The ‘Back to Normal^©’ Smoking Cessation Programme
as developed by Neil Williams Freephone 0800 619 00 60

For £150 you get a very thorough 3-hour session including the following:

1. A ‘Back To Normal^©’ smoking cessation hypnotherapy session (recorded).

2. An audio CD of your hypnotherapy session for repeated listening whenever you want.

3. Watch two special video presentations to motivate you to stop smoking for good.

4. Receive motivation counselling, plus tips and advice literature, along with a full financial analysis of your smoking habit.

5. Hold the 'Tar Jar' - and witness the shocking amount of tar produced by just ten cigarettes per day over one year.

6. Play with the 'Blocked Blood Vessel' model and witness how furred and hardened arteries lead to heart attacks.

7. Take two 'shortness of breath' tests that will let you experience what it is like to have chronic bronchitis or emphysema, and then hear some hard-hitting cautionary tales and shocking statistics.

8. Learn a powerful 'calm anchor' quick relaxation technique to help you cope. This involves deep diaphragmatic breathing techniques that induce natural oxygen highs in combination with NLP techniques (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) to create powerful visualisations and emotions for instant ‘feel good factor’ any time you want.

9. Learn EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) to tap away those cravings.

10. The overall session includes a ‘Back-up’ Guarantee that gives you entitlement to a free top-up session of hypnotherapy at any time in the first year should you either feel the need for additional strengthening, or if you need help get yourself off nicotine replacement therapy products (which, incidentally, I don’t personally recommend).

 

 

Get your FREE ‘Back to Normal^©’ Stop Smoking Tips Presentation (click below)

 

 

CLICK HERE FOR YOUR FREE STOP SMOKING TIPS PRESENTATION
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A much higher resolution PDF version of this presentation is available FREE on my Downloads page.

 

 

 

 

But why is it called the ‘Back to Normal’ Smoking Cessation Programme?

 

It has come to my attention that many if not most smoking cessation programmes and hypnotherapy scripts are deeply flawed owing to their use of unhelpful words with negative connotations; phrases and terminology that are counterproductive to the cause of stopping smoking.

 

As a student clinical hypnotherapist, I was trained on a much-used smoking cessation programme called ‘Quit 4 Life’, and for the most part its approach is very good and successful. I have since also supplemented this programme with the following: NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) ‘calm anchor’ techniques; deep breathing techniques; EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) for busting cravings; along with the best bits of a number of smoking cessation books and recordings by authors ranging from TV Hypnotist Paul McKenna to the addiction-quitting expert Allen Carr. I have even scoured the GASP and NHS ‘Quit Smoking’ material and taken on-board all their best advice to help people do just that.

 

However, the commonly-used word ‘QUIT’ is actually one of the problematic examples of unhelpful smoking cessation language which may work in a counterproductive way.

 

For instance, telling a patient or client that “You have to quit smoking” has two potentially fatal errors. Firstly, Britain is a free nation, and it is part of our natural psyche to rebel against being told that we have to do anything. When in cars, some people still don’t wear seat belts despite it being many years since that law was passed and despite the common sense and factual data that say it may save our lives. Dangerous and illegal use of mobile phone in cars while driving is another example of this phenomenon.

 

Secondly, the term ‘quitter’ has various negative connotations associated with being a loser, such as quitting your job, quitting the race, and so forth. We therefore resist it emotionally. Similarly, negative suggestions and direct commands such as “Don’t smoke” are doomed to failure because it is so hard to process a negative. For example, if I say “Whatever you do, don’t think of a pink elephant!” what picture comes to mind?

 

Alarm bells started ringing for me when I read an excellent book by the New Orleans-based medical doctor and board certified surgeon Dabney M. Ewin, who has more than four decades‟ experience of clinical hypnotherapy. A Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a life member of the American Medical Association, Dr Ewin points out many flaws in the counterproductive language commonly used in the medical and clinical hypnosis professions. This includes allowing people to label themselves as an ‘ex-smoker’ or a ‘non-smoker’ as opposed to ‘becoming normal again’, i.e. only breathing clean and healthy air as we were born to do.

 

It is totally normal to breathe clean, healthy air, whereas it’s completely abnormal to inhale cigarette smoke which has some 4,000 poisons in it, in addition to its deadly mixture of carbon monoxide and tar (below is a photo of me holding a jar containing the shocking amount of tar produced in just one year by smoking only 10 cigarettes per day ... fancy that in your lungs?). With few exceptions, humans are the only living creatures which don’t run away from smoke. What does that tell you?

 

And, again, the ‘ex’ of ‘ex-smoker’ has negative connotations of ex-boyfriend, ex-wife, ex-convict, and so forth. Likewise, the ‘non’ of ‘non-smoker’ conjures up ‘non-entity’. Who wants to be an ‘ex’ or a ‘non’ anything? Likewise, even innocently saying “I’ve given up smoking” is damaging to one’s resolve because it is underpinned by an attitude that shouts, “I’ve made a big sacrifice!” -whereas in reality the only thing you have given up or sacrificed is wasting your hard-earned money on a dirty, smelly and extremely unhealthy habit.

 

Moreover, I believe strongly that smoking should be treated primarily as a learned habit that can be unlearned rather than as an addiction. Sure, nicotine is an addictive substance to some degree, but the chemicals are soon flushed out of the body, and all you are left with is a deeply-ingrained learned habit that manifests itself in expensive repeated behaviours and rituals (expensive on your health and bank balance).

 

The drug industry would rather you keep spending loads of money on nicotine replacement products, including patches, gum, inhalers, lozenges, microtabs, nasal sprays, and so forth. Prescription-only smoking cessation drugs such as Champix and Zyban take it to another level, and while these all may well work for a proportion of smokers, I do not believe they are necessary for most smokers. Why waste more money on more poisons when you have already wasted so much money on poisons for so many years? Most people I have encountered who have successfully stopped smoking for good have done so suddenly and without such pharmaceutical crutches, which are a double-edged sword at the best of times.

 

Even the NHS, whose medical experts agree on the use of hypnotherapy for all kinds of medical issues ranging from IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) to cancer patient support, are conspicuous by their failure to recognise and promote clinical hypnosis as a valid and successful means of stopping smoking. Why is this? Could it be anything to do with the fact that the drug industry is a multi-billion-pound industry and that it is the nicotine replacement product manufacturers that sponsor the NHS’s ‘Quit Smoking’ campaign? You decide. Personally, I find it sad that it is necessary for me to have a ‘nicotine replacement product addiction’ hypnotherapy script among the tools of my trade.

 

But that’s why I call my smoking cessation programme ‘Back to Normal^©’, because it is more of a learned habit than a true addiction such as hard-drug use, alcoholism or gambling. My ‘Back To Normal^©’ programme mainly focuses on the positive and motivational aspects of not smoking while containing a few elements of aversion therapy. It is all about returning back to our natural, normal and healthy state and only breathing clean, natural, fresh air as we were all born to do.

Fancy a breath of fresh air in your life?

 

Then give Ace Brains Consultancy a call today to book an appointment on FREEPHONE 0800 619 00 60.