Stop Smoking - Beechwood Therapy

I guess that I don’t need to spell out all the negative aspects of what smoking does to the human body, well not all the well known ones like lung cancer, bronchitis, emphysema, coronary artery disease, heart disease, throat cancer and cancer of the mouth and tongue.

A Dr Douglas Model in 1985 added the term “smokers’ face” to the medical dictionary after conducting a survey (published in the British Medical Journal). He found during his studies the distinctive characteristics of a “smokers face” tended to make people look older than they are and were present in roughly half of the smokers he surveyed, irrespective of the patient’s age, social class, exposure to sunlight, recent change in weight and estimated lifetime consumption of cigarettes.

Lines or wrinkles on the face, typically radiating at right angles

from the upper and lower lips or corners of the eyes, deep lines

on the cheeks or numerous shallow lines on the cheeks and lower

jaw.

A subtle gauntness of the facial features with prominence of the

underlying bony contours. Fully developed this change gives the

face an 'athersclerotic' look; (sic. a bit like choked up blood

vessels). Lesser changes show as slight sinking of the cheeks.

In some cases these changes are associated with a leathery,

worn or rugged appearance. An atrophic, slightly pigmented grey

appearance of the skin.

A plethoric, slightly orange, purple and red complexion different

from the purple blue colour of cyanosis or the bloated appearance

associated with pseudo-Cushing's changes of alcoholism.

Even if there are some technical terms in there we may need to look up, we get the general gist!

If you cut yourself, you don’t stay cut, you mend. If you get an illness, even a self-inflicted one, your body is going to make vigorous attempts to repair cells and tissues as fast and efficiently as it can.

Teresa has found that by using a combination of EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and Hypnotherapy, clients very quickly overcome the craving and replace it with the strong feeling that they are eliminating something that isn’t wanted.

The vast majority of people find it much easier to stop than they had ever imagined could be possible.

If at any time you become irritable, grouchy, grumpy or return to smoking within 3 months then you can return for a further session at no extra cost.

Just sometimes, clients come for smoking cessation therapy and there are many other stressful events that are occurring in their lives or it becomes apparent that there is a lot of anxiety and emotion attached to the habit of smoking. In these cases it may be more appropriate to deal with these issues first before the stop smoking session to optimise a successful outcome. Teresa has found from her experience that this approach to smoking cessation is more beneficial generally for success and usually the client comes to the same conclusion when they have had the opportunity to explore exactly what their goals are.