My Quitters Blog

Through new technology I am able to be mobile. Now I can use Skype Free to remotely work with referred clients anywhere in the world. I have worked with clients in many states including California, Oregon, and Hawaii so far. I appreciate the opportunity that new technology affords me and my clients. I want to help you easily become a non-smoker where ever you are in the world.

If you live in Irvine, California we can help you quit smoking. Please call us for an appointment today.

The number one, best thing you can do for your health, if you smoke, is to stop smoking.

What is the point of going to the doctor, getting medications for everything from anxiety & depression to high blood pressure when you are poisoning yourself 20 times a day or more? You may think you know that smoking is “not good for you” but have you really looked into what smoking does to your health? You can research online almost any part of your body, every organ, every tissue, bone, every system, from your head to your toes and there will be research about how smoking negatively impacts every single aspect of your health.

It’s not like smoking can only kill you over the long term. If you were driving in your car and you were in an accident, your chances of survival are compromised, significantly. For one thing, your heart rate when you are smoking is up by 10 to 20 bpm and your arteries are constricted which means that your blood pressure is up and unstable. This lasts for about 20 minutes, until you have another cigarette. You also have carbon monoxide in your blood as well as 1 quadrillion free radicals that come from about 20 or more poisons.

What are you thinking? That’s just it. What ARE you thinking? The truth is, we avoid thinking about all this because it seems to be an impossible task to quit smoking. That’s what “they” want you to think. The manufacturers of tobacco products including gum, patches and other “nicotine replacement” products that is. The thrust of their advertising is about how you can not quit without using their products. Now, think about this…why would you want to replace the nicotine with another nicotine product or a pharmaceutical product? Do you know the success rate of those products? Check it out online. Don’t you really want to eliminate nicotine and smoke from entering your body in any way? And do you want all the side effects of yet another drug?

The pharmaceutical industry is constantly coming up with new schemes to get your money. Now they are saying they will have a vaccine to help you stop smoking. WHAT!!!!

Hypnosis is the best way to quit smoking on the planet. There are absolutely no negative side effects. It only takes an hour or two instead of weeks or months of having it on your mind and in your schedule. It is so easy. All you have to do is sit back in an easy chair and listen to the suggestions. And you are done. And if you are really hard to hypnotize, you may have to practice it a few times until your mind learns how to do it. And as a bonus, as your mind learns how to do it, you can use it for many other things you want to change, like exercise motivation, and eating right, stop nail biting, eliminate depression and anxiety and so many other things.

I encourage you to come in and learn about hypnosis and the benefit it can be in your life.

I now have an office in Costa Mesa to serve the entire Orange County area including Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, Corona Del Mar, Irvine, Santa Ana, Tustin, Garden Grove, Fountain Valley, Westminster, Anaheim, Laguna Beach, Laguna Hills, and surrounding areas.

July 20, 2010

Is it too late for you?

If not, make an appointment today.

A woman called this morning whose husband had just had a heart attack. They are both in their mid 50’s and both have been smoking since their early teens. The one thing the doctors said that HE MUST DO is to stop smoking. He has lost some of his ability to reason which they just hope he can get back but no guarantees. He thinks the program costs too much. How much did the heart attack cost? He is not able to work for two months. That cost much more than this program.

She doesn’t know if he is ready and we are not sure that hypnosis can help him now that his ability to reason is compromised. It may be too late for him but not for her.

She has made an appointment to come in to stop smoking. She does not want to go through having a heart attack or stroke.

I often think ….Why don’t people come in BEFORE they have something like this happen? Smoking poisons every single cell in the body and each cigarette contains 1 quadrillion free radicals.

Is it too late for you? If not, call Sandra and make an appointment today. 951.443.5083

Now that I have your attention, you can not make someone stop smoking.
You can get angry with them
You can get sad and cry about it
You can threaten them
You can admonish them
You can shame them
You can criticize them
You can blame them for their ill health
You can tell them how stupid it is

But they have done this to themselves for years. It won’t help for you to add to the mental dialog they already have going on every day. Mostly it makes them more frustrated at the problem they have not been able to solve. They get mat at you and mad at themselves. So they push the anger down (not really) by having a cigarette.

The problem is that you can not change anything you don’t like about another person. No one can. We have a hard enough time changing things we don’t like about ourselves. When you know how the mind works, you can stop trying to change others and concentrate on improving yourself. The change in your behavior influences other people around you. It’s like dropping a pebble in a pond. Your behavior, good or bad, ripples out to all the people who come in contact with you and influences their lives. You can only hope that they notice the change in you and begin to look at themselves and their behavior and decide to modify what they are doing.

Unless it is their idea and their desire to live a longer, healthier life they probably won’t be able to quit. The number one most effective reason to quit is so they can watch their children grow up and be a better example to them. Several clients have stopped because they have worked hard, sacrificed and are going to retire early and they don’t want to be sick or die before they can enjoy the fruits of their many years of labor. Some simply are tired of it: tired of the hassle, the smell, wasting all that money, etc.

Having said all of that, here is a typical story I think will help. The wife of a smoker said that her husband had told her he had quit. But she knew better. Still, she did not bug him because she had nagged him for years to quit and it only caused problems in their marriage so she stopped nagging and he kept smoking.

One evening as they were getting ready for bed he said he thought he had left the car unlocked and went downstairs “to lock the car”. When he came back, his wife could smell the smoke left on his clothing. She said nothing that night but the next morning she gently and cautiously asked “did you have a cigarette before you came to bed last night?” He admitted that he had. (He knew she knew.) She gently said “I could smell it on you”. And that was that. She did not continue the conversation.

Later in the week, (when he had had time to think about it) she gently asked him if he would go see a hypnotherapist to stop smoking and he said yes. He needed help. He could quit until he was in a social/business situation and then he would “bum” one from a colleague. He wondered why it was so hard for him to quit. The reason is that ONE bummed cigarette, that ONE puff. It only takes ONE puff and a smoker is back at it, every time.

By the time a smokers health is compromised, they begin (in error) to think “I might as well keep smoking, I’m done for anyway.”

Smokers avoid and ignore the elephant in the room because they think it is too big and they are too busy. So if you want to get someone to stop smoking, the best way to help is, gently and at the right time, present options for them. You do the research, discover the success rates of each option, then present the options with their success rates and the cost of treatment and let them mull it all over. You can do the research by simply “googling”. Don’t push, just offer.

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