lips, trying to STOP that all of a sudden is going to cause some irritability, moodiness, agitation and frustration isn’t it? Of course it would. But people will attribute all these effects to ‘nicotine withdrawal’ It’s simply not the case, especially when we all know that the actual chemicals in cigarettes, including nicotine, are completely gone from your body within 2 to 3 days. If that’s so, what could possibly be causing that agitation days, if not, weeks later? It can’t possibly be the effects of nicotine. It’s the psychology of smoking that causes this – the exact thing that hypnosis deals with directly. This is reason for feelings of withdrawal and very soon I’m going to share with you another reason why you might experience these feelings. Something that I know will shock you! The final factor that I’d like to share with you about drug addiction is this. The number one indicator of whether or not a drug or chemical is TRULY addictive to the body or not, is what your body goes through when you STOP taking that drug or chemical all of a sudden. Now the truly addictive drugs out there are heroin, cocaine and amphetamines. If you’re a daily user of these kinds of drugs and you have been for a while and you stop all of a sudden, your body experiences a SEVERE PHYSICAL TRAUMA! I’ve seen the effects of this first hand, and it’s awful! You experience vomiting, nausea, night sweats, heart palpitations, anxiety, panic attacks, delusions, shaking, severe muscle cramps as well as insomnia. You’ll awake several times in the night needing a fix. You see their bodies have become so dependent on those drugs; their bodies need them just to ‘function’, just to ‘feel normal’. And once the drug starts to leave the body, they need more just to keep the withdrawal symptoms away. This is why replacement therapies are very important for a true drug addict. A heroin addict needs a replacement, synthetic version of heroin, such as methadone to help
  • 24. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 24 their bodies slowly and gradually adapt to functioning without heroin. But a smoker doesn’t need nicotine to get them off nicotine. Now let me ask you this. Have you ever seen someone go through those kinds of withdrawals I mentioned above when they quit cigarettes? Of course not. You might get the agitation, irritability and headaches, but you don’t physically ‘lose it’. Your body can absolutely cope fine without nicotine in it. To highlight this fact, I’m sure you can think of times where having a cigarette was just out of the question and you coped just fine. Taking a flight is a perfect example. Maybe before you step into the airport you’re puffing away like crazy, but as soon as you walk in, something in your mind just clicks “right, I just can’t smoke for the next x amount of hours” and you’re fine. But as soon as that plane pulls up and you’re walking off, you’re mind then goes “click, you can have a cigarette soon” and now all of a sudden your running over people to get outside, but for hours before hand you were fine. Or maybe you’re one of those ‘secretive smokers’ or maybe you have a job or regularly go somewhere where smoking just isn’t possible. You’re probably fine in those situations, but as soon as you’re on your own, or you jump in the car, step outside – CLICK, you have to have a cigarette. All these examples just show how often a craving for a cigarette is SITUATIONALY triggered NOT biologically triggered. Because if you a true drug addict, addicted to a drug, it wouldn’t matter whose around or where you are – you need a HIT and your body will violently react until it gets it. The fact that woman will often QUIT, just like that when they find out they’re pregnant, also shows how psychological smoking really is. But if that same woman was truly addicted to heroin, cocaine or amphetamines, would she be able to quit just like that? NO WAY! She’ll keep using and her baby will be born addicted on his or her birth. But even if a woman is not able to quit during her pregnancy, and I have seen a few who haven’t, her baby is not going to be addicted and withdrawing from nicotine. Obviously, we all know it’s not good for the baby and it can lead to birth defects, but more often than not, they are generally ok. They are experiencing nothing as bad as what they could be if their mother was on seriously addictive drugs. Why The Body Experiences Withdrawal Symptoms I’m now going to share with you why some people experience any withdrawal symptoms at all. Now I mentioned that when you quit, you might get headaches, become irritable, get dizzy etc. This is actually due to a drop in your blood sugar levels.
