Smokin’ News
Sometimes it seems like I barely left last Monday behind, but for some reason, last Monday seems really quite far away. Guess it is starting anew. A cup of Java and you. Ah, poetics..
Okay, right enough, I’m ready to stop wasting our time and move onto recent happenings in our world (the hypnosis world).
The (Smokin’) Good
Hypnotists or not (more nots in this case), smokers are needed for a study at the San Francisco V.A. Medical Center. They are currently researching a specific form of hypnotist to help smoker’s “stay quit” after they have stopped smoking for at least three days. The study requires 520 men and women, so if you are a smoker about to quit, look them up. You must be 18 or older. Click here for more information.
UC San Francisco, who is also working on the above study, just completed another study and found hypnosis to be as effective as behavioral counseling in smoking cessation.
14 people attended a smoking cessation hypnosis session presented by New Zealand radio station Burn 729am. The independent station did this in honor of World Smoke-free Day on May 31. It was the station manager’s idea, as she herself wanted to quit. They regularly talk on-air about the progress they are making in the world of being non-smokers.
Irish Hypnosis Ltd. has opened two new offices in Ireland and hypnotist Louis Ryan gave a very honest interview about hypnosis for smoking cessation to the Kilkenny Advertiser. Very nice!
Damian Gott of Blackpool is making smoking cessation and weight loss hypnosis affordable (for all you who marked that it is too expensive on the poll). According to the Blackpool Gazette the sessions run for six weeks. I won’t say how much, but if you live near there, the opportunity is quite reasonable.
Just the Good, Ma’am, Nothing But the Good
Concord-based hypnotherapist, Jean Fain gave a most interesting interview to Boston Globe writer Scott LaPierre.
The Bad (as in too cool)
Magician Keith Barry was in a car accident that absolutely demolished his leg. That’s when he decided to put hypnosis to work, and within a few months, he was walking again, according to a blurb in the Toronto Sun. Actually, I think the blurb was for a birth announcement of his first child, due in August, but as this isn’t a baby blog…
The Very Sad
The hypnosis community has lost one of its bright lights, especially in the realm of pain-management hypnosis. Harold Crasilneck passed away after 87 years of what sounds like a life well-lived. He was award-winning and was featured in a 1955 article in Time Magazine about working with severely burned trauma patients.
The Ugly
I once read that one of the things bloggers do is repeat the news as told by other bloggers. I have tried not to be too much of a component of this. However, at the moment I think it is import to mention another fellow hypnotist’s Brian David Phillips blog. A couple of friends emailed me, asking if I knew about the whole MasterCard pulling the plug on hypnotists being able to use MC for payment options for selling erotic hypnosis. Now apparently it isn’t the porn that bothers our goof (whoops typo- thought I’d leave in that little Freudian slip) friends with the money, but the old-fashion idea of mind control. Yikes. I will keep you posted if I hear anything new (or you can keep me posted as well).
