6 things to say to smokers to boost their motivation to quit

Discover how splitting the person from the problem can really help you help people stop smoking more quickly and easily

Smokers often feel deeply entwined with their smoking – “It’s who I am”. This makes any threat to their smoking (“You should stop smoking!”) feel like a very personal threat. To help them quit, they need to be helped to extract the smoking from their core identity.

Full article: How to get more smokers to really want to quit

How to stop anyone smoking – Roll up! Roll up!

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This key new course for therapists working to help people quit smoking launches on Wednesday 27 May and you can be among the first to benefit from the wealth of information, insight and sheer know-how we have put together to help smoking cessation practitioners become even better at what they do.

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Clear Thinking – fresh ideas

Well, what do you think so far? I’m lining up a whole series of short, sharp pieces like the ones you’ve seen here. The idea is to take a single angle on an issue that’s important to therapists and focus in on highly practical ways to become more effective from that angle.

Of course, any issue has its complexities and subtleties, and no single angle will provide the whole answer to anyone’s problems (if only that were possible!). But honing your skills in this way is like a golfer working with their coach and focusing in on a single aspect of their play – the stance, the swing, the grip, or whatever it may be – and making that aspect absolutely as good as it can be. That’s bound to automatically improve the level of play overall. And that’s my aim.

All the best

Mark Tyrrell
Creative Director
Uncommon Knowledge LLP

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