Sara W.
scam and a waste of money
Of course Mark Patrick doesn’t actually host the seminars, at least not mine. Mine was hosted by someone named Pat, I believe, and this was on January 27, 2019 at 2PM in Beachwood. I have given this review to the company directly. They responded telling me they were trying to reach the many and why they cover “nutrients” the email from them doesn’t mention the vitamins they’re selling. I was not offered a refund for anything. It was clear they only want compliments. This is a total scam. The majority of the 2 hours was used as a sales pitch to buy vitamins he only had “a few” left of. The sales pitch lasted 45 minutes. The actual “hypnosis” was not hypnosis. It was a relaxation exercise where he told us smoking is bad for us, pronounced “painful” in an odd way, and put in some brief aversion therapy by telling us to imagine licking an ashtray if we ever smoked again. The “hypnosis” lasted, he claimed 29 minutes, my phone said it was 35 minutes. He asked leading questions to get the attendees to agree they were “hypnotized” for only 10 minutes or so as “proof” they were hypnotized. We also had a 15 minute break to smoke and to buy vitamins. And the seminar started at 2:15 to give the people that were late a chance to get there (no one got there after 1:50). Also, Pat is a fast talking man from NJ, he barely slowed down during the “hypnosis” and we weren’t allowed to ask questions because he’s answer them eventually. It’s a scam. I’ll report this everywhere I can.
Response from Mark Patrick SeminarsJan 31, 2019
Hi Sara, Thank you for attending the seminar and sorry about the misunderstanding of believing you have to buy the supplements in order to be successful. I hope that makes sense to you, but keep in mind, we offer one year money back guarantee with this program whether you buy the supplements or not, so it’s the program that we believe in. Have you ever gone to your doctor and they offered you a one year money back guarantee if what they did to you did not work? We really do stand behind this program, we also come back to each area 2 to 3 times per year on average and in addition to the money back guarantee we give you a lifetime guarantee to attend any program again should you ever start smoking again or need reinforcement or it didn’t work the first time. Think about that, it doesn’t get much fairer than that, does it? On the other hand, do we think that the supplements are important? Absolutely! Why? Because… smoking is both of physiological and psychological challenge. Let me explain, first the psychological, how often do you go even a few hours without having a cigarette and then other times such as: coffee break, stress, get into car, having a drink etc. in turn cause you (trigger) to often have one cigarette after another? All the time, right? So psychologically certain things trigger you to have a cigarette the hypnosis is designed to break or disconnect that connection, that trigger. Physiologically, there are also physical triggers. Very different than the psychological (mental) but it’s really important to address the physical as well because otherwise the physiological trigger can overwhelm the psychological. Now, many people find that the hypnosis is all that they need but we’ve designed the program to address the many and when you think about it, after the thousands maybe even $10,000 that you spend per year for cigarettes it’s probably best that we design a program that addresses all the issues even if the cost a bit more. We're really sorry the seminar did not work for you as we hoped. A member from our customer support team has already sent you an email with refund instructions. If you need any help, please feel free to contact our customer support department at 609-660-8844 M-F 9am-6pm EST and Saturday 9am-5pm EST. Kind regards, Mark Patrick Customer Care Team