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.

What a wonderful freedom to have, to be free from the drug that is harming you so much. And of course, once you get emphysema, that is not the end of it. If you continue smoking, the damage to your lungs continues to get worse and worse.

If you have emphysema and are still smoking, try another way to quit. The solution is out there. The easy way is available to you, all you need is to make that first step. My stop-smoking e-book comes complete with a rock-solid 90-day money-back guarantee, so you have every reason to quit.

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 feel it is important first of all to address the issue of calling smoking habit or addiction. I have recently been reading up on Habit versus Addiction and it seems that semantics are getting in the way. When I was in my early twenties, a long time ago, it was recognized that there was what was called ¨psychological addiction¨, in other words, the emotional need for a substance. Now, the psychologists do not like using the word ¨addiction¨ it seems unless there was a big ¨physical¨ withdrawal such as in the case of a heroin addict going cold turkey. Now I use the words ¨need¨ or ¨desire¨ to avoid making it just a habit. You see, what a psychologist calls a habit is not what the layman calls a habit. The originator of EFT expressed it very eloquently in one of his DVDs. He said if he had a habit of putting his right shoe on before his left shoe, then that is a habit, and all he needed to change it is put a note by his shoes reminding him to put the left shoe on first, and he would simply do it. But he asked members of the audience, if a smoker can simply stop smoking by leaving a note on their cigarettes reminding them not to smoke, and successfully quit the habit.The audience said no, and he explained that it is because there are emotional reasons why a smoker smokes.

But I am a holistic healer and a scientist and seriously challenge anyone to tell me exactly where the physical ends and the emotional begins and prove it. The problem I find for the client with this arbitrary distinction between addiction and habit is that the client then tries to convince themselves that they need to change habits rather than address the emotional reasons why they smoke. That is, a habit as perceived in layman´s terms, not habit as psychologists call what a layman calls a ¨psychological addiction¨. So then one has to address overeating, and this is because the emotional reasons behind the smoking simply get transferred to another destructive activity, that of overeating. But hypnosis is very popular and lucrative, and no matter what we do to persuade the client to stop smoking from the root, they want the perceived magic of trance and are willing to pay more for it, rather than face their emotions in the waking state and release them relatively faster with EFT. What to do? I mix the two when the client wants. But my heart is warmed every time someone quits smoking from the root and holistically changes their life for the better. Hence my preferred stop smoking solution is EFT and a bit of NLP plus some basic holistic health education. We did it at the London EFT clinic I was running, and very successfully – it was EFT-only for most people.

Talking about location, I also am finding the local culture has a lot to do with it. For example, in the UK where I started, people were educated by the government not to skip breakfast, and that if they waited till the afternoon to start eating, they would get ravenous and likely to overeat, as well as needing the breakfast to kick-start their metabolism. Here in South Africa, where I now live, most people are totally ignorant of this and many force themselves to go without food till the evening. No prizes for guessing the favourite method of hunger control! Many people think the body does not need food during the day, and so they are ignorant of what hunger actually is, that they call hunger a need to smoke. They have never tried to give their bodies the nutrition it is so strongly asking for. Instead, when they get that feeling that other people call hunger, this type of smoker thinks that it means they have to have a cigarette. This is because cigarettes drug away the feeling of hunger. And this type of smoker is either underweight or is so used to eating one meal a day that they are used to packing it full of energy and do not realize they have to make changes to it when they start addressing the genuine need for eating.Those who were underweight are usually terrified when they start becoming a normal weight. They had been so used to being too thin that they identify as that person. so work needs to be done on the disordered eating, identity, and everything else around it.

This is why I find stop smoking treatment with EFT so satisfying. One holistically heals everything behind the smoking, and when it is all healed, the smoker then simply stops and feels no need to ever smoke again.

