Smoking Cessation &/or Tobbacco Control By Hypnosis, NLP and Other Techniques For Clientelle

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Permalink Reply by Don Rice on October 23, 2007 at 9:51am

Hi JG,

This is far too advanced for me. I believe and tell my clients that smoking is a habit and with hypnosis I will change their habit for them. I see them for an hour, charge them $300.00 and we are both happy. At the present time I am seeing three stop smoking a day,

Don

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Permalink Reply by Don Rice on October 23, 2007 at 9:54am

Hi Rosa,

We have different clients. I have never had a client say they wanted Smoking Cessation. Thousands have said they wanted to stop smoking. Is there a difference?

Do Good & Make Money,

Don

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Permalink Reply by Robin McGinnis on September 15, 2008 at 5:17am

Hi Don. He has learned that from Cal Banyans book Techniques of hypnotherapy. It goes into detail and teaches it all to you.

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Permalink Reply by Ron Wells, CH on September 17, 2008 at 9:36pm

Hi All!
Which is better for Smoking Cessation.?
I prefer Hypnosis with NLP methodologies.
Use what works for you and your client.

Something like this. Anchors are used liberally.
I'll simply speak to my clients and determine his motivations for smoking and so forth.
I use language patterns to increase rapport, and educate the client.

Weaken or eliminate the limiting behavior(s) and / or beliefs. Build new beliefs, and motivation. Produce positive associations to the desired behavior and painful associations to negative behavior. Increase expectations, which prepares the client for trance, thus producing a natural progression into hypnotherapy.
Then visualizations are used to amplify the previous work. Additional therapies can be added as needed.
This facilitates the maximum use of time to produce the best results for the client.
Ron

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Permalink Reply by Roy Hunter on September 18, 2008 at 7:15am

My approach is comprehensive, involving at least three or four sessions...

I devote one session (either 1st or 2nd) to teaching the client self-hypnosis in order to manage stress, as stress causes more backsliding than all other reasons combined. One of the first two sessions is devoted to having the client identify his/her benefits, then I progress the client forward in time and use guided imagery to help the client fantasize enjoyment of those benefits. I follow this with post-hypnotic suggestions to replace the breath of smoke with one deep breath of fresh air. You can replace the response to a smoking trigger far more easily than erasing the trigger...so the deep breath becomes the new response to the old trigger.

The 3rd session varies based on the degree of client results. Some people are doing quite well, and do not require advanced techniques...so I simply reinforce what is working. Others need either parts therapy or regression therapy to discover the core cause of the problem. Then I usually like to see a client for a 4th session to check progress.

Analytical clients are offered Motivation Mapping (presented in Chapter 15 of my text, THE ART OF HYPNOTHERAPY). This helps them to understand how the subconscious is programmed, and to maintain better control over the five subconscious gateways. On rare occasions, I use Motivation Mapping as an intake session with a super-analytical client. Note that my new self-directed smoking cessation program includes Motivation Mapping. This includes a 72-page booklet with four CD's...and is available at wholesale for any hypnosis professional wishing good materials for group stop-smoking programs.

Roy Hunter, M.S., FAPHP
www.royhunter.com

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Ingle on September 18, 2008 at 7:30am

I had a lady come in that had smoked for 44 years and we went thru 3 hypno sessions 2 with out a script and one with a script, I got her down from 2 packs a day to 10 ciggarettes and she said I guess im just a failure. so the next session we had she came in and I used NLP techniques waking trance. she has now been smoke free for over 4 weeks. Another client came in and he had smoked for over 35 years it took one session of hypnosis and he is done. I believe you have to use whatever tool seems to work. and the more diversified you are the better your results. just my 2 cents worth Dan

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