Why did I decide to specialize in Quit Smoking?   Well, honestly, it was because of my job.  Sure, I had smoked when I was younger and it was for a really stupid reason … I was angry at my husband for smoking.  He didn’t smoke when we got married, hadn’t smoked in many years and then one day he was offered a cigarette from someone at work (telling himself he could just have one) and the next thing we knew he was smoking more than a pack a day … within a week or two!

I hated it!  I hated the smell, I hated tasting it when we kissed,  I hated that our activities now how to revolve around his smoking … I hated that I felt the cigarettes were more important than … well, me!  And one day I decided, “if you can’t be him, join him!” and went out and bought a pack of cigarettes.  Like I said, a stupid reason to smoke … but then so many reasons people smoke are just as stupid.  We just don’t know any better in the moment … we’re just trying to cope and lighting up a smoke … or nowadays taking a hit from a vape … somehow seems to ease the stress (or at least we think it does).

When I took a job as a Program Director for a wound care center, my staff told me we needed better resources to help our patients quit smoking.  The 1-800-QuitSmoking was completely ineffective at helping them to quit.  I had no idea how I could help our patients better heal their wounds (because smoking stalls or prevents healing) by helping them to quit.  So I did a little research and one thing led to another and I learned that hypnosis is the most effective way to help a person quit smoking … with a crazy high success rate too!

So I enrolled in an online year long hypnosis training at Hypnosis Motivation Institute in Tarzana, CA.   And immediately took the Quit Smoking Specialty training and began offering free sessions to people in the community.

After seeing how many lives were positively changed by quitting smoking I knew it was something I would likely do for the rest of my life.   And so here I am. 🙂