Hypnotist confident of success

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 14, Issue 645, 16 July 1996, Page 4

Hypnotist confident of success

People who want to quit smoking or lose weight have an ally in the form of hypnotherapist James Marx, who will be visiting the region this month (see advertisement this issue). "Stopping people from smoking and putting on weight are my specialties," he says. "My success rate is over 95% and the chances of bringing back those old habits is very remote." He offers discounts to pensioners, unemployed and groups of five or more and provides a free back-up tape for continued therapy to, as James says, "really hammer the message home." 'The back-up tape works in addition to my seminar," James says. The seminar will make you stop smoking and putting on weight but the tape

works to stop the old habits from returning. All you do is play the tape before you go to sleep and it works through your subconscious." He says in a few cases a person can't be hypnotised but that "so far everyone who has come to me I have had no difficulty hypnotising." James passes on information about smoking through his seminars. "I often ask participants if they know how many chemicals a cigarette has in it. Some say 12 and a few others go as high as 20 or 30. There are actually 4000 different chemicals in a cigarette and 380 of them are deadly ! Another astonishing fact is that 50 per cent of people who smoke will die of a smoking related disease. That's one in two smokers!"