Hypnosis for Smoking Cessation. A book by David Botsford

In these pages you will discover:

The top 5 reasons hypnotists fail to achieve success

12 Rules for Routines and 3 Types of Routines to Always Avoid

10 Do's for Stage Hypnosis Success

The 3 Never Do Rules for a Hypnosis Show

The Seven Rules of a Successful Pre-talk

How to Kick-start a Show

Power Tools, Strategies and Techniques for Effective Trance

The Popular EKG Induction

You will also gain similarly practical guidance for getting work and otherwise increasing your income, including:

A sure-fire approach to getting bookings as many as you want in a matter of weeks

Practices to maximize return bookings

Ways to turn every performance into a high-profit center

In addition, you will learn how to deal with the real life challenges of stage hypnosis including:

What to do when no one volunteers for your show

What to do when no one gets hypnotized

How to deal with accidents

How to successfully overcome challenging show settings

How deal with drunks and druggies and more...

If you are going to learn about something, learn from someone who walks the talk. Geoffrey Ronning's extremely successful dual career on stage as a performer and off stage as a mentor, coach and teacher to other successful stage hypnotists qualifies him in spades. Whether you're an aspiring beginner or a seasoned professional, you will put down this book believing that you can be a more successful stage hypnotist... and knowing exactly how you can do it.

About the main author
Geoffrey Ronning is has given literally thousands of performances in a variety of venues including schools, universities, comedy clubs, corporate events, casinos, and private parties. He has worked for small combative groups in run down, fourth rate venues, and to rock star sized crowds of over 20,000 in Washington's Gorge Amphitheater.
In addition to his full- time performing career, he is a Certified Hypnotist and Certified Hypnosis Instructor. He has published twelve stage hypnosis educational programs and created over forty hypnosis products. He and his wife and partner, Wendy, co-founded The Stage Hypnosis Center. They have supported countless stage hypnotists into greater success. Geoffrey and Wendy have a home near Phoenix Arizona and give one to two sold out trainings a year.
In addition, Geoffrey has invited a select group of worldwide experts to contribute to this landmark Stage Hypnosis book, each with their own unique, valuable perspective that that adds a rich texture to this body of stage hypnosis knowledge.
About the contributing author

David Botsford is a hypnotherapist, trainer and stage hypnotist under the stage name Doctor Omni. He has produced a series of self-hypnosis CDs and is the author of Hypnosis for Smoking Cessation (Crown House, Bancyfelin, 2007). Geoffrey Ronning commissioned him to write a chapter for this new book on stage hypnosis.

David Botsford's comments on the book
At last there is a single volume which can turn the reader into a stage hypnotist, if he reads it diligently and persistently works with it.
All the previous books on stage hypnosis have contained good and useful information, but The Ronning Guide to Modern Stage Hypnosis has the distinction of being a complete course in itself. It keeps theory and superfluous material to a minimum, and contains a wealth of practical exercises which are remarkable in their ability to teach subtleties such as getting volunteers up on stage and ensuring they enter a satisfactory trance - two of the most challenging aspects of the art of stage hypnosis.
There is useful information on everything from staging and sound to how to get your first gigs. The solid material in the main section of the book is lightened with entertaining stories about the author's stage hypnosis career. Significantly, the book describes the realities of performing a show to today's audiences, a very different market from fifty or even thirty years ago. A fascinating - and inspiring - part of the book is the essays by guest expert contributors (I'm talking about others than my own), which describe how individuals with very different life experiences got involved in stage hypnosis, the challenges they have overcome in their careers, and their invaluable advice to the reader. The book is also produced to a high standard of printing and binding, and is the equal in technical quality of any from a major publisher. In short, the Ronning Guide is destined to become the standard book on the subject, probably for decades to come.

There is just one thing that really does need to be fixed for future editions (of which there will doubtless be many). The text contains a regrettably large number of typographical errors, misspellings and incorrect usage of words (e.g., "to" instead of "too", "where" instead of "were," and "there" instead "their"). This makes it a little difficult to read and the meaning unclear in some passages, as well as being a distraction from such an otherwise fine book. It really needs to have a copy editor go through it and make all the corrections. (I'd be willing to do this if you wanted me to - it would be one way of being sure that I thoroughly absorb all the material in the book!) Once that is done, the book will be, quite simply, impossible to fault, and in all respects a masterpiece.