In this informal street‑hypnosis video, performer Young Abundant (also called Big Abundant) approaches a young volunteer named Cameron and a small on‑lookers crowd. Using classic induction cues—visual focus on the hypnotist’s hand, deep‑breathing imagery, and physical taps—he guides Cameron into a trance, employing “freeze” and “unfreeze” commands to deepen suggestibility. The core of the session is a series of post‑hypnotic suggestions designed to extinguish Cameron’s desire to smoke: linking the smell of cigarettes to a repulsive odor (poop), assigning a high monetary value ($1,000) to a cigarette to create aversion, and instructing Cameron to use a hand‑over‑heart breath technique whenever he encounters the cue word “Spokane” or the smell of smoke. The hypnotist also delivers broader motivational affirmations about overcoming procrastination, self‑efficacy, and surrounding oneself with good people. The performance is peppered with casual slang, profanity, and banter, creating a street‑wise, entertaining atmosphere while claiming to have successfully convinced Cameron to quit smoking and replace cigarettes with weed. The video ends with the hypnotist snapping Cameron out of trance, asking for his reaction, and thanking the participants.
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So look, it's your boy Young Abundant. We downtown, we about to do a little bit of hypnosis with, um, what's your name again? Cameron. We about to hypnotize Cameron. He want to quit smoking, so we going to help him do that. Imagine your legs are like tree trunks. They won't allow you to fall. They gonna support you, right? So just keep right here. Get deeper here, boy. Let it out. Right here. Deeper here, boy. All the way down. The moment I pick this hand up, when I drop it, it's gonna go even deeper in your back. Watch this. Just any other sounds that you hear, just All right, every time I tap your shoulder, what's up? How was it? Good. What did you think about it? All right, so I want you to like look, I want you to look at my hand. I want you to just focus on my hand. I want you to allow your eyes to close quickly as my hands close. Your eyes will close quickly as my What the fuck? How you wash your rabbit ass arms? Every time I say the words freeze, you gonna freeze like a statue. You won't move until I say the words unfreeze. One, two, three. Eyes open up. All right, good man. So you've been hypnotized. Where you from? Where you from? Spokane, born and raised. Come here, y'all. the time. These the homies and shit. How old are y'all? 20. 20? 19. 19? 19. 19? Okay, cool. Y'all went to school together and shit, or y'all just ripping around the way, or— All right, check this shit out. Freeze. So your homeboy told me you want to quit smoking, right? Yeah. On a scale of 1 to 10, how bad you want to see it right now? I And you thought about it serious. I'm gonna make sure you never think about one again. What's the smell that you hate? Like you just absolutely hate poop. All right, check this out. Freeze. Just walk forward. Every time I say the word Spokane, you gonna smell poop. It's gonna smell like it's right here under your foot. Like it's strong. That shit is really getting you out of bed. Unfreeze. All right, bro. So you born and raised in Spokane, right? Yeah. Born and raised in Spokane. Spokane cool city. I moved to Okay, in 2019. Oh my God, you know what that is? Hey bro, let me pull out that— that's a cigarette. Smell this cigarette. That's a cigarette smell like this. Smell this shit. It's not just this cigarette, it's every cigarette in the world, bro. Would you smoke this shit? How much money would I have to give you to smoke this cigarette? it right now, bro. Smell it. Yeah, about at least $1,000. At least $1,000? I ain't giving you $1,000, bro. So freeze. Smell this 10 times worse now. Unfreeze. So you said $1,000? You, you, you will smoke this $1,000? You're, you're not Smell it. You'll smoke this shit for $1,000. All right, bro, hold that for me, my man. Hey, bro, you ain't never gonna smoke cigarettes again. They disgusting. All right, bro, from this point forward, you'll smoke a little weed, but cigarettes is completely out of the question. Completely out of the question. It's not just that. What's that, a Newport? What kind of cigarette is that? All cigarettes smell like that, bro. 305, Newports, Camel, whatever. They all smell like shit now. That's before you light them. You ever smell like hair? You know how hair Smell completely normal, but if I set my hair on fire right now, I can smell that right now. You can smell this shit right now. Let me show you how to get rid of that smell. Take your hand and put it over your heart. Take a deep breath in, and it's gonna go away. As soon as I say Spokane again, or as soon as you smell that cigarette again, it's gonna come right back. In order to get rid of it, all you gotta do is put your hand on your heart, take a deep breath in, because that's what your body want. Your body want good fresh air. It don't want— bro, that's pretty much poison through a straw. Like, it's like sucking on poison, and it smell like shit. You already knew it was poison, but you didn't know it Like, shit, you ain't never gonna forget. You gonna remember this shit for the rest of your life. Man. We gonna take you to class now. So you just watch him. And I want you to sit all the way down. I got you, I got you, I got you. And check this out, bro. You don't procrastinate no more. You know that you came here for a purpose, and you know that you're a real one, and you can do anything you put your mind to. You can put your mind— you can do anything you want. Literally anything you can See yourself having, you can have it. From this one forward, you never procrastinate. Take good, smooth actions. You surround yourself with good people. You do what you got to do. One, two, three, eyes open now. Completely awake. All my suggestions wore off. Smell completely gone. So yeah, bro, you just got hypnotized for the first time. What you thought about that shit? What? Nice, man. But, um, you want to smoke? Don't smoke no more, man. Thanks for fucking with me. Thanks for letting me hang out with y'all. Thanks for being good company.