© 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

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

Your 3-in-1 Hypnosis offer in Cape Town includes Stop Smoking EFT, Stop Smoking Kinesiology-based muscle-testing and Laser treatment, and Advanced Hypnosis. The Hypnosis helps to get messages through to your subconscious mind enabling you to succeed, the EFT releases blocks in the path of your success, and and the kinesiology-based muscle-testing and laser treatment gets answers from your subconscious mind about the reasons behind your smoking, in order to release them. Without the underlying reasons why you smoke, you no longer have any reason to smoke, and so you can let go of the cigarettes. I got some questions in my mailbox that I thought I should answer for everybody, in case you had their questions too.

Question

Where are you based?

Answer

City Centre, at the corner of Loop and Shortmarket Streets in the CBD, near Tamboerskloof, Vredehoek, Bo-Kaap, Mowbray, Observatory, Sea Point, Green Point, Woodstock, Devils Peak, Gardens, Higgovale, Oranjezicht, Claremont, Rondebosch, Constantia, Century City, and accessible from all of The Western Cape, including Durbanville, Parow, Tableview, Milnerton, Haut Bay, Newlands, just to name a few. I also do the occasional home visit in and around Tableview.

Question

You mention qualifying for the 1st session; what does that mean exactly?

Answer

My hypnosis is not one-formula-fits-all. It is tailor-made to suit you. When you first see me, we sit down and I fill out a Client History Form. I ask you many searching questions that help me determine whether you are suitable for the one-session route or whether I should advise that we should work more through the underlying issues first. If, like the majority of overseas clients, who have far less daily stress to contend with than Capetonians, you qualify for the one-session route, then we keep working until every situation I put you in, on a scale of 0-10 of smoking desire, there is negligible desire. This we determine in the session itself, so there is no guesswork. Otherwise, you are best on the 6-session plan, with some being able to quit in 3 sessions. We will know when you come for your first session, and there is no need to make a decision before then.

Question

And the sessions after that is only if I feel the need to again ie a craving returning?

Answer

If at the end of the first session, you have say a smoking desire of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc in any one situation, then I schedule another session for you. We then make a pact for you to smoke a lower number of cigarettes that is achievable, and cut down further in each session until you have totally quit in relative comfort. Remember, there is no guesswork with my method. You know exactly where you are.

If for any reason, we get it all down to a negligible level but either you or I miss a situation and you experience that situation afterwards, then you simply call me to schedule another session. The most common thing that goes wrong is sudden extreme stress, like a home that literally collapses, loss of a loved one, loss of a job, or illness, which can be so stressful, that the ex-smoker picks up a cigarette in a moment of weakness and becomes an addict again (all it takes is one cigarette). I say it is the most common, however it is very unlikely – it happens to only about 3% of my clients.

Question

I am in Cape Town for two days, and I wanted to see you. When we had a brief chat on the phone last week, you told me that I was in the minority of smokers that need nearer to the full 6 sessions you offer in your scheme, rather than the one session. Now I don’t know what to do, because I live too far to travel each week for a session.

Answer

Whilst it is true that most people prefer to see me for the first session, I do have clients all over the world who do treatments with me on the phone; some even in Cape Town, who simply prefer not to drive to me after a long day’s work. Some weeks I even do more sessions on the phone than in person. You can attend the first session in person. We can even have a break, re-convene, and carry on. Time is not the limit in my sessions, so you can relax about that. Then we can schedule more sessions over the phone. You can easily hold the phone whilst going into a state of relaxation.

Since starting NewAgeTherapies in Cape Town, I have had visits from various places, including Mozambique, Cameroon, Gauteng, and the USA.

Question

I am not sure if I am hypnotizable.

Answer

1. Nobody becomes unconscious in hypnosis. That is purely a myth, perpetrated by dramatic hypnosis shows, where, incidentally, the participants do not become unconscious either. I guarantee you 100% that you will not become unconscious. It will not happen, so do not expect it. Hypnosis is just a slight state of relaxation, which for some people is deeper.
2. The depth of relaxation or trance has absolutely no bearing on the results, so you do not need to worry about how deep you can go.
3. Children are hypnotized whilst they are still playing, wide awake, and moving about with their eyes wide open. Being awake does not mean that the hypnotic messages are not going into your subconscious mind.
4. I use at least 3 techniques in my treatment. Hypnosis is just one of them, and not necessarily the most effective, although it is the best-known. You do not even need to have hypnosis in the first place. So if you have any worries about hypnosis, rest assured that you do not have to have it. All you want is to stop smoking. The purpose of the exercise is not so that you get hypnotized, but so that you stop smoking, right? If I help you stop smoking, even if you did not feel hypnotized, does it matter? Of course not! Focus on what you want. What you want is to stop smoking.

