Sanha stated that “Muslim Jurists have for a long time condemned cigarette smoking.” Now that makes plenty of sense. Having read the Quran from cover to cover in Arabic, I have no doubt that if the prophet Muhammad were alive today, he would forbid the smoking of cigarettes.

Now Muslim-owned businesses are being urged to stop selling cigarettes. I think this is also sensible. How can a God-fearing person possibly knowingly sentence people to a slow and painful death? How can a Muslim pray five times a day and then go to his shop and sell cigarettes to a pregnant mother, for example?

And how can any dutiful Muslim wash and take care of their body as prescribed by Islam and then go and put the many poisons from smoking cigarettes in their body? This not only makes no sense but is a great hypocrisy indeed.

Whether cigarettes contain pigs’ blood or rum or wine products should be irrelevant. As a matter of fact, any doctor would agree that there is far worse in a cigarette than any minute amount of pig or alcohol product can possibly be.

South Africa’s largest cigarette manufacturer, British American Tobacco SA (Batsa), naturally denies it all in a report in the local Cape Argus, a local newspaper in Cape Town. However, what the cigarette manufacturers cannot deny is the thousands of deaths and illnesses their industry regularly causes. Cigarettes are the leading health concern in South Africa after HIV/AIDS. And that is not in dispute by anybody, regardless of their religion.

So if you are a Muslim smoker, what should you do? Do you wait to find out if there is indeed pig and alcohol additions to cigarettes? Do you find a way to quit in the meantime? And what if you quit and then find that cigarettes are free of these things. Do you then take up smoking again, fully aware of the other, and one may argue, more serious health risks?

Perhaps Muslim or otherwise, we were given a body to look after with love and respect. I was taught that we were created in God’s image and that we are the creation of God. How sad that so many religious people then go on to desecrate this great gift of our body by regularly and systematically abusing it with toxins from cigarette smoking.

If you are a smoker and any of this resonates with your beliefs, for God’s love, quit. There are many good ways to help you quit smoking wherever you are. You may find that to stop smoking is the greatest show of gratitude you can give to God. And in return, going through the process in a responsible and healing way can bring you spiritually, physically, emotionally and mentally closer to God and closer to a life of true contentment.

SuzanneZacharia

Stop Smoking Hypnosis Cape Town

Stop Smoking EFT Author

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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

The Wall Street Journal may not agree, but it published this damning information about the latest stop-smoking fiasco.

U.K. Regulator Warns About Chantix and Suicide

There’s a new development around Pfizer’s smoking-cessation drug Chantix and suicide: The United Kingdom’s drug regulator has issued an update linking the medicine to reports of “depression and suicide related events.”

Documents posted by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency give the following advice: “Patients who are taking [Chantix] who develop suicidal thoughts or who develop agitation, depressed mood, or changes in behaviour that are of concern for the doctor patient, family, or caregiver should stop their treatment and contact their doctor immediately.”

What I’d like to know is why give a drug addict another drug instead of just removing the reasons for the drug addiction? In my experience, that is far easier, less costly, and more beneficial to the recipient. Cigarette addiction is like any other addiction, and the main causes are emotional, even if you don’t realize that at first. Now there are simple and relatively painless ways to removing those pesky negative emotional blocks in your path, and you could do it from as little as one session. Time and time again, in the stop-smoking session, my client and I reach a point where there is no cigarette craving whatsoever, and this continues the next day, and so on. Surely if cigarettes caused a physical addiction, this would not be the case? And for every client convinced that this was a physical phenomenon, I was able to show that by removing the emotional element, somehow the physical part went away. So why have a dangerous physical intervention? It makes no sense. I am certainly not anti-drug and definitely not anti-pharmaceuticals, as everything has its place. It just is not in my experience that a stop-smoking drug is needed.

Yours sincerely,

Suzanne Zacharia

Stop Smoking Expert and Author

Call +27 72 700 5334 or +27 21 556 7088 or +44 20 8144 5728

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Clearly this was a PR exercise that failed. But the point is, most people do not associate athletics with smoking. Just like you would not associate healthy living with smoking. Put it this way, if you were to choose a new doctor, would you feel confident choosing a doctor who smokes? If you were to visit a hypnotherapist, would you feel assured of the outcome with a hypnotist who smoked?

Although smacking of Big Brother, it does actually make sense to stop smoking in restaurants and bars, I have just come to Cape Town in South Africa from London in the UK. In Cape Town, smoking is allowed in bars and restaurants. Some restaurants make an attempt to make a non-smoking section, the rare coffee bar is non-smoking, but most bars and restaurants frankly stink. In London, smoking was banned in all public places last year, and it is a pleasure now to go out for a drink or a meal. There was initially much worry about going smoke-free. Businesses were worried about losing custom. However, in the UK most people are non-smokers now, and so this was a great deal easier.

And despite the health risks, in Cape Town, just like Beijing, there is a need for a drug. Nicotine happens to be a perfect drug. It calms you when you need calming, wakes you when you need to be alert, is easily delivered into the body, and is legally available.

Smoking is a coping mechanism. Smoking takes the not-Fun out of life and the smoker is left with Fun. Smoking takes the not-Happy out of life so the smoker is left with Happy. Without smoking, the smoker is faced with a great deal of not-Fun and not-Happy, and life is very grim indeed. People need to be healthy. However, they also need to be happy. Sometimes being happy is more important than being healthy. Why should it matter if you die early of cancer or a heart attack, if you have lived a happy life? And who actually wants to live a long and miserable life?

This is why nicotine replacement and various wonder pills alone fail. When the smoker is given ways to be naturally happy, such as with EFT, hypnosis, or meditation, then they can finally be calmly free from smoking. And when a nation is healed, when it becomes stronger from within, you get smoke-free restaurants. It really is a holistic matter.

China has a great deal of trauma from the past, as does Cape Town. The pain of the people needs the balm of nicotine. I sincerely hope that one day, this pain will release. With this release, there will no longer be a need for cigarettes. And then China can rest assured that its bars and restaurants will be smoke-free.

Suzanne Zacharia

Author and Stop Smoking Expert

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

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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!

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