Only the drug companies are winning!

Now hooked on another drug?

With over eleven million smokers wanting to stop smoking in the UK alone it would seem that there would be a massive supply of customers clambering to get their hands on stop smoking products. Not so! The vast majority of smokers who seek help in quitting try products recommended by Doctors and Government programmes. These products are either greatly subsidised or free to the smoker. Great! I hear you say. Well is it?

Most group practices and health trusts are funded by central government and as such are bound to meet targets and have to make a profit or break even to ensure their grants are maintained. I was only yesterday speaking with my practice nurse who also overseas care of the smokers who want to quit. I was seeing her for my annual check up and she was asking about what methods I used and how successful they had been. She was very surprised that my success rate was nearly three times higher than hers. I asked her about her methods and sure enough she was now prescribing Chantix and reported that it was giving better results than NRT( patches,gums Inhalers). When I asked what the actual success rate was she thought around 25%. It was not surprising to me. Most of my clients have tried these products with little or no success. Their first option of course as it is free. She then asked me how I was achieving around a 90% success rate. I told her how, describing in detail how we approach each smoker as an individual with their own particular 'method' and triggers for smoking. I went on to explain that we then show smokers what really causes them to smoke, and how we convinced people that the nicotine was not the problem. This really surprised her she said she found our approach really sensible and enlightening but said, "My trouble is I only get 15 minutes with each smoker. I see them for fifteen minutes and then give them Chantix if they feel they need it." !

What a joke I thought. I told her that we see smokers for around an hour and a half and then they go away and the vast majority never smoke again. Around 10% come back for a free boost but that is about it. We use simple psychological techniques approaching the problem at it's root cause. When I asked how many she sees again she said, "Nearly all of them".

It was clear to me that the route favoured by the government just meant that the poor smoker was going around and around in circles being prescribed drugs that essentially didn't work. The the only winners were the drug companies like Pfizer (who even state that their products 'May help' and that willpower is still required) and The Practices, who are seen to meet the target set by government. These targets achieved whether or not the smoker quits! It's all about turnover.

The methods I use are sensible non invasive and chemical free and rely upon harnessing the persons own inner strength and resources to help them escape the ridiculous habit cycle that they feel stuck in. We use a combination of relaxation therapy, positive reinforcement and Neuro Linguistic Programming(NLP). A fancy sounding name for the simple process of installing new habits and behaviours. The smoker essentially gets to choose between feeling good about being a non smoker and feeling bad about being a smoker, when confronted with a situation that would have resulted in smoking before. The brain will usually choose a good feeling as opposed to a bad one. It's not rocket science. Only trouble is there is no revenue for the drug companies and no tax going into the chancellors coffers.

I know that if all smokers who want to quit used the methods we use in our practice then we would be doing ourselves out of a job, but there are lots of other habits people need help with! As there are only around four hundred practitioners using our method we could never even hope of helping 11 million people, but for those who really want to stop we keep on helping. That's why we developed the online version of the system we use. Much cheaper than one to one but essentially the same process. Give it a try you might be surprised !

(For one to one help you can contact the practice at info@12free.org)

The Voices

I was dealing with a heavy smoker last year. He was one of the few that come in for a second session. He came in and said that he had been having a hard time. When I asked him to tell me what he was finding hard, he said. "Well most of me wants to stop, but there's a little voice in my head that says, Go on you know you want one, and it makes me smoke". So I said to him, "What does it sound like"? His reply being, that it sounded like a little Irish leprechaun sitting on the other side of the fence." Well I replied, "What does 'most of me', sound like"? As he had said that most of him wanted to stop. He said that he couldn't really tell as it spoke very faintly. So I said back to him, "Where about in your head do you hear the little fella"? He said, gesturing over his right ear, "over here". So I went on to ask, "where is 'most of me' whispering from" he said putting his hand over his heart, "Here". How interesting, I thought, so I said, "Tell me, what do you think 'most of me' would look like if you had to put a face to the whisper... He said, he would look like a really healthy fit and strong looking version of me with a calm peaceful look. So I said to imagine 'most of me' but with a very clear loud voice instead of whispering, he said that that was hard to do. So I said to him, "say out loud right now in a strong calm voice, 'I'm a non smoker and I feel great! He could do that, so i said "now imagine 'most of me' saying it just like that". He smiled and said oh he can do that now. Now I said move the new 'most of me' with the loud voice to the other side of the fence but in front and louder than the leprechaun. He closed his eyes, and took few moments to do this, then turned quite flushed, opened his eyes with a smile and started to weep..he then said, "I'm never going to smoke again".. I checked up with him yesterday and he has never felt better and is a non smoker still. It reminded me of what my teacher had told me, sometimes you just have to tear up the script and go with what you've got. Not all smokers are the same, but all smokers can be non smokers if they really want to!

