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Stop smoking in 2 hours.  No weight gain.  No withdrawal.  No irritability.  Lose the urge.

Of the top 15 methods of quitting smoking, hypnosis has the highest success rate, according to the largest study of its kind ever conducted, involving 71,806 smokers, featured in the Journal of Applied Psychology published by the APA, the main U.S. association of psychologists.   Details in article below.

STOP SMOKING

WITH HYPNOSIS IN JUST TWO HOURS!

NO WITHDRAWAL,  NO IRRITABILITY,  

NO WEIGHT GAIN.  LOSE THE URGE.

 

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FAMOUS HYPNOTHERAPIST, 

DR. DON DE GRAZIA

Specialist in clinical hypnosis for smoking cessation

for 35 years.



Sponsored by Outreach Counseling Center 

of Oak Park, Illinois
 


FREE SEMINAR

     The program will begin with a free seminar that will last about 40 minutes.  You’re invited to attend this 40-minute seminar free of charge and without any obligation.  

     The free seminar is very interesting and extremely informative.  Dr. De Grazia will show you things you can do to increase your hypnotizability.  He will be happy to answer any questions you might have about hypnosis in general or about our stop-smoking program in particular.  


SPECIAL PROMOTION--SAVE $30!

     The actual hypnotizing will begin a few minutes after the 40-minute free seminar is finished.  We have a special promotion planned which will allow you to save $30 from the regular small-group price of $158.  If you stay to be hypnotized after the free seminar, the cost will be only $128, a savings of almost 20%.


LIFETIME PROGRAM

     This is a one-session program.  You only have to come there once, but if you ever need help again for the rest of your life, you will always be welcome to come back again at a greatly reduced rate which is currently only $64.  This is the same reduced price repeaters have always received in our small-group programs.  

     There are no time limits or limits to the number of times you can come back--people sometimes come back more than twenty years later--so this is a lifetime program to make sure you remain a non-smoker for the rest of your life.

     It is aimed at causing you to just lose the desire for cigarettes, so you won’t go around thinking about smoking--or thinking about not smoking--but simply being the way you were before you ever started smoking. 

     The program takes about two hours, including the free seminar, so you should be a non-smoker by about 9 pm.


NO WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS

     Hypnosis can effect physiological phenomena as well as psychological phenomena, so you most likely will not  have any withdrawal symptoms.  

     During the sessions we always ask how many people have quit smoking through hypnosis in the past and had little or no withdrawal symptoms.  Almost all of the people that have quit smoking in our hypnosis program in the past raise their hands.


NO WEIGHT GAIN

     Because there are usually no withdrawal symptoms, people usually don’t gain weight when they quit smoking in our hypnosis program unless they need to gain weight.  

     The main reason people gain weight when they quit smoking, cold turkey, is because they are grappling with urges to smoke and they take their frustration out on food.

     But when you quit through hypnosis, if you don’t have any urges to smoke anymore, you won’t have any frustration to express through overeating. 

     And to make doubly sure that you don’t gain weight, we will include some very powerful post-hypnotic suggestions that you will not substitute food for cigarettes.  

     We’re not a hundred percent successful with this or with anything we do, but it works this way for most people. People who need to lose weight sometimes actually lose weight as a result of our stop-smoking program.


HISTORIC PROGRAM

     Tens of thousands of people in the Chicago area have stopped smoking in Dr. De Grazia’s Outreach Counseling Center hypnosis programs over the past thirty-five years.

     We are pretty sure he has hypnotized more people in the Chicago area than anyone else in history.  

     He has conducted private-group hypnosis programs in the past in Chicago’s City Hall in the City Clerk’s office for city officials, at the third district precinct headquarters for Chicago police officers, at some of Chicago’s largest and most prestigious hospitals, and at many corporations for their employees.


DE GRAZIA BIO

     Don De Grazia was born and raised in Chicago.  He attended the University of Chicago where he was a member of the wrestling team, lived at International House, and studied philosophy and then psychology. 

 

     He has had post-doctoral training in various aspects of clinical and experimental hypnosis.  In 1983 he participated in a series of workshops in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which were co-sponsored by the Harvard University Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital, which is part of the Harvard University Medical School complex.  In 1982 he participated in  a series of workshops which were  co-sponsored by the University of Indiana Medical School, Dental School, and Graduate School of Psychology.  

 

     As a young man he joined the US Air Force, earned a commission, and flew in Northrop F-89 Scorpions and Lockheed F-94 Starfires, both of which are night fighters (all-weather interceptors).  He remains an officer in the US Air Force Reserve. 

