Today a newspaper article in the Beaver Dam Daily Citizen documents the success hypnosis has with smoking cessation.
CAMBRIA — A Cambria businessman and veteran who found a way to quit smoking is spearheading an effort to give others the opportunity to do the same.
Kurt Skinner, originally from West Bend, owns and operates South Central Wisconsin Auto Glass Repair in Cambria with his wife, Bambi. They started the business in June.
Skinner said he had been using tobacco products since 1985, when he was in the fifth grade, first cigarettes and then chewing tobacco. He said that he had tried many times to quit, with no success.
Skinner served in the army for seven years, after signing up a few months after Sept. 11, 2001. Skinner said that his tobacco use varied. When he joined the Army he found it “hard to run and smoke” so he switched to chewing tobacco. Skinner worked in communications in the Army and was deployed twice.
The couple has three children, and one of their daughters has asthma and allergy problems, which helped Skinner make the decision to quit. His wife suggested he try hypnosis. He made an appointment at Capital Hypnosis in Madison during the first week of August, and hasn’t used tobacco since.
Skinner was so impressed by how hypnosis worked for him that he began trying to find a way to bring his hypnotist to Cambria.
“I know that it will work if a person does want to quit,” Skinner said.
Read the entire article for news about the special event Kurt has arranged in his community.
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