2012 was a great year for us – several
trips to the States saw us welcome new owners to our team while in the UK we
also added to the team and continued to spread the word.
The
phones rang non- stop and emails flooded in – all thanks to the Dundee Evening
Telegraph and two of our successful quitters.
Sandra
Finan from Dundee had a 30-a-day smoking habit and it was something she never
imaged capable of breaking. However
after one laser therapy session with us she stopped.
‘It
was like an amazing miracle,’ 66-year-old retired secretary Sandra told the
paper. ‘It was no effort whatsoever and
it didn’t take any willpower!’
Another
East coast success story - accountant Maggie Wood – was also delighted to share
her story with the Evening Telegraph. She
quit her nicotine habit on 1st April 1997 – 28 years after her first
cigarette – when she came through to the Glasgow office.
2012 also
saw us celebrate our 20th birthday.
Always up for a celebration we threw open the doors of the Glasgow
centre and held a weekend long house party!
Clients and friends – old and new – turned up and much
fun and laughter was heard. On the
Sunday we had another of our make-over days with snapper Jack Harper and top
make-up artist Terri Craig working wonders yet again.
In October we launched our own stop smoking campaign –
Zaptober – and turned some more smokers into quitters.
‘I thought the Stoptober
campaign in England was a great idea,’ says Anne, ‘there’s always pressure on
people to quit in January and then on No Smoking Day in March but the rest of
the year there is nothing. From now on
every October we will be promoting Zaptober and helping the nation stub out
cigarettes.’
NOVEMBER saw me was back in the States. Las Vegas was our base and I would like to
welcome some amazing new owners – Patricia, Mack, Erik, Eileen, Rachel and
Bernadette.
November
also saw the news that Scotland could soon see its first £10 pack of cigarettes! Book and newspaper retailer WH Smith are
already selling a pack of cigarettes for £9.99 at Glasgow Airport so you have
been warned. If
ever there was a time to quit it’s when cigarettes get to £10 a packet – who
would ever have thought it!
November also saw smoking in the news again…..the
authors of the Million Women Study wrote in The Lancet medical journal:
"Smokers lose at least 10 years of lifespan. Although the hazards of smoking until age 40
years and then stopping are substantial, the hazards of continuing are 10 times
greater."
Women
aged 50 to 65 were enrolled on the study between 1996 and 2001. They were re-surveyed three years later.
Those who still smoked were almost three times more likely than non-smokers to
die over the next nine years.
DECEMBER saw
rock band Status Quo roll into town as part of their Quofestive 2012 tour.
And
I want to let you into a secret – lead singer Francis Rossi is a fan of our
laser therapy treatments!
Tina
McCutcheon, who flies the flag for us in Belfast and runs her own alternative
therapies clinic, is a regular visitor to the Rossi family home in London – and Francis credits Tina for changing his
mindset and certainly the Francis Rossi of the present day is a new, improved,
super healthy version of his old rocking days.
Tina
first met Francis back in the 1980’s and they have remained friends ever
since.
‘Francis was one of my first clients to try the laser and he loves it,’
says Tina.
‘I trust Tina implicitly and she has been looking after me and my family
for the last 25 years with great success,' says this famous front man. ‘I am prepared to try anything that will help
the stress of touring and Tina is an absolute genius when it comes to
pinpointing a problem – and solving it.
‘Tina has treated me with laser therapy before, but I’d never heard of
laser therapy for stress but now that I’ve had a treatment I can’t believe how
good I feel.’
And
so 2013 promises to be as busy as
ever and here’s to our continuing success – worldwide!
Anne and some of the UK team - spreading the word!
