We are using a mixture of EFT, Emotional Freedom Techniques, or Tapping, and kinesiology-based muscle-testing and treatment. The treatment is gentle and removes the emotional reasons behind the smoking. As these are removed, Marcelle is able to smoke less. Every time that we can, we draw up a plan to cut down on the daily number of cigarettes smoked. The last target that Marcelle had was 7 cigarettes. It is the 10th session, and Marcelle showed me her progress sheet. She had stuck to her target 3 days out of 6. On one of the days, she even went below it. So we started with a quick analysis.

The first part of the analysis was talking about the progress sheet to identify areas that needed more work. The three days of smoking more had several stress and habit factors. The most important (in my experience) were the following:
* A visit to relatives who kept giving Marcelle cigarettes to smoke with them, saying “Oh, take a cigarette”.
* A day which started with Marcelle saying to herself “Today, I’m going to improve”.

Then I started the muscle-testing. We tested for a few things that came up not relevant, and then I asked Marcelle to repeat “I´m going to improve” whilst pressing on her arm. The arm went weak. In other words, there is something about “I am going to improve” that made Marcelle fail that day. We talked a bit about that and investigated the theme of the following ideas that Marcelle felt were related:
* “My mother never stops criticizing me, and so will not stop if I stop smoking, so what’s the point”.
* “I’m going to fail anyway, so I may as well fail now”.
* “No matter how much I improve, my mother will not love me”.

I then asked Marcelle to find a time in her life that encapsulates the above. She came up with a specific childhood memory that on the surface seemed totally unrelated. But it had many aspects of root causes of smoking. The story started when Marcelle had been given some money by a visiting uncle. The rule was that she had to hand that money over to her mother. But on that occasion, Marcelle, wanting to keep the money away from her abusive mother, left to the shop as soon as the uncle had left, and she bought a big bag of sweets with all the money. Upon her return, her mother threw her out on the porch in the dark. She was out there for several hours before her father came home and let her back in. The event started at an intensity of 8. We tapped in down to about a zero, tapping on all the following aspects:
* The hurt.
* That no matter what Marcelle did, she got a hiding from her mother, so she may as well be naughty anyway.
* The danger of being out alone in the dark as a helpless child.
* That she physically could not eat all those sweets, although she had them with her when she was thrown out, and her mother and sisters finished them afterwards.
* That her mother will never stop criticizing her.
* That her mother will never act proud of her or be approving of her.
* That her mother continues to treat her badly, in start contrast to the favored sister, who gets the good treatment.
* Smoking is a rebellion against her mother, who does not like her smoking.
* Guilt about not loving her mother like a daughter “should”.

By the end of this tapping, Marcelle was so relaxed she was almost asleep. We tested again for “I’m going to improve”, and it tested strong and clear.

We then tapped on other smoking issues, clearing them. And finally we muscle-tested for a new smoking reduction plan. Marcelle tested weak for 7 cigarettes a day and strong for 6 a day and 5 a day. This is good, meaning that she really did not want to smoke more than 6. So we drew up a new plan of a maximum of 6 a day.

The plan also includes exercise. As we were setting up the new version, Marcelle proudly announced that she had had to take her jeans in at the hips. Now how’s that for a great treatment? She is losing the cigarettes and weight! And she is overcoming the many years of abuse without any psychotherapy, without painful talking about the issue over and over again, nor anything like that. Every time she leaves her session, she feels lighter and stronger, her face radiant and calm. This is why I like this treatment so much; because it is holistic and gentle, the results far-reaching into every aspect of the person´s life and well-being. Now who do you know who did hypnosis-only and got these great additional results?! As always, I look forward to the next session!

© 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

You may have heard a friend say they were really craving a cigarette but will not smoke. This is a difficult concept for many to grasp. Surely the craving is a need to smoke? How can you ignore a craving? Maybe you have tried to ignore cravings in the past, it was really hard, and then one day, you just gave in. Or maybe temptation just came out of the blue. There are many ways of tackling this challenge. You can for example, become stubborn and hold strong against cravings, or you can rebel against the cigarettes, or you can release the emotions behind the cravings. There is a mind-set of embracing each crave and accepting it, observing it and just riding the wave. This is facilitated in Emotional Freedom Techniques, by first accepting psychologically that you have a craving, and then using special quick-releasing acupressure to let go of it. And Whatever tactic you use, you can be comforted by the fact that it gets easier as you go along.

You may have also heard that you can take one day, one hour, or one moment at a time. This avoids the hope that you can leave quitting till tomorrow, for example, because you are not considering tomorrow, you are living in the now – this moment is all that matters. Doing Emotional Freedom Techniques, meditation, or reading The Power of Now are a great help for building the one moment at a time mind-set.