     He is also a writer who has been published in the United States, Canada, Italy, and Japan.  He has won several international awards for his writing.   In the year 2000, the Illinois Arts Council, an agency of the State of Illinois, selected his fiction for its annual literary award.  
 

    RESERVATIONS ARE NECESSARY

     This stop-smoking program will be a special small-group session.  We have to limit the number of people in both the free seminar and the actual hypnosis in order to gain the many advantages that result from a small group, so advance reservations are definitely necessary.  There is sometimes quite a long waiting list by the day of the session.
 

 


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OUT-OF-STATE ATTENDEES

 

     There are at least a few people from Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, Tennessee, or more distant places in most of our small-group sessions.  If you need overnight accommodations, please contact the Carleton Hotel directly at 888-227-5386.

     O'Hare International Airport and Midway Airport are both only about ten miles from the Carleton Hotel.  For information about visiting Oak Park's world-famous architectural sites while you are here, please contact the Oak Park Visitors Center at 1-888-OAK PARK.
 

Positive Relationships Between Hypnosis & Various Belief Systems

  • HYPNOSIS AND ROMAN CATHOLICISM
    Official approval by the Holy See of the responsible use of hypnosis, and closely related reasoning by Saint Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologica.
     

  • HYPNOSIS AND THE PROTESTANT FAITHS
    The use of hypnotherapy in pastoral counseling by ordained ministers of major protestant denominations and in protestant hospitals by health workers.
     

  • HYPNOSIS AND JUDAISM
    The approval of hypnosis by leading rabbis and the use of hypnotherapy by rabbis who are also psychotherapists.
     

  • ZEN IN THE ART OF HYPNOSIS
    Hypnosis, Zen, and eastern meditation states.
     

  • HYPNOTHERAPY AND EXISTENTIALISM
    Relationships between hypnosis, psychotherapy and the ideas of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Sartre, Dostoevsky, Freud, Camus, and Kafka.

     

 


Public Citizen, a Washington-based government watchdog group founded in 1971 by Ralph Nader is petitioning the FDA to take action against businesses that
irradiate people with laser energy with the suggestion that this will help them stop smoking.  They are questioning both the safety and the effectiveness of this practice. 

"There is no scientific evidence that the use of lasers for smoking cessation is either safe or effective,"  according to Dr. Sidney Wolfe, Director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, which called the practice, "massive fraud."

 

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Of the top 15 methods of quitting smoking
hypnosis has the highest success rate according to an exhaustive meta-analysis of 633 scientific studies of smoking-cessation programs.

This was the largest study of its kind ever conducted, involving 71,806 smokers and featured in the prestigious Journal of Applied Psychology, published by the APA, America’s main professional association of psychologists.

10% of the hypnosis programs studied had success rates greater than 60%, but the lowest 10% of hypnosis programs had success rates lower than 12%. 10% of the acupuncture programs had success rates lower than 6%.

So regardless of what method of quitting smoking one chooses, the specific program needs to be selected very carefully!  

Click for more details about this giant
Meta-Analytic Comparison of
Smoking Cessation Methods

 

 

HYPNOTISTS
IN HISTORY

     Hypnotists have practiced various forms of hypnosis throughout the world since ancient times. 

     The Ebers papyrus describes how Egyptian hypnotists more than 3000 years ago used hypnotic procedures surprisingly similar to those used by modern hypnotists.

     Many early European hypnotists believed that the effects of hypnosis were caused by a form of magnetism, which they called animal magnetism.  

     Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) an Austrian physician and hypnotist was the most famous hypnotist to conduct this kind of hypnosis, which is often referred to eponymously as mesmerism, but he did little to originate the theory.  

     Mesmer borrowed most of his ideas from Father Maximilian Hell, a Viennese Jesuit priest, and the brilliant English physician and hypnotist, Richard Mead (1673-1754) who was inspired by the research being done by his patient, the famous mathematician and physicist, Sir Isaac Newton.  

     Since then scientists have shown conclusively that the results achieved by these early hypnotists were due to the psychological and physiological effects of hypnosis and had nothing to do with magnetism.

     Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936) a Russian surgeon and physiologist was very influential with Russian hypnotists and his theories about the physiological basis of hypnosis are accepted by many scientists and hypnotists throughout the world to this day.

     In America Pavlov is remembered mostly for his work with conditioned reflexes, but he was also responsible for important physiological theories about why the techniques used by hypnotists have such powerful effects.  

     He received  the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1904.

