Stop Smoking EFT First Case Study Session - Three Emotional Root Causes
"Marcelle" is seeing me for stopping smoking.
We are doing a gradual cut-down plan, which is great for smokers who have a large emotional element to their smoking and therefore cannot stop in just one session.
To do this, we do as much treatment as we can fit into each session and assess at the end how free Marcelle is, cutting down accordingly.
This is a relatively easy and pain-free process.
We are carrying out the treatment using Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and kinesiology-based muscle-testing and treatment.
EFT involves stimulating the end-points of certain meridian energy lines whilst using releasing wording.
EFT is my method of choice for releasing the underlying emotions to the urge to smoke.
The muscle-testing helps me determine how successful we have been in an objective way, so than we can then plan the next step forward.
EFT gave Marcelle a great deal of calm in this session.
Like any other healing modality, EFT sometimes results in a gentle release, and this time the release was with a few tears, but this soon went away, and Marcelle was left with feelings of peace and calm.
She had seen how a relative had released with laughter when they attended their sessions, and so she knew she was safe and protected in her session.
Although EFT can be self-applied, I find that tapping on clients whilst they are lying down comfortably is gentler for big traumas.
And Marcelle had given me a big trauma behind her smoking urges.
We approached this very gently, and in this session, I chose to only take the edges off it, so that Marcelle would be thoroughly comfortable with the process.
But before we approached this trauma, we worked on a general fear and on an innocuous specific smoking issue.
This was to help Marcelle ease confidently into the treatment.
We made good headway with three root causes:
So I started with "Even though there is this fear of stopping smoking...
" and peppered it with statements that made it comical, like "Oh my God, what am I going to do" in a funny tone of voice, which also helped Marcelle feel more at ease.
We then took a detour to tap on overeating.
I started by tapping "Even if you didn't smoke, there is the fear of eating more, you can deeply accept yourself anyway.
" We tapped around on this theme, and then I asked her if she did not smoke, what would she most likely binge on? She said "Luxury".
I asked her which luxury, to which she replied, "Wholenut chocolate.
" This immediately implied a need for luxury, rewards, a treat, and feelings of deprivation.
So we tapped on all those.
And we tapped on "this wholenut chocolate desire" too.
The chocolate desire went from a 5 out of 10 to a 2 and ended at about zero.
After that, the fear of stopping smoking was down to a 5 out of 10 - half its value just 20 minutes previously.
Next we started working on the trauma.
Marcelle had said that she was the black sheep of her family, always blamed for anything and given hidings.
I asked her how upset she felt when I said "black sheep of the family," and she said 5.
We tapped very gently on this statement and it went from a 5 out of 10 to athen a 1.
We used gentle EFT with some inner child work, helping the young Marcelle feel good about herself, exonerating her from blame and taking her to a safe nice place.
After that, the fear of stopping smoking was a 3, although we had not worked directly on it again.
I explained that this was because the childhood trauma was a root cause of the smoking, and that by releasing it, we can move forward with ease.
At the end of the session, we used muscle-testing to objectively determine how many cigarettes a day Marcelle can cut down to.
This was 12 a day, 3 less than usual.
I gave her a simple EFT tapping to do on the Karate chop as homework, and we set the next appointment.
Read on in this series of articles to see how Marcelle is doing.
These are written as they happen, so that anyone who is looking for help can know that they are real, genuine treatments.
Whether you are looking to stop smoking, or if you are a stop-smoking practitioner, I hope this article has given you useful ideas.
And many thanks to my lovely client for permission to write about her case.
We are doing a gradual cut-down plan, which is great for smokers who have a large emotional element to their smoking and therefore cannot stop in just one session.
To do this, we do as much treatment as we can fit into each session and assess at the end how free Marcelle is, cutting down accordingly.
This is a relatively easy and pain-free process.
We are carrying out the treatment using Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and kinesiology-based muscle-testing and treatment.
EFT involves stimulating the end-points of certain meridian energy lines whilst using releasing wording.
EFT is my method of choice for releasing the underlying emotions to the urge to smoke.
The muscle-testing helps me determine how successful we have been in an objective way, so than we can then plan the next step forward.
EFT gave Marcelle a great deal of calm in this session.
Like any other healing modality, EFT sometimes results in a gentle release, and this time the release was with a few tears, but this soon went away, and Marcelle was left with feelings of peace and calm.
She had seen how a relative had released with laughter when they attended their sessions, and so she knew she was safe and protected in her session.
Although EFT can be self-applied, I find that tapping on clients whilst they are lying down comfortably is gentler for big traumas.
And Marcelle had given me a big trauma behind her smoking urges.
We approached this very gently, and in this session, I chose to only take the edges off it, so that Marcelle would be thoroughly comfortable with the process.
But before we approached this trauma, we worked on a general fear and on an innocuous specific smoking issue.
This was to help Marcelle ease confidently into the treatment.
We made good headway with three root causes:
- The fear of stopping smoking.
- Overeating, which was kept at bay with smoking.
- Childhood trauma of physical and emotional abuse.
So I started with "Even though there is this fear of stopping smoking...
" and peppered it with statements that made it comical, like "Oh my God, what am I going to do" in a funny tone of voice, which also helped Marcelle feel more at ease.
We then took a detour to tap on overeating.
I started by tapping "Even if you didn't smoke, there is the fear of eating more, you can deeply accept yourself anyway.
" We tapped around on this theme, and then I asked her if she did not smoke, what would she most likely binge on? She said "Luxury".
I asked her which luxury, to which she replied, "Wholenut chocolate.
" This immediately implied a need for luxury, rewards, a treat, and feelings of deprivation.
So we tapped on all those.
And we tapped on "this wholenut chocolate desire" too.
The chocolate desire went from a 5 out of 10 to a 2 and ended at about zero.
After that, the fear of stopping smoking was down to a 5 out of 10 - half its value just 20 minutes previously.
Next we started working on the trauma.
Marcelle had said that she was the black sheep of her family, always blamed for anything and given hidings.
I asked her how upset she felt when I said "black sheep of the family," and she said 5.
We tapped very gently on this statement and it went from a 5 out of 10 to athen a 1.
We used gentle EFT with some inner child work, helping the young Marcelle feel good about herself, exonerating her from blame and taking her to a safe nice place.
After that, the fear of stopping smoking was a 3, although we had not worked directly on it again.
I explained that this was because the childhood trauma was a root cause of the smoking, and that by releasing it, we can move forward with ease.
At the end of the session, we used muscle-testing to objectively determine how many cigarettes a day Marcelle can cut down to.
This was 12 a day, 3 less than usual.
I gave her a simple EFT tapping to do on the Karate chop as homework, and we set the next appointment.
Read on in this series of articles to see how Marcelle is doing.
These are written as they happen, so that anyone who is looking for help can know that they are real, genuine treatments.
Whether you are looking to stop smoking, or if you are a stop-smoking practitioner, I hope this article has given you useful ideas.
And many thanks to my lovely client for permission to write about her case.
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