This was published yesterday in the San Francisco Chronicle. It's wonderful when celebrities are successful with hypnosis because it really helps us to spread the good word about the positive and amazing things it can help people with. For more information about how hypnosis can help you and also hypnosis training and certification in Maryland, visit our website at www.SandersHypnosis.com.
And now, the article.....
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Ask Bruce Bochy if he has a dip and the Giants' manager offers a standard response: "I don't do that anymore."
Bullpen catcher Bill Hayes answers the same way. Equipment manager Mike Murphy, too.
They've reached this point because of hypnotherapist AlVera Paxson, who is developing quite the reputation for helping the World Series champions kick some nasty, decades-old habits.
Bochy hasn't touched chewing tobacco since April 14, the night before seeing Paxson during his team's first trip to Arizona. Hayes has gone without since Jan. 26. It's two years down for Murphy. No carrying around those little tobacco cans for these three any longer.
Bochy had his doubts when Hayes told him in spring training that he had stopped dipping following one thorough session with Paxson, a medical hypnotherapist.
Hayes succeeded after Paxson already had aided Murphy in stopping. She also worked with Murphy's wife, Carole, to help her quit smoking.
"I'm a believer," Murphy said.
"It's been the best $300 I ever spent," Hayes said. "It's weird to see how it works."
Bochy agrees. He already would have spent well more than $300 on dip by this point in the season, he said.
Last year, Bochy tried Nicorette gum and an array of different non-tobacco, herbal dips. He made it about a month, then hit hard times and fell back into his old dipping ways.
Not this time. Bochy - a skeptic on these sorts of things - had to see for himself if he could kick his nearly 40-year pattern of dipping before and after games and several times during the course of nine innings. He did it in the first, fifth and eighth innings. That had been his routine, a go-to stress reliever.
When he left Paxson's office, minus his $300 investment, Bochy headed straight to Chase Field for a game against the Diamondbacks.
He arrived in the clubhouse and didn't want a dip. The game started and there were no cravings. He has handled the occasional urges since then.
"It was really strange," Bochy said. "There are so many triggers that you have that make you want to put a dip in. The following day, I did have an urge, not a real strong one. I said, 'OK, I've had my day off, now it's time to put one in.' "
He didn't do it.
"The next game, I did have an urge. The next two to three days, I still had an urge, but it just wasn't as strong as other times I've tried to quit," he said. "When I got past the fourth or fifth day, I was over it. I didn't crave it. I didn't want it. I was fine."
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/09/SPRS1KKSUL.DTL
This article appeared on page B - 3 of the San Francisco Chronicle
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