Quit: The Hypnotist's Handbook to Running Effective Stop Smoking Sessions Paperback – August 1, 2013

This book was full of pleasant surprises. I expected much and the authors certainly delivered. Just about every potential if and but is covered. Lots of tools and techniques and how they work together for maximum effect. It all comes together nicely here. Very easy to follow. Very logical. This has real practical value! In hindsight I wish I had ordered the paperback because I made so many notes.I would say this is pure gold for beginners. You get some real insights into the mind of a smoker (especially valuable if you are non-smoker yourself). It takes out a lot of the guess work and sums up years of experience for you, hands it to you on a platter and shows you where you may need to explore a bit more. But still, even if you are not familiar with all the techniques mentioned they are well explained and you are in good shape to get started and get real results. Without the need to remember scripts. You get the blue print how to create customized sessions and how to be flexible according to your client's needs.The concepts and the strategies are solid. It is also well worth the read for experienced practitioners because of all the gems that pop up throughout the book.Great job. Looking forward to the next one.

If you are in the profession of helping people, there is no better teacher to learn from than Shawn, Sara and Jess. This is why I was so excited to see their complete and thorough handbook on conducting a smoking cessation session.I can't recommend this book highly enough. It gives you a solid ground on which to build your sessions with clients. The read is extremely easy, one page flows after the other, building up and adding more tools and information. Great organization of the book as well: it takes you by the hand and helps you move step by step through the process. From the first moment you speak with your client till you send them off on their way to a healthier and happier life.But the wealth of information doesn't stop there. The book gives you so many techniques and insights on how to track the client's meta programs - the way they make decisions, the things that motivate them, the identity they create for themselves- that you can use it to work with clients with many different restricting habits.What a great book!! Thank you Shawn, Thank you Sarah, Thank you Jess.Thank you sharing your knowledge with the rest of us!! I fell much more prepared now to meet my next smoking client.

If you are, or are planning, to do stop smoking sessions, then this is worth your time to read. Also, it is has easily undervalued by its authors, but I suspect that is a side effect of their commitment to your success, and helping those who are tired of smoking. This book covers everything from the first phone contact, the client intake, and all the way through a session, and beyond. They have included new and interesting takes that really turn up the power on already effective patterns, and they have included so much material that if ever something just is not hitting, or working right, you have options (not that you're likely to need them). All put together into a nice protocol, but still retaining plenty of room for your creative unconscious to amaze even you.This is largely a seminar transcript, so you get the interaction of several students too. This may help you if ever there was a question you wanted to ask the author ... well hold your horses they are just about to answer it!Enjoy this book, then save someone's world. I'm pretty sure you are up to it! If you doubt me read this!

This is a great book for hypnotists or change-workers wanting to add an effective smoking cessation protocol to your toolbox. Jess, Sarah and Shawn did an amazing job with this book, they made it easy to learn and so effective.This book is packed with information and incredibly detailed, they even discuss how the change-work starts from the very first phone conversation and explains the how's and why's. Actually everything that you learn from this book can be applied to more than just quitting smoking session - just switch out smoking for weight loss, phobias, etc. That's how smart and effective these techniques are and the way the authors have it laid out and explained, so easy to learn.If you are serious about your practice, this is a great addition to your tool-box. I have applied their teachings and know firsthand how effective they are, and am grateful for them to have shared their knowledge with us.Now, your job is to just read it, learn it and help people quit smoking - imagine how amazing that will feel to effectively help people quit smoking!

Nice insight into the technique that you used

This book is a must have for hypnotist, therapist or anyone who wants to know more about how to overcome any craving or habit. It is crammed full of invaluable information and gives you step by step ways to conduct hypnosis sessions. And because it incorporates the views of several different instructors plus the views and comments of their trainees, you get an extremely well rounded approach to the art of hypnosis. The conversational style makes it an easy read. I felt a little guilty getting all this incredible information that others pay thousands for!

As a hypnotist, I was looking to create a quit smoking protocol and this AMAZING book fell into my lap!It is so beautifully laid out, step by step, clearly so that any hypnotist can confidently help people that want to quit smoking!

Great book, they tell us all The secrets they use! To tell You The truth, The best book of how to quit!

I have been a Hypnotherapist since 2000, and this is definitely the best book ever on Quit Smoking, for Hypnotherapists. I have applied the protocols described in the book with real clients and I have a 100% success rate.I recommend you buy this book now if you are serious in helping save lives.

Let me start by saying the authors clearly know their stuff and that the theory when applied from this book absolutely works. However the format of the book as a transcript of a training seminar is quite a slog to get through and I have put the book down several times and had to force myself to pick it back up to try to get through it. I find I can learn by attending and watching seminars but this trend lately of transcribing them and selling them as educational materials does not suit my particular learning style.Finally as a hypnotherapist who does not practice any formal NLP and has no NLP training I found far too much NLP-speak in this. It was a times a far cry from hypnotherapy. Another reason to put the book down for me while I went off and googled what the hell was going on.I came to the authors with very high expectations through Igor Ledochowskis recommendation in the book, so I was surprised that the amount of NLP use was so extensive. I did pick up at least one slight change to how I would treat smokers and any new tools are always useful. Overall though this book wasn't for me sadly.I will stick with the authors in the hope that the trascriptions cease and they produce some more edited works, because they are clearly excellent clinicians.

Love the approach of this book, and the set of tools it offers. It lays down a really flexible and effective protocol for hypnotists to help their clients quit smoking. And throughout you have Shawn, Sarah and Jess as your personal guides. A fabulous resource! Thanks!