Hypnosis for Smoking!
 

Hypnosis doesnt work for everyone however it is good for around 85% of the population.
Gives excelllent results with more than a few addictions but for Smoking it is one of the best.
Reduces cravings and helps to change your mental attitude and unconscious minds contribution to the situation.
Remember that you can not do anything consiously without the unconscious mind's approval.
A combination of Hypnosis,NLP, unconsious minds education and goal directive therapy is the best combination. Produces an extremely high percentage of success.
A session normally last around three hours, so as you can see it's not an instant fix but a very controlled and deliberate session that is designed around the individual's needs and situation.

Cheers
HJ

Chantix banned by the FAA for pilots and ATC
 

FYI - the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has banned pilots and air traffic controllers from using the prescription anti-smoking drug CHANTIX® (varenicline), manufactured by Pfizer, after new information became available about possible side effects that could impact aviation safety. The action was taken after a medical safety group, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, released the results of a study that "found evidence for the occurrence of seizures, loss of consciousness, heart attacks, vision problems, and various psychiatric instabilities in individuals who use the drug."

FAA News Release about the Chantix ban.

The report that prompted the ban:

Strong Safety Signal Seen for New Varenicline Risks

Nicotine replacement (patch, gum, lozenges) are still allowed, of course.

Shame really, NICE did an appraisal of this drug recently, and it does seem to work well.
Having said that, there are other options.

CAA following suit . . . . . . .
 

All AME's have this morning received an e-mail from the Medical Dept of the CAA saying exactly the same. Any pilots or ATCO's taking this medication are temporarily grounded. May operate normally from 72 hours after the last dose taken.

CAA point out that ZYBAN is also not permitted, due to its side effect profile. However, nicotine replacements ( gum, patches, inhalers) ARE permitted in pilots and ATCO's.

As has been said many times. Just read Alan Carr's Easyway.

Tried to quit loads of times to no avail.

Then went from 40 per day to nil. No problems, and I can quite happily stand around while others smoke, without the slightest desire to join in!

It's a cheap book and there's nothing at all to lose.
:D

LJ

Whatever works...

I had a 40+ a day habit in 1996 and given a goal I wanted to achieve that was incompatible with smoking it forced me to take drastic (!) action.

Cold Turkey worked for me, it was not nice, not nice at all. In the end the intended goal plus the mind game of "loss" of time, in other words having a cigarette after 24H meant a waste of 24h, this became 48H.... to days..... to weeks...to months.... fortunately now years.

It came down to will power and that was very useful given I did not have to wonder about medication and the effect on my medical.

P.S. After a while it was brilliant not to be twitching at a social event wondering where the smoking corner/location was. :ok:

Smoking
 

Hello.
I'm new here and have a Class One exam at Gatwick this week.
Regrettably i have been smoking cigarettes for almost ten years and while i obviously feel fit, i am mainly concerned with the lung function testing.
During the past month I have reduced the amount I smoke from 20 to 10. Now I'm on 7-10 cigarettes a day with my exam in a few days.

I would love to go cold turkey until then but while i am keen for my body to dispel as much nicotine as possible, i am concerned about the side effects.
I don't want my anxiexty and pressure to increase further on the day and also i'm worried about coughing up (which is a common side effect of quitting).

Any reassurance or advice is most welcome.
Thank You.

QUIT! Tell him you just quit. Then do it.

Stupid bloody habit.

I don't know your age, but if you started in mid teens, the latest stats show that you are 300% more likely to die of cancer than someone that starts in their twenties. This came from good research by the way.


It's vital to beat the habit. I won't describe on this forum watching my neighbor kill himself. It was horrible, they cremated him the other day.

30 years of my mother's life was totally wrecked by smoking. It didn't kill her, but for years she wished it had. O2 bottles, nebulizers, hanging on to furniture to get across the room...it became just a way of life.

Do what 5LY says, stop, but tell them. They know that the cleaning out mechanisms will be working hard - for the first time in ages, and accept the resultant produce.

The honest answer is, if you're tender in age, and you havn't got any pre-existing disease, then passing a medical shouldn't be an issue. Fags or no fags.

You run a slight risk of dying of an'orribloe cancer in about twenty or thirty years, more of a risk of dying younger or being disabled by a stroke in mid life, or at best, living as long as Uncle Albert.

Thanks all for the response.
I know i should have quit ages ago and i know i will do.

I'm 27 now but started regularly smoking probably at 21 with the amount increasing through uni.
I've never had any experience of medicals and have only recently decided to pursue the actual career.
However, since then I've been reading off-putting stories where you're made to blow into tubes etc.. and some guy almost passing out in order for them to get a sufficient reading. Another guy having to run around a car park to get his breathing up to scratch :eek:

How difficult really is the lung assessment?