Really, understanding stop smoking psychology leads to amazing insights. For example, you may well ask why when there is no nicotine left in the body that people still crave so badly. You may well ask if smoking is just a habit. The habit is to use the nicotine as a de-stressor, for example, as a mechanism for feeling full after a meal, as a way to enjoy a social occasion with confidence, as a way to drink alcohol or caffeine without feeling overwhelmed. The trick is to find another mechanism to de-stress and to cope with all the usual smoking triggers, and then there is no need to smoke. This is why meditation, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Reiki, prayer, and support have been cited as useful; these methods help you release what the cigarettes used to release for you (or those you care for).

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT for short) is a very quick and easy way to get rid of smoking cravings and have an easier quit. It involves a mixture of clever wording and easy acupressure to help you move forward with ease. You can download a free EFT guide from many online resources. Or you can get stuck right in and see an experienced practitioner or attend a local workshop.

© 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

I often have to postpone a client’s appointment due to impossible business pressures. This person is a busy business person. They put business appointments on a higher priority than their stop-smoking appointments. But it does not end there. You see, most of us would put work as a priority, because there is too much at stake messing around with our work. With this type of person, they put business appointments so much first and foremost that instead of scheduling a new business appointment around their scheduled stop-smoking appointment, they panic and cancel their stop-smoking appointment. Maybe you are wondering why this person does not schedule an appointment after work or on a weekend. I have wondered this too, many a time. It seems, from the answers I get, that this busy person is so constantly stressed by work, that when their very long work-day finally finishes, they are not willing to sacrifice any of their me-time or time with their family, not even for a life-saving appointment. In other words, this person is so constantly stressed out that it is no wonder they need to take a drug like nicotine in order to cope with life.

The only way this person can give up smoking is to work out new strategies to reduce stress in their life. As long as they insist that they need to keep up these unnecessary stress levels, they will really struggle to quit smoking.

There may be limiting beliefs about hard work that underlie all this stressful lifestyle. For example, the principle of work hard and play hard may be so entrenched in the mind as the best way to live, that health and well-being are sacrificed. Perhaps they were brought up by parents who were too perfectionist, or maybe there was financial and material deprivation in childhood, to which the hard-working executive image feels like the perfect antidote. Or perhaps this business person has very low self-esteem. On the outside, they may appear confident and strong, whereas on the inside, they feel unworthy of good health. Maybe they only feel worthwhile in the boardroom, and so seek to re-create that sense of importance over and over again, to the detriment of their well-being. Or perhaps they are stuck in a high-paying job where they cannot go elsewhere, and need that job to pay for an excess of material wealth that they only feel worthwhile if they own. For example, downsizing their job to a less stressful one may mean giving up the five-bedroom house and three luxury cars, without which this person may feel worthless. And although one may not sympathize, after all there are people starving for lack of food, this person is actually in a lot of relentless pain. And they smoke to dull away the pain; of over-work, of such a rigid regime, of feeling worthless in themselves, and of impossible expectations.

EFT, short for emotional freedom techniques helps with all the emotional elements of such a stressful lifestyle. And when enough stress has been eliminated, the person will then no longer need cigarettes in order to cope, and they can easily quit. EFT involves the stimulation of special stress buttons on the face, hands, and body whilst saying releasing wording. The first step however, still needs to be that of making an appointment with a practitioner. And that is where this person is stuck right now. If that is you, please just for now, make that first step and stick to it. You can be pleasantly surprised how much stronger it can make you.

It has been found that people are more successful in realizing their goal if they write down their motivation and put it somewhere they can easily see every day. So write down your reasons to quit and put them up on a wall or on your fridge to remind yourself of why you want to stop smoking. Write down about 5-10 reasons, and when you are ready, you will find yourself much more motivated to quit. I have listed below some popular reasons cited by ex-smokers before they quit. Of course, your reasons may be completely different, but these should  give you ideas to get you started.

