Quitting Smoking …You Pull Your Pants On One Leg At A Time Don’t You?
Hi Soon to Be Non-Smoker Having helped over 2000 to quit smoking I believe I have heard every possible reason for not being able to quit. My response to these excuses, which are keeping people trapped, is often very similar. “What is special about you?” If people all around the world are quitting smoking what…
Which Habit Do You Want To Be a Slave To?
Hi Future Non Smoker Most smokers who want to quit acknowledge that they are a slave to their cigarette habit. The rest either don’t want to quit or are in denial. Recently I aksed a potential quit client what would happen if she didn’t have any cigarettes in the middle of the night. She immediately…
Letting Go Of The Guilty Cigarette
Hi Future Non Smoker Just recently I went into the home of an acquaintance and they seemed to look a little guilty. It seemed kind of odd until I smelled the tell-tale odor of cigarettes. I didn’t realise this person smoked, and given by profession they preferred for me not to know. I have no…
Quitting Smoking…What If Cigarettes Were Invented Today.
Hi Future Non Smoker I imagine an inventor’s television programme where one of the contestants has invented a new thing called the cigarette. “So what is it made from?” It’s a plant called tobacco which is dried and processed with a variety of chemicals. “How many chemicals” After it burns about 4000 chemicals most of…
Quit Smoking…The Only Man In The Street
Hi Future Non Smoker Recently in Brisbane we had a huge downpour of rain following a tropical cyclone in the north of the state. On the heaviest day schools were closed and most shops as well. Late in the day during a lull in the rain I walked outside of our inner city apartment and…
Quit Smoking…Does Your Religion help You Or Hinder You
Hi Future Non Smoker Every smoker who wants to quit cigarettes brings their belief system with them to the hypnosis session. This includes your religious beliefs. There are two schools of thought I have encountered. The mind is God’s domain and hypnosis is verging on an evil intrusion. However I have seen some Christian hypnosis…
Quit Smoking… What Is Your Smoking Style.
Hi Future Non Smoker I was recently having an early morning coffee at Mooloolaba beach. A few metres in front of where I sat was a very fit young woman, she surprised me by lighting up a cigarette. I noticed the glances a few walkers gave her as they sped by, perhaps a whole series…
Quitting Smoking…Would You Like To Make A bet?
Hi Future Non Smoker I’m pretty sure that the sun will come up in the morning so I would bet on that. Aliens could invade the earth tomorrow but I wouldn’t like to take a wager on that. In life there are all kinds of certainties and uncertainties and none of us ever know how…
Quit Smoking…Using Clear Language To Achieve Your Goal.
Hi Future Non Smoker Words have enormous power to help, to damage, to confuse or to clarify. Out tone can mean we are being genuine or sarcastic, this must be extremely confusing for people trying to learn our language. We make it even harder by speaking in metaphors, which would make no sense at all…
Quit Smoking…What Is The Brick Wall you Keep running Into?
Hi Future Non Smoker Some things in life seem easy to achieve and some seem difficult, and some even feel impossible. If you are struggling to quit smoking, or if you can quit for a while but keep coming back to it then you need to firstly identify your brick wall and then learn how…