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Stop-Smoking EFT As ¨Marcelle¨ Is Going Through Extreme Stress

Posted by Suzanne – June 10, 2011

I hesitate with every word as I write this. Not because there is no great progress, not because she had not been attending sessions, but because ¨Marcelle¨, my client, is in a unique situation, and to write succinctly about it could identify third parties who did not give permission for this story to be told. So I am writing somewhat cryptically and concentrating on explaining the techniques we used and the measure of success. So that I would not identify Marcelle’s situation, I will list it amongst common ones that have come up with many clients.

* A loved one is taken seriously ill with a terminal disease, and the ex-smoker-to-be becomes their main carer.
* A neighbour turns violent and abusive, or there is a gang war outside the home of the ex-smoker-to-be. Whilst the matter is being dealt with in the courts or with the police, which could take several months, the person is constantly living under threat.
* A current lover or a stalker becomes abusive. Whilst the ex-smoker-to be finds a solution, they live with the situation and have to cope.
* A loved one passes away, and the ex-smoker-to-be has to go through the grieving process.
* A sudden business catastrophe occurs, such as losing one’s job.

Marcelle’s current situation reminds me of some others’, where all of a sudden, the ex-smoker-to-be is catapulted into a highly stressful ongoing traumatic situation from which there is no quick way out. What the person can then do is weather the storm as best as they can. What is remarkably different about Marcelle’s case though, is that instead of giving in and giving up her program, she has continued to attend sessions.

We got stuck for about two sessions, and then on the seventh session, we worked with the Tell The Story technique on Marcelle’s challenging situation. It took about 50 minutes, and when we finished, although the latest traumatic event was a zero, Marcelle had a pain in her left shoulder. I explained to Marcelle that where the pain was indicated stuck fear. I explained further that EFT can be used on physical pain too. Ex-smokers-to-be in Cape Town are usually reluctant to tap on physical pain, partly due to beliefs in this country about specialisation. However, Marcelle was happy to give it a try. Tapping directly on “This pain in my left shoulder” quickly got the pain down from a 5 to a zero out of 10. Marcelle was delighted.

Because Marcelle was still living in a situation where she would be traumatised every single day of her life, I did not bother with the muscle-testing. Instead, I gave her a structured program plan on paper. She was to put it somewhere prominent and make a tick for every day she managed without the 6 am cigarette and every day she managed not to exceed 10 cigarettes. The plan was good, resulting in four successful days out of seven.

In the eighth session, we again tapped for the latest traumatic event. We then drew up a new program on paper with a maximum of 9 cigarettes a day. I also gave Marcelle homework to tap for cigarette desire before having each cigarette. The deal was that she could still have it if after tapping, she still wanted it.

I am very impressed with Marcelle’s progress under such extreme conditions. She is a good example for anyone struggling with an addiction to follow. By working on the extreme trauma in her daily life, she is ensuring that when this situation does finally end, she will not be holding on to this trauma and therefore is much more likely to remain successfully quit.

© Suzanne Zacharia 2011. My name is Suzanne Zacharia and I am committed to spreading the word about health options. I believe that the more and better options one has, the more choice there is.

A virus caught along with 5 other students at university at the end of 1986, plus medical negligence, meant that I got smokers lung at a relatively young age. In desperation for help with my symptoms and quality of life, I turned to complementary therapy, and I have outlived one doctor’s prognosis by many years now.

I am now a complementary therapist, author of the Stop Smoking E-book at http://www.stop-smoking-ebooks.com and trainer specializing in energy healing. Want to use this article? You can, as long as you credit me with it and invite your readers to get my FREE book “EFT How-To For You” at http://www.EFT-Scripts.com

Stop Smoking EFT Cape Town Case Study – 3 Emotional Root Causes

Posted by Suzanne – April 24, 2011

“Marcelle” is seeing me for stopping smoking. We are doing a gradual cut-down plan, which is great for smokers who have a large emotional element to their smoking and therefore cannot stop in just one session. To do this, we do as much treatment as we can fit into each session and assess at the end how free Marcelle is, cutting down accordingly. This is a relatively easy and pain-free process.

