Smoking Cessation Mindshifts


A deep exploration of Smoking Cessation Intervention for Hypnotists and NLPers
Over 4.5 hours of audio material exploring my approach to
Smoking Cessation with Hypnosis, NLP and Beyond...


Hi there, James Tripp here - welcome to the information page for this unique audio program!

First off - I'm not going to write a lot of 'sales copy' about this material because it doesn't need it. If you are developing yourself as a hypnotist and/or NLPer, you probably already know how much practitioners command in fees for smoking cessation work. My fee is £250 and there are plenty who charge a LOT more than I do.

Being aware of this, you might have already decided that smoking cessation is something that is well be worth you getting good at... and you can!
About

Early in 2015 I invited a small group of interested practitioners to my then offices in Letchworth Garden City to partake in an exploration of my approach to running smoking cessation interventions. We spent the day getting deep into the key understandings, strategy, tactics and psychological subtleties of how I personally approach smoking cessation work within a hypnotherapy/NLP frame.

  "Awesome seminar on Smoking Cessation!  I was on the train home feeling as though I'd got more value in one day than most courses teach in an entire week!  Your work is definitely a cut above the majority of trainers in the field.  Can't wait to see what other courses you've got lined up for the year."
   Steve Kirton, Author of 'Ancient Secrets of the Mind'

As it was a small group event only, many people asked me if I would record it for wider release, so at the last minute I decided that I would. And it has taken me nearly a year to tidy up the recording and get it ready for release!

This result is Smoking Cessation Mindshifts - a 5 hour and 43 minute audio program on conducting effective smoking cessation interventions for those with some skill and grounding in NLP and Hypnosis (your specific background is not important here, so long as you have some skills and tools).

Through this audio exploration I am sharing with you the most effective understandings and approaches that I have utilized and developed across 7 years of working with smokers who are choosing to quit. I am not only sharing with you what I have found to work (and why), but also what I have found to be less useful too (some of which is exactly the kind of thing that some practitioners encourage).
Specific Content

There is a lot of material covered in this program! If you like specific details...


Part 1

   Blending Tools and Toolkits
   Success Rate Vs. Satisfaction Rate
   Readiness to Stop
   What you can promise the client?
   Unshakable Truths
   Building Methods You Never Use
   Take the Business Side Seriously
   Do Your Own Inner Work
   Fees
   Emphasis on Choice and Personal Power
   Influences and Sources
   Smoking Becomes embedded Into Lives
   Recommending Resources to Clients
   How I Escaped the Smoking Trap
   The Power of Psychoeduation
   4 Pillars - Understanding, Attitude, Decision, Tools and Resourcing
   The Smoking Trap
   Seeing the Trap Creates Choice
   Smoking is the Best Choice Based in Deep Misunderstandings
   The Decision and Inner Commitment
   Ambivalence Simple
   Assessment Questions
   What does the smoker consider it to be doing for him/her?
   Self Delusion, Understanding and Misunderstanding
   Listening to be Impacted - the 'place of maybe (conversational induction)
   Highly Coachable People
   The Key Attitude
   Rebalancing Sensations


Part 2

   Three Fundamental Principles (NOT 3P!)
   Deeper Into The Trap
   Decision Quality and Key Attitude
   Clarity on Your Role
   Decision Is Based In Understanding
   Mindshift vs Intellectual Comprehension
   The 'Hypnotic' Mode of Psychoeducation
   Serving the Client Vs. Serving the Ego
   Character Vs. Personality
   The Client Retains Ownership
   Managing First Contact with the Client
   Taking Charge of the Dynamic
   Knowing What You Want to Know
   Avoid Outcome Attachment
   Don't Sell... Serve!
   Grounding In Your Truth
   Price Shopper Mentality
   Assessing Readiness and Motivation
   The Cycle of Change
   The SHORT Path Out of the Trap
   Adapt the Interventions to Match the CoC Phase
   The 24 Hours Trick
   Seeding the Learning frame
   ANYONE Can Escape the Trap
   The Question of scripts
   Deep Trance
   Don't Artificially Amp Motivation
   The Power of Slowing Down
   Hypnotic Phenomena are Transient
   Exploring versus Pushing


