In economics and marketing, a service is the non-material equivalent of a good. Service provision has been defined as an economic activity that does not result in ownership, and this is what differentiates it from providing physical goods. It is claimed to be a process that creates benefits by facilitating either a change in customers, a change in their physical possessions, or a change in their intangible assets.
By supplying some level of skill, ingenuity, and experience, providers of a service participate in an economy without the restrictions of carrying stock (inventory) or the need to concern themselves with bulky raw materials. On the other hand, their investment in expertise does require marketing and upgrading in the face of competition which has equally few physical restrictions.
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Clean Break Online - Online course with a cognitive approach and one-on-one phone support.
Meta Description: [ Clean Break Online Smoking Cessation Program. Take everything you have learned in other stop smoking
programs and do exactly the opposite. A unique cognitive approach with individual counseling and long-term support. ]
Easystop - UK-based stop-smoking clinic and franchise. No effectiveness claim made.
Meta Description: [ The worlds leading stop smoking and weight control programme, centres worldwide. ]
Hypnosis and Self-Control - Offers online consultation.
Meta Description: [ Hypnosis is explained and methods to utilize and influence trance phenomena are described. ]
Hypnosis For Health-Stop Smoking - Services in the San Francisco bay area, customized tapes.
Meta Description: [ Personalized self-hypnosis CDs custom made and info for skeptics about clinical hypnosis for permanent smoking cessation. ]
Hypnotherapy New York - Hypnosis. No measurement of effectiveness. Located in Nyack, New York.
Hypnotism for Quitting Smoking - No effectiveness claim made. Located in Australia.
Meta Description: [ Learn how to stop smoking in one hour without suffering withdrawal symptoms and cravings. Totally natural without the use of drugs or nicotine replacement. ]
Jack Sparks - Hypnosis and tapes. Located in Burlingame, California. No quit effectiveness claim made.
Meta Description: [ Stop Smoking with Hypnosis ! ]
Lazer Points - Service claims to help quit smoking using a laser beam.
Meta Description: [ Quit smoking with the latest in cold laser technology. Low level lazer light therapy will reduce or eliminate the physical withdrawal symptoms of stopping smoking. ]
Light and Health - Netherlands service applies a laser to your meridian points which is claimed to help quit smoking.
Meta Description: [ Lasertherapie Light and Health, Raucherentwöhnung, aufhören rauchen, lasertherapie, entwöhnung, raucherentwöhnung, rauchentwöhnung, raucherentwoehnung, rauchentwoehnung, entwöhnung, entwoehnung ]
Quit Smoking - San Diego based hypnotist.
Meta Description: [ Hypnosis to Stop Smoking. Hypnosis to Quit Smoking. Personalized Hypnosis for Smoking Cessation. ]
Smoke Free Forever - Offers a quit-smoking program for spas.
Meta Description: [ Break Free from Smoking the natural, holistic way with a proven, effective intensive program that provides strategies for life-style changes which strenghten the resolve to quit forever. ]
smokeClinic - A program to help smokers quit using research-supported behavioral treatment.
Meta Description: [ Chicago quit smoking laser therapy treatment services. Stop smoking in Chicago with our smoking cessation low level laser treatments. Achieve Laser is located in Chicago's Northwest Suburbs. ]
SmokeFreeDoc - Jesse J. Tepper, Ph.D., a N.Y.C. psychologist, provides an individually tailored smoking cessation/stop smoking program integrating hypnosis, cognitive-behavioral and psychotherapeutic interventions.
Meta Description: [ How-To-Stop-Smoking Advice” and “Stop-Smoking Tips” ]
St. Helena Hospital Nicotine Addiction Program - 7 day resident quit-smoking program in California (Napa Valley). No quit effectiveness claim made.
Meta Description: [ Center For A Smoke-Free Life, A 7-day live-in treatment residential retreat program
treating tobacco dependence in Napa Valley, California. ]
Stop Smoking Coach - Offers custom programs for individuals, couples, and workplace groups.
500
Stop Smoking Seminars and Workshops - Company is Dynamic Growth Achievement International. The usual testimonials. No effectiveness claim made.
Meta Description: [ Stop Smoking Seminars and Workshops from Dynamic Growth & Achievement International are absolutely unbelievable providing state-of-the art beneficial results for employees of Corporations (both large and small) all over the World. ]
Stop Smoking, Start Living! - The Rosen Programme - UK-based programs for workplace smoking cessation support and for individuals who want to stop smoking. No effectiveness claim made.
Meta Description: [ If you're still smoking, then you need to try something new. Give up smoking gradually in your own time and without anxiety. Try NicoBloc the new quit smoking aid. ]
Tabac stop center - Geneva based clinic shines a laser on your ear. No quit effectiveness claim made.
Meta Description: [ With its premises located in Geneva, TABAC Stop Center offers a simple and natural method to stop you smoking. The TABAC Stop Center method enables you to give up smoking tobacco consumption without stress and without weight gain. Find online resource for all the advice, information and support y... ]
TaperOff.net - Uses web and mobile phones to let you when you can have each cigarette on a tapering schedule.
The Centre One Practice - Stop smoking program in North London based on hypnotherapy and NLP. No quit effectiveness claim.
The Stop Smoking Clinic - Calls itself the place to effectively stop smoking with proven results. No proof is presented. No results are presented. And the method? Seems to be electric shock.
Meta Description: [ The STOP Clinic in Cary, North Carolina, has helped over 3,000 people to stop smoking and lose weight with painless electrical stimulation treatment. We can also help with breaking other addictions, such as alcohol and drugs. ]
Wendi Friesen - Hypnosis program.
Meta Description: [ NO withdrawals ~ NO cravings
IN ONE WEEK you will no longer want a cigarette. ]
WhyQuit - Cold Turkey Quitting - A support group quitting forum and education program devoted to the science, psychology and art of abrupt nicotine cessation.
Meta Description: [ Ready to quit smoking and end all nicotine use? Almost 90% all long-term ex-smokers quit smoking cold turkey. Learn their quitting secrets! ]
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