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John Bell, the author of this ground-breaking smoking cessation technique, was engaged by a large pharmaceutical company to research methods that general practitioners could use to help patients stop smoking. He set about identifying the methods senior healthcare professionals had used that brought success. Described in the following article is an overview of his findings. Findings that are so powerful, that if followed in a logical sequence, the author guarantees you will stop smoking.



Stop Smoking Advice

Let me ask you a few question. If you were invited to invest one day of your time in discovering how to improve your quality of life dramatically for the better, if it was explained to you why, despite all of the expert medical advice in the world, you continued on along a path you, deep down, suspect will bring about your early demise, if it were made clear to you in simple, un-patronising terms, why you behave the way you do and then you were assisted to change your way of thinking, permanently, with the minimum of effort on your part, would you be prepared to take, at least, that first step on a journey of discovery and change?

If any of your answers are ‘No’ to the above, thank you for your time and have a nice day.

If on the other hand, any of your answers to the above questions were ‘Yes’, and you are a smoker, or know someone who is a smoker, and would like to help them stop, then please read on and let me make your day.

Hello, and congratulations on taking the decision to continue. You have already taken the first step to quit smoking!

Let’s get on. A good place to begin is, yes you have it already, at the beginning. Smoking, and the problems associated with it, are not new. Intelligent people have been smoking tobacco for thousands of years.

The tobacco plant has been growing in the Americas since around 6000 BC. Christopher Columbus described witnessing a man with a hoard of tobacco leaves who used them to trade, way back in 1492.

That same year the first record of a European, a Spaniard named Jerez, is chronicled as setting alight to leaves wrapped in paper, and then proceeding to inhale the resulting smoke.

Being a Spaniard, around the time of the infamous Spanish Inquision, he was immediately placed behind bars for what was considered unholy behaviour. On his release he discovered a smoking ‘craze’ had taken over the country. A ‘craze’ that now has worldwide popularity.

The term ‘craze’ suggests smokers are crazy. As a former heavy smoker (40 a day), I do not believe I was either insane or demented.

I take great solace that one of the most intelligent men of the twentieth century, namely Albert Einstein, was also a heavy smoker. So smoking has little to do with intelligence.

So why do people smoke when they know of the likely consequences? Some years back, a large pharmaceutical company engaged me to research the methods that doctors and nurses used to help their patients to stop smoking. There were few then and little has changed.

What I did discover during my research was a phenomenon recognised and accepted by healthcare professionals that helped me unlock the mystery as to why intelligent, well-educated people, smoke despite a wealth of evidence showing smoking kills. That phenomenon is called The Placebo Effect and is connected with the way the human mind is programmed.

There is no greater power than that of the human mind. Although we increasingly rely on computers, the human mind has a far greater capacity for processing information. It has facilities no computer can match.

I wrote this article using voice recognition software. The computer types the words I speak, and even checks the spelling and grammar. It sometimes even offers suggestions for the completion of a sentence. Over time, it gets better at recognising my voice. Clever - certainly. Impressive - yes. Intelligent - absolutely not!

As yet, no computer is capable of original thought. I believe that when computers acquire the ability to think in ways more like the human brain, then our real problems as humankind will surely begin. Computers will potentially be capable of dominating the world and our lives could change dramatically.

Until that time we need to rely on our own brainpower. It is a fact that we use only a fraction of this power, and if we can learn to use more of the huge potential of our own brains we can achieve many things we might have thought impossible. This includes smoking cessation.

This article is primarily about describing how the human brain works, why individuals begin smoking in the first place and then fail to quit despite dire warnings as to the consequences if they fail to do so. By learning the mechanics of thought we can tap into an enormous, often dormant power and in so doing escape the clutches of nicotine. So what is the Placebo Effect?

During my research I discovered that before each and every medication produced by pharmaceutical companies can be offered for sale it has to be thoroughly tested. One such test is to measure the effectiveness of the medication against a control, known as a placebo. A placebo, in this context, is a medicine, pill or potion that has absolutely no medicinal qualities whatever. In effect, it is a ‘sugar pill.’

It has long been recognised that if a patient truly believes that a pharmacologically inactive substance has an ability to cure, then, amazingly, it can, and often does. Research has shown that the power of the human mind has the ability to make people better. To do so, some change takes place in the brain.

The mind consistently proves that it can control the body. That is why smoking is not only a mental addiction it is a physical one too.

The subconscious part of the brain is like a sponge. It absorbs information uncritically. This is why, when a smoker’s conscious mind initially instructs the brain to performs certain functions, the subconscious sets up a system that puts the required behaviour into a ‘standing order file’. Have a cup of coffee, have a fag, wake up in the morning, have a fag etc. The difficulty for most smokers is that once the subconscious has set up a standing order there has, up until now, been great difficulty in changing that instruction.

Here lies at the root of the problem as to why some people seem to quit smoking with little effort whilst others fight one losing battle of willpower after another.

As you are likely to know nicotine is very addictive. Willpower alone is rarely sufficient to enable a smoker to quit. These were two of the major findings in my research but were of little help in my quest to help people quit smoking. A mayor breakthrough came when I linked those findings to some other research I had embarked on some years before.

Whilst working as a stage hypnotist I had discovered that we can find ways to convince the mind that certain things are true and by doing so we have a route that opens up enormous possibilities. These routes I discovered are in the subconscious.

Quite simply I realised it is possible to directly influence the subconscious – yours and that of other people – by using inert, harmless, placebo-like techniques. With the use of certain procedures I found I could enter the subconscious minds of others and redirect signals used to control human behaviour.

There is a saying ‘It’s easy to stop smoking – I’ve done it hundreds of time’. That was so true for me as a smoker of forty a day. When I thought back to the method I used when I finally quit smoking it was connected to a direct influence I placed in my subconscious.

Let me explain a little more. The subconscious has an enormous influence on our thinking and thence our actions.

The human brain is made up of an estimated 75,000,000,000 nerve cells known as neurons, and each neuron is believed to have up to 100,000 connections, known as synapses, to other neurons. Many of these cells are found in the subconscious part of the brain.

Here is where the problem lays for so many smokers who want to quit but find they are unable to do so. Imagine these neurons and synapses as being similar to junction points found on railway lines. Your conscious mind says ‘Don’t smoke’ whilst the subconscious, which by definition you are not conscious of, continues to pass the message ‘time for a fag I think’.

Having the ability to manipulate those synaptic signals gives some indication as to the Power of Placebo and why redirecting unwanted messages to the mind’s trash bin and then cancelling subconscious standing orders makes such perfect sense.

So now you know why smokers often have so much trouble in quitting smoking. It has little to do with willpower or intelligence and much to do with the need to redirect subconscious signals to the trash bin whilst cancelling standing orders set up years before.

The next stage I suggest is for you to find someone willing and able to carry out the subconscious maintenance that is required and recommended. Visit www.stopspmoking.synthasite.com to learn more.