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Article: Subconscious Battles -- Some swear by the effectiveness of hypnosis treatments, though the verdict is still out
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
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- August 15, 2002
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VOICES STAFF WRITER
SUNNYSIDE - For Mike Pecheos and his girlfriend, Teena Parise, who
quit smoking less than two months ago, temptation is everywhere.
They work in a bar - Pecheos owns the Blue Moon Tavern - and every
day customers smoke right in front of them. Even on a slow day in the
well-ventilated bar, the smell of smoke fills the air.
In fact, buying the bar 14 years ago is when Pecheos resumed
smoking after 15 smoke-free years.
But the 48-year-old Pecheos and the 41-year-old Parise, and their
friend Kathy Hunsaker, insist the atmosphere doesn't bother them.
"I really don't even smell it," says Hunsaker, 47. "Some days I
forget that I ever did smoke."
Hunsaker, Pecheos and Parise, ...