Lots of methods used to help curb habits

Excerpt from article Originally published September 10, 2006 Lots of methods used to help curb habits By L.B. WHYDE Advocate Reporter Bob Nelson had a bad habit he says was worse than an illegal-drug addiction. He smoked three packs of cigarettes a day for many years after starting smoking at age 12. As a trucker, it was convenient to smoke all the time. He would get up in the morning saying he would quit. But by the time he reached the bathroom, he'd have a cigarette in his mouth. Last year, at the age of 57, Nelson quit. What worked? Hypnosis. "I don't know what she did, but I haven't had the urge to smoke at all, for a year," he said. "She became my hero." Before Nelson went to Dee Krier at the Dejavue Center for Alternative Health (now Asbury Chapel), he bought a pack of cigarettes and smoked four. But Krier, a hypnotherapist with a master's degree in regression therapy, was able to work with his subconscious and overcome his desire to smoke.

"I am just a facilitator," said Krier, who is working on her doctorate in clinical hypnosis. "We just allow the subconscious to change the habit or addiction; then they can work with it." With all the money he has saved from not buying three packs a day, Nelson bought a new Harley-Davidson motorcycle. "I don't know what works for other people, but hypnosis worked for me," he said. Bob Nelson and his new purple Harley that he bought with the money he saved from quiting.