- Addictions
- Smoking
- A procedure for smoking and other addictions--80% success rate
- Persistent EFT to help a client quit smoking at her own pace
- EFT works nicely for a skeptical smoker
- Dialogues with Smokers--Parts I & II
- Rapid relief for a smoking addiction
- EFT ends a strong addiction to smoking cigarettes
- I quit smoking with EFT by using rebellion as a cause
- New Smoking Cessation Program Resolves the Real Reason that People Smoke
- How cigarette cravings led to major emotional release with EFT
- Smoking urge subsides after EFT collapses a betrayal issue
- Smoking addiction subsides after finding unusual habit
- EFT for a very clever smoker - two months with no need for a cigarette
- Heavy smoker quits after resolving core issue
- Client stops smoking after addressing "manly" issue
- An ultra easy smoking cessation case
- Smoking addiction
- Self-Applied Acupressure Technique May Prevent Tobacco from Killing One Billion People
- EFT for a food craving also eliminated a cigarette craving
- Smoking, OCD & phobias
- Surrogate EFT eliminates smoking addiction
- EFT and Inner Theater for Parts Work for quitting smoking
- A "One Session Wonder" for quitting smoking
- A case where cigarette cravings turned out to be a form of self-punishment
- EFT rapidly curbs cigarette cravings
- Alcohol
- EFT's "Tell the Story Technique" releases alcohol-related anger feelings
- Alcoholic eliminates desire for alcohol by addressing "state" ness
- Budweiser beer - evidence that emotions cause addictions
- Detox relief from pain killers, migraine headaches and alcohol
- Using EFT for a headache provides aid to alcohol recovery
- A report from a "hopeless" binge drinking client
- Using EFT for unresolved grief aids an alcohol problem as a side benefit
- Food
- Finding out what really caused a food craving
- Emphatic tapping for a sugar addiction
- Hitting a chocolate craving head on
- Using EFT for a caffeine addiction
- Over 30 pounds and counting....
- EFT helps morbidly obese woman to stop feeling hungry
- Successful EFT reframing of a Coke & Pepsi addiction
- Is it safe to drop those pounds?
- EFT for ice cream cravings
- The core issue behind a cookie craving
- EFT eliminates 40 year addiction to coffee - 9 month follow-up
- EFT for a chocolate addiction brings about physical symptoms -- all gone in 10 minutes
- Finding the core issue behind a sweets addiction
- What was REALLY behind those cravings?
- Chocolate cravings have their root in childhood poverty
- Overcoming a Food Craving
- Simple EFT procedure for excess food and drink consumption
- How Mary's self sabotage kept her from slimming down
- A success formula for self-sabotage eliminates binge eating
- Melissa gets to the root of her sugar addiction - Followup included
- An ice cream addiction fades after quality detective work by Carol Solomon
- Sugar cravings subside with persistent and consistent EFT
- Jane no longer wants those potato chips
- Drugs
- Sex
- General
- Chewing tobacco addiction aided by surrogate tapping
- All traces of
- EFT and nail biting. A one minute wonder
- Successful 21 month follow up on a 20 year chewing tobacco addiction.
- EFT ends secret addiction to inhalants and clears the core issue
- 23 Year Hair Pulling Compulsive Disorder Ends at an EFT Workshop
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder regarding AIDS
- EFT for hoarding (OCD)
- Success with Addictions using EFT
- Recovering Addicts Lose Nicotine Cravings in Record Time
- After tapping, Carol
- Touching trichotillomania tale
- 60 year soap opera 'addiction' vanishes as a side benefit of EFT
- Brief uses of EFT collapses hair pulling problem (trichotillomania)
- EFT in 12 Step programs - a perfect place to address specific events
- EFT succeeds with hand washing compulsion in minutes
- EFT for a gambling addiction
- A self administered approach to addictions
- An Example of Using Reframes with Addictive Behavior
- Chewing tobacco habit--A humorous look at an extreme Apex problem
- Smoking
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Hi Everyone,
This unusual account by Lindsay Kenny shows how EFT, when applied for immediate cravings for groups, can sometimes have spectacular results. I am used to high percentage results with groups but there are usually varying degrees of craving reduction. In this case, however, every participants' cigarette craving went to zero and they actively resisted smoking a cigarette. While I've had this experience before, I must admit it is rare. It even surprised Lindsay.
This case leads me to wonder about what might have been different in this EFT application to get such unusually robust results. The answer may take us to a new level in proficiency.
Hugs, Gary
Hi Gary,
I wanted to tell you about an interesting session I had in a workshop this week at a drug and alcohol rehab center for women. I do pro-bono work there for groups of women every week or two. This week I had 8 new outpatients and only had an hour to work with them (they had already gone through the 30-day detox program).
I usually start workshops with some muscle testing to demonstrate the power that negative emotions have on our body's energy system. It's then usually an easy bridge to EFT and how it works. But with so little time and with such seemingly depressed, skeptical, addictive-type women I wanted to try something different, but it felt very risky.
I asked how many smoked, and seven of the eight did. All seven said they wanted to quit smoking and all had tried but had failed. The non-smoker wanted to get rid of her craving for chocolate, so I used the Borrowing Benefits technique and had her tap along with the rest of us while saying the same phrases with us. Their 0-10 intensity levels ranged from 6 to 10. I had the "10" stand up front with me as a 'demo' while the rest tapped along from their seats.
Since addicts are usually Psychologically Reversed I wanted to demonstrate that with muscle testing by having my 'demo lady' state that she very much wanted to stop smoking. Not surprisingly, she tested weak on that statement, which surprised them all. I then had them all do the karate chop while saying:
"Even though I really don't want to stop smoking, I deeply love and accept myself". They all chuckled at this.
Now the demo lady tested strong. I explained reversals, which they seemed to like as an explanation for why they seemed to keep reverting back to their 'bad' habits.
Next we all did the Set-up Statement three times of;
Even though I really want to smoke this cigarette right now, I deeply and completely accept myself."
For the reminder statements we used;
"This craving to smoke" and "I really want this cigarette" while doing the tapping points twice from the eyebrows to under the arms.
That's it. I then asked the demo lady what her desire to smoke was and she said "Zero".
That was a surprise for me. "OK," I said, "take a dry drag on this ciggie then". But she said she couldn't and wouldn't. She said just the thought of it made her sick. I admit I was a bit skeptical. But then all of the rest of them said the same thing. They were all at a zero! I tried to get them to smell a cigarette or take a dry drag, but none wanted to do it. The most skeptical lady said "Hand me that lighter and that cig and I'll light it up". Her pals passed them down to her but she just couldn't do it. She admitted that she really wanted to make me wrong and show that EFT didn't work, but she couldn't make herself light up. She just couldn't stand the thought of smoking.
Frankly, I was astounded and still skeptical that they all got such quick and drastic results. So I took the cigarette around and tried to hold it under their noses and almost got punched out. One even said "Why don't you believe us when we're telling you we don't want to smoke?" I didn't tell them that I was amazed by their results. But I did explain that they weren't over the addiction to nicotine yet and that we'd only dealt with the craving. I told them they could now use this tool for their cravings, of all kinds, until their bodies let go of the physical addictions. They were thrilled. It was as if they had just received the Christmas present of their dreams. It was a nice present for me too, to see these formally unhappy, negative, down-trodden women with a glint of hope in their eyes and smiles on their faces.
I encourage all of you reading this to volunteer at a non-profit agency in your area to teach EFT. I guarantee the person who gets the most out of it will be you. And you'll be spreading the word about EFT in a generous, effective, and most loving manner.
My regards,
Lindsay Kenny
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