An Unethical yet Ethical Approach to Help Someone Quit Smoking! Part – 1
Do you know a close friend, a relative, perhaps even your partner who you would like to help quit smoking?
Does it seem like sometimes you are more concerned about their health than they are?
Perhaps even you are someone who is struggling to quit and are too afraid to ask for help!
If you fall into any of the above categories then read in this article it may actually prove interesting….
As Im writing this the TV in the living room is playing a quit smoking hypnosis audio tape! Its a little experiment I began yesterday on my room mate who has been coming home for the past few days extremely worn out from some hard partying! Hey its summer holidays here in the southern hemishpere
My room mate is the type of person who wants to quit but won’t admit it. He keeps denying it everytime I offer to help, yet I know deep down he wants to quit….and BADLY!! The reason I say this is because he always complains about how its eating up his budget. Keeping up with a pack of smokes these days is getting more and more expensive where ever you go. I have a friend in Ireland who was telling me a box of cigarettes there now costs you 10 Euros. Wow a hefty some if you multiply that by 30!
So what is this ethical yet unethical approach to helping my room mate here quit smoking?
Like I mentioned my room mate has been coming back home lately in a state where he cant even make it to his bed, and passes out on the couch as soon as he lands on it. (LOL it is a comfy couch!!)
Having seen this yesterday, I decided hey why not pop this quit smoking hypnosis cd into the DVD player and play it on the big screen, while hes in this deep state of sleep! What could the end result be?….
Im eager to find out myself
Interesting experiment if thats what you want to call it! The question that I pose to you now is this an ethical thing to do? Hypnotizing him without his consent while he is asleep!
As far as Im concerned I think its the right thing to do. In this panic stricken economy I think saving him a $150 -$200 a month would do him greatly instead otherwise having to go on smokes.
I hope he can find it in him to forgive me (Sorry man!), and not for hypnotizing him out of his smoking habit, but for blogging about this whole thing and using him as a social experiment LOL!!!!!!!
To conclude I just hope we all will learn and benfit with something in the end from this little experiment!
By the way this is day two I did two sessions on him yesterday and I think three should be good enough for today. Until then stay tuned and have a great day.
















November 18th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
good post. i send this article to my friend
November 26th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Screw the ethics, how did it progress?
November 27th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
[...] You can read about the experiment I did here: Quit Smoking With Hypnosis Experiment [...]
December 28th, 2008 at 2:57 am
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April 24th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Quitting smoking is important for smokers and it must be based on a strong desire and motivation to quit. There are many methods such as nicotine replacement therapy with nicotine patches, hypnotism, etc.
August 13th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
In order to quit successfully and permanently, the intent to stop must come from the smoker himself. If this is done unconciously like hypnotism AND without the knowledge of the smoker himself, I don’t think this would become permanent if ever he quits.
April 8th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
Willpower is most deffinately needed, takes alot of effort and determination but its worth it in the end!