Stop Smoking NOW

The Stop Smoking NOW Intensive Group Hypnosis & Workshop is personal and a labor of love.  My mother, Carolyn Prince, died on April 5, 2008 from cancer that had eaten her away.  She smoked from age 12 till her death at just 64 years old.  I decided to do the Stop Smoking NOW Intensive because I wasn't able to get her to stop - she would never even discuss it - even after battling cancer when she was just in her early 40's - she continued to smoke.  I don't want other families to lose a mother, a father, a brother, a sister, a son or a daughter, a grandmother, an aunt, an uncle, or a friend because they didn't know where to turn for help.  Every single person who stops smoking eases the pain of losing my mother too soon.  Each person who is saved from cigarettes affects entire families.


Using a unique combination of Clinical Hypnosis and an interactive workshop - you can now change the way you think about smoking, so that you can stop smoking in one single session FOREVER!   This sesson is 3 hours long and contains 3 different hypnosis sessions but its done in ONE day in a block of 3 hours.  You don't have to come back.  You don't have to juggle your schedule to come for repeated sessions.  Its all in one day.

It's pleasant and drug-free, with none of the pain and trauma usually associated with quitting, and it's now easier to quit than you ever imagined.

Ok, you know that smoking is bad for your health, but did you know that every cigarette you smoke shortens your life by 14 minutes? The harsh facts are that smoking causes over 443,000 deaths every year in the US, from cancers, chronic lung diseases and coronary conditions. It may seem tough, but giving up smoking makes perfect sense. Why not regain your health, wealth and self-esteem by making the decision to quit now? It causes nearly 50,000 deaths each year from second hand smoke.  Worldwide smoking kills 5.4 million people a year.  Every 6.5 seconds a smoker dies according to the World Health Organization.  Smokers die on average 15 years sooner than non-smokers.

By quitting smoking, you will immediately begin to look and feel better, healthier.

Twenty minutes after you quit, your blood pressure will drop and the temperature of your hands and feet will return to normal.

In just 72 hours all the nicotine will leave your body completely. The bottom line of all this is that "Smoking Kills".

It says so on every single packet that you smoke. And the dangers increase the longer you smoke. Scientific research study continues to confirm what we know in our hearts to be true: Cigarette smoking kills and cripples in more ways than most smokers readily care to admit.

NEWS UPDATE! "Smoking is killing 1200 people in US every day"   

If you made the decision to stop smoking today, just think how many extra thousands of dollars you could spend on the things that you really love.

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How does hypnotherapy help me kick the smoking habit?

The beauty of this unique approach is that I use the best of traditional hypnotherapy techniques, and combine them with an interactive workshop, which takes hypnosis to an even greater level of effectiveness. One of the reasons why it's not painful or difficult to quit smoking with this method is that together we 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 this way, there is NO unwanted weight gain or any other problems associated with "kicking the habit" - the only side-effects are an increase in health, wealth, and freedom. Because smoking is a habit, it is controlled by the unconscious mind. Since hypnosis works directly with the unconscious mind, this is the only method that makes sense! I can really help you effortlessly make that transition into the healthy lifestyle of a happy non-smoker - it only takes three hours to quit for good!

"No matter how much you smoke...or how long you've been smoking...you can stop smoking without anxiety, irritability, cravings or weight gain"

Currently one quarter of all adults in the US smoke. Seventy percent want to stop but find it hard to quit.

Why do people continue to smoke?

It all comes down to one thing …FEAR !

• Fear that you will have to give up your crutch or pleasure
• Fear that you wont be able to enjoy life or handle stress
• Fear that you will put on weight
• Fear that it will be awful to get free
• Fear that you will never be free from the craving

All of these are just examples of one overriding fear. The one simple reason that you have not stopped smoking is that you fear it will be too painful and too difficult! Hypnosis Makes It easy!

Here's some interesting research:

• 1% of people stopped smoking with no help at all
• 6% stopped on advice from their doctor
• up to 20% stopped using gum , patches etc. (nicotine replacement)
• up to 20% stopped using placebo patches (patches with no nicotine in)
• 94% stopped successfully using hypnotherapy

Smoking: The Facts

"Smoking kills almost six times as many people as road and other accidents, suicide, murder, manslaughter, poisoning, overdoses and HIV all put together!"

Smoking is a greater cause of death and disability than any other single disease, says the World Health Organisation.

According to their figures, it is responsible for approximately five million deaths worldwide every year.

Heart attack and stroke

US studies show that smokers in their 30s and 40s are five times more likely to have a heart attack than non-smokers.

Tobacco contributes to the hardening of the arteries, which can then become blocked and starve the heart of bloodflow, causing the attack. Often, smokers who develop this will require complex and risky heart bypass surgery.

