title: Stop Smoking The Right Way: 7 Steps to Breaking the Habit
author: Sabine Price
description: Sabine Price, DCH has been leading stop smoking seminars and classes in alternative health care techniques since 1997. Sabine Price holds a doctorate degree in Clinical Hypnotherapy; she is a certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner (NLP) and a certified practitioner of Time Line Therapy - a trademark of Advanced Neuro Dynamics (Tad James). She is Board Certified by the American Board of Hypnotherapy and the American Board of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. She is a member of the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association. Sabine Price, DCH is the founder and owner of Northwest School of Clinical Hypnotherapy, an educational training center specializing in teaching and providing information on clinical hypnotherapy and NLP for health care professionals and individuals. Sabine Price, DCH has developed "Hypno-Coaching", an approach that incorporates behavioral coaching and hypnosis for faster and lasting results. Sabine used to be a smoker herself until she was pregnant with her first child. She knows from personal experience what she is talking about, and she also knows that it is possible to stop smoking in a single day. Sabine Price, DCH has a strong personal belief that we all hold the key to health and happiness within ourselves. It is her mission and passion in life to unlock this potential for each and every one of you. She lives on Bainbridge Island, WA with her two children and her pets.
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  ## 1
  
  
  MARK WAS ELEVEN AND HAD BEEN SMOKING OFF AND ON
  
  
  for two years, never trying to quit but being careful not to get hooked. He
  preferred Kools, his ex-father’s brand, but his mother smoked Virginia Slims
  at the rate of two packs a day, and he could in an average week pilfer ten or
  twelve from her. She was a busy woman with many problems, perhaps a little
  naive when it came to her boys, and she never dreamed her eldest would be
  smoking at the age of eleven.
  
  
  Occasionally Kevin, the delinquent two streets over, would sell Mark a pack of
  stolen Marlboros for a dollar. But for the most part he had to rely on his
  mother’s skinny cigarettes.
  
  
  He had four of them in his pocket that afternoon as he led his brother, Ricky,
  age eight, down the path into the woods behind their trailer park. Ricky was
  nervous about this, his first smoke. He had caught Mark hiding the cigarettes
  in a shoebox under his bed day before, and thre