Category: Pavlok Case Studies

We all have one of those friends.

When she’s around…

You spend more than you budgeted for.

You don’t eat as well.

You have a few too many drinks.

She’s no good for you and you know it, but still you keep hanging out.

THAT’S REFINED SUGAR.

Sugar is terrible for you. It rots your teeth. It makes you fat. It ruins your sleep. And it’s empty calories — no nutrients, no protein, no healthy fats and no enzymes.

And yet the average American eats over 100 lbs of sugar every single year. FYI that is 11350 spoons of sugar and 170250 calories — which takes 314 hours of running to burn off.

Not surprisingly, “sugar” is one of the most common things people want to quit.

Today I’m sharing with you the story of Tasha, who used Pavlok to quit sugar in 1 day AND built a habit of going to the gym 5 days per week. In her words: “obviously it feels incredible.”

This Girl Had Serious Problems

Tasha tried for years to quit eating sugar.

She could make it a day or two, but it always crept back into her life.

“I turned to eating sugar to make myself feel better whenever I was tired, which was basically all the time.”

And it was a serious problem.

“I felt pretty bad all the time. My clothes were barely fitting, and beyond appearance I felt like I wasn’t living up to my potential and that my energy wasn’t as high as it could have been.”

Tasha wasn’t sure if Pavlok’s electric shock would help her quit eating sugar. But relying on willpower had failed over and over, so she was willing to give it a shot.

Result: Quits Sugar In 1 Day, Going To Gym 5 Days Per Week

When Tasha’s Pavlok arrived, she got started that same day.

“First it shows up in the mail and I put the shocky device into the apparatus.”

Side note: Pavlok is a rechargeable shocking module that fits into a wrist band.

“Then what I did first to stop eating sugar was I would take a sugary item I would usually eat such as peanut butter cream pie from House of Pies and I would shock myself while eating it, and the idea was eventually I wouldn’t want to eat it anymore.”

The shock was extremely effective.

“I ate the pie, I shocked myself. I did not enjoy the shocking process! And in the first day I didn’t eat any refined sugar. That was pretty cool because I had tried all kinds of diets before and not had those immediate results.”

Day 2? No refined sugar.

Day 3? No refined sugar.

“What I noticed was if I had a craving for sugar, and I had a lot of cravings during the first week… I didn’t want to shock myself so I wouldn’t eat the food in the first place. That turned into a week, and then two weeks and now I’m about three weeks in and I haven’t had any refined sugar… I feel like I’m back in control of my relationship with food.”

And since Tasha had such great results with quitting sugar, she started using Pavlok to build a good habit: getting to the gym 5 days per week.

“Obviously it feels incredible”

For Tasha, quitting sugar was a step to the real goal: looking and feeling better.

“How does it feel to go in 3 weeks from eating a bunch of crap to only eating beautiful whole food, and not working out at all to working out 5 days a week? Obviously it feels incredible. I feel confident in myself and my ability to follow through on something. I feel so much healthier and much more vibrant and just happier altogether.”

Here’s my favorite part:

“I am really surprised that it worked, because I tried so many different things to motivate myself into making new habits, but [Pavlok] is really the first thing that worked for me. And my quality of life has changed so much in the last three weeks that it’s almost stupid. I just look so different and I feel so different.”

Very well done.

 

Most smokers have tried to quit at least once.

• In 2012 there were 42 million smokers in the US
• 68.9% of those smokers wanted to stop smoking
• 42.7% tried to quit and failed
• And 480,000 died because of smoking that year

*data from the American Cancer Society & Center for Disease Control And Prevention

The math is scary…

• 42 million smokers
• ~18 million fail at quitting
• 480,000 die

But some people do quit successfully. And today’s case study about how Carlos quit his 15 year habit in 5 days will show you how to use psychology and science to stack the odds in your favour.

Do You Smoke More Or Less Than Carlos?

For almost 15 years Carlos was a pack-a-day smoker.

But he wanted to quit. He was feeling the health effects, his wife was always complaining about the cloud of smoke following him around, and it was costing him a lot of money.

“Over the past 6 months I’d gone to the convenience store 13 times per month for 2 or 3 packs, and every time I’d spend another $12 on snacks.”

And actually Carlos had tried to quit over 20 times.

“I used Chantix, I used the gum, the patch and I even tried hypnosis. Nothing worked.”

Then Carlos found Pavlok. He was skeptical at first but figured why not give it a shot.

And after 5 days with Pavlok, he finally quit smoking.

The 5 Day Plan For Quitting Smoking

Carlos shared his 5 day plan for successfully quitting a pack-a-day habit.

DAY 1:

On the first day, Carlos followed our instructions to shock himself every time he smoked or took a puff. This is the same strategy that helped Marty quit smoking in 3 weeks.

Carlos realized “self shock” just wasn’t for him — he didn’t have the willpower to follow through. So the next day he tried something different.

DAY 2:

On the second day, Carlos invited his wife to join in and make a game of it. If she could catch him smoking she could shock him. And she did catch him a number of times.

But even though he was having some success, Carlos saw another fault — when his wife went to work he could smoke all he wanted.

DAY 3:

On the third day, Carlos invited his friends and family over to shock him. “If they could catch me they could shock me”.