If you smoke for a lifetime, there is a 50% chance that your eventual death will be smoking-related - half of all these deaths will be in middle age. Smoking also increases the risk of having a stroke.

Lung problems

Another primary health risk associated with smoking are lung cancer, which kills more than 20,000 people in the US every year.

US studies have shown that men who smoke increase their chances of dying from the disease by more than 22 times.

Women who smoke increase this risk by nearly 12 times.

Lung cancer is a difficult cancer to treat - long term survival rates are poor.

Smoking also increases the risk of oral, uterine, liver, kidney, bladder, stomach, and cervical cancers, and leukemia.

Another health problem associated with tobacco is emphysema, which, when combined with chronic bronchitis, produces chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

The lung damage which causes emphysema is irreversible, and makes it extremely difficult to breathe.

Harm to children

Smoking in pregnancy greatly increases the risk of miscarriage, is associated with lower birth weight babies, and inhibited child development.

Smoking by parents following the birth is linked to sudden infant death syndrome, or cot death, and higher rates of infant respiratory illness, such as bronchitis, colds, and pneumonia.  I am a prime example of that.  My mother smoked and of course in the 1960's and 1970's people thought nothing of smoking in front of children or while pregnant.  I now suffer from respiratory illness due to second hand smoke.  I have never smoked but my lungs had been damaged by it.

Nicotine, an ingredient of tobacco, is listed as an addictive substance by the US authorities.

Although the health risks of smoking are cumulative, giving up can yield health benefits regardless of the age of the patient, or the length of time they have been smoking.

Future impact

By 2020, the World Health organization expects the worldwide death toll to reach 10 million, causing 17.7% of all deaths in developed countries. There are believed to be 1.1 billion smokers in the world, 800,000 of them in developing countries.

How Our Lungs Work

In mechanical terms, our lungs can be described as the site of gas exchange: Oxygen--the fuel all the cells and organs of our body need to function--is extracted there from the air we inhale and infused into the bloodstream, to be distributed to other organs and tissues. With each exhalation, we dispose of the carbon dioxide that is the by-product of our bodily processes. In our lungs, in the course of a single day, an astonishing 8,000 to 9,000 liters of breathed-in air meet 8,000 to 10,000 liters of blood pumped in by the heart through the pulmonary artery. The lungs relieve the blood of its burden of waste and return a refreshed, oxygen-rich stream of blood to the heart through the pulmonary vein.

Below is a thumbnail of a healthy lung and two thumbnails of diseased lungs.

Lung Cancer

Healthy Lung	Lung Cancer	Emphysema Lung

Smoking is responsible for almost 90% of lung cancers amongst men, and more than 70% amongst women. Worse, when you get lung cancer, you're very likely to die from lung cancer. It's 92% fatal among men, and 88% fatal among women. Smokers are 10 times more likely to die from lung cancer than a non-smoker. If you've smoked since a teenager, the lung cancer rate zooms to nineteen times higher. And men who smoke more than a pack a day have about 20 times the lung cancer rate of non-smokers. Cigarette smokers also run a much higher risk of being struck by many forms of cancer, including cancer of the mouth, larynx, and esophagus. Cigarette smoking is also associated with higher rates of cancer of the urinary bladder and kidney.

Emphysema

Emphysema is one of several chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases. It causes abnormal swelling and destruction of lung tissue. Lungs maimed by emphysema eventually lose their elasticity. Breathing becomes a continuous agonizing struggle. And there's little hope for a significant recovery once diagnosed. Lung tissue once destroyed by emphysema can never be replaced, turning its victims into respiratory cripples, who spend agonizing years gasping for breath.

Cigarette smoking is also associated with higher rates of peptic ulcers, stomach disorders, and periodontal disease.

What are the benefits of quiting?

At 20 minutes after quitting:

• blood pressure decreases
• pulse rate drops
• body temperature of hands and feet increases

At 8 hours:

• carbon monoxide level in blood drops to normal
• oxygen level in blood increases to normal

At 24 hours:

• chance of a heart attack decreases

At 48 hours:

• nerve endings start regrowing
• ability to smell and taste is enhanced

At 2 weeks to 3 months:

• circulation improves
• walking becomes easier
• lung function increases

1 to 9 months:

• coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue, shortness of breath decreases

1 year:

• excess risk of coronary heart disease is decreased to half that of a smoker

At 5 years:

• from 5 to 15 years after quitting, stroke risk is reduced to that of people who have never smoked.

At 10 years:

• risk of lung cancer drops to as little as one-half that of continuing smokers
• risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney, and pancreas decreases
• risk of ulcer decreases

At 15 years:

• risk of coronary heart disease is now similar to that of people who have never smoked
• risk of death returns to nearly the level of people who have never smoked

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