| Pills for stop-smoking treatment flood the news as | | | | Many successful natural stop-smoking practitioners |
| millions of smokers who want to quit search for a | | | | report success rates with the 70-95% range for |
| cure. | | | | ex-smokers staying stopped a year after the |
| There is a new wonder pill that the newspapers are | | | | treatment. |
| getting very excited about. And the highly-acclaimed | | | | And you do not have to believe everything they say. |
| clinical research says it worked for about 50% of the | | | | Let us say for the sake of argument, that these stop |
| cases. Great! | | | | smoking practitioners were lying through their teeth. Let |
| Hold on a minute... | | | | us assume that their figures were only 50%. Guess |
| That's about a 50% failure rate! | | | | what? That would make their treatment better than |
| Would you really call something that has only a 50/50 | | | | the Wonder Pill because it delivered the same result |
| chance of working a Wonder Drug, a Miracle Cure? | | | | without the side-effects. Interesting thought indeed. |
| Yet not only do many hapless smokers fall for this | | | | Another thing that should alert the reader of Wonder |
| hype, but all these Wonder Drugs have side effects. | | | | Pill PR is the absence of guarantees. Many natural |
| A newly-emerging field rapidly gaining recognition is | | | | stop-smoking practitioners are happy to back their |
| that of Energy Psychology. This involves removing the | | | | treatment up by a guaranteed support or full |
| psychological reasons why someone smokes plus | | | | money-back guarantee. Now where do you see the |
| re-balancing the body for a long lasting result free from | | | | pharmaceuticals doing the same? |
| side-effects. | | | | There are many ways to stop smoking. Hypnotherapy, |
| So where are the figures, I hear you say? | | | | Energy Psychology (EFT being the most popular), NLP, |
| Most stop-smoking Energy Psychology therapists are | | | | pills, patches, gum, and acupuncture, to name the most |
| self-employed private therapists who simply do not | | | | popular. Whichever method works for you or those |
| have the financial means to run clinical research to | | | | you care about is great. And if maximum results can |
| prove their success rate. Nor the huge PR budgets of | | | | be achieved with minimum disruption to your body, all |
| the pharmaceutical giants. | | | | the better. |