The Healing Point Wellness Center

Ten Ways to Know it is Finally Time to Quit

1. Has your smoking habit begun to control your life? Have you ever not been able to go to sleep until you are sure that you have a cigarette
    available for morning?

2. Have friends and family told you that your clothing, hair and breath smell like an ashtray? If they haven't, you can be sure they are thinking it!!
    Are you spending almost as much in breath mints as you are in cigarettes? If you aren't embarrassed about your smoking then why are you
    trying so hard to cover it up?

3. Are professional colleagues shunning you now that they have quit smoking? Let's face it… It is no longer "cool" to smoke. Your smoking is
    viewed as a lack of control issue. Exhibiting lack of control is not the way to get ahead in your job.

4. Do you sit in meetings focused only on getting to the break so you can rush outside to smoke? As a manager do you end meetings with
    things still left to accomplish because of your need to smoke?

5. Does your favourite restaurant not have a smoking section any more? Non-smokers are now in the majority and they do not want to taste
    your cigarette with their expensive meal. Restauranteurs are attuned to the bottom line, not your smoking needs.

6. Are you standing outside smoking alone because your spouse doesn't allow it in the house? What do you think this is doing for your
     relationship? Between work and your smoking alone, how much time is available for your relationship. Remember that breath mint… he or
     she doesn't want to kiss an ash tray.

7. You're afraid to stop this dangerous habit because you fear the weight gain that so many people have experienced, but you are beginning to
     fear diseased lungs even more. Have you reached that "critical pack years" that almost assures your painful and agonising death? (1
     pack-year = smoke equivalent to 1 pack of cigarettes per day per year. If you smoke 2 packs a day for 10 years you have reached 20 pack
     years) 25 is the critical number. You don't have much chance of beating it at this point.

8. What's up with those lines around your mouth? The continuous lip pressure on a cigarette has now begun to add years to the look of your
    face. Squinting to keep the smoke out of your eyes isn't helping them either. And most facial surgeons won't even schedule surgery until
    you quit. Their reputations are at stake because a facelift quickly deteriorates when you continue to smoke.

9. You get up in the morning and shower and use deodorant before heading out the door for work. Why? Because you don't want to offend
    anyone you come in contact with. Notice how people back away after your first cigarette? You might as well have gone to work dirty!!!

10. At work, do you smoke alone outside, in all weathers, sunshine, rain, wind and snow? If a colleague asked you to stand outside in the cold,
      wind and rain, and drink a cup of tea or coffee with them, would you think they had gone insane? Why would you be prepared to do it for a
      cigarette but not for anything else?

But the real truth is...

A tube of paper about the size of your little finger, stuffed with tobacco has ultimate control of your life. Are you satisfied with that?

If not, then maybe the time has come to try hypnotherapy. Hypnotherapy can be the answer to all the issues surrounding quitting. No pills or patches, no chemicals. And in the hands of a skilled hypnotherapist you will be given suggestions that will eliminate the possibility of replacing the cigarette habit with food. It is remarkably easy as the overwhelming majority of people enjoy the hypnotic trance and the benefits begin immediately.

Issues surrounding the cigarette habit are dealt with so that you are free of the need to smoke. Smoking is not a function of will power but habit triggered by the subconscious. That means that the subconscious can also be used to trigger cessation.

What works?

"Hypnosis is the most effective way of giving up smoking, according to the largest ever scientific comparison of ways of breaking the habit. Willpower it turns out, counts for very little." New Scientist vol 136 issue 1845 page 6

"Nicotine Gum had only just over a 10% success rate, our results have shown us that Hypnosis is THE MOST EFFECTIVE way to become a non-smoker!" New Scientist vol 136 issue 1845 page 6

"To find the most effective method to stop smoking, Frank Schmidt and research student Chockalingham Viswesvaran from the University of Iowa used a meta-analysis, utilising the results of more than 600 studies totalling nearly 72,000 people. The results which were published in the Journal of Applied Psychology and included 48 studies of hypnosis covering 6000 smokers, clearly showed that hypnosis, was many times more effective than NRT." New Scientist vol 136 issue 1845 page 6

What happens during the treatment?

Hypnosis is recognized as a highly successful ways of changing peoples behaviors and perceptions. You will find yourself quickly and easily change the thoughts and behaviors you currently have regarding smoking. Willpower becomes unnecessary as you just find yourself changing in beneficial ways.

Cold Laser has been effective with many in removing the physical cravings.
Hypnosis has been successful in removing the psychological dependancey.

Combined they are POWERFUL.

Cold Laser - half hour - one session - $50.00
Hypnosis - One hour - one session - $99.00
Combination - One hour - one session $129.00

Our Guarantee:
If within the course of thiry days after your session, you pick up a tobacco product, start smoking again or even develop a replacement habit, you are welcome to return to our office for one complimentary booster session.