EFT Ends A Strong Addiction to Smoking Cigarettes

"Mario" was a heavy smoker but he said that he definitely wanted to stop. The level of his desire to smoke remained at 9 or 10 out of 10 even after two sessions of EFT.

Although his desire to smoke remained high, I soon realized that it was good because the cigarettes themselves functioned as important "keys" that unlocked many of his other issues. For example, I asked him to tell me about the first time he smoked and after several rounds and different approaches, we tapped on:

Even though the first person who gave me a cigarette was my best friend and he was killed in an accident and I feel like I keep him with me when I smoke … I realize that my favorite memories of him were when we were doing other things besides smoking … and I choose to keep him in my heart instead of in my lungs.

Although there was a lot of emotional release with this tapping, his desire to smoke was still very high so I asked him why he still smokes and we tapped on:

Even though I smoke to be accepted by other smokers at work… I believe in my ability to be a good worker.

Even though I smoke to have friends, I choose to have friends who will live a long time and be healthy without smoking.

I asked him about the first time he did something that hurt himself in order to have friends. He said it was too private to tell me so we used the Movie Technique and followed your suggestion for such private matters by having the client hum the words instead of saying them: Even though I hum, hum, hummed, I completely forgive myself. (It worked great!)

By that point, we had the cigarette as a key to issues of being accepted, to having friends, and to keeping the memory of a friend alive. This nicotine key continued to open more doors and gave him many areas of emotional freedom but his desire to smoke continued! I asked him to tell me again why he still smokes. He said it made him feel peaceful.

So we worked on times in his life when he felt nervous (his opposite to feeling peaceful). Once we cleared those times, we did future tapping on situations where he expected to feel nervous. Even though I will feel nervous the next time my boss judges my work with that terrible look he has...

So we went back to other people judging him with a terrible look and cleared major issues with his judgmental father. Then, at the start of our fourth session, his desire to smoke had finally dropped down to a 5 out of 10 and he said that the cigarette suddenly smelled like licorice (which he doesn't like). Many times during all of the sessions, I had the cigarette near him or in his hand or in his mouth as you taught us in the DVD "Six Days at the Veteran's Hospital", but finally, he did not want to even touch it. He simply laughed and said, "Che bello!" an Italian exclamation for "How beautiful!".

I called Mario two weeks after his "Che bello!" session and he is still smoke-free in spite of the teasing he gets from his co-workers. He works in an automobile body shop. According to law, the body shop had to put up a separation to divide a smoker's area from an area for non-smokers in the snack room. They put up a flimsy plastic shower curtain and the smoke from the smokers' side comes easily to the side where Mario sits, sipping his coffee, all alone but thankful and happy to be free from cigarettes and leg pain.

He continues tapping on himself and describes his life now as "Sono tranquillo." (I am peaceful). This was my first experience with using EFT for cigarette addiction and I have since learned from fabulous articles written by EFT'ers on your site, that there is often a certain physical feeling before the craving for a cigarette starts. I recently used the technique of identifying the craving and tapping on earlier times in the client's life when the physical feeling appeared.

A husband and wife were guests for a few nights in my Bed & Breakfast. The husband only had one EFT session and the wife had two sessions. They reduced their smoking, but did not completely end it before their vacation ended. After a 25 year habit of smoking at least a pack every day, the husband was amazed to go two days with only smoking one half of a cigarette.

The wife, also a heavy smoker, went an entire day without smoking. She said she was amazed that she didn’t have her usual desire to smoke when she saw 30 people smoking one day in a nearby town. Seeing other people smoke had been a big trigger for her.

I referred them to EFT in their home country and expect to hear great results. Thank you, Gary for teaching me this awesome way to truly help people.

With lots of love, Judith Rivera Rosso

After EFT, Patient with Leukemia Begins Making White Blood Cells

One day, I was driving by the hospital on my way to completing some errands. It flashed through my mind that I needed to go see Pauline. I argued that I was running errands. No, right now you need to go see Pauline.

Pauline was a member of my practice. She had experienced the horrific death of her granddaughter about 3 years ago. She felt as though she needed to be a rock for the family so her grief was put on the back burner. Two and a half years later she was diagnosed with leukemia. She had been undergoing chemo and I had not seen her in my office for over six months. Historically her care in my office included Network Spinal Analysis and Emotional Freedom Technique.

The hospital is just down the street from my office so I listened and turned into the parking lot. When I walked into Pauline’s room I was shocked. She was heavily medicated and on a respirator. Her lungs sounded extremely congested. Her daughter was sitting in the corner. She looked at me and shrugged her shoulders. “Mom is not making any white blood cells. She has not been making any white blood cells for three days now. The doctors can do nothing else for her.”

I walked over to Pauline, picked up her hand and started to tap. As I tapped I told Pauline, “Your only job is to make white blood cells, trillions and trillions of white blood cells. Jesus and the angels will be here and help you to make white blood cells.” As I talked I tapped. Mostly I tapped on the Karate Chop point, but a few times I did tap on her face and the collarbone point. I know that I just kept telling her that that was her only job - making white blood cells. A nurse walked in … oh well, keep tapping.

