I know I can still be - at least - shock induced, thanks to a friend who only has experience in stage hypnosis, but he didn't have a script available at the time to even attempt anything useful.
Any thoughts? For a few weeks there, I was down to four cigs a day, (after meals and bedtime - no before-breakfast craving) but after the induction resistance started, I quickly picked back up to pack a day. I'd love to do some of the training out there and learn to help others, but I don't want to be like the hypnotherapist I decided against using several years ago; he was a morbidly obese smoker who advertised primarily stop smoking, lose weight and exercise motivation sessions. (I'm in much better shape than he was, but still...)
Things I've considered but not yet tried yet;
- Splicing together my own session, with a much longer induction. (I have noticeably gone under using a session with a very long, monotonous induction before it even gets to the serious deepeners. Maybe I just get bored trying to analyze something that repetitive and let it happen.) Would it be unethical *for personal use only* to edit my own longer induction or another session's induction into one of the commercially available recorded sessions? Some of them have good scripts, they just leave me staring at the ceiling or examining the light leaks of my eyelids without any recognizable trance state. I've also tried playlisting this session, followed by different smoking cessation, but it's a mild insomnia session, so apparently I'm already devolved to normal sleep when the next session starts, and gain nothing detectable from it.
- Recording from scratch, using whatever script I feel is best for the suggestions. This seems like it might help, as I should get pretty bored with trying to analyze something I've already transcribed, then read into the recorder. OTOH, one would think I'd get bored with just listening to the same session several times, and let it happen.
- Using a local hypnotherapist. Not terribly comforting that all of them are primarily marriage and family counselors with any hypnotherapy mention way down in the fine print, no details of their training, and no mention of tobacco cessation. When I called each one, it was the same "...uh, sure...well, I've done it a couple of times." (A couple of times when your website hasn't even been updated in 3-5 years, so I know you've been advertising hypno for that long? Not even one stop smoking session a year?) And the answer to any question about training focused on their counseling credentials, and maybe a quick mention of 1-2 hypno certifications I've never heard of. (i.e. no HMI, Newton Institute, HTI, ACH, etc., just some random names that I strongly suspect have only a single person listed on the "about our instructors" page...or any other page on their GoDaddy site.)
- Traveling to another therapist. Maybe practical if I thought I could expect a solid result from a single session, (even just clearing the resistance to let the recordings work) but the time and cost demands of going 90+ miles each way mean that multiple sessions aren't going to be easy to manage.