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

By: sharon

sharon — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 04:01:38 +0000

Well done Adam for sticking to what you believe in,people are still very archaic in the belief if you cant see it,it doesn’t exist, that’s probably why there’s still a stigma attached to mental health and depression.I have heard of many people who have had hypnosis for helping with various things and its worked for them, I am sure in time to come the more people speak out the higher the chances of this becoming part of a recognized treatment.I have quit smoking on numerous occasions,the longest being 5 years the shortest three hours!! I have tried cold turkey to all the nicotine replacement therapies to no avail, when that addiction gets a hold of you it doesn’t wanna let go so I really believe if you can get to the root of the addiction which is deeply stemmed somewhere deep in your brain you will have a better fighting chance of kicking the habit once and for all.

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.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:00:39 +0000

I am 17 and my mam is a stop smoking specalist and i can tell you that she along with many other peiople have helped stop thousands of people stop smoking and it is not to do with any advertising on the tv it is simply the support they give to their clients. I dont believe for 1 second that 94% of stop smoking specialists are idiots and if you believe that people who are trying to save peoples lives are idiots i would like to see what you are doing to help the sitution.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:43:12 +0000

I once spoke to an NHS nutritionalist who claimed hypnotherapy was no good for dieting. She didn’t seem to believe that very strongly but she did dismiss my suggestion that I should get some help from a hypnotherapist.

By: Adam Eason

Adam Eason — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:13:05 +0000

Thanks for that Mike.. Enjoy waving your piece of paper around 😉

I know you’ll do some good working from the inside… Infiltrating the system from within! Yeah!

By: Mike Reeves-McMillan

Mike Reeves-McMillan — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:06:17 +0000

How does one get to be an NHS stop smoking specialist?

I am going on a (free) course at the NZ National Heart Foundation to train as a smoking cessation provider. Three reasons. One, I may actually learn something. Two, it gives me a piece of paper I can wave around. And three, I can get listed on various websites as a qualified cessation provider.

They are totally in love with NRT, but there’s nothing that says I have to offer it if I don’t think it’s the best intervention for the client (which I predict I won’t).