Hello and welcome to the gambling addiction selfhelp program, designed to help you work through your private issues, working towards your personal goals. While listening to this recording, you will hear many sounds, many voices – please note that they are designed to encourage you – we respect you as an individual – but it is up to you whether you action them all or just some of them. It’s your decision and we take no legal responsibility for the outcome of any actions you have chosen or not chosen to take.

But before we start, relax, breathe in and out – slowly, softly, thinking about every muscle in your body. Peace. Quiet. In. Out.

Now that you are relaxed, please ensure that you are not driving a vehicle nor operating heavy machinery – we will not judge you as an individual if you choose to but recommend you refrain from doing so.

And as we journey into ourselves, let us now concentrate on how you came to be where you are. Most people start by playing Bingo with the family at Christmas for pennies and then move onto taking part in a Grand National sweepstake [Hennesy’s]. Maybe as you get older, you join a Pools syndicate for 35p a week. Before you know it, you find yourself having a £1 each way bet on the Cheltenham Gold Cup and from there, who knows ? A downward spiral ending up with a £2 a week scratch card habit. For many, the realisation of the problem only comes when they find themselves asking for Premium Bonds for Christmas, in place of slippers or a dressing gown [Marks and Spencers]

But let us put that behind you as you breathe deeper, relaxing as if you picture yourself by a swimming pool, enjoying the heat of the Californian sun and the cool of a [Budweiser] lager. By a swimming pool ….. at a [Great Western] hotel. And you think about gambling and how it makes you feel and you know you have to move on, on, onwards, upwards.

And so you continue to breathe – in, out, in, out – imagining your life without gambling. Imagining the difference it could make to your finances, the love you have available for your family and friends.

And relax further, the heat in your muscles as you stretch and relax – the feeling you might get from a [Super-Whirl-O] hot tub, as you withdraw into yourself with a glass of [Cristal] Champagne. Or maybe you’ve had a relaxing hot stones massage [Amber Therapy – extras available on request] and are feeling the benefits of deep, deep rest.

Picture yourself happy, laughing, enjoying life, as if for the first time [in the grace and comfort of a Great Western Hotel] And we breathe ever deeper, almost sleeping.

And so now is the time to reveal the secret of how to cure your self of gambling addiction. It’s simple. As you breathe in and out, thinking positive thoughts about yourself, maybe enjoying a relaxing salad at an expensive restaurant [The Ritz, London] or maybe behind the wheel of an expensive automobile [Mazda], it is now time to reveal the secret to ending your addiction.

All you have to do is …… stop gambling. For more information on how to stop gambling, please purchase phase 2 of the gambling program tapes, available at all good health shops [Holland and Barrett].