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A quitter’s story
51 year-old Ramzi Abdulbaki had smoked cigarettes for three decades when he
decided it was time to join the ranks of the legions of people leaving the habit
behind. Over the many years he’d smoked, Abdulbaki had tried to call it a day

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numerous times. But stress and a busy life always found him lighting up again. 
Most days, he would puff his way through a packet of 20 cigarettes. When the
stress levels in his life got the better of him, though, he would often smoke up to
two packets.
Finally, lamenting his inability to quit, Abdulbaki decided on a last ditch method
– hypnotherapy. He approached the therapy with a great deal of trepidation and
suspicion. Having tried pretty well everything else, though and genuinely
wanting to stop smoking, he finally managed to talk himself into it.
After only one session, he was able to quit. But hypnotherapy isn’t magic. 
Hypnotherapy works primarily because of the patient’s willingness to address
the problem the therapy is sought to either mitigate or eliminate. So the primary
mover in the process is the patient. It’s essential that patients genuinely and
wholeheartedly want to leave the smoking habit behind, forever.
Three years after undergoing hypnotherapy, Abdulbaki has, to date, never
smoked another cigarette. Healthy and regularly attending a gym to work out,
he’s never looked back. In only one hypnotherapy session, his life changed for
the better. Best of all? He’s lost more than thirty pounds (and people say you
gain weight when you quit).
Lifted out of depression
Steven Billing had been struggling with the damage depression was inflicting on
his life for years. A recent break up had again plunged this mid-50s man into the
deep valley depression sufferers often traverse in the course of their struggle
with the disease.
Finally, Billing decided to try hypnotherapy. He wanted his life back and the
downward spiral of clinical depression was ruining any chance of that
happening. Within five sessions with a licensed practitioner, Billing began to
see the light at the end of the tunnel he’d been in for far too long. Using the

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classical method of asking Billing to visualize going ever downward in an
elevator, his therapist was able to get Billing to a place of calmly discussing the
nature of his illness and how he could more effectively manage it.
A primary victim of Billing’s illness was his relationships, especially with his
romantic partners. His illness had made him clingy and terrified of
abandonment. He is now happy with himself and so, much less prone to the type
of insecurity which repeatedly led to his relationships being ruined by it. 
Enabled to see the source of his relationship problems, he’s no longer likely to
plummet into the depths of depression over a breakup, but to see it for the life
experience it is.
Steven Billing is happy now and pursuing his creative dreams as a playwright. 
But his temperament made him uniquely suited to hypnotherapy as a way to
address depression. His ability to be absorbed by pursuits like reading and an
additional ability to visualize desired courses of action and outcomes are
attributes that pointed toward successful treatment.