 

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If you have any questions you would
like to discuss with Dr. De Grazia
PHONE 708-383-1700  (24-hour phone)
No deposit is necessary to make a reservation.
If you stay to be hypnotized
you can pay then with cash,
check, Master Card or Visa

FREE BONUS
If you print this coupon & bring it to the session.
 

 

 

 


"I had no urge to smoke.  The amazing thing is there is no withdrawal.  The program is the best.  I have tried the patch and acupuncture and this is the easiest."
               --Diane Ormond,
                  Burbank, Illinois
 

"I quit smoking...  There were no cravings, withdrawals, or any of the other symptoms I have had in the past when I quit on my own."
       --M. McKeague,
          Schererville, Indiana
 

Stopped smoking for two years.  No withdrawal."
                 --James Baier,
                     Berwyn, Illinois

 


"It helped me first to quit smoking...absolutely no desire. Then on January 22, 1996, I came for weight loss, lost eight pounds, and feel great.  Have recommended this program to lots of people."
      --Arlene Coleman,
         Calumet City,  Illinois
 

"I left not having any desire to smoke.  I felt no emotional tie to the habit when I left the session."
           --Dawn McAvoy,
               Frankfort, Illinois

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"I quit smoking after trying unsuccessfully for 6 1/2 years.  It was so easy!  I had no withdrawal symptoms whatsoever.  I am still awestruck at the lack of withdrawal symptoms.  Had I known this was so easy I'd have skipped everything else and did this first!  Thank you!"
                 --Anne N. Murray,
                     Midlothian, Illinois

 

"The program enabled me to stop smoking without withdrawal symptoms.  I left the session with absolutely no desire for a cigarette."  
                   --Diane Mathews,
                       Chicago, Illinois


"No cravings for cigarettes, no anxiety from quitting."
                --Richard J. Washco II,
                   Berwyn, Illinois


"I stopped smoking for four years.  No withdrawal."
                 --Deborah Newbury,
                     Steger, Illinois


"I quit in August, 1993. No withdrawal.  Minimum effort."
                    --Don Churchill,  
                        Woodridge, Illinois


"It took away the physical desire (addiction) to smoke.  Relaxing, painless way to quit without having withdrawal symptoms."
                     --Kathy Peterson,
                         Matteson, Illinois


"I stopped smoking and lost 30 pounds.  I smoked just short of 40 years.  I smoked 3 1/2 packs a day."
                       --Richard Crane,
                           Chicago, Illinois


"Stopped for three years.  Very little withdrawal."
      --Barbara Peterson,
          South Chicago Heights,
          Illinois


"Experienced no withdrawal or cravings"
                  --Raymond J. Kelly,
                      Orland Park, Illinois


"No withdrawal."
                     --Marlene Stroube,
                         Orland Hills, Illinois


"Quit smoking.  Gave up chocolate and ice cream."
                       --Gloria Kinney,
                           Oak Lawn, Illinois

 

"No craving.  No excess eating."
                       --Linda Brush,

                           Chicago, Illinois


"It really worked.  No withdrawal symptoms.  No cravings."
                       --Sharon De Mato,
                           Chicago, Illinois


"I had no cravings.  I didn’t gain weight.  It worked."
                       --Sandie Hoffie,
                           Hinsdale, Illinois


"I was off cigarettes for eight months...I lost my craving completely until I went through a bad experience."
                        --Valerie Brown,
                            Chicago, Illinois


"Stopped for 5 months.  No craving."
                       --Dorice Buczek,
                          Blue Island, Illinois


"Easy and painless."
                        --Sue Strickland,
                           Park Forest, Illinois


"I quit.  It worked."
                      --Ginger Collinsgrove,
                          Crete, Illinois

 

"It really does work.  I got the feeling that I should be doing something.  Then once I remembered what it was I forgot about it.  It works!"
                    --Amanda Triezenberg,
                       Midlothian, Illinois


"It was real easy for me after the session.  It is very easy to do."
                      --Kevin McGlashan,
                         Frankfort, Illinois



HYPNOTISTS, HYPNOTHERAPISTS, & HYPNOTISM
A Brief Glossary


HYPNOSIS: 

            Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), who won the Nobel prize for physiology and medicine in 1904, studied the physiology of hypnosis exhaustively and concluded that hypnosis  involves a temporary  inhibition of the cerebral cortex, the conscious, intelligent, uniquely human part of our brain.

 

Since then scientists with modern instruments have confirmed that cortical inhibition does indeed occur under hypnosis. Many scientists believe this cortical inhibition explains why, in a state of hypnosis, suggestions are able to reach the lower brain centers and initiate desired changes in habits and perception.

