Products Archives: How to Stop Anyone Smoking

Claudia Goodell

The “How to Stop Anyone Smoking” Course by Uncommon Practitioners provides a comprehensive and powerful framework plus all the tools necessary to work with clients who smoke. It presents a psychologically supported approach like none other. The instructional videos and educational materials are clear and concise, the psychological framework and strong use of metaphor is supported by the sample scripts. I thoroughly enjoyed the online course and feel a greater sense of confidence in my ability to help a client stop smoking.

The psychology behind this approach and the strong use of metaphor is what resonated most with me. Separating the smoking/cigarettes from the client, teaming with the client against the smoking/cigarettes, helping them understand it doesn’t fit with who they are at the core, and the strong metaphor examples provide powerful structure. The use of reframing and utilization of their rebellion against the smoking are simple to apply. I appreciate that you included the scripts, but encourage personalization with each client. The videos and module tests provide such added value in the learning process, and although I wasn’t able to participate in the group sessions I am sure these are tremendously helpful as well.

The materials and tests were straightforward, and I was able to complete it in a few days. I can see how the script collection can readily be used for other addictions, or even other issues with slight modifications. I also gained some insight from watching the style of hypnosis used on the videos, and the techniques taught in this course are universal and can be used for most clients. I would highly recommend this course to anyone who works with or plans to help clients who wish to stop smoking.

John Henry James Strehlow

I can’t recommend this course strongly enough. Having been a smoker many years ago, I only gave up because it was obviously killing me. At the time hard information about how one gets inveigled into this self-destructive behaviour was not available. This course unravels the confusions and the self-deception in masterful fashion and is an education in itself.

I enabled him to see smoking in a totally different light

This program enabled me to help a very successful businessman stop smoking after eight failed attempts on his own over ten years. He came to me fully aware of all the harmful and poisonous effects of smoking but that alone was not motivation enough! Using the information from this program, I enabled him to see smoking in a totally different light and that provided all the motivation he needed to be successful!

Lynda Roberts

The course I originally did was heavy going and focussed on telling the client about all the damage he/she was doing. This course focusses on reframing and the positives – very refreshing and feels far more up to date. One client who said cigarettes were his best friends said after the session that they were now boring!

Anni Casey

I found the course fantastic, it really explained the psychology and physiology of smoking/smokers. After the course I studied all your scripts in depth and formulated a foundation script that I work from. My session lasts 1.5 hrs and I have had a 100% success rate after only 1 session. My confidence grew after the first few successes and this does make a difference in how you go into a session (I still listen to your audio “success with smokers” at least once every few weeks. The positive re-framing flows more easily now when people are doubting if the therapy will work.

Feel good story (this was my 2nd client and it still makes me feel good every time I tell it). Jim came to see me a couple of months after I did the course. He was 74 and had been smoking since he was 14; he was up to 2 packets (40 cigs) per day. He had a multitude of health concerns and finally decided that he had to stop smoking in an effort to alleviate at least some of these concerns.

Jim had one 1.5 hour session with me and left my clinic as a non smoker. I saw him a couple of weeks later for a short follow up, not because he had resumed smoking but because he was fidgeting as he didn’t know what to do with his hands. I phoned him a few times as a follow up to see how his health was – he was enjoying regaining his health.

A year or so after his session, I received a postcard from Jim from Rome, with a big “Thank You!”. He said that he diligently placed the money he would have spent on cigarettes each week into an bank account (cigarettes in Australia cost around $20 for a pack of 20). In this time he had saved around $20,000 (a staggering revelation). It was the first time that he and his wife had afforded to travel and they had always wanted to go to Italy. He has been to see me for some healing sessions since his return – looking healthy and with the grin of a Cheshire cat! He is a great example that it is never too late to give up cigarettes and take up living again.

Dr. Simon Maryan MM

At the end of last year I signed up for Uncommon Knowledge’s How To Stop Anyone Smoking online course. I have been a hypnotist for many years now and a practising therapist for about 10 and I found the approach in this course enlightening as it steps away from the norm, which is exactly why I really liked it. Having tested it out on several new clients, I can hand on heart say that it creates an excellent environment for building rapport and trust, it allows clients to explore the relationship with cigarettes from a very different angle and really digs into the fabric of the habit and lifts the wool that has been covering clients’ eyes. I can highly recommend it for any new or existing hypnotherapists as an awesome tool to add to your kit.

Vicky Tunaley

I loved the How to Stop Anyone Smoking course – it really gave me lots of new information and material to think about. I like the different ways the material is presented – some audio, some written and some video – and because you can go through things over and over again it is much more useful than traditional classroom teaching. Definitely worth doing.

Nikko Ruffini

Absolutely recommended! The greatest challenge facing most therapists is the application of theory. We know what to do, but often stumble when it comes to actually DOING it effectively. This program bridges the gap between theory and application, encapsulating a powerful, forthright, and successful approach that was shockingly easy to incorporate into my practice.

You designed the course with the user in mind, and it was blessedly free of academic psych-babble. I recently completed my MA in social psychology and my eyes now glaze over the moment I read dry academic rambling. This program was incredibly well written (a course that’s actually for humans!!).

Uncommon U has utterly transformed the way I do therapy. Not that it’s about comparison to others, but I’m enjoying a much faster and higher rate of success than other therapists I graduated with. A client who was addicted to opiates (OxyContin) has now been clean for a month. His health, vitality, and mood have improved a hundredfold. As an interesting side effect of our three sessions together, he is also noticing a dramatic reduction in anxiety and has also quit smoking. This has been the most all-encompassing victory in my career as a therapist so far.

Uncommon U has been a priceless resource. Much respect to you and your team, all the best!!

Sara McCann

Having completed a number of online and offline courses (in marketing, hypnotherapy, and smoking cessation), I was anxious about beginning another that might leave me still feeling like a piece of the puzzle was missing.

There are no missing puzzle pieces in this course! From start to finish every detail is explained to you and provided to you in audio, video, and transcript. The support you receive for anything that might have been missed (and you’ll struggle to find much that isn’t covered) is second to none.

The team are there to respond in a very helpful and friendly way. They respond quickly and go to great lengths to help as much as possible. I was bowled over by that in particular, as with online courses it can often feel distant. Usually, most companies take your money, give you the material…and then really don’t give a damn if you ‘get it’ or not. Not so with the team at Uncommon U! They care, they really care…and by the end of it you feel like you know them personally, which is very refreshing.

This is by far the best course I have done in smoking cessation. I thought I knew it all and that there was no other approach possible…I didn’t! I have now completely turned around the way I deal with smoking clients. I used to panic about dealing with smokers, I would be anxious that I wouldn’t be able to push them away from smoking and then dread the phone ringing for days after seeing them and hearing those dreaded words…”it didn’t work”…

Uncommon U have shown me a far better way to approach smoking cessation, a way that puts me on the same side as the client so I am working with them, not against them as I was before. They have provided me with everything I need in this course to provide the very best of care, support, and help to smokers and also helped me to feel completely different about that phone ringing! I can’t praise this course or the team highly enough.

Frederick

The stop anyone smoking course was just so different from anything else. So well presented and understandable. It’s not so much that it stops people smoking, as it stops people from BEING a smoker. That’s the difference this course has.

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