  • 25. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 25 I’m about to share with you a simple fact that will shock you. What a lot of people don’t know about cigarettes is this. Soon after tobacco is harvested from the fields, to get rid of that foul, bitter horrible taste of raw tobacco, and to make them taste ‘smoother’, they dump the leaves into huge vats of SUGAR WATER where many flouring agents are added. Find that hard to believe? Well, the below is a simple cut and paste from Wikipedia. You can verify the quote below by just going to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette Additives Various additives are combined into the shredded tobacco product mixtures, with humectants such as propylene glycol or glycerol, as well as flavouring products and enhancers such as cocoa solids, licorice, tobacco extracts, and various sugars, which are known collectively as "casings". The leaf tobacco will then be shredded, along with a specified amount of small laminate, expanded tobacco, BL, RL, ES and IS. A perfume-like flavour/fragrance, called the "topping" or "toppings", which is most often formulated by flavor companies, will then be blended into the tobacco mixture to improve the consistency in flavour and taste of the cigarettes associated with a certain brand name. [31] I’m sure you’re a little shocked right now, along with every other client I tell. I can almost hear the wheels turning in your head right now. This really explains a lot doesn’t it? Maybe this has something to do with the bad teeth that smokers can get. This is also why smokers stick to their brand of cigarette. 8 to 18% of one cigarette is sugar and flavouring agents as mentioned above called “casings”. Brands taste differently and attempt to distinguish themselves based on their flavour. I’m sure you don’t chop and change brands from one day to the next. This is because you get used to that brands ‘flavour’. So what are the further implications of this fact? Well, if you’re having a packet of cigarettes a day, that’s a heck of a lot of sugar right? This means that once you stop, you’re blood sugar levels are going to drop. This is when you’ll experience similar effects that diabetics report when their blood sugar levels drop. If you ask any diabetic what they feel when their blood sugars are off – headaches, dizziness, shaking hands, moodiness, frustration and irritability. Sounds like a lot of smokers when trying to quit cold turkey right?
  • 26. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 26 Why You Don’t Have To Worry About Gaining Weight Having mentioned the above interesting fact about cigarettes, this leads me to address the common fear that you’ll gain weight once you quit. Why do a lot of people who quit put on weight? Two reasons really. Firstly, when people are trying to quit via any means other than hypnosis, especially cold turkey, they are essentially looking for any way to deal with a craving other than having a cigarette. So they’ll turn to food. This is a common ‘quick fix’ solution to keep your hands and mouth busy and distracted. However the second, more important reason is because they are subconsciously trying to increase their blood sugar levels which have dropped. Now eating a few extra little snacks here and there isn’t really a problem. In fact, it’s pretty much common knowledge that eating small regular meals is actually beneficial for healthy weight management. The problem is that in most cases people will reach for unhealthy food and artificial sugars instead of natural sugars and then they wonder why they have put on weight. We are justifying machines by nature and most of us secretly like to eat junk food, and we can easily justify eating it because we have kicked a MUCH MUCH worse habit of smoking cigarettes! Who’s going to argue with that? All you have to do is be mindful of this fact and don’t fall into the trap of ‘rewarding’ yourself with food your body really doesn’t need. There are two very important things to do once you quit cigarettes, no matter which method you are using. I have already mentioned them in passing, but this is important and worth mentioning again. 1) Have NATURAL Sugars. As you now know, your blood sugar levels are going to drop when you quit. It’s important NOT to replace these sugars with artificial sugars like soft drinks, energy drinks, chocolates, sweets, desserts etc, but with natural sugars. Things like fruit, fruit juice or honey. Anything naturally sweet is great. Our blood sugar levels have a LOT to do with our moods. Ever noticed what happens to kids when they have too much sugar? They go crazy. It’s why parents are so vigilant about how much they have. They become hyperactive. Adults are the same. But because we’re older, we know better, we just get more passive instead. Our bodies are very good at knowing what it needs and what it doesn’t. When you introduce artificial sugar into the body, it knows that it doesn’t need it. So it uses it really
  • 27. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 27 fast and then gets rid of it really fast. Hence the sugar rush and then a crash, which you’ll feel in your mood. 2) Drink more water. This is a VERY important element and I can’t stress this enough. You probably know that 75% of our body is water by cellular make up. But the chemicals in cigarettes actually prevent your cells from absorbing water. This is why smoking has that aging effect on skin and appearance. The cigarettes are literally sucking moisture out of your skin! By quitting cigarettes, you’re cells will absorb MUCH more water and when this happens your circulation will dramatically improve, and in a VERY short period of time. As your circulation improves so will every single system in your body. What Makes Quitting With Hypnosis so Powerful? There is a combination of things that makes this system so powerful. One of the reasons is the fact that I use your top 3 reasons for quitting. We get absolutely clear on your specific reasons for coming to see me. So it’s not a ‘one-size-fits-all’ blanket approach for everyone. I get your specific reasons and triggers which are then weaved into the hypnotic script that you experience while in a relaxed trance state.