Question

Why do you want me to release the reasons behind my smoking? Can´t you just make me hate cigarettes or forget about them? Surely that is what hypnosis is about.

Answer

If that is what you want, then don´t come to me, because in my experience, that can have unwanted side-effects; whereas releasing the underlying reasons to smoking I find a better long-term option. My initial hypnotherapy diploma training in the UK was to find the root of the problem and help the client with that root cause, or those root causes. It is far better than just treating the symptom, and this is why. I have seen clients who have stopped smoking elsewhere by pretending smoking is just a habit without reason, and they developed a number of problems that may be even worse than the smoking was in the first place. For example:

1. Depression that suddenly appeared from nowhere mysteriously just after stopping smoking, including feeling suicidal.
2. Bulimia.
3. Addiction to narcotics such as cocaine or tik that, again, suddenly appeared from nowhere mysteriously shortly after stopping smoking.

Because these people stopped smoking whilst denying that there were good reasons why they smoked, they did not solve the original problem they had in the first place. And so they developed another problem that replaced the smoking. Better to resolve the reasons why you smoke, and then you can be truly free.

Question

I keep thinking in terms of an hourly rate. This seems like a good deal, up to 6 sessions and 5 years. Please explain.

Answer

It is strange for South Africa, but eventually many hypnotists will be doing it this way. In other countries, it is normal to charge per result for hypnosis or hypnotherapy rather than per hour. I am from such a country (UK) and I find that South Africans like this new way of charging, because it is fairer. Payment is upfront at the very beginning.

Remember, you get Hypnosis, Kinesiology-based muscle testing and Laser, and EFT, an Advanced Hypnosis package that is totally unique, using my skills and experience for a version tailor-made for your requirements. For your success.

Get back in control; call me now on 072 700 5334 for a new beginning.

I look forward to hearing from you very soon.

Yours sincerely,

Suzanne Zacharia

Stop Smoking Expert and Author

Call Me Direct On +27 72 700 5334 or our Call-Centre Numbers +27 21 556 7088 or +44 20 8144 5728

For a one-to-one in-person or telephone treatment

GUARANTEE: Get at least one measurable partial result in your first or only session or pay nothing at the end of the session, and that will be the end of our sessions!

Your 3-in-1 Hypnosis offer in Cape Town includes Stop Smoking EFT, Stop Smoking Kinesiology-based muscle-testing and Laser treatment, and Advanced Hypnosis. The Hypnosis helps to get messages through to your subconscious mind enabling you to succeed, the EFT releases blocks in the path of your success, and and the kinesiology-based muscle-testing and laser treatment gets answers from your subconscious mind about the reasons behind your smoking, in order to release them. Without the underlying reasons why you smoke, you no longer have any reason to smoke, and so you can let go of the cigarettes.

We are open 8 am to 8 pm Monday – Friday and 9:30 am to 6 pm weekends, subject to availability, so you can easily fit your treatment into your life. No more excuses!

Don’t wait till you suffer a heart attack or emphysema. And if you have already, it is even more urgent that you act now! And if you are smoking and pregnant, make sure you call me now for your appointment. You’ll be glad you did. I want to set you free from smoking forever. What’s more, I want you to refer your friends and family, so that they can benefit too.

“JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW. IT IS MY 4TH DAY NOW AND I AM GOING STILL STRONG AT IT. I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH FOR HELPING ME.” Jayne, Cape Town

And Michelle, also from Cape Town, sent the following SMS about a follow-up appointment scheduled for a month after she quit: “Hello there, I am still doing great! I’m going to skip the appointment [tomorrow]… I’m very happy and proud … Thanks for your support.”