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We are carrying out the treatment using Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and kinesiology-based muscle-testing and treatment. EFT involves stimulating the end-points of certain meridian energy lines whilst using releasing wording. Muscle-testing is based on kinesiology techniques, and is a fairly accurate diagnostic tool for determining the state of mind of the client. EFT is my method of choice for releasing the underlying emotions to the urge to smoke. The muscle-testing helps me determine how successful we have been in an objective way, so than we can then plan the next step forward. EFT gave Marcelle a great deal of calm in this session. Like any other healing modality, EFT sometimes results in a gentle release, and this time the release was with a few tears, but this soon went away, and Marcelle was left with feelings of peace and calm, and desire to move forward. She had seen how a relative had released with laughter when they attended their sessions, and so she knew she was safe and protected in her session. Although EFT can be self-applied, I find that tapping on clients whilst they are lying down comfortably is gentler for big traumas. And Marcelle had given me a big trauma behind her smoking urges. We approached this very gently, and in this session, I chose to only take the edges off it, so that Marcelle would be thoroughly comfortable with the process. But before we approached this trauma, we worked on a general fear and on an innocuous specific smoking issue. This was to help Marcelle ease into the treatment and feel happily confident about it. So, in this session, we made good headway with three emotional root causes:

1. The fear of stopping smoking.
2. Overeating, which was kept at bay with smoking.
3. Childhood trauma of physical and emotional abuse.

Marcelle reported a fear of stopping smoking of value 10 out of 10 before we started. So I started with “Even though there is this fear of stopping smoking…” and peppered it with statements that made it comical, like “Oh my God, what am I going to do” in a funny tone of voice, which also helped Marcelle feel more at ease. We then took a detour to tap on overeating. I started by tapping “Even if you didn’t smoke, there is the fear of eating more, you can deeply accept yourself anyway”. We tapped around on this theme, and then I asked her if she did not smoke, what would she most likely binge on? She said “Luxury”. I asked her which luxury, to which she replied “Wholenut chocolate”. This immediately implied a need for luxury, rewards, a treat, and feelings of deprivation. So we tapped on all those. And we tapped on “this Wholenut chocolate desire” too. The chocolate desire went from a 5 out of 10 to a 2 and ended at about zero. After that, the fear of stopping smoking was down to a 5 out of 10 – half its value just 20 minutes previously. Next we started working on the trauma. Marcelle had said that she was the black sheep of her family, always blamed for anything and given hidings. I asked her how upset she felt when I said “black sheep of the family”, and she said 5. We tapped very gently on this statement and it went from a 5 out of 10 to a then a 1. We used gentle EFT with some inner child work, helping the young Marcelle feel good about herself, exonerating her from blame and taking her to a safe nice place. After that, the fear of stopping smoking was a 3, although we had not worked directly on it again. I explained that this was because the childhood trauma was a root cause of the smoking, and that by releasing it, we can move forward with ease. At the end of the session, we used muscle-testing to objectively determine how many cigarettes a day Marcelle can cut down to. This was 12 a day, 3 less than usual. I gave her a simple EFT tapping to do on the Karate chop as homework, and we set the next appointment.

Read on in this series of articles to see how Marcelle is doing. These are written as they happen, so that anyone who is looking for help can know that they are real, genuine treatments. Whether you are looking to stop smoking, or if you are a stop-smoking practitioner, I hope this article has given you useful ideas. And many thanks to my lovely client for permission to write about her case.

© Suzanne Zacharia 2011. My name is Suzanne Zacharia and I am committed to spreading the word about health options. I believe that the more and better options one has, the more choice there is.

A virus caught along with 5 other students at university at the end of 1986, plus medical negligence, meant that I got smokers lung at a relatively young age. In desperation for help with my symptoms and quality of life, I turned to complementary therapy, and I have outlived one doctor’s prognosis by many years now.

I am now a complementary therapist, author of the Stop Smoking E-book at http://www.stop-smoking-ebooks.com and trainer specializing in energy healing. Want to use this article? You can, as long as you credit me with it and invite your readers to get my FREE book “EFT How-To For You” at http://www.EFT-Scripts.com