  • 28. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 28 Some Myths about Hypnosis Ok, so now I’m going to discuss some of the myths and misconceptions about Hypnosis. You see, many different things come to mind for people when they hear the word ‘Hypnosis’. This is because most people will recall something they may have either seen at a stage show, or on TV. As you can imagine, there is quite a difference between hypnosis for entertainment and hypnosis for therapeutic purposes. However they do both have one thing in common, something I have already mentioned; it won’t get you to do something that you don’t already want to do. Whether that’s cluck like a chicken, or quit cigarettes. I know this is true because I personally witnessed it once. I was watching a show where the hypnotist made a suggestion that when they would open their eyes the people on stage would start to act very provocatively as if in an adult film. When he clicked his fingers, the 4 men on stage were acting very funny and entertaining. However the one girl on stage shook her head and refused to participate. You see hypnosis will never make you do something that you feel uncomfortable with, goes against your values or who you are. If you think about it, everyone going to those shows is expecting to be entertained by watching people doing silly things on stage. Now when the guy on stage inevitably asks for VOLUNTEERS, do you think shy people are going up there? Of course not. What you’ll find every time is that the people going on stage are the extrovert types. They are the ones that would be doing the exact same silly things after a few drinks at the pub on a Saturday night. You will NEVER EVER get a shy person on a hypnotist’s stage acting silly, they’ll be under the table at the back of the room! Let’s not forget also, that often these shows are done at R.S.L Clubs, where people have often had a few drinks anyway. So the ‘stage is set’, so-to-speak for those silly things to unfold. The bottom line is that YOU are in control of your body and mind. Words coming out of someone’s mouth can never make your neurology do something it doesn’t want to do. YOU are always in control to make the decision of whether you’re going to pass the message of what you’re hearing onto your body, or not. I mean, if hypnosis was some sort of mind control and had the power to make people do things against their will, some hypnotherapists would probably be robbing all the banks, running parliament and the world right? You see my point I’m sure. The real power of hypnosis is experienced when therapist and client have come together to work on a mutually agreed upon outcome. It’s really as simple as that.
  • 29. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 29 Your unconscious mind is in control of your smoking I’m now going to explain the two aspects of the mind and explain how and why hypnosis works. We all know that there are two parts of the mind, the conscious and unconscious. The conscious part of our minds is that part of the mind that most of us would describe if we were asked to define our minds. It contains all the frontal lobe aspects of our minds; it does all of our critical thinking, executive decision making and impulse control, it also has your concept of time – it’s what you use to recall what you did last year, last month or last week. As much as we like to think it’s our conscious mind that is responsible for our habits, it’s not. Because if it was, you would have woken up one morning and decided that you simply weren’t going to smoke cigarettes anymore, and that would have been the end of that. Everyone would quit cold turkey. Since this hasn’t happened for you, it shows that there is something else that is keeping you smoking – and that’s the unconscious mind. It has been said that only 2-4% of who we are, what we do and our automatic behaviours is governed by our conscious mind. That leaves a lot to the unconscious mind. The analogy that is often given to highlight this is the iceberg. Often you can only see a very small portion from above, but below is just so much more. Your unconscious mind has two roles to play in your life. The first is to make your life easier and the second is to protect you – both on a physical and emotional level. It makes your life easier by doing all your day to day tasks that at first you had to really think about, but over time you don’t have to anymore. Like driving a car, when you first learnt to drive a car, I’m sure you had to think about every single step of the process. However with the combination of time and repetition you can now do multiple things while driving – it’s like another part of you has taken over this task. Your unconscious mind also serves you emotionally and it’s the real reason you’re smoking. You see, back when you had your first cigarette, chances are, your conscious mind was saying how disgusting it was, the coughing, the taste. You probably wondered how anyone could do such a thing. However, on an emotional level you would have been saying the complete opposite to yourself. Things like; ‘Aren’t I cool, I look older, people I look up to smoke, my parents smoke, everyone’s doing it, I don’t want to be a nerd, I’m such a rebel, look at me’ etc. I’m sure if you thought back, you would be able to remember some emotional benefits at the time you started, otherwise there would have been no reason to continue smoking right?
  • 30. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 30 Your unconscious mind has very black and white thinking. When it comes across a new experience in its development, it simply asks itself “is this good or bad for me? This smoking thing, should I keep this up or not? Well since I’m getting all these good positive feelings, this smoking thing must be a good thing”. So in that moment, your unconscious mind decided that smoking was a good thing. It will hang onto the reality of this decision until you can effectively communicate with the unconscious mind and give it a powerful new story, the one that you now want to experience. The hypnosis is like a reprogram of the subconscious mind’s relationship to smoking cigarettes and quitting. The way you as the client then FEEL this reprogramming, is by walking out and just feeling differently about smoking. You don’t have direct access to this part of your mind during your day to day functioning. Both your conscious and unconscious minds are separated by a barrier the keeps them apart. This barrier we call the Critical Faculty and it can be bypassed but only with your participation and by following the very simple relaxation instructions at the start. It is the thinking and current programming of unconscious mind which is actually keeping you smoking, not an addiction to nicotine. This is why the traditional methods for quitting often don’t get you the success you want and can leave you high and dry in the process of trying. Traditional methods for quitting cigarettes, the N.R.T’s, as mentioned already, are all based on the assumption that the only reason you are smoking is because you’re a drug addict addicted to nicotine. If you’re able to satisfy this aspect of smoking in another way, you’ll quit. It’s important to remember now that the chemical addiction to nicotine is only 20% of the smoker’s plight. What about the remaining 80%? This is why some people who are trying to quit will report having a kind of mental tug of war, ‘part’ of them wants to quit (that is, the conscious mind), but another ‘part’ is drawing them to cigarettes (the unconscious mind). This is because your unconscious mind thinks it’s serving you emotionally by smoking. It is still trapped back in the mindset it created when you first learnt to smoke. Your unconscious mind is trapped in the fantasy that smoking is beneficial for you, like a child manipulating their parents to get what they want. Hypnosis is a powerful tool to directly tap into this part of your mind. It won’t fell like we’re speaking to your unconscious mind, but you will KNOW that something was going on when you open you’re eyes and suddenly you feel completely different about doing that thing.