I can sort of understand your worries. I myself have asthma, and I was made to run round the car park :). I don`t think that the actual test is that difficult to be honest. I think for your age, they will have a set level which you have to reach. However like Gingernut said, providing you don`t have an existing lung disease, you`ll be fine. Ohh and another point about running around the car park, my lung function got better after the run !!

Keep us posted on how your medical goes, I am sure you will be fine. They are all very helpful down there !!

Kiev23

<<I know i should have quit ages ago and i know i will do.>>

If I have heard that once I must have heard it fifty thousand times from young people I worked with........ but it never happens and they're still coughing their lungs out whenever I see them. And you can smell them a mile off..

For God's sake DO something - NOW, not tomorrow or the next day.

Both my father and mother-in-law died as a result of smoking as a result of which my sons (now 37 and 40) would never even consider the habit. They didn't even allow their smoking-friends inside our house when they were young.

Quit Smoking
 

If you have an Iphone you can purchase this application "Quite Smoking Now with Max Kirsten" for about £5.00.

It worked for me - but you do need to really want to give up - it cant be a token gesture.

Good luck

Thanks once again to all for the advice and reassurance.

Yes "quitting" has been heard many a time but i remain adamant.
I can assure you it is harder to give up than it sounds. Not only is there the physical side to the addiction but such a habit gets firmly lodged in your mentality day to day.

I've gone from 20+ per day to around 5 and believe me that was difficult!
Admittedly not for a non-smoker or someone who has personally known unfortunate experience of ill-health around them.

Its also disheartening as all your weaknesses and self-esteem issues show up when trying to quit :{

I will attend the medical, and whatever the outcome should give me that final edge to kick the habit completely.

Regards and thanks again.

Quitting is a mind set. You have to decide that you're going to and then never consider having another one. If you torture yourself with it and think about it it's only a matter of time. You have to think of yourself as a non-smoker and then live it.

I quit and restarted several times before realizing that I could quit, I just couldn't stay quit. Once I figured that out it was just a mental adjustment to decide never to repeat the cycle. Save yourself some agony, pick a date, psyche yourself up, make yourself sick of them and then do it.

Everyone has their thoughts and beliefs about the best and easiest way to conquer smoking. I used to smoke - in fact I was really good at it. REALLY good at it! However I knew deep down that I didn't want to do it and was introduced to the book 'Alan Carr's EasyWay to give up smoking' it definately worked for me as well as my wife - but you HAVE TO WANT TO GIVE UP! I don't know what it is about this book that makes it work but it does. It even says that you should smoke while reading it! Google the title and you are bound to find used ones for sale. Ironically though, I believe Alan Carr died of lung cancer. I have now been smoke free for a number of years and have done a complete about face and am running marathons! From one addiction to another! Good luck!

Have to agree that it is very much a mental attitude. I have again stopped smoking! Have done several times before; gave it up for 10 years once. Problem is that it is sooo good.... that cigarette after a meal; relaxing in the evening, or even having one while being completely lost on one of those first cross countries (seemed to cool the nerves and settle things down a bit). Severly frowned upon now of course. It is very, very difficult to forget the pleasure. Cutting down doesn't work. I was down to less than 5 sometimes 2 a day. Problem was I kept looking at my watch looking forward to the next one.
What really pushed me over the top was the British Heart Foundation "Fatty Cigarettes" advert; absolutely disgusting and nauseating, highly recommended. Just think of one of the advert scenes when the desire creeps up and it completely (for me) dispels any craving. Oh the pleasure thoughts come back now and then (they will never ever completely disappear, but that's life, and not just cigarettes); however, they do fade slowly away.
Best of luck!

Second that about Alan Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking.

Just get the book and read it.

You'll be amazed.

I've read half and when I'm ready I'll read the rest and KNOW I'll never need/want to smoke again. Of course, the 'need' part is a complete myth but if you buy the book you'll very soon find that out for yourself...

It's an emotional and pleasurable experience to read it, literally almost spiritual I found, if you read it correctly and with an open mind.

Cannot recommend it strongly enough.

Hi all.
So had the class one medical today it it all went fine.
Unbelievably despite my lack of excercise and the dirrty habit, i passed the lung function with relative ease.

In fact I was told that my heamoglobin level was borderline and my cholesterol slightly high. There is a big chance that this is what the smoking could've contributed to.

so i guess the next step is to grab that Alan Carr book then pick a flying school.

Yeah i think i am ready to give up the tabs for good. i'm sure i want to.

ps- i totally fell for the young lady doctor with the nightingale effect. she was great.

Thanks to all you guys.
TO THE NEXT STEP....