Stroke Victims Offer New Hope to Smokers - Inspired by a physician's disclosure that an impressive number of stroke victims have spontaneously stopped smoking, noted hypnosis author Richard Blumenthal has recorded a new kind of quit smoking mp3. The self hypnosis is a departure from the traditional aversion style approach taken by many quit smoking recordings, in which post hypnotic suggestions mainly portray smoking as an intensely unpleasant experience. Often a successful strategy, the aversion style hypnosis seeks to develop a strong repulsion to smoking in the mind of the person. Blumenthal's new approach, however, takes its theme from the fact that following a stroke, certain patients who suffered damage to a specific area of the brain behaved as though they had never smoked, did not think of themselves as smokers and, therefore, did not crave or attempt to smoke, as though all memory of smoking was destroyed by the brain damaging stroke. According to Blumenthal, "If hypnosis suggestions are able to approximate the required memory loss without the damage, perhaps the result would similarly be the lack of any thought to smoke at all.