  • 31. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 31 What You Can Expect While Being In Trance To help break down the myths around hypnosis even further, it’s important to share with you EXACTLY what you can expect and what NOT to expect while experiencing a hypnotic trance. To be honest, hypnosis can be described in 3 simple words: RELAXED, FOCUSED, ATTENTION. To go into more detail, firstly, you’re not going to ‘feel hypnotised’. That’s right, there’s nothing to sit and ‘wait for’, there’s no particular ‘thing’ to wait for. All it will feel like to you, all it would look like if someone were to be looking on, is your eyes are closed, you’re really relaxed and you’re just listening to someone talk and talk and talk to you. Almost as if someone is reading you a bed time story. You might feel really light, or you might feel really heavy. This is just a personal thing. There is no right or wrong way to experience relaxation in a chair and whatever happens for you will be perfect for you. There’s no need to over analyse the process. Most people at the end will however report a kind of ‘relaxation paralyses’, where they may have felt like they couldn’t move. They might say their arms and legs felt like stone. You might have the experience of feeling like you can’t move. But you always know that you could move if you wanted to. In fact, at any moment, you could open your eyes, get up and walk out if you want to. You see, this is the power of suggestion and the power of being in a state of allowing. You ALWAYS have the choice whether or not you’re going to allow yourself to go with the flow or not. The power of hypnosis really comes from the well established and documented close relationship between your mind and body. Your body and neurology listens to YOU, NOT A HYPNOTHERAPIST. The only question is, are you going to pass on the suggestions you are hearing to your body or not. Simple examples of this power are easy for me to see in that if you are following along with the suggestions that you’re hearing such as . . . ‘going deeper and deeper, more and more relaxed’ . . . . then you might open your eyes and find that your head is low and your chin is on your chest whereas when you started your head was up high. This is one sign of the power of suggestion. You’re not going to fall ‘asleep’, wake up and have some sort of amnesia. Even though the word ‘sleep’ is often used during the stage shows, no one is ever actually ‘sleeping’, it only seems that way. As a matter of fact, you are totally aware of everything that is happening around you at all times. This includes the sounds in the room, outside the room, the sound of the therapist’s voice, perhaps the music that might be playing, the feeling of the chair, temperature of the room etc. You will be aware of thoughts going in and out of your mind, and this is also very normal. Some people might say that they have a hard time relaxation, or perhaps that they have a mind that goes ‘a million miles and hour’. This is also totally fine and ok.
  • 32. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 32 Often these are the sort of clients that get the most profound experience. As long as you are able to follow instructions and keep most of your attention on what is being said and how it is being said, you’ll naturally drift into that ‘there, but you’re not’ kind of state. For those who might have racing minds, I actually employ some strategies that enhance you’re ability to pay attention. A part from the general induction techniques at the start, I will also engage you in some interaction. No words are needed, but they are simple things like asking you to nod your head here and there, asking you to visualise, imagine or picture a particular event of thing, and then nod your head again, and so on. These techniques assist in keeping your attention during certain moments of the hypnosis. However, since we are dealing with the subconscious mind anyway, it doesn’t matter if some mind wondering happens, a bit of this is inevitable. The part of you which really needs to hear what is being said, will take in exactly what it needs to. Another thing that will NOT happen during a hypnosis session is that you will not find yourself doing something or saying something that you don’t want to say or do. This has already been addressed above, but it’s important to reiterate that YOU are in control the entire time. At the end of the day however, everyone experiences hypnosis a little differently. It’s hard to say exactly how you’re going to experience it. Most people, at the very least, will report a very deep feeling of relaxation. If you’re some one who practices some form of relaxation techniques, you may have an experience of ‘going deeper’, but it really makes no difference to your success. As you’ll soon read from the common questions people ask, you’re not going to get stuck in hypnosis – it’s not actually possible, just like you can’t get stuck in a daydream or one of those vacant gazes you probably go in and out of every day. The ‘Make or Break’ Ways Of Listening This next section is very important indeed, and it’s the way that someone is listening while being in trance. The way that you are internally reacting to what is being said to you is very important. It’s basically that internal discussion with yourself. This really can be a make or break factor when it comes to the success of hypnosis. You see, when I share with people what I do, some people will ask me; “can anyone be hypnotized? I can’t be hypnotized, not everyone can be hypnotized”.
