Stop smoking pills from the doctor make no sense to me, because I have never come across an individual who truly needed them.
The Wall Street Journal may not agree, but it published this damning information about the latest stop-smoking fiasco.
U.K. Regulator Warns About Chantix and Suicide
There’s a new development around Pfizer’s smoking-cessation drug Chantix and suicide: The United Kingdom’s drug regulator has issued an update linking the medicine to reports of “depression and suicide related events.”
Documents posted by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency give the following advice: “Patients who are taking [Chantix] who develop suicidal thoughts or who develop agitation, depressed mood, or changes in behaviour that are of concern for the doctor patient, family, or caregiver should stop their treatment and contact their doctor immediately.”
What I’d like to know is why give a drug addict another drug instead of just removing the reasons for the drug addiction? In my experience, that is far easier, less costly, and more beneficial to the recipient. Cigarette addiction is like any other addiction, and the main causes are emotional, even if you don’t realize that at first. Now there are simple and relatively painless ways to removing those pesky negative emotional blocks in your path, and you could do it from as little as one session. Time and time again, in the stop-smoking session, my client and I reach a point where there is no cigarette craving whatsoever, and this continues the next day, and so on. Surely if cigarettes caused a physical addiction, this would not be the case? And for every client convinced that this was a physical phenomenon, I was able to show that by removing the emotional element, somehow the physical part went away. So why have a dangerous physical intervention? It makes no sense. I am certainly not anti-drug and definitely not anti-pharmaceuticals, as everything has its place. It just is not in my experience that a stop-smoking drug is needed.
Your Hypnosis offer in Cape Town includes Stop Smoking EFT, Stop Smoking Laser, and Advanced Hypnosis. The Hypnosis helps to get messages through to your unconscious mind enabling you to succeed, the EFT releases blocks in the path of your success, and the Laser helps you to heal from within from the physical addiction. I got some questions in my mailbox today that I thought I should answer for everybody, in case you had there questions too.
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You mention qualifying for the 1st session; what does that mean exactly?
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My hypnosis is not one-formula-fits-all. It is tailor-made to suit you. When you first see me, we sit down and I fill out a Client History Form. I ask you many searching questions that help me determine whether you are suitable for the one-session route or whether I should advise that we should work more through the underlying issues first. f you qualify for the one-session route, then we keep working until every situation I put you in, on a scale of 0-10 of smoking desire, there is negligible desire. This we determine in the session itself, so there is no guesswork.
If before we start, I say that we need to work on underlying issues first, then there is no point to keep trying for a zero smoking desire when it is not going to happen that day, so we only have up to about 2 hours. Otherwise, you would get very frustrated trying to achieve the impossible. That is why I say if you qualify for the one-session route, then we keep going in the first session.
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And the sessions after that is only if I feel the need to again ie a craving returning?
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If at the end of the first session, you have say a smoking desire of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc in any one situation, then I schedule another session for you. Remember, there is no guesswork with my method. You know exactly where you are.
If for any reason, we get it all down to a negligible level but either you or I miss a situation and you experience that situation afterwards, then you simply call me to schedule another session. The most common thing that goes wrong is sudden extreme stress, like a home that literally collapses, loss of a loved one, loss of a job, or illness, which can be so stressful, that the ex-smoker picks up a cigarette in a moment of weakness and becomes an addict again (all it takes is one cigarette). I say it is the most common, however it is very unlikely - it happens to only about 3% of my clients.
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I am in Cape Town for two days, and I wanted to see you. When we had a brief chat on the phone last week, you told me that I was in the minority of smokers that need nearer to the full 6 sessions you offer in your scheme, rather than the one session. Now I don’t know what to do, because I live too far to travel each week for a session.
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Whilst it is true that most people prefer to see me for the first session, I do have clients all over the world who do treatments with me on the phone; some even in Cape Town, who simply prefer not to drive to me after a long day’s work. Some weeks I even do more sessions on the phone than in person. You can attend the first session in person. We can even have a break, re-convene, and carry on. Time is not the limit in my sessions, so you can relax about that. Then we can schedule more sessions over the phone. You can easily hold the phone whilst going in a state of relaxation.
Since starting NewAgeTherapies in Cape Town, I have had visits from various places, including Mozambique, Cameroon, Gauteng, and the USA.
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I keep thinking in terms of an hourly rate. This seems like a good deal, up to 6 sessions and 5 years. Please explain.
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It is strange for South Africa, but eventually many hypnotists will be doing it this way. In other countries, it is normal to charge per result rather than per hour. I am from such a country (UK) and I find that South Africans like this new way of charging, because it is fairer. Payment is upfront at the very beginning.
Remember, you get Hypnosis, Laser, and EFT, an Advanced Hypnosis package that is totally unique, using my skills and experience for a version tailor-made for your requirements. For your success.
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Pubs and restaurants in Beijing were supposed to stop smoking. Then there was a big uproar and China had to allow smoking in the end, despite the Olympics.
Clearly this was a PR exercise that failed. But the point is, most people do not associate athletics with smoking. Just like you would not associate healthy living with smoking. Put it this way, if you were to choose a new doctor, would you feel confident choosing a doctor who smokes? If you were to visit a hypnotherapist, would you feel assured of the outcome with a hypnotist who smoked?
Although smacking of Big Brother, it does actually make sense to stop smoking in restaurants and bars, I have just come to Cape Town in South Africa from London in the UK. In Cape Town, smoking is allowed in bars and restaurants. Some restaurants make an attempt to make a non-smoking section, the rare coffee bar is non-smoking, but most bars and restaurants frankly stink. In London, smoking was banned in all public places last year, and it is a pleasure now to go out for a drink or a meal. There was initially much worry about going smoke-free. Businesses were worried about losing custom. However, in the UK most people are non-smokers now, and so this was a great deal easier.
And despite the health risks, in Cape Town, just like Beijing, there is a need for a drug. Nicotine happens to be a perfect drug. It calms you when you need calming, wakes you when you need to be alert, is easily delivered into the body, and is legally available.
Smoking is a coping mechanism. Smoking takes the not-Fun out of life and the smoker is left with Fun. Smoking takes the not-Happy out of life so the smoker is left with Happy. Without smoking, the smoker is faced with a great deal of not-Fun and not-Happy, and life is very grim indeed. People need to be healthy. However, they also need to be happy. Sometimes being happy is more important than being healthy. Why should it matter if you die early of cancer or a heart attack, if you have lived a happy life? And who actually wants to live a long and miserable life?
This is why nicotine replacement and various wonder pills alone fail. When the smoker is given ways to be naturally happy, such as with EFT, hypnosis, or meditation, then they can finally be calmly free from smoking. And when a nation is healed, when it becomes stronger from within, you get smoke-free restaurants. It really is a holistic matter.
China has a great deal of trauma from the past, as does Cape Town. The pain of the people needs the balm of nicotine. I sincerely hope that one day, this pain will release. With this release, there will no longer be a need for cigarettes. And then China can rest assured that its bars and restaurants will be smoke-free.
