Discover the effectiveness of hypnosis for stop smoking as well as scientific evidences supporting them.

1. Is Hypnosis Effective for Stop
Smoking?
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2. Introduction
• For some years now, hypnosis has been
employed for resolving life issues such as
obesity, drug and alcohol addiction, pain
and stress management, grief resolution,
cigarette smoking and so many others.
For some years now, hypnosis has been
employed for resolving life issues such as
obesity, drug and alcohol addiction, pain
and stress management, grief resolution,
cigarette smoking and so many others.

3. Studies on the Effectiveness of
Hypnosis
• Of a truth, many studies have been conducted
on the effectiveness of hypnosis for smoking
cessation; we shall examine a few of them
below:
• An October 1992 study listed hypnosis as the
most effective way to stop smoking. Said to be
the largest study ever scientific comparison of
methods of kicking the habit, the research team
(Frank Schmidt and research student,
Chockalingam Viswesvaran of the University of
Iowa) were on a mission to determine the most
potent way to quit smoking.

4. Studies on the Effectiveness of
Hypnosis(2)
• To achieve their objective, the team used a
meta-analysis, employing the results of more
than 600 studies totaling nearly 72,000 people.
The results, which were published in the
Journal of Applied Psychology and included
48 studies of hypnosis covering 6000 smokers,
clearly gave hypnosis the pass mark, claiming it
was three times more effective than NRT
(nicotine replacement therapies) and 15 times as
effective as trying to quit alone.

5. Studies on the Effectiveness of
Hypnosis(3)
• In 2001, yet another study gave hypnosis for
smoking cessation a 90.6% Success Rate.
During the research, hypnotic methods were
integrated with a rapid smoking treatment
protocol. Of 43 consecutive patients receiving
this treatment protocol, 39 reported remaining
abstinent from tobacco use at follow-up (6
months to 3 years after treatment). This
represents a 90.6% success rate using
hypnosis.

6. Studies on the Effectiveness of
Hypnosis(4)
• The results of this study (co-ordinated by Joseph
Barber of the University of Washington School of
Medicine, Departments of Anesthesiology and
Rehabilitation Medicine), was published in the
International Journal of Clinical and
Experimental Hypnosis in July 2001, under the
title:Freedom
from smoking: integrating hypnotic methods and
.

7. More Studies on the Effectiveness
of Hypnosis
• Hypnotists who were reveling over the 90.6
success rate study got their bubble burst when
another research with a dissenting voice was
conducted and published. It stated mater of
factly that hypnosis as a stop smoking therapy
needs further investigation.
• According to the research, which appears in the
May,2000 edition of
International Journal of Clinical and Experimenta
, smokers who want to quit with hypnosis should
tread with caution.

8. More Studies on the Effectiveness
of Hypnosis(2)
• The researchers (Joseph P. Green, associate professor
of psychology at Ohio State University’s Lima campus
and Steven Jay Lynn, of the State University of New
York at Binghamton) examined 56 studies of hypnosis
and quit smoking to ascertain if the investigation
empirically supports hypnosis as a treatment.
• Even though they concluded that smokers who go
through hypnosis had a higher abstinence rate than
smokers who had no intervention, it was difficult to
ascertain if hypnosis had any benefit above other
treatments – such as behavior modification – that were
often of appreciable benefit to smokers desirous to quit.

9. More Studies on the Effectiveness
of Hypnosis(3)
• While stating that it was premature to approve hypnosis
as a well-accepted treatment for smoking cessation,
Green noted that often times, hypnosis is combined with
other, more all-embracing treatments, and this makes it
very difficult to ascertain which individual therapy got the
smoker to drop off cigarettes.
• He also mentioned non-standardization of hypnotic
processes as a huge challenge; “across the studies,
hypnosis treatments varied in the types of questions that
were asked; the number of treatments each subject
underwent; and the inclusion of other smoking-cessation
interventions.”

10. More Studies on the Effectiveness
of Hypnosis(4)
• While concluding that there is little or practically
no reason to believe that hypnosis is any more
effective than other approaches to smoking
cessation (including but not limited to self-help
therapy, taking medication, using nicotine
replacement therapies, acupuncture, as well as
individual and group counseling), Green says
smokers who want to quit should be offered a
potpourri of potentially effective treatments and
left to make the choice that best suits them.

11. Yet Another Study on the
Effectiveness of Hypnosis
• As if that was not enough, a Cochrane Review
published October 2010,under the title:
Does hypnotherapy help people who are trying to
, concluded; “although it is possible that
hypnotherapy could be as effective as
counselling treatment, there is not enough good
evidence to be certain of this. We have not
shown that hypnotherapy has a greater effect on
six-month quit rates than other interventions or
no treatment.”

12. What Do I Do Now?
• Where does all these leave us? What do we do in this age and time
when all you see are adverts promising you a one-time success with
hypnosis for stop smoking? Just one thing – tread with caution. This
is because:
• we believe there should be a standardized procedure for hypnosis in
treating smoking addiction
• we believe hypnosis can only be called an effective way to quit
smoking if it can stand alone and not be combined with other
comprehensive treatments
• we believe will power (which is absent in hypnosis) is highly needed
for stop smoking

13. Conclusion
• We can go on and on but the bottom line is;
tread with caution when it comes to using
hypnosis to quit smoking. We are not saying it is
not effective, all we are saying is be careful and
do your due diligence before committing to it!!!
• Read more about hypnosis to stop smoking in
Paul Mckenna’s Book titled
Quit Smoking Today without Gaining Weight.

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