Rapid Smoke Freedom™
Clinic:
Quit Smoking Today!
© Donald Robertson (2000)
according to the largest ever scientific comparison of ways of breaking the habit.”
(New Scientist magazine)
Smokers often overestimate their own knowledge of smoking risks, and underestimate the number of other people who have succeeded in kicking the habit. So read on...
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Donald Robertson is a former drugs worker and smoking cessation counsellor who now has a busy therapy practice in London / Surrey, called The HypnoSynthesis® Clinic, where he helps people to quit smoking, and make many other changes and improvements to their lives.
Freephone: 0800 195 9809
Your Smoke Freedom™ appointment will last two hours. The money you save from quitting will easily cover the cost of your hypnotherapy –within a few weeks you will be making a financial profit by stopping smoking! What's more, satisfaction is guaranteed, you will only pay if you are happy with the treatment.
The majority of clients only require one intensive session. However, if you need it a one-hour follow-up session will be available free of charge. If you are not completely satisfied after completing your follow-up session, you may claim back your fees within six weeks.
This is what will happen in your two-hour intensive Smoke Freedom™ session. First of all a brief, informal assessment of your individual needs will be carried out. A short life-coaching session follows in which your reasons for wanting to quit and the potential benefits to you will be evaluated, reinforced and expanded. You will be given practical training in special psychological exercises designed to help you extinguish cravings on command. The nature, effects, and benefits of clinical hypnosis will be explained to you.
You will then be hypnotised, one-to-one. Your responses to hypnotic suggestion will be continuously evaluated and reinforced during the hypnotherapy section of the session. You will be closely observed to ensure that you are benefiting fully from the experience of being hypnotised. In hypnotic trance, your reasons for quitting will be reinforced and expanded, in a way that gets them past your conscious intellect, and through to the "deeper level" of the unconscious mind, the level at which feelings and behaviour patterns are directly influenced. Your unconscious will be strengthened by positive suggestions and images which will install a deep sense of confidence in yourself as a healthy, smoke free person.
The session concludes with a post-hypnotic interview and assessment of your responses and progress.
Willpower & The Desire to Quit
You have to want to quit smoking to succeed. Beware of anyone who tells you otherwise, or promises you a "magical cure" for smoking. Every method of smoking cessation requires some degree of willpower. Once you have decided to stop smoking, however, hypnotherapy can help enormously in overcoming the habit and building your confidence and motivation. Research consistently shows that people who are assisted by a hypnotherapist are much more likely to succeed in stopping smoking than those who try to quit by willpower alone.
Once you quit smoking your health will improve more and more each day! Here are some of the health benefits you have to look forward to:
Smoking cigarettes is a very expensive habit. Smokers often avoid thinking about exactly how much their habit forces them to sacrifice financially. During their lifetime, an average smoker, on twenty cigarettes a day, will spend almost one hundred thousand pounds (£100,000) on their habit (not accounting for inflation and tax increases). That's a lot of cash for anyone to burn, comparable to a second mortgage.
Ask yourself this question: “If someone gave me that much money right now, what would I spend it on?”
The chart below should help you count the cost of smoking, based upon an average price of £4.82 per pack of 20 cigarettes (2005 prices):
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Cost
of Smoking: The “Cancer Mortgage”
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Cigarettes
per day |
1 year
|
5 years
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10 years
|
20 years
|
Lifetime
(est. 56 years of smoking) |
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10
|
£880
|
£4,401
|
£8,803
|
£17,605
|
£49,294
|
|
20
|
£1,761
|
£8,803
|
£17,605
|
£35,210
|
£98,588
|
|
30
|
£2,641
|
£13,204
|
£26,408
|
£52,815
|
£147,882
|
|
40
|
£3,521
|
£17,605
|
£35,210
|
£70,420
|
£197,177
|
|
60
|
£5,282
|
£26,408
|
£52,815
|
£105,630
|
£295,765
|
Researchers have recently calculated that smokers also incur an average £676 in "hidden costs" per year. That includes the inflated insurance costs, cleaning products, etc., associated with smoking. This factor increases the lifetime costs of the average (20 per day) smoker to well over £130,000!