  • 33. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 33 People will often say this when they have a misconception of what hypnosis ACTUALLY IS, because if they knew what it was, they wouldn’t be asking this. However, I share with them the simple fact that being in a hypnotic trance is a very normal, natural state, you drift in and out of through the day often, and you just don’t realize it. You don’t use the words, “opps, sorry I was in a hypnotic trance, can you repeat that?” Of course not. You say things like, “sorry I was in the zone, I tuned out, I was a million miles away, off with the pixies, lights were on but no one’s home”. I’m sure you can relate to many situations like this. Perhaps while watching TV. You might be watching a movie or your favourite show, you’re SO into what you’re watching, you don’t even hear someone calling your name in the next room, it’s like they aren’t even there until they come and clip you on the ears and you ‘snap out of it’, What have you ‘snapped out of’?, a hypnotic trance. Or maybe you’re reading a book, you’re so into the plot of what you’re reading, the rest of the world just seems to ‘fade away’. Here’s an interesting little thing I’d like to add to that TV example. It is the most commonly used thing for bringing people into a ‘trance-like state’, and advertising companies know this and use it to their advantage all the time. When you’re in a trance, you become more suggestible. This is why it’s no surprise to see TV commercials that are very closely related to the subject matter of whatever it is that you are watching. This is no accident but strategic. You might be watching car racing and so the advertisements will be about car insurance, or auto parts. If you’re watching a cooking show, pots and pans will be advertised, a weight loss show will be followed by gym or supplement advertisements etc. The most common example of a hypnotic trance is when you’re driving, perhaps a long distance drive and then all of a sudden you go, “oh, shoot, I was supposed to take that last turn off, where am I going?”. Or you might get to your destination and you suddenly realize, you don’t remember the route you took, you just got there. This driving example shows two things, firstly is a completely safe state for you to be in because you can actually be driving and be completely elsewhere. Secondly, YOU’RE IN CONTROL. Because if a person were to step out in front of you while in this state, you don’t run them over, you ‘snap’ out of it.
  • 34. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 34 The above example shows that you’re conscious mind is always present during these situations, not completely gone. It’s always there ready to immediately take action in case of any emergency, perceived or real, to bring you right back into the moment. I use these examples of day to day trance to highlight to people that being in this state is a normal thing that happens often. So the question doesn’t become CAN you experience a hypnotic trance? But how resistant are you to allowing someone else’s voice guide you into that state, in a particular moment in time? You see, the only difference between the kinds of trance I just described above, and the trance that someone experiences in hypnosis, is the ‘object of attention’. Instead of it being the road, a book, or a TV screen, it’s someone’s voice, what they’re saying and how they’re saying it. It’s all simply a matter of an individual’s level of resistance while participating. Some people are very allowing, very non-resistant and they just go with the flow so well they experience the result very powerfully and may feel like they’ve always been a non- smoker and not even think about it. Other people may have some form resistance that is standing in the way of the result. Luckily, the most common form of resistance is also the most easily addressed and that is, the way you’re listening. For hypnosis to be successful we have to attempt to remove all unhelpful mental barriers between what is being said, and the way you are receiving the message. We all know that we go through our daily lives filtering and judging all the information that we gather from our senses and this usually serves us very well if it is a helpful filter or barrier. However in hypnosis, there are some ways of listening that are not so helpful. This is important because as you know that when someone is talking to us, we are always listening to two things really. One is the words that person is saying; the other is what we are saying to ourselves about what we are hearing. It’s important to realise that this will not stop during your time in a hypnotic trance. But as mentioned already, because your conscious mind isn’t completely gone, then you do have some control over the flavour or nature of that internal dialogue. There are 4 potential ways of listening while being in the hypnotic state and only one way will give you the success you want and that is the first way of listening: 1) Positive Reinforcement This may seem a little obvious, but the way you want to be listening should seem very normal and natural when you hear the suggestions about becoming a non-smoker. You want to be listening in a positive, accepting and reinforcing way. All you really have to do is sprinkle what you’re hearing with some positive energy. You might say things to
  • 35. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 35 yourself like, “Yeah, I like the idea of that, that sounds good to me, I look forward to that, that’s what I want”. Quite simple really. The next 3 ways of listening are ways that you would want to avoid. 2) Disagreeing or Challenging For example, if I were to say a suggestion like “smoking is horrible, disgusting, you don’t want it, you don’t like it and you don’t need it”, you don’t want to be saying things to yourself like. “hmm . . . I don’t know about that, I don’t mind one with a drink, it’s not all bad, here and there is ok”. It’s the kind of listening where you are negating and internally qualifying what you are hearing, which is essentially trying to lead you towards the result that you have intentionally come to experience anyway. 3) An Unmotivated Way of Listening This kind of listening doesn’t happen often, but it can happen so it’s important to mention here. If someone has come for a session to predominately please someone else, perhaps a wife, husband, partner, family member, parent etc, but THEY don’t want to quit for themselves, it could translate in the way they are listening. If this is the case, someone might be listening saying to themselves “yeah, yeah, of course I want to be a non-smoker, whatever, blah blah blah”. They might walk out actually feeling differently, not having a craving, but if the want wasn’t truly there, they’ll just look for the first excuse to just pick up a cigarette so they can then say to the person they came for, “You see, I told you so, I tried and it didn’t work, are you happy? Now leave me alone”. 4) Desperation of Hope The final possible way of listening can be a tricky one. Someone people are SO invested in the outcome, they are SO desperate for the outcome, they might be sitting in the hypnosis chair listening along, desperately HOPING it works, HOPING it happens, HOPING they quit. When you hope for something, there is a part of you that is expecting failure. This is something you want to try and minimise as much as possible. In my experience the people who fall into this category, are those that might feel they have left quitting just a little too late. Maybe they just got the dreaded diagnosis of some smoking related illness and then all of a sudden they just NEED to see me YESTERDAY! This kind of listening can produce a ball or knot of stress and tension that simply goes against the flow of the relaxation which hypnosis predominately is.
