i have been practicing N.L.P. for 4 months and have recently passed my practitioner course so now i am trying to practise and help as many people and learn nlp so i am confident to move up a level into timeline and hypnosis.
i have a chance to help a freind of a freind who would like to quit smoking, i spoke briefly with him over the phone and asked him to do a 14 day diary of every time he has a cigarette to write in the feelings, now i am still learning and agreed i will only expect a fee of £450 once the treatment has worked, now i was thinking of using a swish pattern to help him kick smoking , can any one give any more advice please, i really would be gratefull regards glyn

i am confident to move up a level into timeline and hypnosis.

Up a level?

You are selecting an intervention that works primarily in the visual system. The trigger for smoking is usually (although not universally) in the kinesthetic system. This is the craving smokers talk about. I would suggest you pick an intervention that works with the craving.

You can do this with the swish but it's clumsy because you are associating a K with a dissociated image. Client experiences a different K when the outcome image swishes in. The new K is is to deal with the craving. This is close to anchoring.

What other processes did you learn at your course for dealing with kinesthetic triggers?

Michael
www.nlpacademy.co.uk

on the course i learnt anchoring,swish patterns,parts intergration thanks for the advice michael

If the client has cravings (which is likely), these cravings are involuntary and thus can be used as a signal. Elicit positive intention and gain agreement from unconscious via signal that it will offer alternative choices that match intention but the new choices are better than the old choice of smoking. You will note this is one part of the old six step reframe.

I would also work with the client's self representation (identity) of a smoker and help him/her create a new self representation as a non smoker. This is where the swish could be useful. Personally I think the swish has limitations and there is so many newer processes that do better job.

Michael