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Quit Easy
The Smoking Cessation Specialists
Quit While
Youre Ahead
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Jim Trimmer
Copyright © 1998 Jim Trimmer
All Rights Reserved.
Contents
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
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 Carrs 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.
Its 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.
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