  • 36. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 36 What Can I Expect After A Session? Once you’re session is complete and you leave, you’ll experience one of 5 possible outcomes: * About 20% of people will feel like they have never even been a smoker! The feelings, thoughts and relationship to smoking and cigarettes are just SO different, it’ll feel like they’ve never even had one. * Another 40% of people, most people will fall into the next category, will feel very similar, but they may get a very controllable fleeting thought here and there about smoking. You may be doing something where in the past you would usually be having a cigarette and you’ll actually notice that you aren’t smoking. This may feel like a kind of ‘adjustment period’ for you. You can’t necessarily stop the thought of smoking coming into your mind, no better than you can stop the idea of a white bear coming into your mind . . . . . . . what did you just think of? A white bear right? But what hypnosis does do, is it address the crawling, craving feeling to want to ACT on that fleeting thought. It addresses that escalating urge to smoke. Some people have said to me that, they almost feel like they should be smoking, but they just don’t want or feel like having one. It’s kind of like a new experience for some people to be just going through the motions of their day without a cigarette between their fingers, so it gets their attention. So the thought will leave your mind as quickly as it came. As time goes by your memories as a smoker will just fade away more and more. * Another 30% need to be careful and vigilant, not to be tricked or manipulated into having ‘just a puff’, or being coaxed into having ‘just one’. At the end of the day, if you’re looking for a reason to start again, you’ll find one in no time. But if you really want to be a non smoker, you’ll stick to this decision. Some times you might tell an old smoking buddy that you’ve quit, and they might say, “oh, come on, you can have one, a puff won’t hurt, you can quit tomorrow “. DON’T LET THIS TRICK YOU. A PUFF AWAY FROM A PACK A DAY!! Often smokers who do that are just frustrated THEY haven’t been able to quit and so they just want to see you joining in so THEY don’t feel as bad about smoking. You’ve heard the old saying ‘misery loves company’ right? * Another 5% probably never really wanted to quit and might have just come along to please someone else.
  • 37. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 37 *Another 5% may need to come back for that completely free second session and that’s totally fine, no matter when it is, all you have to do is come back. The Final Secret Ingredient To Quitting This is a simple, but profound thing. I’ve also touched on this already, but I want to elaborate on it here. Just DECIDE that you are going to quit. Now this might sound silly and simple, but it’s important to mention. The word ‘decide’ is a powerful word. It comes from that group of words like homicide, pesticide, suicide. It means to ‘kill’, to ‘kill off’. When you DECIDE to quit cigarettes, you’re essentially ‘killing off’, the option of ever entertaining the idea of having one ever again. Let me share with you why this is SUCH an important concept. What I have found in the years and hundreds of clients that I’ve seen up to now, for the ones who do need to come back for that second session, I always notice a common theme. When I ask them if they had a huge overwhelming craving for a cigarette in that moment that they had one, almost always they’ll say “well, not really, BUT . . . “ and they’ll go onto describe either one of two scenarios. 1) Alcohol was involved. This is very common amongst the few that need the second session. They’ll be out and about, having a few drinks, socialising and they’ll say. . “hmmm . . . . . I’m ok, it’s been a while, I’m in control, maybe I can have just one sneaky little puff” and them BOOM! They are back on them before they know it! What I say to every one is that once you have done the session and feel great, you have to treat it like a recovering alcoholic. They can’t just have a nip, or a little. It’s all or none, and quitting cigarettes is the exact same thing. As much as some smokers would like to wish there was some treatment out there that will make a full time smoker a part time, social smoker, there just isn’t. What you’ll find with social smokers is that they have ALWAYS BEEN SOCIAL SMOKERS! I haven’t met a social smoker yet that used to smoke a pack a day but now smokes just a few here and here. Once you’ve jumped over that side of the fence, you have to make the decision whether you’re ready to quit completely or not. We all know what alcohol does, it reduces your decision making ability. So people might be inclined to do something, like have a cigarette, when they otherwise wouldn’t have. 2) Some emotional moment, often an emotional low. This is the second most common scenario that brings about the need for a second session. This is where some
