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Smoking Cessation Success,

with Stop Smoking Seattle Hypnosis! 

These are testimonials from real people in our Greater Seattle metropolitan area who have quit smoking with hypnosis, just like you can now:

"I'm going to tell you a bit about my success with Hypnosis.  I was a smoker.  I smoked about a pack a day at the worst days.  I had coughs, and unhappy mornings when I 'had to have' my cigarette...Before meeting with Connie Brannan, I was struggling with not smoking.  After I walked out of her office, I didn't have to struggle anymore.  Now, THREE MONTHS later, I am still a proud, successful nonsmoker.  Not only was this treatment relaxing, I learned tools that were practical for me.  Whenever I had a craving, I applied her useful tools to my moment-to-moment cravings for what I once had.  I feel great, and I have no desire to smoke cigarettes.  Connie, you have no idea how much of a difference, and how many years you helped add on to my life.  Many, many thanks!

-- Samantha Woolsey, Kirkland, WA

And more:

"It's been 7 days since my first session with you, and I haven't touched a cigarette!  Thanks for your help.  I feel great and less stressed.  My lungs feel younger!"

-- John W., Bellevue, WA

And a follow up report:

"Hi, Connie, I just wanted to share news with you that it is almost a month since I smoked my last one.  I feel so clean, energized, refined and all good stuff I dreamed of.  Thank you once again!"

-- John W., Bellevue, WA

John O.  of Bellevue, WA, quit after one session.  His comment:  "You're good!"

"Hi Connie, Alan the former smoker here!  Well, not very surprisingly I am now a tobacco free person.  On the 1st of April (the day I had marked in my time line) I woke up realizing that I had been dreaming and what I was dreaming was your voice doing an intervention.  Cool huh.  Just thought you would like to know.

-- Alan A., Lynnwood

Diane B. had smoked 3 packs a day for 20-plus years.  She successfully quit after one powerful Mindworks Hypnosis session!  (You can, too!)

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The truth about cigarettes: 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lays out how cigarettes can harm your health:  Cancer, Heart Disease, Respiratory Disease

Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body; causing many diseases and reducing the health of smokers in general. The adverse health effects from cigarette smoking account for an estimated 438,000 deaths, or nearly 1 of every 5 deaths, each year in the United States.  More deaths are caused each year by tobacco use than by all deaths from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined.

Cancer

• --Cancer is the second leading cause of death and was among the first diseases causally linked to smoking.
• --Smoking causes about 90% of lung cancer deaths in men and almost 80% of lung cancer deaths in women. The risk of dying from lung cancer is more than 23 times higher among men who smoke cigarettes, and about 13 times higher among women who smoke cigarettes compared with never smokers.
• --Smoking causes cancers of the bladder, oral cavity, pharynx, larynx (voice box), esophagus, cervix, kidney, lung, pancreas, and stomach, and causes acute myeloid leukemia.
• --Rates of cancers related to cigarette smoking vary widely among members of racial/ethnic groups, but are generally highest in African-American men.

Cardiovascular Disease (Heart and Circulatory System)

• --Smoking causes coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States. Cigarette smokers are 2–4 times more likely to develop coronary heart disease than nonsmokers.
• --Cigarette smoking approximately doubles a person's risk for stroke.
• --Cigarette smoking causes reduced circulation by narrowing the blood vessels (arteries). Smokers are more than 10 times as likely as nonsmokers to develop peripheral vascular disease.
• --Smoking causes abdominal aortic aneurysm.

Respiratory Disease and Other Effects

• --Cigarette smoking is associated with a tenfold increase in the risk of dying from chronic obstructive lung disease.  About 90% of all deaths from chronic obstructive lung diseases are attributable to cigarette smoking.
• --Cigarette smoking has many adverse reproductive and early childhood effects, including an increased risk for infertility, preterm delivery, stillbirth, low birth weight, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
• --Postmenopausal women who smoke have lower bone density than women who never smoked. Women who smoke have an increased risk for hip fracture than never smokers.

Cigarette smoke is a cocktail of poisonous chemicals, which include:

• sixty-nine cancer-causing chemicals, such as benzene, arsenic, cadmium, radioactive polonium-210, and formaldehyde, and also other poisons such as carbon monoxide, ammonia and hydrogen cyanide that can lead to heart disease and other illnesses.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the following carcinogens are found in cigarette smoke:

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But...the good news is:  Once you've quit your body quickly repairs itself.

•  Blood pressure decreases

• Pulse rate drops

• Body temperature of hands and feet increases.

• Carbon monoxide level in blood drops to normal

• Oxygen level in blood increases to normal

• Chance of a heart attack decreases

• Nerve endings begin re-growth
• Your ability to smell and taste improves

• Circulation improves
• Walking becomes easier
• Lung function increases

• coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue, shortness of breath

Your excess risk of coronary heart disease is decreased to half that of a smoker.

• From 5 to 15 years after quitting tobacco, stroke risk is reduced to that of people who have never smoked.

• Risk of lung cancer drops to as little as one-half that of continuing smokers
• Risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney, and pancreas decreases
• Risk of ulcers decreases

• Risk of coronary heart disease is now similar to that of people who have never smoked
• Risk of death returns to nearly the level of people who have never smoked

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You know you want to quit now.  And you can!  We can help!  We at Mindworks Hypnosis are specialists and experts, and quitting smoking is surprisingly easy--with the awesome power of hypnosis.  Compare the success rates (below) of the top stop smoking methods, and see how hypnosis stacks up! 

Nicotine Replacement Therapy/Patches and gum  - 7%

Will power alone  - 6-11%

Herbal remedies, Lozenges, Nasal sprays, Herbal cigarettes, Inhalers -  2-5%

Prescription drugs - 20%

Acupuncture - 24%

HYPNOSIS! - 60%

"The most effective way of giving up smoking."  That's right!  This is the best method available, says New Scientist, the world's #1 science & technology news service, in their issue 1845, 31 October 1992, page 6. 

To find the most effective way to give up smoking, researchers carried out a meta-analysis, statistically combining the results of more than 600 smoking cessation studies covering almost 72 000 people from across the globe.  By combining the results from so many separate studies, the meta-analysis enables the real effectiveness of each technique to be seen.  The results are clear:  the use of clinical hypnosis for smoking cessation is the most effective approach to becoming smoke-free in existence!  And, one of the least expensive!

Since the American Medical Association approved the use of clinical hypnosis in the 1950's, hundreds of thousands of people have found hypnosis to be an effective way to stop smoking, and improve their lives.  You can, too!

Call now for your free consultation or to schedule that last cigarette:  (425) 564-8608.

Connie and Michael Brannan are active members in good standing of several professional hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming™ organizations including the IAPCH, International Association of Professional Conversational Hypnotherapists, the NGH, National Guild of Hypnotists, the NGHWA, Washington chapter of the National Guild of Hypnotists, the Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming™, and the IHA, International Hypnosis Association.

MINDWORKS HYPNOSIS - The Smoking Cessation Specialists
http://www.mindworkshypnosis.net