With love Nigel

Should have gone to an expert!

I have been helping smokers for the last five years using the 'Phoenix system' developed by DR Barry Neale PhD. This system was ten years in development and has one of the highest success rates of all methods. IN A STUDY CARRIED OUT OVER A TWO YEAR PERIOD, OF 300 SUBJECTS WHO WERE CONTACTED 1 MONTH AND AGAIN 6 MONTHS LATER BY TELEPHONE 95% HAD NOT RETURNED TO SMOKING. This makes it one of the most effective stop smoking systems in the world! '1-2-Free' is the only version of this system available in print and on CD and now downloadable. I Have developed this system for download as I know how effective it has been for my clients. And I have been asked by many smokers if there is a cheaper alternative to a private session. As I signed on the dotted line when I paid for the training to use this system, I was reminded me of a nasty experience I had years before, but also filled with a sense of relief...

It was with a horrid feeling of revulsion that I recall the experience of my first and last attempt at plumbing. It was when I moved into a small apartment, I had just signed the lease, which was quite a big step for me, and a little scary as there were so many rules I had to stick to. There were some shared facilities, the toilet and the kitchen being used by two other people. I had no idea that I was about to make foolish mistake. I had just graduated from university with hardly any money, just enough to pay the rent and eat. One day I came home a bit stressed and became irritated by the dripping cistern in the toilets flusher unit, so I decided to 'have a go' and fix it by trying to do it myself. I stood on the toilet and before I knew what had happened, it started to wobble and I cracked the seal around the out pipe. This meant that whenever it was flushed 'stuff' started leaking onto the floor. Now what? I didn't want to get in trouble so I went to local store and bought some filler to seal it. I read the tube and it said, “remove all lose material and clean down before applying”. OK, so out with the few tools that I had. A hammer a screwdriver and a small multi-purpose gadget. I got behind the WC and started chipping away at the seal. Once I had a few bits out it really started to stink, YUK! Anyway I soldiered on, braving the horrid smell, then disaster! One too many chips... the tube itself smashed and all of its contents went over my hands and onto the floor. Luckily it was mostly water but the pipe inside was coated with god knows what! By now I was cursing myself thinking,

I SHOULD HAVE GONE TO AN EXPERT, BORROWED SOME MONEY FROM MY FOLKS, AND GOT IT DONE PROPERLY... WHY DIDN'T I GO TO AN EXPERT ?

I think panic had started to set in, what was I going to do. What would the landlord say? Would he kick me out? That's when I made the decision to sell my graduation present, a TAG Chronograph watch, then buy a new WC to replace the old one. Nobody would notice and I had a week before my room mates got back from Holiday. I went to a watch dealer and got two hundred for my watch, way below what it was worth. I felt really upset about it but hey what choice did I have? Yes I know ...

I SHOULD HAVE GONE TO AN EXPERT PAID HIM THE MONEY!!

I took the money to the local plumbers merchant and bought the exact same WC and lugged it home strapped to my bike. When the coast was clear, I got it up to the third floor, I was absolutely exhausted, it was so heavy. What the hell had come over me to make me try to fix it on my own....?

WHY DIDN'T I GO TO AN EXPERT PLUMBER?

The next day after the landlord had gone out I started chipping the old WC out well I say chipping it was really just a case of smashing the bend and undoing the screws around the base. I wish! I got the horrid smelling old WC off after about five hours. But then more problems.... once it was off, I looked into the pipe which was thick with, well lets just say it was brown and slimy and smelt like your worst nightmare. I had to clean off some of this awful stuff, I had no gloves and only a kitchen knife would move it. It took me about an hour to scrape the stinking sludge away, Finally the join was clean, but the whole room smelled like a dead animal mixed with garbage. That's when the landlord decided to come home early.. Oh my God I couldn't do any banging or screwing a until he was out again. That was about a day and a half.! A day and a half spent in what could only be described as an open sewer. The whole room was foul smelling. How was I to go the the toilet, I had to use a bucket and carefully tip it down the hideous brown hole. I think by now I had learnt an important lesson. If you want a job doing properly.....

GO TO AN EXPERT!!

Once the landlord had gone out again I fitted the new WC to the filthy brown pipe and sealed it up replacing the screws from the old base and putting the seat from the old WC back on... now all I had to do was get rid of the old WC... how was I going to do it without being seen. There was only one way. Smash it to small bits and dispose of it in various bins. The last insult was the smashing, the first whack made a splat of the brown sludge fly right in my face...I thought that I was sure to die from some hideous disease, I don't think I felt clean again for a month after! I'm not sure if anyone ever noticed the change but I sure as hell learnt a big lesson. If you want an important job doing then whatever you do ....

