Breathe, Freedom: A Comprehensive and Hypnotic Approach to Quitting Smoking/Respirez, Liberté: Une Approche Globale et Hypnotique Pour Surmonter le Tabagisme
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Abstract
Alderson, K. (2011). Breathe, Freedom: A Comprehensive and Hypnotic Approach to Quitting Smoking. Respirez, Liberte : Une approche globale et hypnotique pour surmonter le tabagisme. London, ON: Insomniac Press. ISBN: 978-1554830213, 253 pages.Reviewed by: Aaron L. BlockABSTRACTThis book review focuses on the story of Freedom who, in his quest for belonging, becomes addicted to cigarettes. Through living hard and being forced to learn life's lessons, Freedom becomes enlightened and overcomes his addiction through medical and psychosocial interventions. The narrative serves as a backdrop to presenting a multicomponent treatment program. The program includes smoking cessation aids, drug therapy approaches, and hypnosis to help the reader achieve abstinence after one year at a purported success rate of 50%. The author reassures us that this is evidence of efficacy, given that smoking is an addiction and not just a habit.RESUMECe livre porte sur l'histoire de Liberte, qui dans sa quete d'appartenance devient dependant de la cigarette. Oblige d'apprendre les lecons d'une vie difficile, Liberte devient eclaire et surmonte le tabagisme a l'aide d'interventions medicales et psychosociales. L'auteur se sert du recit pour cadrer un programme de traitement comprehensif qui comprend des aides de cessation du tabagisme, des approches de therapie, et l'hypnose pour aider le lecteur a realiser l'abstinence apres un an a un taux pretendu de reussite de 50 %. L'auteur nous rassure que ce taux met en evidence l'efficacite du programme etant donne que le tabagisme est non seulement une habitude mais une dependance.Dr. Kevin Alderson, a registered psychologist and associate professor in the counselling department at the University of Calgary, writes this book against the backdrop of 29 years of practicing hypnotherapy, a history of being exposed to fables and fairy tales while falling asleep as a child, and having lost a father and dear friend to the well-researched and deadly effects of smoking. The book is written in two parts. The first section is written as the narrative of a boy named Freedom who matures into manhood and acquires the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours to maintain a smokingfree lifestyle. Freedom experiences a state of metanoia as he shifts from a state of precontemplation with no intention of quitting smoking to having little temptation to smoke in the maintenance phase of the Transtheoretical Model of Change. Only once readers have had this vicarious experience alongside Freedom are they ready to follow and comply with the evidence-based strategies in the second part of the book.The second section presents a multicomponent smoking cessation program in which hypnosis is eloquently presented as an adjunct to evidence-based treatment approaches, including cognitive-behavioural therapy and medical strategies. Recognizing smoking as an addiction, the author claims that 50% of those who follow his cessation program have successfully abstained from smoking for at least one year.Within the introduction, the author effectively, efficiently, and concretely explains the short- and long-term effects of smoking and resultant deaths to cancer, lung disease, and cardiovascular disease, as well as the short- and long-term outcomes associated with cessation. Moreover, the author recommends readers literally and figuratively rip this book apart/5 asserting that they will be given direct, indirect, and subliminal messages and suggestions that will bring about metanoia or a deep soulful change to their self-worth, confidence, and life in general.Subsequent chapters are numbered according to the various lessons Freedom is required to learn in order to kick the crap out of his addiction. The narrative covers Chapters 1 through 6. We are introduced to Freedom as a young boy beginning kindergarten and. follow him as he matures into his early 40s. Freedom has a sister, Star, and parents who experience the lifestyle and side effects of marijuana abuse. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".