- Paperback: 408 pages
- Publisher: Christopher Holmes; 1 edition (24 Oct 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0955682908
- ISBN-13: 978-0955682902
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,088,530 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In the long-running debate about whether tobacco-smoking is a habit or an addiction, this book is surely the last word. Here, the notion that it's a drug addiction is systematically torn apart, and smoking is emphatically re-defined as a Compulsive Habit, which hypnotherapy can shut down. Cravings are proven to be unrelated to nicotine, and Nicotine Replacement is denounced as a bogus therapy. This lively and irreverent book will be a delight to readers who have issues with the pharmaceutical industry and the medical establishment. This therapist has attitude!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Having recently qualified as a hypnotherapist I found Chris's book very well written and comprehensively denouncing NRT as the futile method it is. As he states in the first few pages, we don't like being told that everything is not as we were told by our peers and the experts that told them. Change is unnerving and we all like stability, so when people like the author stand up and say The Emperor Has No Clothes On, people typically shout Humbug!!! (Exactly like the first page Reviewer denouncing all Hypnotherapists as frauds!!!!) No doubt early explorers were dismissed for declaring the world was flat too !!!! Anyway this book is a MUST for all Hypnotherapists especially aspiring students keen to help clients understand the simple and easiest way to stop smoking.
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Chris Holmes writes well, but unfortunately doesn't understand smoking as well as he probably understands hypnotherapy. Credit where credit is due though, he is right on a few things, ie that Nicotine is a poison (what's new), that Nicotine Replacement Therapy doesn't help people quit smoking (yawn)and that there is something dodgy about Allen Carr (well documented elsewhere).
Where he departs into fantasy is to claim that smoking is a habit rather than nicotine addiction, comparing it to nailbiting. Well, personally I've never met a nailbiter who suffered physical & mental withdrawal symptoms when quitting their "habit", or who was willing to die or be crippled rather than stop their nasty little habit.
He claims that nicotine does nothing other than make people feel nauseous when they first start smoking; funnily enough, I never did.
He claims that it cannot be addictive as it does not intoxicate; strangely, exactly the argument used by the Tobacco companies for many years before they admitted their filthy product was both addicitive and harmful.
He fails to understand the well documented science of how nicotine affects and changes the brain chemistry, and how smoking releases dopamine, a feel good reward chemical.
So why doesn't NRT work then ? Ironically, Holmes himself actually identifies (and then dismisses)the actual reason; giving an addict the substance they are addicted to cannot cure that addiction - simples ! In addition, any smoker who has ever tried NRT will know that it is a poor substitute for "the real thing"; it doesn't give the hit that smoking does, hence why NRT is also not "abused" by kids.
Finally, just a thought on hypnotherapy itself; how many people do you know that have quit smoking ? And how many of them quit by seeing a hypnotherapist ? Thought so. Personally, i have never met 1, and I have met/know a lot of ex smokers. I even tried it myself once, and it was cobblers; lit up as soon as I got home.
Anyone see Celebrity Quitters on Channel 5 recently ? 4 Micro celebrities quit, and were force fed NRT. They were followed for a month and monitored using carbon monoxide meters to ensure they were not cheating. Of the 4, one decided to have hypnotherapy as well. Strangely enough, he was the only one to relapse during the 4 weeks....
Still, according to Mr Holmes, quitting is as easy as a 2 hour session appealing to your mysterious subconscious, that (conveniently) only a hynotherapist can communicate with.
You can believe in his miracle cure, and no doubt hand over a large sum of cash in the process, or you can use the method that actually works, and costs nothing - quit cold turkey, and promise yourself you will not smoke just for today. I did that 6 months ago, and my "subconcious" had F-all to do with it.
The medical profession is wrong to promote NRT, and the Pharma companies are making a mint out of a con, but Mr Holmes will be dissappointed if he believes this book will upset them them in any way.It might just make them laugh though.
Where he departs into fantasy is to claim that smoking is a habit rather than nicotine addiction, comparing it to nailbiting. Well, personally I've never met a nailbiter who suffered physical & mental withdrawal symptoms when quitting their "habit", or who was willing to die or be crippled rather than stop their nasty little habit.
He claims that nicotine does nothing other than make people feel nauseous when they first start smoking; funnily enough, I never did.
