MYTHS ABOUT HYPNOSIS
It's hardly surprising that there are so many myths surrounding hypnosis because most people's contact with it is through TV and stage shows. So let's have a look at a couple of them.
I WON'T BE ABLE TO BE HYPNOTISED
If you can read this, you'll be able to be hypnotised. It's as simple as that. It's not a special ability and nothing to do with being intelligent, or creative, or imaginative. And it's something that happens to you more often than you think. Have you ever been driving on a long, boring road and suddenly become aware that you've driven for ages and you can't appear to remember what happened ? You've been in a hypnotised state ! You have become controlled by your unconscious mind rather than your conscious one.
HYPNOSIS IS LIKE SLEEP
Hypnosis is not like sleep - it is an altered state of consciousness that causes actual physical changes in the brain (Dr D Spiegel,Stanford 2002). It is more like those few moments just before sleep and just after you have awoken - the hynopompic and hypnogogic states. Under hypnosis you will be aware of everything.
UNDER HYPNOSIS YOU CAN BE MADE TO DO THINGS AGAINST YOUR WILL
If it was that easy, why would bank robbers use guns ? They could just use hypnosis. You cannot be made to do things your rational mind wouldn't do normally. Those people on the TV shows only volunteer because they want to act foolishly.
MYTHS ABOUT SMOKING
Smoking is also surrounded by myth - many perpetuated by the tobacco companies just to keep your habit going.
SMOKING IS AN ADDICTION
No scientific study has shown conclusively that smoking creates a significant physical addiction. Take a heroin addict off the drug and what are their reactions ? Palpitation, sweating, vomiting, nausea, hallucinations. Stop smoking and what is the worst thing that might happen ? You could get a little grumpy to start with.
Ummm, hardly a comparison. And here's another thing - how many smokers do you know that need to get up in the middle of the night for a cigarette because of withdrawal symptoms ? None, because
SMOKING IS A HABIT.
If smoking was simply a matter of a physical addiction the patches and gum substitutes would work every time. Patches supply the body with as much nicotine as the average smoker inhales from about six packs of cigarettes, yet studies have shown patches are only successfull in 4 - 13% of cases and gum in 3 -11% of cases (Law and Tang 1995).
No, to give up smoking you don't need to kick an addiction, YOU
NEED TO KICK A HABIT.
STOP SMOKING IN ONE SESSION - GUARANTEED!
Why People Don’t Stop Smoking
Most people know that by stopping they will save several thousand dollars a year. Most people know that they
could add years to their life. And most people know that if they stop smoking right now, they could save their health
– before it’s too late.
So, why do people continue to smoke? With more than 20 years combined experience in dealing with the mind, we have found the answer to be the same all over the world. It all comes down to one thing…FEAR
Fear that you'll have to give up your crutch or pleasure
Fear that you won't be able to enjoy life or handle stress
Fear that you will put on weight
Fear that you'll have to go through an awful trauma to get free
Fear that you'll never get completely free of the craving
All of these fears are just examples of one overriding fear. The one simple reason that you have not stopped smoking is - you fear that it is going to be too painful and too difficult!
Hypnosis Makes it Easy
In fact, our unique hypnosis technique makes it so easy
that after only one hour you’ll leave a happy non-smoker
– not feeling deprived, not feeling that you’ve made a
sacrifice, and not feeling any pain. Instead, you’ll have a huge sense of relief and elation that you have at last achieved what all smokers long to achieve, you have become a happy, permanent, non-smoker.
When smokers try to stop with other methods they suffer misery and depression caused by the feeling that they are being deprived of a pleasure or a crutch. The beauty of hypnosis, and the way we use hypnosis in particular, is that it removes this feeling of deprivation. It removes the need, and the desire, to smoke. You won’t need useless aids, gimmicks, or substitutes.
No nicotine gum or patches. No inhalers or nasal
sprays. No needles or lasers. All that you have to do with hypnosis is sit back in a nice comfortable chair, and relax. It doesn’t get much easier than that!
Stop Smoking 1 year Guarantee
We have so much confidence in our methods that after years in practice we are still the only hypnotists that offer a guarantee. This means that if you ever start smoking again, whether it is two days or a year down the road, all that you have to do is give us a call and we get you back in at no extra charge. You may be wondering how we can offer these free back up sessions to our clients for a full year.
98% Stop in One Session
The reason we can offer our unique 1 year guarantee, is because we have such a high success rate. Literally, more than 98% of people stop in one hour, and for the remaining 2% we offer free backup support. How do we consistently maintain such a high success rate, year in
and year out with just a one session?
Our Unique Approach
Since the American Medical Association (AMA) approved the use of clinical hypnosis in 1958, thousands of people
have found hypnosis to be an effective way to stop smoking, lose weight, and otherwise improve their lives. Of course, there are varying degrees of success with hypnosis because much depends upon the skill, experience, and general competence of the individual hypnotherapist – as well as the techniques being used by them.
The beauty of our unique approach is that we use the best of traditional hypnotherapy techniques, and combine them with the new science of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), which takes hypnosis to an even greater level of effectiveness.
One of the reasons why it’s not painful or difficult to stop smoking with our method, in fact one of the reasons why it is so easy, is that you learn to transfer the pleasure derived from smoking to a healthier habit of your choice (e.g. exercise, drinking more water, or relaxation). This is the reason why, with us, there is NO unwanted weight gain or other problems associated with kicking the habit – the only side-effects are an increase in health, wealth, and freedom.