The result? 15 or 16 shocks. Now there was some serious aversion happening, so Carlos upped the ante.

DAY 4:

On the fourth day Carlos allowed his family members to shock him and would also give them $5 if they caught him smoking. “I was caught a few times, but by this point I had stopped smoking quite a bit.”

DAY 5:

On the fifth day, Carlos told his family members they could shock him wherever they want AND he would pay them $20 each time. “I was caught one time when my brother hid inside a trash can and jumped out when I was out back. It was the only time I tried smoking all day long.”

DAY 6:

On the sixth day, Carlos told his family members they could shock him twice and offered $20 for each shock. But he didn’t smoke at all.

And that’s how when 18 million other people failed at quitting smoking, Carlos was able to succeed in just 5 days.

Healthy, Happy and Rich

For Carlos, quitting smoking had 3 big wins.

First, he is already seeing his health improve.

Second, his wife is happier and no longer complaining like she did when a cloud of smoke followed him around.

And third, he is saving money — about $150 in the first month.

Pavlok Saves You Money

If you do the math on quitting smoking, you’d probably save just as much as Carlos and maybe even more. Yes, you could try to quit “cold turkey” or use medication or the patch. But what if you could actually quit this week?

And if Pavlok does help you quit, the savings on cigarettes will pay for the Pavlok in the first month anyways, and you’d have extra savings in month 2 to reward yourself with.

So I was at this party and a guy told me he wanted to quit smoking.

Me: “Great! Come into our office and we will show you how to use Pavlok to quit.”

Him: “Well, ummmm.”

Me: “Really, it’s like 10 minutes a day and totally free, and at the end of it you won’t smoke anymore.”

Him: “Yeah, I don’t know.”

Me: “Seriously dude, I’ll pay you $100 of my own money to quit smoking.”

Even though 2 minutes before he told me he wants to quit smoking…

And even though I was going to pay him to do it…

… he still didn’t come in. He didn’t really want to quit.

Fine, we aren’t here to force you to do anything. But Pavlok is a powerful tool, and if you are ready to quit your habit — smoking, nail biting, watching porn, whatever — it can help. And we’ve got success stories to prove it.

Today is the story of Marty, a 7 year smoker who used Pavlok for 3 weeks and went from 18 cigarettes per day to zero.

Why You Fail At Quitting Cold Turkey

Marty is a 25 year old guy living in San Francisco. He’s a full time driver and until recently smoked a pack a day.

“I started smoking in college. I’d be out drinking and I’d have one or two whenever someone had one, and that eventually escalated to me buying my own packs.”

Fast forward 7 years, Marty was an unhealthy, stressed out smoker that hated his habit.

“I used to have really good cardio — I was on the boxing team — but now I couldn’t even get myself to run a mile. I just wanted to keep up with my active friends. And it wasn’t really helping my mood either, I could see I was really dependant on smoking.”

Marty had tried quitting, but he was on and off for three years. “The longest was a couple weeks, a month at most.”

He was failing because he was relying on willpower.

“I tried reducing at first, but that never worked. I wasn’t really strict about it, and since I was smoking every day anyways I’d say forget it, I’m just going to keep smoking. Then I’d say next time I try to quit I’m going to go cold turkey, but I just kept going back to it.”

Marty kept smoking because his habit was automatic.

As soon as there was a trigger, he would start again. “When I’d go out with friends I’d drink and I’d go buy a pack. Or when I was stressed that would get me smoking again too.”

And then Marty found Pavlok and in three weeks completely quit smoking.

“By the end of week one I was averaging 7 cigarettes a day.”

Marty met Pavlok’s inventor, Maneesh, at an event in San Francisco. Maneesh taught a course on massive self improvement and talked about Pavlok.

“It seemed really interesting. I was going to try quitting again anyways. So it was just ‘if it works then great, and if it doesn’t I’ll find another way.”

Basically, he realized he had nothing to lose (BTW: Pavlok comes with a 30 day 100% money back guarantee so you can try it for yourself risk free).

Armed with his Pavlok, Marty started the self shock program.

“Initially I was skeptical. If I’m shocking myself will it still work? But it did because it made me conscious every time I smoked and so I’d make an effort to put it down. And I didn’t have to quit cold turkey. If my cravings got really bad I was free to smoke.”

Here’s how it worked (remember, before Pavlok Marty was smoking 18 cigarettes per day).

	goal	actual
week 1	15 per day	7 per day
week 2	5 per day	2 per day
week 3	1 per day	0 per day

In three weeks Marty went from smoking a pack a day to completely quitting smoking (saving $1825 per year). “I was pretty amazed how fast it was.”

And he is already enjoying the benefits. “I started running again. And I work out almost every day. I’m more willing to to be active because my lungs are clear and I’m not coughing up a storm.”

Marty’s Advice For Smokers

“It depends on how willing you are to quit. A lot of smokers say they want to quit, and I’ve been one of them, but actually they aren’t really dedicated to it — it’s a drastic lifestyle change. But if you are really serious about quitting then this works. Before I would feel weird whenever I wasn’t smoking, like I had to have one. But after using the shock I had that same weird feeling when I did smoke. It was a total reversal, my brain actually thought of smoking as a weird thing.”

Are you really ready to quit your habit?

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