The Tao of Quitting Smoking Seminar - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

The Tao of Quitting Smoking Seminar

By Joe Weaver, author of the book, Nic-the Habit

With Hypnotist Irael

Private or Group Seminars available:

Rates vary from $60/pp for Group

Private sessions $120 with Book and Subliminal Tape

Contact:taoseminar@cigarettesmokingkills.com

For dates and availabilities

• Overview of course and expectation.
• The book Nic-the Habit will be used as the text book for the course. Very little writing is necessary, just focusing and listening. Assignments listed in book.
• Participants talk about reasons why they want to quit.
• How and why they began to smoke?
• General questions and answers about their expectations?
• Which treatment methods have they tried and which treatments are effective?
• Ending question: why do their want to quit and what methods have they tried to quit?

• Becoming Hooked on an Image.

Media Representation.

Peer Pressure

The Psychology of a Smoker

Finding yourself again

Reasons why you smoke

What you enjoy about cigarettes

What you don’t enjoy about smoking and how you can begin to end your addiction.

• How do we measure addictiveness?
• How addictive is nicotine?
• What is nicotine and how it works on
• In the body and the brain?
• Nicotine’s chemical structure and it similarity to other street drugs, e.g Cocaine.

• What does it mean to be born a human instead of being born as an animal.
• What is the difference between our soul and our willpower
• How do we take control of our life?

To what extent does Nicotine control behavior?

• >90 percent of experimental animals made addicted to nicotine prefer doses of nicotine to food.
• Tobacco Industries role.
• Time line of Tobacco and it’s deadly chemicals.

• Tobacco and it’s smoke
• What is tobacco
• Chemicals, toxins and Poisons
• Tobacco Smoke and it’s harmful effects.
• 4000 chemical and 200 or more are toxic.

• Tolerance
• Withdrawal
• Denial
• Craving
• Self love and worth
• You can’t truly love yourself and remain a smoker when you know the facts.

• Cold Turkey no real plan
• Pills, Patches, Herbs, Acupressure.
• Hypnotherapy (Hypnosis Done By Irael)
• Read a book.
• Nic-the Habit way.
• Cold-Turkey with a Plan
• Meditation-Relaxation Techniques
• Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs
• Reconditioning your mind, body and Spirit
• Exercise
• Self honesty and understanding.

• Nicotine Addiction and your genes
• Can you overcome your genes make-up
• Virus and bacteria do, Why can’t we.
• The powerful approach to your soul
• Denial
• Living in truth with yourself
• Living life in the present concept
• Overview of your past, present and future
• Why is this so important!

• More examples on Nicotine and the Brain
• How it is broken down.

• Learning how to stay focused on your own affairs instead of others.
• Controlling your urges and thoughts
• Staying tough and in control
• Meditation of thought.
• Non-Judgment
• No one is exempt from misfortune and pain.

• Lessons from the book.
• Learning the difference from being in denial, being stubborn or being ignorant.
• Cool to be Not Cool fallacy.
• Free Will.

• Latest findings
• Topics in the book
• What does Research prove?
• We are only as good as the tool we event.

• Myths about Smoking and
• Concentration
• How hard it is to quit
• How you cut down on the numbers you smoke
• It’s relaxation effect
• Boredom
• Too much going on.

• Listing from the book, which is used as a hand-out.
• Other Sources

• Encourage the smoker, just how important it is to take the book home and read it from the beginning and to follow all of the assignments.

• Nicotine and the rule on carbohydrates storage.
• Recommendations of food groups
• Avoidance food groups
• Herbal and Vitamin suggestions
• Exercise planning with your physician
• How to not gain weight.

• Depression
• How to deal with the depression
• Relaxation techniques
• My CD or Tape: Hypnotic and Subliminal
• Herbal and Vitamin Suggestions.
• Typical withdrawal symptoms of people who quit.
• How to deal with the withdrawal symptoms
• How long will it last
• What to do and What not to do

• Describing certain sections of my book.
• Mind Control
• Learning from past mistakes
• Revisiting the Present concept

• The goal is to help the client move one stage at a time towards change
• Help smokers see the benefits of quitting
• Help smokers make a decision to quit
• Encourage smokers who are ready to develop an action plan and set a Quit Date
• Help the former smoker cope with life without smoking

Suggestions, Recommendations from my book and from other sources

• My Website: http://cigarettesmokingkills.com
• How to use chat-rooms, bulletin boards
• Access my website.
• Links for 24 hour message boards

The Need to stay connected to others, who have quit.

• Choosing a quit date or using the book to quit
• What happens if you quit before your date.
• Sections from the book
• Building up a loathing for tobacco is Okay

• Outline and Explained
• Questions and Answers
• Developing a partner within the group to help through the rough times
• What happens light up again?
• Re-read book and go through all the assignments again. No short cuts.