Comments on: Official: 94% Of NHS Stop Smoking Specialists Are Absolute Idiots!

By: Marc

Marc — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:06:28 +0000

It took me 2 years to fully Quit Smoking, it is really difficult to Stop smoking and you need lots of self discipline to stop the cravings on cigarettes.

By: Claudia Jean

Claudia Jean — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:21:14 +0000

I’m a bit late to the conversation but enjoyed the info and review. As a benefit, I am paying for my property manager to quit smoking. I will have her integrate acupuncture, hypnosis and NHS treatment. Plus give her $10 for every pack she would have purchased on a weekly basis. I want her cravings GONE and I want her to be rewarded on every front. She’s a damn good employee and every year I get with her healthy will be worth the money. And she’s ready! Thank God!

By: Adam Eason

Adam Eason — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:08:52 +0000

Agreed!

Well communicated… Thank you for your contribution.

I am delighted you took the time to write here and I am delighted to hear of the wonderful work you are doing and that you are more open than research might be suggesting at a higher level.

(Walks off humming in line with that pop song… “It’s my blog and I’ll be rude if I want to….”)

By: A Stop Smoking Specialist

A Stop Smoking Specialist — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:50:34 +0000

Hello Adam, I am a NHS stop smoking ‘specialist’ (your use of inverted commas, not mine!). Hopefully you’ll consider my colleagues and I to be part of the lucky 6% that you don’t classify as idiots (!) as we are currently in the process of introducing an acupuncture service for our clients. In defence of the other 94%, I would say that I think it’s a bit rude to assume that we’re all out to scare smokers into submission and that we rely totally on the use of medication to support our clients. We come from a variety of backgrounds, are required to have a good standard of education and have a portfolio of different approaches that we can use depending on a client’s needs (motivational interviewing, NLP to name but a few). It sounds like you’re doing some great work with smokers but so are we, so don’t write us off. Let’s all work to provide smokers with whatever they need to get them off the evil weed for good, whether that be NRT, MI, hypnotherapy or the whole damn lot!

Cheers

By: Adam Eason

Adam Eason — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:45:06 +0000

Well Nicole, I consider myself well and truly told off.

Maybe calling 94% of the NHS stop smoking specialists idiots was a little over the top… But it is research by other people that says 94% of NHS stop smoking specialists that are ignoring hypnosis and its efficacy in helping people to stop smoking.

People who ignore such a remedy when they are supposed to be specialists could be seen as behaving idiotically

Myself, and many other hypnotherapists have also helped thousands and thousands of people to stop smoking and much research has proved hypnotherapy to be one of the most effective ways to stop people smoking.

That is what I am doing to help the situation… Thousands of audio sessions all over the world helping people… Advice to local government… Books on the subject… Free articles of advice… That is also what I am doing to help the situation.

If I am honest, I believe ‘support’ can be gotten anywhere – what is so specialist about that set of skills?

Many stop smoking specialists in my area simply prescribe Nicotine Replacement treatments which are proven to be very poor.

Maybe your Mum is in the 6%. Maybe your Mum is truly specialist – in fact, I am sure she is. I hope she is making a difference. My belief is that the specialists could be making much more of a difference if hey were actully aware of ways to do heir job even better.

Maybe I am fed up with the NHS refusing to notice that people could be helped dramatically with the use of hypnosis.

Nicole, thank you posting here.