• Upon hearing from the doctor that you need to quit, maybe because of lung or heart problems.
• To be around for your children and hopefully one day grandchildren. Or to be around for your partner, nieces, nephews, or god-child.
• To set a good examples for impressionable youngsters in your life.
• To join your partner in becoming a happy non-smoker.
• To be kissed without that disgusting tobacco taste.
• To save money. Think how much you will have saved in a year; what would you do with that money, go on holiday, buy something you have always promised yourself, save it for a rainy day?
• To be fitter and look healthier instead of sprouting extra wrinkles and yellowing skin.
• To be free from slavery to those cigarettes that dictate to you every day what you have to do.
• To be free from having to keep going out for a quick cigarette in all those places where you cannot smoke.
• To be able to taste your food and enjoy it.
• To be fresher and happier.
• To be free from that smell on your clothes and in your hair.
• To live a healthier lifestyle. Some people run marathons at 80 years old, and the average smoker finds it challenging to run up some stairs sometimes.
• To cut your chances of cancer, emphysema, and other nasty horrible diseases you can get.
• To live a long and fulfilled life.
• To gain self respect.
• Better chance of getting a date who is not a nicotine addict or any kind of addict.
• If you smoke at home or in your office, to have your home of office smell nice instead of like an ashtray, with yellow curtains and walls that you have to keep washing and painting.
• To stop that horrible greying skin look after a heavy night out smoking.
• To get pregnant or conceive. Even for men, the quality of sperm is better if the man has quit for 6 months.
• To have more energy.
• To be free without worrying where your next fix will come from.

Now you have the why. Write yours down and put them in a prominent place. When you are ready, you can move on to the how. My favorite method that I recommend is Emotional Freedom Techniques, or EFT for short. EFT can remove all the reasons why you smoke, leaving you free to stop smoking when you want to. If EFT does not appeal, there is hypnosis, NLP, NRT, and many other ways that help you quit.

Wishing you every success on your stop-smoking journey…

© Suzanne Zacharia 2010. 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

There is a kind of statement beginning with ¨When I¨. Here are a few examples.

• When I make more money, I will no longer worry.
• When I get a new job, I will be free.
• When I stop smoking, my partner will stop nagging me.
• When I give up smoking, my husband will buy me that car he is promising.
• When I go on holiday, I will be able to relax.
• When I stop smoking, my boyfriend will be kind to me and will propose.
• When I quit smoking, my wife, who earns more than me, will respect me.
• When I lose weight, I will find someone who loves me.
• When I give up smoking, I will not be so anxious about the possibility of a heart attack or stroke.
• When I give up smoking, I will no longer worry about getting lung cancer and leaving my children orphaned.

So basically, we tell ourselves that once we have that thing that we need, then we will be happy. However, there are many happy people the world over who are very poor, never go on holiday, or never get a new job. That is because happiness is a state of being, rather than a state dependent on a particular  achievement.

There are two ways of giving up smoking. One way involves at least some help to resolve the underlying emotional reasons, and another way does not. Do not get me wrong here; I am not suggesting that you have to spend money or see someone in order to stop smoking, there is also self-help. So let me explain more about the ¨When I¨ driver for stopping smoking. When we reach our goal of giving up smoking by going cold turkey, medication, or habit modification, we are happy for a while, but then there is something else we find ourselves needing. You may know of people who stopped smoking but gained weight overeating, or who became so irritable, they went back to smoking, or who one day out of the blue, picked up a cigarette and started all over again. But when they first stopped, they were happy. They had this great few months of feeling great. What happened? The reason is that we have not solved the root cause behind the need to stop smoking. So we think that stopping smoking will make us happy, but after the initial euphoria subsides, we are on the lookout for something again.

Time and time again, I have had clients come to me for stopping smoking just because their partner wanted it. And I usually weed them out, but some do slip through. My suspicion is that they genuinely tell themselves that they want to give up because of their own reasons, and for a while make themselves believe it. But this has a great deal of inherent problems. For someone who is a non-smoker to fall in love with a smoker and then insist that they stop, there is a problem. The non-smoker in that relationship for some reason fell in love with someone they find repugnant. It is good to ask why, what has gone wrong in the non-smoking partner´s life to cause them to seek out relationships with people they are incompatible with? And the smoker in that relationship is making a big lifestyle change only in order to keep the relationship. It is good to ask what has gone so wrong in the smoker´s life that they allow themselves to be controlled so strongly by their partner? There is a problem in the relationship dynamic here, and time after time, I find that either the smoker is not ready to stop as yet, or that the couple break up. It is not always so clear-cut, and there are many respectful non-smokers that ask their partners to stop; for example, if they are planning to have children soon.

Most people come to me to stop smoking because they are aware that if they continue, they will have heart attacks, strokes, and may get cancer of the lung, throat, or some other painful way of an early demise. And that is the norm. However, for some people, they are anxious that they may die of a smoking-related illness, and think to themselves that when they stop smoking, they will be safe from the diseases that terrify them. Can you see the difference here? One smoker is simply aware of the dangers of continuing smoking and is making a decision to change. Another smoker is terrified and anxious about the consequences of continuing smoking, and is driven not by a desire to be healthy but the need to avoid the terror situation of serious disease and death. Chances are that the latter smoker has some anxiety, whether diagnosed or not. What this person needs is to address the anxiety or nervousness. Simply stopping smoking will not last, because as the person´s anxiety returns after the initial no-smoking euphoria, the easiest and quickest way that person knows how to cope is to have a cigarette. And then the whole thing starts all over again.