  • 38. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 38 unexpected or lingering moment of an emotional low was present, and the person said to themselves something like “bugger this, I’m just going to smoke”, or, “to hell with this, give me a fag”. You see sometimes we experience certain unwanted situations and emotions where we are feeling so bad, that we’ll do anything at all to bring us to some better feeling place, like smoke a cigarette. Even though, they might not have had a craving for a cigarette, they just wanted to feel something else in that moment and somehow they thought a cigarette was going to bring them to that better feeling place. Getting back to the importance of decision, in both cases mentioned above, the person didn’t have a craving for a cigarette, but they just DECIDED to have one. They were basically in a situation where they could have gone without, but they had one anyway. The important thing to reiterate here is that no quit smoking treatment will ever stop you from deciding to have a cigarette, obviously. There’s just too much free will involved. The basic fundamental aim of ALL quit smoking treatments is to give you a sense of control, no matter what situation you’re in, to decide not to smoke. That treatment has really done its job to the degree that you feel this control. That’s all it really comes down to. This is what hypnosis does in a nut shell. It leaves you with a sense of control, a sense of empowerment that makes it easy to decide not to have one, even though you might be in a situation where having one might seem totally justified. Furthermore, on this topic of decision, I’d like to add one last point. It amuses me when I hear about or see articles, scientific journals or studies that are comparing the ‘Long- term effectives of this quit treatment over that treatment over that treatment etc’. We have already established that smoking is more of a powerful habit, rather than a drug addiction. Science has shown that it takes exactly 21 days to break a habit. Basically, if you have gone for this long without doing a particular habitual action, you have broken that habit. I know FOR A FACT, that if anyone has gone for more than 21 days without smoking a cigarette but they started up again, it wasn’t because they had a craving for a cigarette, it’s because they decided to have one. Have you gone for more than 21 days? If so, think back to the situation where you started again? Could you have gone without in the moment? It makes no difference whatsoever what method got you to 21 days, what got you there pretty much ‘worked’. Treatments and methods for quitting don’t vary from one to another in terms of reducing or increasing one’s ability to exercise their free will to pick up a cigarette at all. It’s up to the individual’s commitment to decide not to pick one up, not on what they used to quit. Hypnosis can make that 21 days just seem so much easier than the rest. Sometimes I get clients who say, “I tried hypnosis and it was great, it lasted 6 months”, or a year, or two years etc. I say to them. Hypnosis isn’t necessarily ‘working’ on you for that amount of time, it basically ‘worked’ from the moment you opened your eyes and no longer felt like a cigarette. You were just committed to your decision NOT to smoke for 3 months, or a year or 2 years etc. I’m sure this is making a lot of sense to you.
  • 39. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 39 PART III - SMOKING, HOW BAD IS IT? This section addresses some facts and information about cigarettes and smoking. Now I know many of you might have ‘heard it all before’. But when it comes to the negative impact that cigarettes have and someone has come to that point where they seriously want to quit, it can be a good thing to remind ourselves of all the negative aspects of smoking. It can make quitting that much better don’t you think? Now a lot of the research I’ve done and the figures I’ll present here are from the USA, but I’m sure it’s a pretty good reflection of what would be happening here in Australia as well. Some Tarred Facts Research shows that the more and better informed people are about smoking, the higher their chance of quitting. At the moment it is estimated that over 1 billion people in the world smoke – that’s one in 3 adults on the planet are smokers! The following statistics and figures have come from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and The National Centre for Health Statistics in the USA.  One out of every five deaths is caused by tobacco use.  An average of 440,000 Americans die each year from tobacco use.  Tobacco is blamed for many serious pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases.  Tobacco and nicotine are some of the most potent carcinogens and are to blame for a majority of all cancers of the lung, trachea, bronchus, larynx, and oesophagus.  Tobacco use also produces cancers in the pancreas, kidney, bladder, and cervix.  Impotency is sometimes also experienced in male smokers because of its ability to reduce blood flow.  Smoking is an important risk factor for respiratory illnesses, causing 85,000 deaths per year from pulmonary diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia.  Children and adolescents who are active smokers will have increasingly severe respiratory illness, as they grow older.