Well it is not your "little friend" and that's for sure! Most smokers know that tobacco contains the poison nicotine, but may not be able to tell you anything else about it. Tragically, smokers very rarely know what nicotine actually is, or what other chemicals they are regularly filling their lungs with. That is because someone who smokes necessarily lives in fear and denial.
This is what you get a lungful of when you smoke a cigarette:
1. Nicotine
Nicotine is an insecticide! In the tobacco plant its natural function is to repel pests. In the human body nicotine acts as a powerful neurotoxin, artificially stimulating the nervous system. The long term physical and psychological effects of nicotine are very similar to the effects of chronic stress. That's why cigarettes do not "calm your nerves." Smokers assume that cigarettes help them to relax, but the nicotine creates the stress in the first place. Nicotine is a deadly, poisonous, toxin. Two drops of pure nicotine on the tongue would be more than enough to kill a full-grown man.
2. Carbon Monoxide
You've probably heard of people dying from "carbon monoxide poisoning" due to car exhaust fumes or faulty gas heaters. Carbon monoxide (CO) is an invisible, odourless and tasteless, toxic gas. It is created when any organic based substances, including tobacco and paper, are burned. In the body, CO attaches itself to red blood cells taking the place of oxygen, thereby causing asphyxiation. In smokers, CO partially starves the body of oxygen, causing shortness of breath, and reducing energy.
3. Tobacco Tar
Sticky, stale smelling, yellow-brown tar is created when tobacco smoke condenses, you can sometimes see it on the walls of public bars or staining chain smokers' fingers. The tar is really a cocktail of different chemicals. There are over four thousand (4,000) chemicals in tobacco smoke of which at least forty are known to be carcinogenic (cancer causing). Some of the toxic chemicals in tar may surprise you: arsenic, cyanide, formaldehyde, ammonia, cadmium (the poisonous metal used in batteries), acetone (nail polish remover). If someone offered you a fizzy drink containing all that stuff, would you drink it? Nobody in their right mind would eat or drink tar, and your lungs are in many ways more delicate and sensitive organs than your stomach. Obviously, tobacco tar is highly toxic and the fact that it condenses on the surface of the lung tissue means that it physically clogs up the lungs, preventing them from cleaning themselves and seriously impairing breathing. You wouldn't tar the inside of your lungs with a bucket and paintbrush, so why do it with smoke!
Tobacco is the only legally available consumer product which kills people when it is used in the manner and quantity intended by the manufacturers.
Every year in the UK, over one hundred and twenty thousand (120,000) people die as a result of smoking. To get those figures in perspective, picture this: that is the equivalent to a jumbo jet full of passengers crashing... and hitting a double-decker bus... every day! That's approx. six million deaths, in the UK alone, in the last fifty years.
One of the largest ever studies of smoking, following 34,000 people in the UK for over fifty years, recently released figures which prove that the average lifelong smoker will die ten years prematurely.
Nicotine "Addiction"
There is a general consensus now among medical researchers that nicotine is a highly addictive drug. However, a word of caution: this does not mean what people tend to think!
When researchers say that a drug is addictive
they mean that it often has withdrawal effects, and that is certainly true of
nicotine. However, the withdrawal effects are relatively mild, do not occur
in all cases, and most people can quit easily with some degree of willpower
and appropriate support. The popular meaning of "addiction", by contrast,
is that one is dependant upon a substance (as defined by the OED), it implies
need. Nobody "needs" or is absolutely "dependant"
upon nicotine. Smoking is a habit, not a disease, every smoker has it
within their power to quit if they truly desire to do so.
Website Contents are Copyright © Donald Robertson 1996-2005
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