A hypnotist uses aversive conditioning to help Clayton quit vaping, making him associate his vape with the taste of compost and dog feces. The session includes a behavioral swap: whenever Clayton craves nicotine, he reaches for water instead. He ends by throwing his vape off a bridge.
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All right, come here real quick, man. We're gonna see something. Come over here. What's your name, man? Clayton. Clayton, you get to say my name. Moby. What's your vape's name? Precious. Precious, come say hey to these people and let them know you're about to say bye to Precious. What's up, y'all? I'm about to say bye to Precious. It's my baby. Let him hold Precious for you. Give me Precious. You know he gonna throw it in the river. He gonna take care of her, bro. Oh no. You gonna want him to throw Precious in the river. The river by the time it's all done. All right, so I'm making my choice. You ever been hypnotized before? Never. The waves freaks. I freak. But yeah, I've been doing this shit for about 16 years. What you do, man? Like, what type of career you got? Medical certification. Okay. From Spokane or where you from? I'm from St. Louis. St. Louis. How long you been up here? Uh, this is like 3 or 4 months now. Oh shit, so you new to Spokane. Okay. What you think about it so far? I mean, I've been popping in like free. I'm free. So you've been what? Popping in like— like your left hand or right hand? Right hand. Right hand. Let me borrow your right hand. Look right here. Look right here and focus on that spot. As you focus on that spot, as you focus on that spot, try that hand. Put your hand close to your body. Face all the way this way. Put your hand close to your body. You're going too deep. Take it a good nose. The moment when you open your eyes, you're gonna realize that your body is completely stuck to the ground. Your body is completely stuck to the ground, and the harder you try to get up, the harder you try to get up, the tighter you stick to the ground. It's like the world's strongest individual holding you on, and you cannot get up no matter how hard you try. The harder you try, the harder you fail. The harder you try, the harder you fail. Once you try to get up— so mostly, right? I can't see shit. Once you try to get up— You got my sunglasses on? I got sunglasses. Okay, okay. Where your vape at? Where did, where did he go with the vape? He over here. I'm going to go get your vape. I'll be right back. Bro, you was smelling this shit from all the way over there. Watch this. Get a look at this shit. You smell it? Hit it. The man of ice. No, hit this Let's see. Watch out how that smoke get worse. Magic. Did you hit it? What a smoke. No. What, what, what that, what that, what that feel like? What was that like? Next time you hit it, it's going to be a thousand times worse. This is going to make you want to puke. Hit it again. Yeah, it's gonna be a thousand times worse. Go ahead and hit that shit again. Yeah, get nice and full up. Thousand times worse, right? Right, fucking nasty. Shit horrible. I don't even know how you stand. Okay, watch this. 3, 2, 1. What was that like? I want you to be completely honest with me. Like not charcoal, but like, like into the fucking compost and shit was on fire. Okay. That's gonna be 1,000 hours. What kind you hitting? You still hitting it? Apparently it's not bad. You still hitting it. We gotta— I gotta make sure you're safe. What's one smell that you hate? Let's make— come in closer to the camera. What's one smell that you hate? Fucking dog ass. I don't know. Dog ass? Like that? What's the smell that just makes you sick to the stomach? What's the texture that you wouldn't like in your mouth? I got you. You know what? Look at my hand and you're gonna allow your eyes to close only as quickly as my hand. Your eyes going to close. Only your foot. Deep sleep, all the way down. Deep, deep, deep, deep. From this point forward, man, anytime you hit your bait, it's going to feel like sucking shit out of a straw. Anytime you hit the vape, it's gonna be like you sucking shit out of a straw. It's gonna make you sick to the stomach. You're not gonna want to do it. It's gonna be so fucking uncomfortable. Every time you hit the vape, you're gonna feel like you sucking shit out of a straw. You're gonna taste the shit, you're gonna smell the shit, and it's gonna be the most uncomfortable thing in the world to you. 1, 2, 3, eyes open. 1, 2, 3, eyes open. All right, so hit this and let me— I just want to see what happens. Get out of here. Nah, here, hold it together. What's, what's that like for you? What it do? What's that like for you? It's a pleasure. Garbage. Garbage. I just spit. Let me ask you this, if you don't get rid of this, what you going to— what are you going to replace it with? Something like gum or water? Like, what, what's What's something you use more of in your life if we're gonna get rid of this? Because the thing about it, we can't just get rid of something that leaves a hole, leave a hole, but you'll replace it with something like crack, cocaine. You'll replace it with something worse. So I want you to consciously pick what you're gonna replace it with, like a bottle of water or like what you're gonna go to when you times when you used to would have went for this. Water. Is that what you want to do though? That's what I want to do. I've been drinking a lot of water lately. That's something you want to do? All right, so I want you to take a deep breath in. As you let it out, you're just gonna go into a deep Deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper. So from this point forward, anytime you get the urge to vape, anytime you would have gotten the urge to vape in the past, you're gonna go for a bottle of water. 'Cause now this vape represents disgusting compost. This vape represents dog shit. It's like sucking dog shit out of a straw, and you don't wanna do that. Oh. But you will realize you can find the same calming sensations from getting you a sip of water, taking a gulp of water. Everything I say to you is gonna become your instant and absolute reality. You no longer vape. You replace the vaping with water, and the water brings you pleasure. Everything you used to get from the vape, you can now get that same sensation from taking a sip of water. Now I just need you to be understanding. In a second, I'm gonna count from 1 all the way up to 5. When I say 5, you're gonna feel good, you're gonna feel amazing. 1, 2, feeling good, feeling amazing. 2, feeling— saving all these changes at a cellular molecular level. 3, 4, 5, eyes open, feeling good, feeling amazing. Woo! Nah, I'm gonna throw it. You gonna throw it? Do it, throw it. That's up to you, man. That's yours. You can do what you want with it. But, uh, give it. I'll do it. That's up to you. You think I can throw that far? Just make sure you don't hit nobody because then you're gonna get beat up. Go to the Orange Bridge. Go chuck it off the Orange Bridge. Let's see. All right, let's see. I want to see this. Oh shit. Oh yeah. All right. All right, let's see. It's a little girl out here. Don't hear— Y'all ready? I'm ready. Congratulations, man. You, you a non— you a non-smoker.
