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I have been in practice for 32 years. During this time, I have been able to refine a process which has allowed me to help countless people to stop smoking and stay stopped in under 2 hours without gaining weight. I am a Licensed Psychotherapist and a Certified Hypnotherapist. WHY MY APPROACH WORKS
The latest medical research shows, that for most smokers, the physiological addiction to nicotine leaves their body within two days of not smoking. Therefore, the struggle they go through after that is psychological, not physiological. Thus, it makes sense to have a psychological approach to resolve this problem. I have also observed that hypnosis, by itself, does not create a lasting change. However, a behavioral approach to smoking reinforced with hypnosis tends to have the highest rate of effectiveness and that is what I have created. UNDERSTANDING WHAT IT TAKES FOR A SMOKER TO STOP SMOKING AND STAY
STOPPED There are a number of aspects that need to be addressed to assist you in becoming a permanent non-smoker. Identify The Functions Of The Smoking And Create Non- Eating Positive
Replacements First, we need to identify all of the functions that you are using the smoking for. If we just try to knock out the habit without first identifying its functions, a person tends to go back to that negative habit to meet those functions or replace it with another negative habit. The most typical replacement is compulsive eating. Therefore, I help you to create non-eating alternatives. Working With The
Anxiety Threshold Next, I show you how to work with your anxiety threshold .The anxiety threshold is a person's "boiling point." It is a level of stress and/or anxiety a person reaches where momentarily, all of their best intentions and willpower tends to go right out the window. It is at this point that many people have gone back to smoking. I teach you how to work with your stress and anxiety in ways that allow you to avoid hitting that threshold point. Building The Self
Image Of A Non-Smoker When a person has been smoking for awhile, being a smoker has become a part of their self-image, either at the conscious and/or unconscious level. Research has demonstrated that if a person's self-image doesn't fully shift first, either they don't make their desired change or they are not able to sustain that change. Most people are not able to maintain a change that exceeds their self-image. Thus, one of the critical components of helping you to become a permanent non-smoker is to help you build a non-smoker self image. To build and reinforce your self image as a non-smoker, hypnosis is the most effective tool. Knocking Out The
Habits Associated With Smoking The next key is to show you how to change the habit patterns you have associated with smoking. The Importance Of A
Thorough Approach The tricky thing about smoking is that if even one of those aspects that I have named to you is not fully resolved, either the person doesn't stop or they don't stay stopped. One of the keys to success is the completeness of my approach. Commonly Asked
Questions Q. How can you help me in such a short time? A. Practice. In my 32 years of helping people, I have gotten unsuccessful graduates from many other stop smoking programs, I have been able to observe what doesn't work for people and what does. Thus, the help you are receiving from me is based on lots of years of refining my approach. Q.I have met people that just went for hypnosis and they stopped smoking. Why do you use other approaches in addition to the hypnosis? A. Over the years, a lot of people have come for my help that had previously only received hypnosis to stop smoking and then went back to smoking. My goal is not only to help you stop smoking. It is also to help you to maximize the probability that you will remain a permanent non-smoker. I have found that the most effective way to do that is to combine the conscious replacement strategies with hypnosis providing the unconscious reinforcement. Q. How will I know if I am ready to stop smoking? I really enjoy smoking. A. Many of the people that have come for my help really enjoyed smoking. However, they came for my help to stop smoking because they had determined that the positive benefits they received from smoking were far out-weighed by the present and potential consequences of smoking. Also, most people come to me wanting to stop smoking, but not being ready to stop smoking. A key part of my work with you is to help you to become ready to stop smoking. I DO CONSULTATIONS
BOTH IN PERSON AND BY PHONE I have a statewide clientele. I work with most of my local clients in person. I work with the rest of my local clients and most of my out of the area clients by phone. I have found that my phone sessions are just as effective as my in person sessions. Thus, if your home or office is not geographically close to me, I can still help you. Isn’t it More
effective to Go to a Professional in Person, than to Work with Them over The
Phone, Especially for Hypnosis? That’s what I believed, IN THE
PAST. Years ago, I was working with a couple that taught me otherwise. They
were moving out of the area and asked to continue working with me. I told
them that I had never worked with clients by phone because I assumed that it
wouldn’t be as effective as seeing them in person. I said that I was happy to teach
them how to find someone else that would be local to them. They said “we’ve
been to a lot of therapists before we found you and you’ve helped us more
than all the rest put together. Since you’ve never done phone therapy before,
we’re asking you to give it a try with us when we move.” I told them that I was willing to try but
would not continue if I felt it wasn’t as effective as the work that I was
doing with them face to face. To my surprise, it was just as effective. They
started referring new friends and work associates to me for couple counseling, stop smoking, and for lots of other
problems that I successfully help with. These were people who never had and
never would see me in person. Again to my surprise, they were getting the
same level of results as my in person clients including for those clients that I was doing hypnosis with to stop
smoking. At this point in time, I work
with many of my clients by phone. Even many of my local clients choose to
work with me by phone because they’ve found it’s just as effective and they
have a zero commute time. Thus, in terms of getting good
results, I no longer believe there’s an advantage for you to work with a hypnotherapist or a therapist in person. If you prefer
to, that’s fine. When it comes to Stopping
Smoking and Staying Stopped weather you do it in person or by phone, its important to go to someone that covers all the areas I
told you about. FOR YOUR
CONVENIENCE, I HAVE FLEXIBLE HOURS I normally work with clients until FREE INITIAL PHONE
CONSULTATION I invite you to call me for a FREE Initial Phone
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