It doesn’t control me

Just recently at Quit Smoking expert in Capalaba I conducted a survey on clients to see if they thought that smoking and cigarettes controlled them. only about 30% of people thought that smoking controlled them which was quite surprising.

If you think about it the act of smoking cigarettes these days is very inconvenient. There are fewer and fewer places to smoke and it is more and more anti-social. People have to go out in all sorts of weather to smoke and interrupt what they are doing to smoke.

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Plain Equals Pain

Not long ago we at Quit Smoking Expert in Capalaba looked on in bemusement as the Australian government introduced plain packaging with horror photos for cigarette packs.

The fact is that if you want to smoke cigarettes then you will smoke cigarettes and no amount of changing the packaging will stop it. It certainly did not cause people to beat a path to our door to quit smoking. In fact it was quite interesting to see what people did.

At first there was a rush to buy cigarette holders which […]

What’s that you said?

At Quit Smoking Expert we are always looking at better ways to help people to quit smoking cigarettes and in pursuit of this we come across some interesting research. It makes sense that if you have a habit that affects your circulation then you can expect to have problems.

It appears that there is now more and more evidence that smoking can affect your hearing. I came across some recent research done in America and it makes interesting reading.

After making adjustments for other factors the results of the study showed that current smokers were 1.69 times as likely to have hearing […]

I messed up

I had a lady come to me at quit expert to quit smoking in 60 minutes. With this program I use a mixture of hypnotherapy and NLP to help people to stop smoking cigarettes.

One of the keys to success is that you have to want to, but you also have to have good reasons to quit. In other words you have to want to but you also have to have a why!

In the course of the discussion before starting the process of quitting smoking I asked her why she wanted to quit smoking. She gave me her reasons and at […]

I can’t make you

Recently I was talking to a friend who said he would never allow himself to be hypnotised as he was putting control of his life into the hands of the hypnotherapist.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is that you cannot be made to do something that you do not want to do. A lot of us perceive hypnosis from stage shows and TV. Let’s make one thing clear here, stage hypnosis is different from clinical hypnosis. In the case of stage hypnosis, there are always people willing to do outrageous things as they are out for a […]

Can I trust You?

The other day at Quit Smoking in 60 Minutes, I had an email from a lady who asked if she came to me to quit smoking cigarettes, could she trust me?
That is a really important question because if there is no trust, the process of stopping smoking will not work. When you think about it, it doesn’t matter what it is because without trust there is no safety, no connection, no relationship!  In a lot of cases, people who come to see me have never experienced hypnosis before and therefore need to trust that I will do the right thing […]

False Expectations Appearing Real

I’m doing a walk on the top of the highest building on the Gold Coast in Australia. I’m attached to the building by a strap and harness that can lift 2.5 tonnes; I know this because I read the label on the harness. My guide now says go to the edge hold onto the strap and lean back outward from the building. I am immediately assaulted by fear, s..t what happens if I fall? Logically this is impossible, but I have fallen into the trap of fear. Playing out what could happen if I fall. I reassess and think I […]

Smoking Helps You to Survive

At Quit Smoking in 60 Minutes in Capalaba, I have been researching some of the benefits of smoking. Most people will say that there are no benefits to smoking cigarettes, however, you do nothing if you do not get a benefit, hence you do get benefits.

From the age of 12 to about 25, the urge to fit in and be accepted can and will override the consequences of our actions. It is my experience that the urge to fit in will override consequences until we die. The brain translates the urge to fit in and be accepted as a survival […]

Filters Destroy The Environment

In this blog I thought that I would give you some information about your cigarettes. I find that with my clients at Quit Smoking Expert in Capalaba if I give them a better understanding of their habit there success rate in quitting smoking cigarettes increases. As the main success factor for quitting smoking with hypnosis is you have to want to I also find that by having a better idea of smoking helps with this motivation.

In 1925, inventor Boris Aivaz patented the process of making a cigarette filter from crepe paper, with some variants including cellulose wadding. Aivaz produced the […]

Darn!! Started Again!

Around about 5% of the clients that come to see us at Quit Smoking in 60 Minutes for quitting smoking cigarettes with hypnosis start smoking again. Why is this so? I have been doing some analysis of our clients and have come up with two main reasons why people who quit smoking with us using hypnosis start smoking again.

The first reason is that the client did not really want to quit smoking. You would think that if somebody came to see us they really did want to quit. Everybody that smokes needs to quit smoking but not everybody wants to. […]

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