Don't go now when the quitting's good
Tuesday, July 27th, 2004 07:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Today I went to Birmingham and got hypnotised to give up smoking. I don't know if I could have done it as well without treatment, or whether acupuncture or nicoteine pads or a blow to the head with a hard object might have worked better - I just like being put into trance.
I was hypnotised at 10.30 a.m.. It's know 7.30 p.m., and I still haven't smoked. I've had the urge to a couple of times, but nothing irresistible. The next few days will let me know.
Trivia for Thelemite readers: I was charged £93 for the hypnosis.
I was hypnotised at 10.30 a.m.. It's know 7.30 p.m., and I still haven't smoked. I've had the urge to a couple of times, but nothing irresistible. The next few days will let me know.
Trivia for Thelemite readers: I was charged £93 for the hypnosis.
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Date: 2004-07-27 11:19 am (UTC)Good luck with it. I'm sure you'll be completely able to kick the habit.
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Date: 2004-07-27 11:23 am (UTC)So, what's it like being in a hypnotic trance?
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Date: 2004-07-27 11:38 am (UTC)Rodney
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Date: 2004-07-28 08:11 am (UTC)Have you read Italo Svevo's "Confessions of Zeno"? Narrator wants to quit smoking so he writes on wall of his apartment "Today is the day I finally quit smoking." And to celebrate he smokes one celebration cigarette. And of course relapses. Later he writes on the wall "Today is the day I REALLY finally quit smoking." Celebrates with another final cigarette, etc. Eventually he's forced to move when the landlord finds hundreds of increasingly impressive oaths covering the formerly immaculate walls.
Svevo was this Italian Jew (Ettore Schmitz) who wanted to learn English. He hired a young Berlitz instructor named... James Joyce. Joyce loved his writing and gave him the confidence to become a successful writer.
Bittersweet ending: Svevo died in a car accident, living long enough to break out a cigarette and smoke: "This one truly will be my last cigarette."