[Janitor925]

There's a woman (Christine Rossiter) who advertises in the Daily Sun for quitting smoking through hypnosis.... in one hour guaranteed. I'll bet! As you can see I'm a skeptic. It's new year resolution time and I'm wondering if anyone here has used her with success or is it just another scam.

[memason]

I've done the hypnosis before...still smoking. I got a lifetime guarantee, which for me, meant I could go to future stop smoking sessions free.

Not to say it doesn't work, it just didn't work for me... I'm beginning to think there's only one way to stop....just stop! It's a tough addiction.

Good luck!

Sorry... I should add, I didn't use the person you referenced. If it's a private session, you might have better luck. Mine was a group session, like a seminar.

[diskman]

Originally Posted by memason

I've done the hypnosis before...still smoking. I got a lifetime guarantee, which for me, meant I could go to future stop smoking sessions free.

Not to say it doesn't work, it just didn't work for me... I'm beginning to think there's only one way to stop....just stop! It's a tough addiction.

Good luck!

Sorry... I should add, I didn't use the person you referenced. If it's a private session, you might have better luck. Mine was a group session, like a seminar.

Back in those days you could smoke in the doctors waiting room (1979) left on a stretcher at 34 I had miocardial infarction (heart attack) Never smoked another cigarette again. JUST QUIT!!

[jdsl1998]

Tried it ALL, in the end gotta find your own reason to quit. Mine came when I watched my kids and realized during a coughing fit that I would not see my grandchildren if I didn't quit. Pain in the butt, worked, ate then went to bed for days.....it did get easier...... I thought not a day would go by without thinking about smoking but eventually that time did come. I wish you only the best of luck.....It can happen and you CAN make it....Others have gone where you are heading and made it to the other side, a few pounds heavier, at times a bit more stressed but a WHOLE lot healthier, and that will let you do things you never felt possible.

[barb1191]

Originally Posted by Janitor925

There's a woman (Christine Rossiter) who advertises in the Daily Sun for quitting smoking through hypnosis.... in one hour guaranteed. I'll bet! As you can see I'm a skeptic. It's new year resolution time and I'm wondering if anyone here has used her with success or is it just another scam.

Hypnosis did not work for me on two separate occasions, many years ago in Boston. Only way to quit is when you (and nobody else) want to quit bad enough to QUIT!! Go for it...it took me three separate times of quitting for a year each time and gaining weight when otherwise I never had a weight problem and went back to smoking and lost the added weight. So, finally my dr said to me "concentrate on quitting smoking first, and then after you have succeeded in quitting, then concentrate on the weight gain." That made perfect sense to me. It finally worked.....TWENTY ONE YEARS SMOKE FREE!! GO FOR IT!!!

[JAV0108]

I tried quitting 12 times, on the 13th I made it. I tried all sorts of ways including hypnosis and the thing that worked for me was Commit lozenges. I was on them a year but I tell ya, they helped with the nicotine addiction while I got over not having cigarettes around. Yeah, I had weight gain and had to completely change my life style for a while (meaning I stopped having cocktails and I did a lot of walking and did not do the things I used to that would trigger me wanting to grab that butt) but it worked and I have been smoke free for almost 4 years. YES!!!! Oh yeah, to this day I love to walk all the time now.
When you are mentally ready it will happen no matter which way you choose. Good Luck!

[gsmchugh]

I used Chantix to quit smoking 15 months ago and have been smoke free since that time. It was painless and it will work IF YOU really have the desire to quit. It has to be YOUR decision. I only took the medication for 3 months. I had smoked for 40+ years and quit completely. You can say that I was THE addict. Hope this helps

[Bonny]

Ditto what everyone is saying. You can only quit once YOU have decided you want or need to quit. I smoked since I was 13 ! I quit in '98 for 6 years. In '04 I took a drag & got hooked all over again.
I have to quit. I'm tired of the bronchitis & everything else that goes along with smoking. I have some friends who are on oxygen. I sure don't want to go there !!!
It's been a week today since I quit !!! I'm determined because I know I have to. Lucky so far haven't gained any weight.