Fortunately, subjects respond only to post-hypnotic suggestions to which they want to respond, and do not respond to undesired suggestions.  After hypnosis, people generally report a relaxed, peaceful feeling, and a general feeling of well-being.

There are many theories as to why evolution (and/or God) has given us this faculty, but clearly it serves a beneficial purpose or natural selection would not have preserved it so universally.   Forms of hypnosis are found in almost every culture in the world from the most advanced to the most primitive.

HYPNOTISM:  
            Hypnotism is the same thing as hypnosis. The word hypnotism was used more in the days of the early hypnotists and is used less by modern scientists.

HYPNOTIST:
 

            One who is skilled in the induction of hypnosis for any of numerous purposes, some of which are mentioned below.

HYPNOTHERAPIST:  
            A hypnotist who uses hypnosis for therapeutic purposes.

HYPNOTHERAPY: 
            The use of hypnosis for therapeutic purposes such as dealing with addictions, habit disorders, eating disorders, anxiety neuroses, memory enhancement, pain, et al.

CLINICAL HYPNOSIS:
Hypnosis conducted in a clinical setting.

EXPERIMENTAL HYPNOSIS:
            Research conducted by a specialized group of scientists at universities and research centers throughout the world who conduct experiments designed to reveal more about the nature and use of hypnosis. 

PASTORAL HYPNOSIS:
            Many ordained ministers in major Christian denominations conduct pastoral counseling programs.  Some pastoral counselors use hypnotherapy in some of their counseling sessions.  This is referred to as pastoral hypnosis.  Doctor of  Divinity dissertations have been written at major theological seminaries on hypnosis as a pastoral counseling modality.

FORENSIC HYPNOSIS:
         
The use of hypnosis to help witnesses or defendants recall details. This technique has been used to help solve many famous crimes and was used in such high profile  cases as  those of Ted Bundy, Sam Sheppard, and Albert DeSalvo, a.k.a. The Boston Strangler.  It should be used only by knowledgeable practitioners who understand its limits.

GROUP HYPNOSIS:
            Group hypnosis was all the rage among the fashionable set in eighteenth century Paris and Vienna when Viennese physician and hypnotist Franz Anton Mesmer was "mesmerizing" groups there. 

His circle included the composers Haydn and Mozart, whose first operetta, Bastien et Bastienne,  was first performed in Messmer's private garden. 

Group hypnosis is currently experiencing a resurgence of popularity in parts of Europe and America.

Some scientists and scholars believe that more people will go into hypnosis and into a deeper state when it is induced in a group setting because some elements of hypnosis are related to group instincts

The following observations by Sigmund Freud and Gustave Le Bon as well as some more recent scientists illustrate this point:

"...in the mental operations of a group the function for testing the reality of things falls into the background in comparison with the strength of wishful impulses..."
         --
Sigmund Freud,
            Group Psychology and     
             the Analysis of the Ego.

"Just as primitive man survives potentially in every individual, so the primal horde may arise once more out of any random collection;"
             
--Sigmund Freud, op.cit.

"But we expect even more of this derivation of the group from the primal horde.  It ought also to help us to understand what is still incomprehensible and mysterious in group formations--all that lies hidden behind the enigmatic words 'hypnosis' and 'suggestion'...."
             --Sigmund Freud, op.cit.

"hypnosis has something positively uncanny about it; but the characteristic of uncanniness suggests something old..."
             --Sigmund Freud, op.cit.

"...an individual immersed for some length of time in a group in action soon finds himself--either in consequence of the magnetic influence given out by the group, or from some other cause of which we are ignorant--in a special state which much resembles the state of 'fascination' in which the hypnotized individual finds himself..."
       --Gustave Le Bon
          La Psychologie des Foules

" ...hypnosis is relatively easy to establish in a group [and] the reasons for this are:  There is an emotional 'contagion' that takes place with other members of the group..."

--William S. Kroger, M.D.,    Clinical Professor of     Anesthesiology, UCLA School of Medicine, Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. Philadelphia and Montreal: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1963.

 

"Group hypnosis has been employed effectively for stutterers, alcoholics, and those afflicted with headaches. However group hypnosis reaches its greatest potential in relieving pain in obstetric patients and in the therapy of obesity."

--William S. Kroger, M.D.,

   op. cit.

 

"Part of what may be contained in the "contagion" that Kroger speaks of may involve the sense of security that individuals get from each other when entering a new experience.

--Ira A. Greenberg, Ph.D., Camarillo Ca. State Hospital, Group Hypnotherapy and Hypnodrama, Nelson-Hall, Chicago, 1977


        

 

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