Quit Easy - the Smoking Cessation Specialists

Quit Easy

The Smoking Cessation Specialists

Quit While

You're Ahead

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Jim Trimmer

Copyright © 1998 Jim Trimmer

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Contents

1. Through The Looking Glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2. Cutting The Problem Down To Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

3. So, What Is Smoking For, Actually? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

4. See Yourself Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

5. How It All Begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

6. The Real Point About Smoking And Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

7. The Grand Illusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

8. Don't Kid Yourself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

9. This Doesn't Make Sense! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

10. Demolishing The Myths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

11. Still See Some Point In Smoking? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

12. Way To Go! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

13. Pushing At An Open Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

14. It's A Whole New Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

15. Additional Tips On How To Quit Smoking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

16. What Quitting Can Do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

17. What You Should Know About Smoking & Tobacco . . . . . . . . . . 43

18. Additional Resources For Information On Quitting Smoking . . . . 44

How did I come to be a Smoking Cessation Thearapist?

Although both my parents smoked, they were very keen that I

should not, so I did not start smoking regularly until leaving

school at 18. In the year that followed, before going up to

Liverpool University, I worked in London. In those days, there

were no restrictions on smoking in the office. I was hooked within

weeks, and was a regular 20-plus a day smoker for the next

30-plus years.

After graduating in 1965, I worked for most of my life in journalism

and PR. A good deal of my spare time was spent performing

in front of audiences as, variously, a jazz and rock singer,

and as a performer in dramatic and musical amateur theatre.

I had made unsuccessful attempts to quit smoking at various

times, but could never keep it up for more than a few weeks.

When challenged, I would defend my habit by claiming the

right to choose what I breathe: the "right to smoke" argument

made sense to me in those days.

In 1991, my father died from smoking-related diseases. I managed

to avoid making the obvious connection with my own

smoking. Then at an Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking session

in June 1992, I saw the light - that tobacco dependency is

a psychological problem with a physical trigger - and have

been a non-smoker ever since. I walked away feeling positive

and excited at the prospect of never having to smoke again.

It's the best thing I ever did, and it led to a series of extremely

positive changes in my life, as I started to use strengths I never

knew I had.

I applied to the Carr organization to become an Easy Way

practitioner, and took up a franchise in South Wales. Over the

next two years, I saw hundreds of smokers in groups of up to a

dozen, basing my session on the script provided by Easy Way

and achieving success in probably 30-40 percent of cases.

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By this time, having grasped the underlying principles of Easy Way, I

had adapted the basic script to better suit my own ideas and style of

delivery. At the same time, I set about learning more about hypnosis

and cognitive therapy and how they can be used in a complementary

way to produce a uniquely powerful mechanism for bringing

about fundamental change to attitudes