More powerful than you think and more effortless than you know T 0416272142  | Email: matfav@alternatives.com.au  | ©  2012 A couple of months ago I decided that my casual smoking was going to ruin my life. I am a professional voice over artist working on TV commercials, radio ads, documentaries and more. And the fact that every time I was out and about having a drink with friends, that I smoked like a chimney was starting to take it's toll on my voice. Knowing that I was on the road to destroying my career I decided something had to be done. I hit Google and started to look for a hypnotherapist in Sydney. I'm glad I did. When I first came to visit Matthew Favaloro  I was a social smoker.  I signed up for the three required sessions hoping to nip smoking in the bud. I wasn't sure how effective the treatment would be, however keeping an open mind, I embraced it and decided to see what would happen. A half an hour chat was followed around twenty minutes of hypnosis. I was put into a trance state which could only be described as being half asleep. I was aware - but deeply relaxed. Following the session I spent the next couple of days without having a cigarette. I was happy so far. However the real test came on a Friday night over a couple of bottles of wine with some mates at a friends home. Surely enough after the very first glass of vino I found myself wrought with cravings for a cigarette. When one of my friends adjourned to the balcony for a smoke I was out there like a shot. My eyes fixed on it, the habit, the lighter - his every move. I knew what I wanted, and my body knew that a cigarette is what it needed. However it's what I COULDN'T do that in that crisis moment which will have been the turning point of my health forever. As much as I knew I wanted a cigarette I could not bring myself to ask for one.  I couldn't bring myself to want one. I couldn't bring myself to even THINK of having one - it was like I had forgotten how to smoke a cigarette. couple of hours passed by, and while in a bar I noticed that my cravings had started to fade. By 2am in a nightclub The cravings were there but the mechanics had simply vanished. I could not have picked up a cigarette had my life depended on it. This was a very strange scenario indeed. Especially considering the cravings were still VERY much there. However onward into the night I pushed, without a cigarette to speak of. As a a friend (having great fun with my bizarre state) actually took a lit cigarette and placed it in my hands. A round of applause erupted from my friends as I drew it all the way up to my mouth, put it between my lips... and then hurriedly removed it without so much as a taste of it  I even tried to wipe the smell off my lips that had been left there by the butt. My cravings had truly disappeared. The next week I was back with Matthew for the second of my three sessions. It was much of a muchness. A pleasant trance like state during which time it was further re-enforced that I would not like, need, want or touch a cigarette again. I continued on another week happily plugging along without ever needing a smoke. So finally the third week arrived, and so did I for my final session with Matthew. Never having been one to conform or stick to convention I declared to Matthew that I was already positive that I would never have another cigarette in my life. Because of this that to do a third session on smoking would only be a waste. I asked if we could focus on something else instead to which he agreed. We settled on doing a session for anxiety in which Matthew both hypnotised me using a deep relaxation therapy, and also spent a great deal of time simply LISTENING to me. That's a rare gift to be given in this day and age - especially considering that Matthew went overtime blowing the session out to a whopping ninety minutes. I was his last client of the day and we went well into the night. I truly appreciated the extra time and attention. So to cut to the chase, here I am five weeks later and the results speak for themselves. I am more relaxed, and I DON'T smoke. Nuff said. Matt Thomas Articles Skype Celebrities Hypnosis For Testimonials