GO TO AN EXPERT!

Which brings me back to my system. Now there are lots of different methods for stopping smoking. And if you are really lucky then you might stumble upon one which works. But statistically only seven percent of people who are having trouble stopping smoking will manage it on there own by doing it themselves. The rest need help! There is a multitude of stop smoking advice to choose from, ranging from ridiculous patches,drugs to plastic cigarettes to weird gel to help forums and support groups,NHS clinics etcetera. Now I was a heavy smoker around twenty years ago. I was desperate to give up smoking as my fitness was starting to suffer and I was at quite a high level in Athletics. How mad was I to smoke? But I started with a bunch of my friends when I was around eleven and by my twentieth birthday I had been hooked into around forty a day. It was on April the 9th 1985 that I was shocked into making the decision to quit smoking . My Mother died aged 49 from the result of smoking. I was heart broken. That was the final straw, I knew I had to quit. Little did I know that I was to spend the next eight years trying... I tried everything , patches which were useless, I had a patch on and still wanted a cigarette! NHS group clinic, I found depressing which made me smoke more. Cold Turkey which seemed to work until I got stressed out. Plastic cigarettes, what a joke. I think I tried pretty much everything with out any real expert help, just doing it myself. "You know what that can lead to", I always thought! Finally a friend of my Mothers told me about a guy she had been to see to help her quit. I knew she had been a non smoker for about eighteen months since seeing him. He was a specialist using a system called "The phoenix system", I went to see him paying his £250.00 fee. The morning before that session I chain smoked fifteen. They were the last cigarettes I have ever smoked.! He was brilliant. He showed me why I had found it so hard to quit and implanted some great techniques and suggestions which completely changed that old habit. I knew that day that I've finally quit smoking and cigarettes were a thing of the past. I rang home and told my Dad I've wiped out my smoking habit. He was over the moon too.

Now forget about that horrible toilet thing just remember, you don't need to go down the lengthy route that I went down because you of course are totally free to choose which method you use to stop smoking you could try to do it yourself and good luck to you if you do, or you could.....

Go to an expert, get some effective advice and quit with specialist help!

That was an important lesson for me way back then. It kind of changed my life, I wish I had applied it a bit quicker!!

Only click here to get the expert advice and one of the world most effective on line stop smoking methods, if you really want to stop smoking .

Many warm regards

Nigel

Just good feelings

That's it, nothing more nothing less.
Smokers smoke because it makes them feel good. The irony being when they realise that they do not want to smoke anymore, smoking also makes them feel bad. So it makes you feel good then makes you feel bad. Most people don't like feeling bad but because the habit of smoking is established in the unconscious, stopping can become quite tricky unless a positive approach is used. Don't believe all the nonsense about nicotine addiction, this is a notion proliferated by drug companies and some ill informed medical professionals who tend to believe what they are told by drug companies. This notion has prevented many people from quitting merely because they think they are addicted. Well as a smoking cessation specialist having helped thousands of smokers to quit I can tell you that the problem has nothing to do with nicotine, It's just a habit!

Nicotine is a poison that the body does all it can to remove from the system. Your body does not 'need' nicotine. This is the reason why when you have a lung full of tobacco smoke you get a rush to the head, especially if you haven't had a 'dose' for a while. The rush to the head is caused by your brain sensing that there is an unwanted poison inside of you. To remove this, it increases your heart rate by about ten beats per second, to flush the poison out of your body. Because your heart rate has increased, you are getting more blood flowing through your brain and consequently more oxygen. It's the oxygen that gives you the head rush, in the same way that it would if you started breathing faster than you needed to for a few seconds.

So we come back to the feel good factor. You smoke because it makes you feel good. So why does it make you feel good. The reason is simple. It's because smoking is linked psycho physiologically to a time when you also felt good before. Like when you first started smoking with all your friends or when you are out socialising or after you've had sex or feeling grown up or any number of reasons. The Mechanics are the same. You think you are stressed, or upset, or tense.. brain says, "don't feel bad, have a good feeling," and offers the link, via a cigarette, to previous good feelings.

If you really want to stop smoking then one of the best things you can do is to start doing something healthy that also makes you feel good and focus upon what you want from being a non smoker. Then all you need to do is to break the habitual link. This is really easy to do if you are prepared to to approach this from a new direction. If you really want to then just click here for a neat pattern that will break up your habit. It's free and it will work... just do it!

With love ...Nigel