  • 40. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 40  Smoking during pregnancy causes about 5-6% of prenatal deaths, 17-26% of low-birth-weight births, and 7-10% of pre-term deliveries, and it increases the risk of miscarriage and fetal growth retardation.  Cigarettes are responsible for about 25% of deaths from residential fires, causing nearly 1,000 fire-related deaths and 3,300 injuries each year.  The average smoker will spend $100,000 on cigarettes in their lifetime.  Smoking cigarettes is the number one most preventable cause of death in the world.  The average smoker will reduce their lifespan by 14 years by smoking cigarettes.  If you continue smoking you have a one in two chance of dying from it.  If you smoke more than 25 cigarettes a day, you are 25 times more likely to die from cancer and almost twice as likely to die from heart disease.  Each cigarette on average takes 11 minutes off your life.  Fifty diseases are caused by smoking. Twenty of them are fatal.  Nicotine itself is a colourless oily compound and if you were to inject it directly into your bloodstream you would die almost instantly.  Nicotine’s natural function in plants of the nightshade family is as an anti- herbivore chemical to prevent the plant being eaten. This is why nicotine has been widely used in the past as an insecticide. Keep this in mind next time you smoke a cigarette or as you try to quit smoking.
  • 41. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 41 Exactly What Are You Inhaling? I’m sure you’d agree that they are some pretty alarming facts and figures. When a smoker inhales cigarette smoke the surface area of the lungs allows the nicotine to pass into the blood stream almost immediately. This is the nicotine "hit" that smokers are said to crave. There is, however a lot more to cigarette smoke than just the nicotine. In fact, there are more than 4,000 chemical substances that make up cigarette smoke, many of them toxic. Cigarette smoke is composed of 43 carcinogenic substances. More than 400 other toxins that are in smoke are also in wood varnish, nail polish remover, and rat poison. As you can imagine an accumulation of these substances over time in the body and can cause serious illnesses and disease to the heart and lungs. Some of the chemicals in cigarettes include: Benzene - A poisonous gas found in petrol fumes known to cause leukaemia, Butane - Lighter fuel. Ethanol - Used in anti-freeze. Methanol - Used in rocket fuel. Ammonia - Used in many cleaning products. Acetone - Used in paint stripper. Cadmium - Used in car batteries, known to cause cancer. Arsenic - Poison. Toluene - Industrial solvent. As most of us already know, cancer is the most common disease associated with smoking. It’s the cause of 90% of lung cancer cases and is related to 30% of all cancer deaths. Some smoking-related cancers include cancers of the mouth, pancreas, urinary bladder, kidney, stomach, oesophagus, and larynx to name a few.
  • 42. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 42 Besides cancer, smoking is also related to several other diseases of the lungs. Emphysema and bronchitis can be fatal and 75% of all deaths from these diseases are linked to smoking. Cigarette smoke isn’t just harmful to smokers, but also to passive smokers. The dangers of breathing in second-hand smoke are well known. All sorts of health problems are related to breathing in second-hand smoke. Children are especially susceptible to the dangers of second-hand smoke because their internal organs are still developing. Children exposed to second-hand smoke are more vulnerable to asthma, sudden infant death syndrome, bronchitis, pneumonia, and ear infections. Smoking can also be dangerous for unborn children. It’s been found that mothers who smoke are more likely to suffer from miscarriages, bleeding and nausea. Research shows that babies of smoking mothers have reduced birth weights or may be premature. These babies are more susceptible to sudden infant death syndrome and may also have lifelong health problems due to chest infections and asthma. It is never too late to give up smoking, even people who have smoked for 20 or more years can experience significant health benefits from giving up the habit. The key to success is deciding you want it and then backing that up with the right mindset!
  • 43. QuitWithNick www.quitwithnick.com.au Call 1300 883 272 Post your success stories to my blog at: www.quitwithnick.com.au/blog 43 At the Risk of being repetitive, just a short reminder of the dramatic improvement you can still make in your life; From the very moment you have your last cigarette:  Within 20 minutes blood pressure returns to its normal level.  After 8 hours oxygen levels return to normal.  After 24 hours carbon monoxide levels in the lungs return to those of a non- smoker and the mucus begins to clear.  After 48 hours nicotine leaves the body and taste buds are improved.  After 72 hours breathing becomes easier.  After 2–12 weeks, circulation improves.  After 5 years, the risk of heart attack falls to about half that of a smoker.  After 10 years, the risk of lung cancer is almost the same as a non-smoker. I hope you have found the information in this report useful, and perhaps there were things you learned here that will help you quit without even coming to see me for a one- one-one. Either way, I wish you all the success you and your body truly deserve so you can experience the health and vitality that you were meant to. To your health, Nick BSc (Psych), Grad Dip Applied Psych Specialist Hypnotherapist "Quit Cigarettes in 60 minutes" Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Touch For Health 1300 883 272 www.quitwithnick.com.au