Jump to full article: The Sentinel (This Is Staffordshire) (uk), 2009-09-22
Author: A H CAPPER Chesterton
Intro: I RECENTLY completed a masters degree at Keele University in which I looked into smokers who say they wish to quit yet cannot.
It relates to my work as a hypno-psychotherapist, but I have never actively sought out smokers to treat because there appeared to be plenty of free help available to them.
I think the NHS is doomed to a high degree of failure and is acting irresponsibly by offering nicotine gum and patches and pharmaceutical preparations to help people quit. . . .
Suggestions clients will find quitting impossible without the NHS's help will feed into the unconscious and make it almost impossible to give up.
It is bizarre that, in testing drugs, the medical profession takes stringent precautions to eliminate the effects of the "mind" when testing drug potency.
In admitting, therefore, that the "mind" can even override the effects of drugs, why not use it to help smokers quit, instead of relying entirely on pharmaceutical preparations, some of which can be dangerous, especially if misused?
What we need now is a new approach to smoking cessation, not government directives that their method is the only method to help smokers to quit.
We need properly-trained people to help smokers to stop.
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