This is what Alan said on his questionnaire:

"I drink alcohol every day more-or-less all the time. I also chain smoke all day long."

Pictured (right) is Allan who overcame his long-term drinking/smoking habit with our help. Allan needed three sessions to quit smoking and drinking. Again, you can see the look of anguish on his first photo, taken before the treatment. Compare this to the second photo which was taken a week later. See the difference?  His video can be seen below.

“Hi, my name is Allan. I am 40. I have been drinking heavily for about 20 years. I have come here to get help because the AA did not help me, group sessions didn’t help me, and hopefully the sessions I had (with ‘Life Principles’) will. I came last week because I was a heavy smoker as well and, since then, in the last seven days, I have only had just one cigarette rather than 20-a-day. And all I can do is to recommend this kind of therapy because the AA (wouldn’t) have helped you, doctors wouldn’t have helped you and the NHS will always forget you.”

“Aquarius, I went there. It made me worse. The group sessions were terrible. All you do is sit down and listen to everybody else’s problems (then) go away, feeling more down than when you come in. There is no after-care; there is no after-thought, there is nothing. And all they do is to take the money they take from the donations and the money they receive and use it for themselves. There is no help whatsoever. This is why I came here and this is why you should come here (too).”

“I used to smoke up to 60-a-day. The things I have noticed since I cut down on the smoking and since I cut down on the alcohol intake, how much it didn’t just affect me and my health but how it affected other people. I was not just hurting myself, I was hurting a lot of people, and that is one thing that has to stop. My actions should not have a reaction on somebody else, when they have no control over the situation I’m causing. It’s my problem and I got to deal with it and - if I get better - then everyone else will get better, and everybody else will be nicer towards me.”

“The reason for drinking is because I have had a bad life. It’s no excuse for drinking. It’s just that when you are drinking that heavily, you forget everything. The only thing is (that) the problem doesn’t go away, you wake up the next day, the problem is still there and you start dinking again. So it’s an ongoing thing. So, rather than drinking Monday, Wednesday, Friday you are drinking Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sundays – just to try and forget. The only thing is the problem has not gone away. Shokat, the problem doesn’t go away until you deal with it at the unconscious level first, which we will deal with in the next session.”

“I have been to no-smoking-groups. I have had the patches, I have had the tablets (Champix), I have had the gum and nothing works until I came here. Now, one fag to me in a week, that for me is unheard off. I am now looking forward to the next session.”