About a minute. So if I can teach you something which would take a minute and 10 seconds, we could beat nicotine in taking away your discomfort. You know, I spend some time in America last year to learn this new method. It takes about a minute and 10 seconds. The rest you can guess.
Some smokers have to repeat tapping all the time, others stop after only a few rounds.
In the developmental format, the first steps until the identification of the somatic component of the craving symptoms are the same as in the . Afterwards, I access what I call the Child Field and the Parent Field. I start focusing on the conditional bodily experience, without which the smoker doesn't need to smoke, just like in the Adult Format. I ask the smoker to refrain from smoking the day he comes to me. I prefer to schedule the appointment late in the morning or in the early afternoon.