[jblum315]

Good luck Bonny. Like you, I quit for 5 years, then visited a smoker friend and, you guessed it. That was 5 years ago. He died a couple months later of bronchitis and emphysema. Didn't stop me tho.
I'm thinking of asking my doctor about Chantix. But first, I really have to want to quit.

[SALYBOW]

I will keep all the smokers who want to quit and those that have in my prayers. Can't hurt...might help.

[LI SNOWBIRD]

I never tried hypnosis. I went cold turkey as a new years resolution 5 years ago and am still smoke free! It is very hard but keep at it! My future grandchildren deserve it.

[sunday]

I tried everything from the patch, gum, hypnosis, herbal, detox, cigarrest, ect.etc.... I was rom/dos-rum/dumb.

Someone suggested that maybe I might ask GOD for help... So I did.
After 43 years and countless attempts, I put them down and walked away. Never looked back...not so much as a craving, nor does it bother me to be around people that smoke.

Remember, "faith wothout works, is dead".
You do gotta want it!

[Bonny]

Originally Posted by jblum315

Good luck Bonny. Like you, I quit for 5 years, then visited a smoker friend and, you guessed it. That was 5 years ago. He died a couple months later of bronchitis and emphysema. Didn't stop me tho.
I'm thinking of asking my doctor about Chantix. But first, I really have to want to quit.

Yes, you have to really want to before it can happen. I can't take anything like Chantix. The sides effects are bad vivid dreams. I already have them really bad so I can't take ANYTHING if that is one of the side effects. Not even sinus meds.
It never bothered me when others smoked. It was just one crazy night. I took one drag out of curiosity & that was that !! I won't do that again.

[Freeda]

I agree that it boils down to wanting to quit; having a strong enough motivation; because smoking is a very strong addiction. I started smoking while I was in law school; there was so much tedious reading, and I thought that smoking would curb my tendency to snack while studying. I planned that as soon as I graduated, in 3 years, I would just quit smoking, to avoid any health consequences. Well, eight years later, I was smoking up to 3 packs a day. (I guess I had overlooked that even after law school, law practice would require alot of complicated and stressful reading). (Smoking 3 packs a day had occurred because I had switched to the 'low tar' cigarettes, since they were 'healthier' - what a joke that was; what happened was that I just smoked more cigarettes than ever, because I still craved the nicotine fix, so I gradually increased from 1 to up to 3 packs per day).

After smoking (but I did 'cut down'!) through two pregnancies (something that I now can only view as totally shocking to have done) in the early '80s, and luckily having had two healthy babies, I lost my third child in a mid-trimester (very rare) miscarriage; and of course, I had been heavily smoking throughout that pregnancy, too.

I was devastated by grief, which was worsened by my guilt and shame, as I felt then, and still do, that my smoking was a big factor - possibly the only factor - in losing this child. I still can't tell this story without tears. I decided that at least something 'good' would come out of this tragedy, and that I would stop smoking; and that I wouldn't get pregnant another child unless I had stopped smoking. It still took me a few stops and starts, but within a few months I had stopped. I later had my perfectly healthy third child.

I am telling this story because it illustrates the idea of having a strong reason for quitting; and because it might help someone - maybe some of you have daughters or nieces who smoke.

I did go to an American Cancer Society stop smoking clinic, which had good education and pointers, such as to carry cinnamon sticks as a 'cigarette substitute'.

[another Linda]

Wow, Freeda! What a story. I started smoking when I was 17 and just starting college -- made me look more sophisticated -- what a joke! And i smoked heavily through 4 pregnancies. I was lucky but especially so were my kids. I had tried many times to stop and it finally took pneumonia and a week in ICU. That was 1990 and my youngest was only 10. Still, if I hadn't run out of cigarettes, if I had been able to talk anyone into buying them for me, I would have taken them to the ICU oxygen and all. For several years I used to dream that I started smoking again. Luckily the dreams always horrified me and I was never tempted to start again. I figure it took being so sick that I almost, but not quite, died. It was a chance in a life time and I don't want to blow it.