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At last, the book that smokers have been waiting for. ‘Stop smoking easily and Transform your Life for good’! is a new book by Elliott Wald founder of the ‘EasyStop’ stop smoking method which helps you (1) To make your mind up to stop. (2)To stop and (3) Stay stopped for good.

The first section of the book is about making that all important decision to stop and committing to that decision. You have to really want to do it for yourself and not because you feel you ought to for the sake of your partner or children or because a medical professional is advising you to stop or because you are being ‘nagged’ or made to feel like a pariah by government bans and anti-smoking advertising.

The second section of the book focuses on how to go about stopping once you have made your mind-up to do it. There are many methods/approaches available to help you quit but the problem is that most don’t deal with both the physiological and psychological aspects of smoking. As Elliott says “it’s like cutting off the tops of the weeds and leaving the roots intact. When you stop in the right way, which involves a change in your ‘mindset’ and attitude towards smoking it can be easy, by pulling up the roots so that you can stay stopped for good. Staying stopped is dealt with in the final section of the book.

You can obtain a copy of the book from http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stop-Smoking-Easily-Transform-Your/dp/1934266051/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198359405&sr=8-1

The smoking ban has now been in force for 7 months and we would be interested in your views on whether or not it has made your life better or worse or not made any difference at all. We welcome views from smokers, non-smokers and from publicans on how it has affected business since it was introduced.

Whilst exhibiting at The Wellbeing Fest in Lewes at the weekend i was surprised at how few male smokers came to visit our stand and how many women, whose partners’ smoked, stopped by for a chat. I shouldn’t have been surprised because i have seen it happen many times before. For example, a couple will be walking past our stand and the male smoker will be looking away to avoid eye contact and his partner (smoker or non-smoker) will be pulling him in our direction.

I hadn’t given too much thought to the gender differences in the smoking habit before until i read this article http://www.articlecity.com/articles/health/article_6948.shtml on a blog this morning. Men have always found it more difficult to seek help for psychological, behavioural and emotional problems than women do. As problem solvers we men think that we should be able to find our own solutions to problems and don’t want to be dictated to by our partners, the government, medical profession and therapists etc. However, how many men will take their car to the garage when it breaks down or have a computer fixed by an IT expert when the computer crashes. Perhaps that’s the aswer for many smokers. They have to wait until the body starts to breakdown before they will seek professional help. It might be a regular morning cough or difficulty breathing when climbing the stairs or something more serious like a heart attack or emphasema.

What is clear is that a ‘nagging wife’ or a ’nanny state’ government banning smoking is more likely to strengthen a smokers resolve and encourage their rebellious streak.  Even the french have now banned smoking from bars and restaurants from the start of this year. “I will stop when i want to stop” is often the response from a male smoker. The sad part of this stubborn response is that it can and often does lead to a premature and harrowing death. Prevention is always better than cure and if you do it the right way with our help you are much more likely to succeed.

Need some inspiration to get 2008 off the ground? Then i suggest you visit, The Lewes Well-Being Fest this weekend (Sat 12 & Sun 13 Jan) at The Corn Exchange (Town Hall) & Assembly Rooms in Lewes.

You can experience the best in Alternative & Holistic lifestyles, live music, free workshops, talks, demonstrations, organic food and a children’s area. For more information visit www.starcommunities.com

We will be exhibiting again this year so don’t forget to come along and visit us. 

Happy New Year from everyone at thespencepractice!

Having reflected on what happened last year you may feel it was a good year, a bad year or just mediocre, but what can you learn from it that will help make this year a better one?

Traditionally, at this time, people make New Year resolutions and usually they tend to be about changing a habit or behaviour. A time when you might decide to ‘give up’ smoking or go on a diet to ‘lose weight’ and/or attempt to cut out alcohol. Whilst these changes are sensible and responsible lifestyle choices they often result in failure within weeks and sometimes days. This is because the focus tends to be on deprivation which most human beings are not very good at in the long-term. Motivation is usually triggered by a desire for pleasure or the avoidance of pain.

How many times have you resolved not to do something at the start of a new year but failed by the end of January because you felt deprived, missing out on pleasurable activities and in no less pain than you were before? Perhaps this year could be the time to change your approach, because ‘if you always do what you have always done you will always get what you always got’.

You could set yourself some positive and meaningful goals this year and enjoy the pleasure from achieving them and focusing your mind on the benefits and the pleasure the changes bring. For example, if you want to stop smoking for financial reasons decide to use the money you wasted on cigarettes on something healthy and pleasurable instead.

Whatever changes you want to make in 2008 don’t hesitate to contact us if you need some professional help.