Maybe you can ask yourself, what is the feeling you are trying to achieve by stopping smoking? Do you feel that you will be lovable or safe when you have lost the weight? In that case, are you not actually at some level thinking that you are unlovable or  unsafe as you are? The fact is that when you love yourself and forgive yourself and anyone else involved in whatever hurts you have suffered, you will have resolved the underlying reasons to smoking, and you will no longer need to medicate yourself with cigarettes or anything else instead. EFT, short for Emotional Freedom Techniques, is a great way to work on any emotional block in your path. Or if EFT is not for you, you can use EMDR, NLP, or whatever works for you.

So, ask yourself, what do you want to achieve by stopping smoking? If it is at least partly that you want to be loved or safe, this is exactly what you can work on to ensure that you are quitting for the right reasons. Because when you do, the results can last. And that is wonderful in every way.

© Suzanne Zacharia 2010. 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

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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

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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

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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, based on EFT, a revolutionary mix of clever wording and acupressure points to release smoking desire from your mind, 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

It is often said that smoking is a habit. In a sense, I kind of agree with that.

People that see me in Cape Town for hypnosis to stop smoking often expect to be brain-washed to no longer have the habit. However, what if the act of smoking in itself is not the habit? What if there were underlying habits that need to be addressed? And what are those underlying habits?

Let us examine the act of smoking first. If that in itself was merely a habit, then all you would need to do to stop smoking is to stop the act of lighting up. For example, if I had a habit of wearing black all the time, to stop this habit, I would start each morning by wearing different colors. And if I wanted to change into evening wear for a night out, I would simply select different colors from my wardrobe. If need be, I would buy a few items that are not black. And it is as simple as that.

Take another example. A friend of mine had the habit of leaving all the lights on at home while relaxing in the evening. Then she found out how much electricity she could save by stopping this habit, and she stopped straightaway. The next electricity bill was a lot less, and she was pleased to be doing her bit for the environment. It was very easy.

But what about smoking? If you smoke and the act of smoking in itself was a habit, then all you need to do in order to stop is just to stop. You will be saving a lot of money and will be healthier, and it will be easy.

Not so convincing, is it?

There are 7 reasons why.

1. The smoker has a habit of considering smoking as a mere habit, and so is totally powerless to solve the real reasons why they smoke.
2. One habit is the abdication of responsibility.  “I smoke because it’s a habit” or “I smoke because there is a monkey on my back telling me to smoke” and various other excuses.
3. The third habit is to tell yourself that if you stop smoking, this in itself will cause withdrawals. You will be irritable, nervous, lose sleep, or become ravenously hungry. Whereas in my experience, the cigarettes are there to help drug away irritability, nervousness, insomnia, or hunger. If the drug is simply stopped, naturally, the symptoms return. But it is easier to have the habit of blaming cigarette withdrawal for one’s emotions. After all, who wants to admit to being emotional?
4. Another habit is to take a drug instead of dealing with problems. As this becomes more and more of a habit, more and more negative emotions are swept under the carpet. It becomes instant conditioning to smoke in order not to feel angry or sad, or to smoke in order not to show nervousness, or to smoke in order to feel satisfied after a meal or whilst having a drink.
5. The fifth habit is not to consider cigarettes a drug like any other. How many times have you read this phrase “smoking and drugs”? As if there is any real difference. What I find particularly poignant is seeing someone smoke one cigarette after another whilst saying passionately how they would never take drugs.
6. The sixth habit is the need to be perfect. Many smokers are exceptionally calm when handling conflict, because they are drugged. Many women smokers are exceptionally fashionably thin, because they are drugged.  But neither state of being is normal or sustainable. And neither state of being is perfect either.
7. The seventh habit is to hold onto denial, the “smoking is just a habit” belief, holding on tightly, till (literally) death.

So if you are a smoker who wants to quit, change these 7 habits, and you will find quitting an easy process. Hypnotists and other practitioners that use tapping techniques, such as EFT, TFT or MTT, can help you to be totally free from the underlying reasons. Change is easy when you know how.

© Suzanne Zacharia 2010.  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 and trainer specializing in energy healing.  I help ex-smokers-to-be and practitioners that help ex-smokers-to-be to achieve complete freedom from smoking with my Stop Smoking E-Book. 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 and my popular FREE online course “5 Days to Change Your Life” at http://www.NewAgeInternationalTraining.com