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  your remarkable recovery from smoking
  hypnosis (everything you wanted to know)
  stopping: what works, what doesn't
  smoking and fertility
  dark secrets of the tobacco industry

your recovery

The moment you become a non-smoker your body will begin a remarkable recovery process.

Within days you will notice you have more energy and breathing is easier. Your lungs start clearing out mucus and other smoking debris. After that your risks of lung cancer and heart disease reduce until they become the same as those of someone who has never smoked.

Read about the extraordinary recovery (Adobe .pdf 66kb) your body is ready and waiting to make.

hypnosis

Read everything you want to know about hypnosis (Adobe .pdf 162kb) and how it can help you. This is an excellent guide (in pdf format) written by Uncommon Knowledge, an organisation dedicated to practical psychology.

what works, what doesn't

One of the largest pieces of research on the effectiveness of smoking cessation approaches (combining 600 studies covering 72,000 people) concluded that hypnosis is by far the most effective. Success rates were found to be:

willpower: 6%
self-help books: 9%
nicotine gum: 10%
hypnosis: up to 60%

The success rate for hypnosis can be significantly increased when it is combined with cognitive therapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming - as it is in the MindSpa program. Read how one in five people have given up smoking (Adobe .pdf 50kb) in a New Scientist article (pdf).

smoking and fertility

We have successfully treated many couples who are trying for a family. And women at different stages of pregnancy. They are aware of the risks they take if they continue to smoke and want to give their children the best chance.

A report on smoking & reproductive life (Adobe .pdf 284kb) published in 2004 by the British Medical Association has highlighted these risks and concludes that smoking damages almost all aspects of sexual, reproductive and child health.

The scale of damage that smoking causes is shocking. Almost everything that could go wrong with conception, pregnancy, childbirth and child health has an increased risk from parental smoking. And it's not just women who are affected: smoking is a major cause of male sexual impotence.

For more information download the full BMA report (Adobe .pdf 420kb).

dark secrets

In April 2000 the Health Select Committee of the UK parliament obtained internal documents from the tobacco industry’s main UK advertising agencies. Read what they think of smokers in the report Keep Smiling: No one's going to die.

Remember this is an industry that makes the only commercially available product that, used correctly, can kill you. An industry that can kill its customers and not worry because there are always new smokers - usually teenagers - to replace the ones that die.

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