When I saw a corner of her mouth turn up in a smile I stopped tapping. She didn’t open her eyes, but the smile was enough. I continued to hold her hand and talk to her. I must have been in her room a total of 30 minutes at the most. Before I left the room Pauline lifted her hand and wiggled her finger “good bye” at me.

Two months later I received a call from Pauline. She was home. She told me that her family didn’t know what I was doing, but they knew that what ever it was, it caused her turn around. She started making white blood cells immediately and within three days she was making enough WBC’s to fight infection.

About a month ago Pauline’s daughter walked into my office for care. She said that indeed that tapping was when her mom’s condition turned for the better.

Dr. Kay Heaston, EFT-Adv

EFT Clears Poison Oak – Gone Without a Trace in 90 Minutes

Recently, I spent hours weeding a large open field that is part of our property. From past experience I knew there was a little bit of poison oak buried in there under the other weeds so I wore heavy gloves and long sleeves. Of course, the sleeves slid up a little and left that 2 inch band of bare skin between glove and cuff. I was careful and did not see any poison oak.

Two days later I awoke with an itch on my wrist and thought a bug had bitten me. During my shower the “bug bite” turned into “several bug bites” swelling and bright pink in the bracelet of bare wrist from my weeding adventure. Uh-oh, the blisters were forming and I expected the worst. When I get poison oak, it always spreads beyond the exposed area.

But, I thought of EFT and that Gary would say “try it on everything”. So first I did a round of just psychological reversal tapping on the karate chop point saying:

Even though poison oak is caused by an oil and cannot be stopped by EFT…
Even though I believe this is a chemical reaction and cannot be stopped….
Even though it feels ridiculous to try EFT on this poison oak…

That negative part of me handled, I did the EFT setup rubbing the sore spot saying,

Even though my wrist is itching and broken out in bumps…
Even though I have these poison oak bumps on my wrist…
Even though I’m getting itchy blisters on my wrist… I did several rounds of tapping on “this itching” and “this poison oak”.

Then I switched to a want:

Even though I want my wrist to be smooth and blemish free…
Even though I want my wrists to be itch-free and comfortable…
Even though I want my skin to feel calm and smooth…

A few more rounds of tapping and then finally the choice, as follows,

Even though my wrist itches, I choose to let go of this poison oak reaction…
Even though I have these blisters, I choose to have clear and itch-free skin…
Even though this poison oak oil got on me, I choose to have clear and beautiful skin…

The itching stopped immediately. And, unbelievable but true, in 1 ½ hours the skin on my wrist was completely clear and there was never another sign of that poison oak. Hard to believe, but there it is.

Nancy Morris, EFT-ADV

Pain From Severe Lower Back Injury is Resolved with Three Rounds of EFT

This was proven to be correct when an appointment was made by a 45 year old gentleman who told me that following a serious injury to his lower back at work, he was hospitalized for 6 months and confined to a wheelchair for a further 2 years. Physiotherapists had worked with him over this period and eventually got him walking with the aid of 2 crutches, but he was only able to cover about 30 metres (100 feet) at a time, was on powerful analgesics, but still suffering a large amount of pain and was told there was little more that could be done for him. He made an appointment for next day.

When he arrived I could tell from his efforts to walk his lower back and legs were pain ridden, and his posture was very lopsided. He was completely exhausted from the efforts to get to me. He found it very difficult to get onto the treatment couch but insisted he would.

Although I had only just gained a small understanding of EFT I began talking through the problems he had faced since the injury. It became obvious that he felt exceptionally guilty about his inability to help his wife when cancer struck and she underwent a major operation. He was also concerned that his earning power had dropped to zero. He indicated his quality of life was only a 2 on a scale of 0 to 10.

I gained his permission to try EFT with him and began with the KC point. We went through a basic setup procedure using,

Even though I have this serious injury…

Even though I could not help my wife in her time of urgent need…

Even though I can no longer support my family…

When we reached the collarbone point he began sobbing, his breathing became laboured and his lower body began twitching. We stopped and I explained that I thought he was going through a very strong emotional release. He gradually regained composure and we carried on.

At the end of the second round he requested that we continue indicating he felt much better emotionally and his pain was reducing. After the third round I prepared to help him off the couch. Amazingly he stood up by himself and using only one stick began walking around the treatment room.

I advised him not to be too adventurous and take things a little easy. With tears of happiness in his eyes he could not thank me enough. I explained that EFT and himself were the healers and I was only a channel. Talking through his treatment he now said he felt his quality of life had gone to wonderful 9 out of 10 and could not wait to get home to his wife. I talked to him and his wife 3 days after the treatment and both of them cannot believe his recovery.

Gary, after running a sports injury clinic using shiatsu, Reiki and ki healing for almost 20 years I cannot believe how EFT helped this patient and intend to use it at every opportunity. Thank you for making this treatment available to all, I look forward to getting much more experience and understanding but for a first attempt I truly am amazed

May your EFT God be with You

Best Regards,

Graham Batchelor