Part 3

   People Make the Best Choices Given Their Understanding
   No Shift, No Change
   Understanding Underpins State
   Undermining the Motivation to Smoke
   Three Powerful Questions - Getting Clear ‘nos’
   Owning Addiction
   Flipping the script
   Smokers Logic and Self Deception
   The Two Aspects of the Smoking Trap - Biological and Psychological
   The Big Monster and the Little Monster
   Addiction is a Bio-Psycho-Social Phenomenon
   The Mechanics of the Biological Side
   Addiction and Fulfilment
   Dopamine Resistance
   Overcoming the Natural Response to Poison
   It Takes Will and Commitment to Become a Smoker
   An Aside on Porn Addiction
   Synapses and Neurotransmitters
   Nicotinic Receptors and Acetylcholine
   ‘Neuro System’ vs ‘Nervous System’
   Disequilibrium and Rebalancing
   Understanding Rebalancing Sensation
   The Wanting of an Alien Entity
   Thinking Shapes Experience
   Proactivity in Transition
   Inverting Beliefs
   Smoking is a Stressor Not a Calmer
   Tight Shoes metaphor
   The Concentration Myth
   The Danger of Cutting Down
   Disabusing the ‘Enjoyment’ Myth
   The Myth of ‘Just One Cigarette’
   Smoking is a Chain Reaction
   You Cannot Reach True Wellbeing as a Smoker
   There is NOTHING to Give Up
   Pity the Smoker
   Substitues - Don't Feed the Beast
   Why Nicotine Patches Are Never 'Satisfying' to the Smoker
   The Myth of The Right Time
   Deeper Issues


Part 4

   The Decision Revisited
   The “I’m Done With That” Installation
   The “Something In Your Past” Suggestion
   Embodying the I that Chooses
   Cultural Hypnosis
   Changing Patterns vs Transcending Patterns
   'Quality of Consciousness' Does Not Mean ‘Being On Guard’
   Inner Stance - Where Are You Coming from?
   The Language of Ownership
   Choice Versus Constraint
   Let the Client Feel the Languaging
   Variations between sessions Working on Skype Learning through receiving
   embedding the Desired Internal Dialogue
   A Yes Set
   "Don't Mope"
   Use of ‘Don’t’ Refined
   Ideas Being Seeded Vs. Commands Being Given
   Tapping Into Fundamental Human Values
   Multilevel Communication and Pantamiming
   Use of Anchors
   Don’t Let the Tool Take the Power From the Client
   Giving Tools the Scope to be Less Than Perfect
   The Programming metaphor Puts Clients ‘At Effect’
   First Phone Call - Beginning to End Run Through
   The Three Session Format
   Coaching From Understandings vs Teaching Understandings
   On the Path vs Drifting
   Miscellaneous Tools
   Trigger Specific Work
   Mental Challenge Preparation
   Dilts Levels in Mental Preparation
   A Breathing Visualisation
   Working Directly With Rebalancing Sensations
   Unconscious Buy-In
   Trancework
   High Mood Therapy Vs. Low Mood Therapy
   Shifting from the Personal to the General
   SMS Text Work and 'Thought Bombs'
   Variations Between Sessions
   Working on Skype

Q: Will I be learning scripts?

A: No, you will not be learning scripts or specific techniques. The program is all about principles and deep understanding. When you understand, you don't need scripts.

Q: Will I be able to use the material covered straight way?

A: You will be able to use what you learn straight away, providing you have the skills to run hypnosis and NLP processes. The big part of smoking cessation work lies in understanding and attitude more than techniques.

Q: Is there a manual or transcript?

A: At the moment, this is an exclusively audio only program.

Q: Are you a smoking cessation specialist?

A: No. I work with behavioral change across the board so smoking cessation work (and other addictions work) is just part of what I do.

Q: What is your success rate?

A: I have a high success rate (it's been a while since I worked with someone who failed to quit) BUT, to be clear traditionally I speak to everyone I work with before I work with them, and if they are not 100% committed to quitting smoking I don't usually work with them. This is explored fully in the program, along with a recent change id strategy and direction. What the client brings is important, as is your ability to assess that. If you are looking for a method that has a high success rate with uncommitted people - good luck!