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PERMANENT SMOKING CESSATION - STAY QUIT FOREVER!
These are the statistics we Overcome in our work together to get
you to quit smoking.
20% of all Americans smoke
70% want to quit
only 5% do so successfully.
Why quit?
You know the health and economic reasons to quit. You have
thought about it for a long time.
Perhaps you HAVE quit before only to return again to the habit.
I have seen it over and over as most of my clients have been
through some kind of quit effort before.
That is why you should be selective about the approach that you
choose for this, one of the most important health decisions that
you will make of your life.
SMOKING AS AN ADDICTION
Yes, smoking IS
an addiction and as such, the process of leaving this, most
powerful addiction behind must be regarded with the utmost of
skill, knowledge preparation and professionalism. When you
decide to quit you have taken just ONE important step of MANY.
Every step is an important part including preparation, quitting
and staying quit.
I work with people who are motivated to quit and whose desire is
to stay quit. We work together as part of a process to Prepare
you to deal with the many changes in your life that come about
when you no longer smoke, to deal with cravings for tobacco, and
help you develop healthier alternative ways to manage stress.
You will take your last drag at a time and place that you
determine THEN move on to continue the process of health and
well-being remaining Smoke-Free!
MY COMMITMENT
My commitment is to provide you every part of a program that is
designed to help you be SUCCESSFUL. I will also provide
quality hypnosis to assist you with re-programming your mind
toward accomplishing success as part of your goal. You make the
commitment to take the steps and follow the program and together
we accomplish the goal. I have researched the most effective
ways to quit smoking and stay quit and this is the approach we
use together. Why use anything less? We allow time to evaluate
the needs that will make your quitting most successful
including, behavioral changes, support systems, learning new
ways to handle stress, avoiding smoking triggers, filling in
with new activities and possibilities, managing cravings and
learning to think as a quitter.
QUIT FOREVER
As you DO know, being a successful quitter is the ONLY
satisfactory goal for this addiction. Call me to make your
commitment to a healthier and more prosperous lifestyle. It IS
within your immediate reach and being QUIT FOREVER comes with
serious work together. If this is your intention, I can help
you.
Call Betty Havey, Certified Certified Health Promotion and Worksite Wellness Consultant at
727-642-6049 and change your life for the better!
Fees and Appointments
I offer a package for the QUIT FOREVER program. We will conduct
6 private sessions in installments that suit you and your
schedule (usually weekly). As part of your commitment, I ask
that you pay at the beginning of your six weeks. The total fee
for all sessions is $350 the rough equivalent of the cost of one
carton of cigarettes per week. Remember...after quitting, you
will be saving hundreds, even thousands of dollars in tobacco
costs and related healthcare treatments.
You will feel healthier, have improved lung capacity and will
have begun the process of changing your LIFESTYLE to a more
engaged one that is good for your body, mind and spirit.
CALL TO SCHEDULE THE START OF YOUR QUIT PROGRAM NOW.
Smoking Cessation Hypnosis Research
(by Michael O' Driscoll B.Sc., M.Sc. (Oxon)
This paper presents some of the findings from a study
looking at all methods of smoking cessation, including
standard hypnotherapy techniques and compares those to a
specially developed advanced method of hypnotherapy for
smoking cessation.
High quit smoking rates for hypnosis compared to
other methods
A larger meta-analysis of research into hypnosis to
aid smoking cessation (Chockalingam and Schmidt 1992)
(48 studies, 6,020 subjects) found that the average quit
rate for those using hypnosis was 36%, making hypnosis
the most effective method found in this review with the
exception of a programme which encouraged pulmonary and
cardiac patients to quit smoking using advice from their
doctor (such subjects are obviously atypical as they
have life-threatening illnesses which are aggravated by
smoking and therefore these people have very strong
incentives to quit). |
Table 1.
Effectiveness of different types of intervention to
achieve smoking cessation adapted from data in
Chockalingam and Schmidt |
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Type of intervention |
% who quit smoking |
no. of subjects |
no. of trials |
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Advice (cardiac patients) |
42 |
4553 |
34 |
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Hypnosis |
36 |
6020 |
48 |
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Miscellaneous |
35 |
1400 |
10 |
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Advice (pulmonary patients) |
34 |
1661 |
17 |
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Smoke aversion |
31 |
2557 |
103 |
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Group withdrawal clinics |
30 |
11580 |
46 |
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Acupuncture |
30 |
2992 |
19 |
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Instructional methods in workplace |
30 |
976 |
13 |
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Other aversive techniques |
27 |
3926 |
178 |
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5 day plans |
26 |
7828 |
25 |
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Aversive methods in |
25 |
1041 |
26 |
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Educational (health promotion initiatives) |
24 |
3352 |
27 |
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Medication |
18 |
6810 |
29 |
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Physician interventions (more than advice) |
18 |
3486 |
16 |
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Nicotine chewing gum |
16 |
4866 |
40 |
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Self-care (self-help) |
15 |
3585 |
24 |
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Physician advice |
7 |
7190 |
17 |
Law and Tang (1995) looked at 10 randomised trials,
carried out between 1975 and 1988, of hypnosis in
smoking cessation. They found that the effect of
hypnosis was highly statistically significant1. The
research they examined involved 646 subjects and
cessation rates at 6 months post-treatment ranged from
10% to 38% (the average figure was 24%). |
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Table 2. Effectiveness of different types of
intervention to achieve smoking cessation (adapted from
data in Law and Tang 1995) |
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Type of intervention |
% who quit smoking |
no. of subjects |
no. of trials |
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Supportive group session (heart attack survivors) |
36 |
223 |
1 |
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Hypnosis |
24 |
646 |
10 |
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Supportive group session (healthy men in high risk for
heart attack group) |
21 |
13205 |
4 |
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Nicotine patch (self-referral) |
13 |
2020 |
10 |
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Nicotine gum (self-referral |
11 |
3460 |
13 |
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Supportive group session (in pregnancy) |
8 |
4738 |
10 |
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Advice from GP (additional sessions) |
5 |
6466 |
10 |
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Gradual reduction in smoking |
5 |
630 |
8 |
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Nicotine patch (GP initiated treatment) |
4 |
2597 |
4 |
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Nicotine gum (GP initiated treatment) |
3 |
7146 |
15 |
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Acupuncture |
3 |
2759 |
8 |
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Advice from GP (one-off) |
2 |
14438 |
17 |
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Supportive group session |
2 |
2059 |
8 |
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Advice from nurses in health promotion clinics |
1 |
3369 |
2 |
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Table 2 (above) shows that the meta-analysis of Law and
Tang confirms, to a large extent, the meta-analysis of
Chockalingam and Schmidt (1992); in both cases hypnosis
appears as the most effective form of intervention to
achieve smoking cessation with the exception of groups
who are highly motiviated to quit for medical reasons,
such as those with existing heart or pulmonary problems. |
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A more recent study, by Ahijevych et al (2000), produces
a similar overall figure for the success of hypnosis.
This study looked at a randomly selected sample of 2,810
smokers who participated in single-session, group
hypnotherapy smoking cessation programs sponsored by the
American Lung Association of Ohio. A randomly selected
sample of 452 participants completed telephone
interviews 5 to 15 months after attending a treatment
session. 22 percent of participants reported not smoking
during the month prior to the interview. |
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