Background: A smoker for over 30 years, had tried patches, gum fake cigarettes, will power, hypnosis etc. Was becoming very desperate and had about given up giving up.

Treatment: We worked through the protocol as described in the smoking section on this site. This seemed to help allot but would always give way after a couple of days. After some exploring of the reasons behind this it was discovered she had a fear of success. After treating this, and the associated problem of being scared that people would think that she thought she was better than them by succeeding, the shift was made.

Results: After the first session she no longer enjoyed smoking and could not understand why she carried on. It was not until working on her fear of success that the major change was made. For the first time ever in her history of quitting she got up and threw her remaining cigarettes in the bin. She then knew she had the strength to succeed, even though it was no longer going to be any effort.