He claims that it cannot be addictive as it does not intoxicate; strangely, exactly the argument used by the Tobacco companies for many years before they admitted their filthy product was both addicitive and harmful.
He fails to understand the well documented science of how nicotine affects and changes the brain chemistry, and how smoking releases dopamine, a feel good reward chemical.
So why doesn't NRT work then ? Ironically, Holmes himself actually identifies (and then dismisses)the actual reason; giving an addict the substance they are addicted to cannot cure that addiction - simples ! In addition, any smoker who has ever tried NRT will know that it is a poor substitute for "the real thing"; it doesn't give the hit that smoking does, hence why NRT is also not "abused" by kids.
Finally, just a thought on hypnotherapy itself; how many people do you know that have quit smoking ? And how many of them quit by seeing a hypnotherapist ? Thought so. Personally, i have never met 1, and I have met/know a lot of ex smokers. I even tried it myself once, and it was cobblers; lit up as soon as I got home.
Anyone see Celebrity Quitters on Channel 5 recently ? 4 Micro celebrities quit, and were force fed NRT. They were followed for a month and monitored using carbon monoxide meters to ensure they were not cheating. Of the 4, one decided to have hypnotherapy as well. Strangely enough, he was the only one to relapse during the 4 weeks....
Still, according to Mr Holmes, quitting is as easy as a 2 hour session appealing to your mysterious subconscious, that (conveniently) only a hynotherapist can communicate with.
You can believe in his miracle cure, and no doubt hand over a large sum of cash in the process, or you can use the method that actually works, and costs nothing - quit cold turkey, and promise yourself you will not smoke just for today. I did that 6 months ago, and my "subconcious" had F-all to do with it.
The medical profession is wrong to promote NRT, and the Pharma companies are making a mint out of a con, but Mr Holmes will be dissappointed if he believes this book will upset them them in any way.It might just make them laugh though.
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
This book was hard work. The author sounds very angry, I could feel the tension from the pages as I was reading - it made me want to smoke more. I made a very expensive mistake buying this book. Just wanted to warn others as I had been swayed by the previous comments which were so positive.
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the truth is now out
As a practising hypnotherapist based in Chepstow I have long advocated that nicotine was not addictive, Chris Holmes brings this argument to the inevitable conclusion that it is a... Read more
Published on 20 Mar 2010 by marc bishop
How to judge for yourself
I wonder, sometimes, about some of these 'reviewers'! How do you know which to believe when the statements are polar opposites? Read more
Published on 11 Jan 2010 by Beverley Holmes
Compelling reading
An excellent and timely critique of the nicotine addiction hypothesis. The premiss that smoking behaviour is not attributable to a chemical dependency on nicotine but is instead a... Read more
Published on 8 Jan 2010 by A Customer
Sorry, didn't do it for me
Maybe a re-write might help, as it certainly did not give the lift needed to give up the weed. I agree with angry man, the good reviews do not fit the product!
Published on 5 Jan 2010 by Michael H. Upton
A must read
This is without a shadow of a doubt the most enlightening and revealing book I have read - ever! If Chris Holmes is angry then I suggest it is because of the many lives that could... Read more
Published on 15 Dec 2009 by Ms. A. E. B. Dean
Brilliant Book - contraversial - opens your eyes
Superb book - never believed smoking was all about Nicotine - the NRT patches I now know don't work for 93% of smokers - so how could it be that Nicotine is an addictive drug when... Read more
Published on 1 Aug 2009 by Duncan Murray
Angry man indeed!
I don't often leave reviews...and I do wonder about these reviews sometimes. Do authors of self published books get a few mates to post positive reviews about their books? Read more
Published on 18 May 2009 by Jack D
An Immensely Helpful Book.
As a hypnotherapist I deal with many clients who come to me for smoking cessation. Chris's book represents an important milestone in our understanding of the smoking habit and... Read more
Published on 15 Mar 2009 by Mrs. N. J. Taylor
Highly recommended
I very rarely leave reviews but I felt compelled to comment on this book. I throughly enjoyed reading it and in fact, read most of it in one sitting as I couldn't put it down and I... Read more
Published on 10 Mar 2009 by TammyD
The real truth about smoking
A very interesting and entertaining book. The central premise of it is that smoking is not an addiction to nicotine but rather a compulsive habit controlled by our subconscious... Read more
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