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| Posted by (mike) on Apr 12 2007 at 3:08 PM |
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Newsreader: Anti smoking patches, hypnosis sessions, nicotine gum. Yes, the list of products claiming to help you kick the smoking habit is endless, if indeed you have a smoking habit. Wouldn't it all be much simpler if you could simply reprogramme your body to eliminate those cravings. Well, a new device claims to do that. It's all based on the technology of bioresonance as Philippa Young explains..
Caroline: Is that comfortable?
Jean: Yes that's fine.
Philippa: Jean Gray is a 30 a day smoker and desperate to give up. She lives in Spain and has come here for the treatment which she hopes will finally help her kick her habit.
Jean: I need to give up. I've got a 6 year old grandson. I'm 50, over weight, and smoke. So, (I've) Got to give up.
Phillipa: The bioresonance machine is analysing the energy wave patterns in Jean's body. It finds the frequency pattern of the nicotine and reverses it. That in theory, neutralises the nicotine's energy pattern, so her body won't crave what's been wiped out.
Savita: What we're picking up is the energy pattern of nicotine, this wave pattern of nicotine, is now being inverted by the machine, so the invert pattern is going in, and what you get is phase cancellation. Literally, the phase cancellation is fizzling out the energy pattern of nicotine.
Phillipa: That principal is being used to treat illnesses and allergies, trying to help smokers quit is a new development. There is still no clinical proof that this works but the clinic says it treats hundreds of smokers every week, and of all those who have left their cigarettes here over just the last few days, 70% of them will never go back to smoking.
The therapy's becoming more popular, the concern is that not all practitioners have reliable equipment or the right training.
Simon Martin (editor of CAM magazine): If you get a really good machine, with a well educated, good, ethical, practitioner, the sky is the limit, really. But, there's an awful lot of people out there, I think, probably not very well trained and using inferior quality equipment and the sort of results they're getting really shouldn't be trusted.
Phillipa: The clinic here says its results have been impressive. On a bad day building contractor Graham Goddard would get through 40 cigarettes. He had the treatment a month ago.
Graham: I don't mind people around me smoking and I don't drift into that like "ooh that smells good", like some smokers do, and that I'd love to try that but I know I can't. I just don't get that feeling at all.
Phillipa: You don't even want a cigarette?
Graham: No, I don't even want a cigarette, no no. It just doesn't bother me at all.
Phillipa: The clinic says it can help take away the craving and takes away your cigarettes as you leave. But it can't stop you buying more. It says it tackles the physics, but you have to tackle temptation. Phillipa Young, BBC news, Croydon.
Newsreader: Well earlier I spoke to an expert in the field of Bioresonance, Anthony Scott-Morely. I asked him to explain the science behind it.
Anthony: All matter is comprised of atoms and molecules. Sub-atomic particles such as protons and electrons, by definition, give off electromagnetic fields, which are very weak. Therefore every substance including the human organism is in essence an information field. If the information fields get disturbed through toxicity, through the remnants of disease and so forth, then there's a repatterning of the information in the body and the body starts to adapt to that new patterning which is why we get things like drug cravings or chronic illness. And what can be done is to detect some of these patterns, not directly that's not possible yet, but indirectly by monitoring electrical changes in the body, and the good equipment can then modify the wave forms and indeed collapse the wave forms so that we can take out the unwanted information, and this will then help the body to recover from the wrong patterning. The question was asked earlier in the programme does it work, is there evidence? Well I can assure the viewers that these methods are indeed being used by the Russian military for monitoring drug addiction on new recruits and taking them off hard drugs.
Newsreader: Well there we have it.
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