As the reality of the UK smoking ban comes in to focus, more and more people are thinking seriously about giving up. It’s one thing I guess to nip outside of the restaurant for a quick drag between courses, but it’s another to be seperated from your lovely pint to stand in the rain outside a grotty old pub.
For me as a non-smoker I welcome the ban. It will mean that my clothes don’t smell like an ashtray after a night at the pub, however the lonely feeling I get sometimes in restaurants when all of my friends are standing outside sparking up, leaving me reading the blurb on the back of the bottle of Merlot, will likely be extended to every trip to a public house.
So I am pleased that I have my first smoking gig. Shortly I will be helping someone give up the evil weed using my newly certified Jedi powers. There is no one-way to “cure” a smoker. Richard Bandler - the Yoda of NLP does it in about ten minutes using a lot of trance, metaphors and swishing. I’ve seen Paul McKenna (probably the Obi Wan Kenobi of NLP in UK circles) do it with negative anchors and compulsion blowout, plus there’s probably a load of other stuff they can’t show on tv.
However I’ve found my own way and I’m ready to unleash it on the public. As previously discussed, I’ve done a load of research, spoken to some people already in the field about their own methods, and combined a whole bunch of techniques and ideas in to my own session that I’m looking forward to testing. Jenny is still waiting to see some “magic” before she believes that NLP actually works (I’m banned from doing any on her in case I mind control her like Derren Brown, I did point out that if I could do that, wouldn’t I already have her dancing around like a chicken? She wouldn’t believe me), and I would imagine that helping someone quit smoking would be magic enough, unless her map of the world adjusts to say it was just co-incidence…