Typically, my ex-smoker clients refer many others to me. Like John, who referred 11 clients in a three-month period after attending his stop smoking hypnotherapy session when I was a hypnotherapist in the UK (I moved to Cape Town for love and marriage). After all, this is an essential freedom – to breathe, to have a tongue, voicebox, legs, a heartbeat, the things you took for granted when you (or your loved one) started smoking, are no longer secure. The smoking is killing you or a loved one now, and that is why you are reading this.

How Much For This Life-Saving Treatment?

Anyone can quit smoking – you do it every night when you are asleep! But the trick is to stay quit! My sessions are very generous, at least 2 hours for the first session, then usually up to 2 hours for subsequent sessions. Now, I know the nature of addiction. An addiction will twist your mind many times over, it will lie to you till you lie to yourself, it will trick you at every opportunity. The temptation to attend one session for an hour and pretend you are cured is bigger than you can ever imagine. So I have come up with a very special offer for smokers who are serious about quitting, regardless of the route you personally need to take, whether 1, 3, or even 6 sessions. I am offering a unique combination of Advanced Hypnosis, EFT, and Laser. Smoke Enders for about 2500 offer six very short classes over six weeks, and every single time, the presenters completely ignore the reasons why you smoke; and at the end of it, I am told by attendees that a certificate of quitting smoking is given, with a good portion of attendees lying about their quitting in order to save face. The Allen Carr method, R2150 for a one-day class with many other attendees, promise a 90% success rate, but that is in the first 3 months, this goes down afterwards. And compare Zyban at 30% after a year, nicotine gum or patches at 14-17% and a mere hypnosis recording at up to 60% (hypnosis figures from the New Scientist in the 1990s) after a year,  and I think you get the picture. The New Scientist found hypnosis to be the most effective method of stopping smoking. And modern hypnotists use every new technique they are trained in to help you quit faster, more efficiently, easier, and most importantly, for your successful result for good. My 3-in-1 offer is available today for a mere R2900 and covers you for up to 6 sessions of about 2 hours each; and with one reserve session just-in-case, for up to 5 years in total. This is so low because I really want you to come to me and experience this excellent 3-in-1 method, because I know you will tell your friends, family, and colleagues of your success. And we take credit cards too, so you don´t have to worry about anything!

Your Budget

Some people quite like the idea of the 6-session route, but budget gets in the way. No problem, a group of 3 sessions are currently only R1600.  If you are not sure and want to talk it over, just call me on 072 700 5334, and we will take it on from there.

And… There’s More…

I am often asked: What if it doesn’t work? Well, we do not take guesses at this. How do I know you get results? Simple, I test, test and test. For example, I may put your cigarettes in front of you, place them in your hand (unlit of course), and together we assess for success.

Location – Where is it?

My calm studio is located in the heart of the city, at the corner of Shortmarket Street and Loop Street. There is parking usually in the street opposite the building, or you can park nearby.  Times available are from 8 AM to 8 PM weekdays and 9:30 AM to 6 PM weekends.

Get back in control; call me now on 072 700 5334 for a new beginning.

I look forward to hearing from you very soon.

Yours sincerely,

Suzanne Zacharia

Stop Smoking Expert and Author

Call Me Direct On +27 72 700 5334 or our Call-Centre Numbers +27 21 556 7088 or +44 20 8144 5728

For a one-to-one in-person or telephone treatment

GUARANTEE: Get at least one measurable partial result in your first or only session or pay nothing at the end of the session, and that will be the end of our sessions!

City Centre, CBD, near Tamboerskloof, Vredehoek, Bo-Kaap, Mowbray, Observatory, Sea Point, Green Point, Woodstock, Devils Peak, Gardens, Higgovale, Oranjezicht, Claremont, Rondebosch, Constantia, Century City, and accessible from all of The Western Cape, including Durbanville, Parow, Goodwood, Tableview, Milnerton, Parow Haut Bay, and  Newlands.

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