Do you want to stop smoking? Have you tried Hypnotherapy, NLP, EFT, gum, patches, counseling with no result? Do you skip breakfast?

If you are finding it hard to kick the habit and you skip breakfast, this is for you. You see, breakfast is one meal that most doctors, nutritionists, scientists and complementary therapists agree is a very important meal of the day. And many people skip breakfast to keep hunger at bay and their weight under control.

But surely I need to skip breakfast I hear you say! Well, if you do, most health practitioners, from doctors to alternative therapists, would tell you that eating, not skipping, breakfast helps you control your weight. For example, a typical study shows that "skipping breakfast was associated with increased prevalence of obesity".

To give you my answer, I'd like to give a couple of examples.

I had a lady that came for EFT for neck pain. The pain would simply not go away, whatever we tapped on. Now I happen to have worked alongside three of the greatest osteopaths and one of the best physiotherapists in the UK, with extensive massage experience as a practitioner. So that's where I then went to consult my mind's knowledge base for clues. I asked her more searching questions, and from her answers, I understood that her neck suffered an acute physical trauma which needs putting right to prevent a permanent weakness there. So I gave her the number and name of the appropriate osteopath and asked her to call him the very next morning (we were doing this in the evening). Then we tapped "Even though I have this neck pain, I promise to ring Andrew's clinic first thing in the morning and see him asap, I really do mean it, I will see him." The pain finally went right down to a negligible SUDS after a few rounds of this.

I have many people that have come to me for eating issues. To encourage them, I like putting snacks in front of them and tapping for the desire to eat the snacks. The first time the following happened, I was gob smacked. A girl that looked like she was a normal weight joined the eating issues workshop I was running, did the tapping, but she and she alone could not reduce her craving. It finally fell by about a half-out-of-ten. Then it hit me; I said "When was the last time you had something to eat?" The answer was that it was over 24 hours previously. So the body was craving any food at all in order to carry on functioning, hence the EFT "didn't work" (although in my opinion, it worked rather elegantly). This happened numerous times since. Many smokers, for example, see me to stop smoking, whereas they also have another addiction of disordered eating. Some do not eat anything till night-time, having only one meal and using the cigarettes to curb their natural desire for nutrition. When we EFT for the smoking cravings and it "doesn't work", I ask "When have you last eaten?". Sometimes, I take time out of the session to feed the client, then we start again, and Hey Presto, the EFT works!

I see it like this. The mind-body was saying that it had a deep problem with disordered eating and was asking me to help the disordered eating first, and the cigarette addiction second.

So if you smoke and skip breakfast, you are wasting your time smoking, you may as well eat breakfast to control your weight, and then stop smoking.

Wishing you health, success and happiness.

Study quoted is Association between Eating Patterns and Obesity in a Free-living US Adult Population, Yunsheng Ma , Elizabeth R. Bertone, Edward J. Stanek,, George W. Reed, James R. Hebert, Nancy L. Cohen, Philip A. Merriam and Ira S. Ockene, Am J Epidemiol 2003; 158:85-92

Complementary and alternative health education and empowerment is my passion. My name is Suzanne Zacharia and I am committed to empowering people to take control of their health and wellness. A virus caught along with 5 other students at university at the end of 1986, plus medical negligence, meant that I got smokers lung at a relatively young age. In desperation for help with my symptoms and quality of life, I turned to complementary therapy, and this is beyond a decade that I have outlived one doctor's prognosis. I am now a complementary therapist, author and trainer. My big passion is to to help others stop smoking, as in my http://www.stop-smoking-ebooks.com

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