Thursday, November 10, 2016

Stop Smoking with Hypnosis.

Stop Smoking with Hypnosis.
Q. What is the success rate?
A. You'll be pleased to discover that smoking is one of the easiest issues to work with under trance, and that the success rate is excellent. In fact, smokers are among my best source of referrals (thanks to all of you who keep touting my services!) While many people do quit after one session, two sessions are highly recommended for continued, long-term success. You may be interested to know that many doctors are now referring their patients for help in this area, based only upon what their clients have told them. I did not solicit these referrals (but am very happy to be getting them!).


Q. How does your smoking cessation program work?
A. Generally, I recommend two sessions spaced a week apart to end this habit permanently. Several studies as well as my own experience indicates that two sessions help ensure lifelong results. Recent studies indicate that, in fact, 50% of smokers can quit in one session, but that the long-term effectiveness rate goes up with multiple sessions. While it's true that some people can quit in one session, two sessions can help to prevent relapses and the thought that "I can have just one," which all too frequently leads to a full-blown addiction again. Two or three sessions may also be needed to help prevent weight gain.

During the first session, we can knock out about 75% to 80% of the habit. After exploring your reasons for smoking, your specific triggers, why you want to quit, we'll do a session based on your needs, beliefs, thoughts and triggers. This helps to reinforce the suggestions and maintain the positive results.


Q. What makes your program so effective?
A. I do a thorough intake of your smoking history, triggers, beliefs and thoughts associated with the habit, as well as exploring the reasons why you might smoke, such as stress, using cigarettes to relax, to comfort or reward yourself, and so on. Then I'll use that information to craft a powerful session customized to you and you alone. I use a combination of positive countering suggestions, mental imagery and powerful Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques to help you break this habit for good. You'll substitute a positive habit for cigarettes, break any positive associations you have with smoking, strengthen your belief in your power to quit, see yourself as an ex-smoker for life, and be given suggestions to "stay away from that first cigarette" and much more.

Q. How does hypnosis compare to lasers, the nicotine patch and gum?
A. The American Lung Association states that smoking is both a psychological habit and a physcial addiction. According to research done with lasers, they are effective 50% of the time, but only when smoking is a physiological addiction. Lasers do not address the psychological habit of smoking.* Recently some very unfavorable press has come out about lasers, and CBS ran an article based on a study reporting that all claims that lasers can help people stop smoking are bogus. Apparently, the FDA is investigating these claims. The nicotine patch and gum also address the physiological addiction to nicotine, but do nothing to address the underlying psychological reasons why people smoke. Hypnosis is the only tool which reaches deep into the subconscious mind where the habit is engrained.

Once we reach the subconscious, we can simply give it a new direction, such as "you're an ex-smoker now, you reach for water instead of a cigarette, you've lost all desire to smoke," and so on. Once the subconscious accepts these new suggestions, quitting smoking is easy and effortless. You are no longer fighting your own mind. You are using hypnosis to help you achieve your goals. That's why hypnosis is so effective for smoking cessation and other bad habits. You can, of course, use hypnosis in conjunction with the nicotine gum or patch if you prefer.


In one of the largest studies ever conducted, hypnosis was proven to be the most successful means of quitting smoking, beating out acupuncture, nicotine gum, medication, smoking clinics, smoke aversion techniques, educational programs, group withdrawal clinics and Physician Intervention and Advice, and others.

A total of 15 different methods were compared in an extensive and exhaustive study that drew from over 633 different scientific studies worldwide. This study was published in the Journal of Applied Psychology in 1992.

The actual study was conducted by Chockalingham Viswesvaran and Frank L. Schmidt at the University of Iowa. They compared the results of 633 scientific studies and the success rates achieved with 15 different methods of quitting smoking. A total of 71,806 smokers were included in these 633 studies, making it the largest study of its kind.

Using the techniques of meta-analysis (Hunter and Schmidt, 1990) they calculated the average success rate for each method of quitting smoking.

The average success rate for hypnosis was the highest.

Of all the programs studied, hypnosis had an average success rate of 36%, with some hypnosis programs scoring as high as 60%. Compare this to the average success rate for all other methods, just 25%. In fact, the average success rate for hypnosis was twice as high as the average success rate for programs using medication (18%) and more than twice as high as the average success rate for nicotine chewing gum (16%).

It is important to note that the success rate varied within the different programs, including hypnosis. Of the 48 smoking-cessation programs using hypnosis, involving 6020 smokers, the average success rate was 36%. Ten percent of the hypnosis programs had success rates greater than 60%.

This meta-analytic comparison was published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, 1992, Volume 77, Number 4, pages 554 through 561. The Journal of Applied Psychology is published by the American Psychological Association, Americas main professional association of psychologists.
During the second session, we discuss what happened and go from there. For instance, after your first session you may find that you didnt have a cigarette all week--until you went out drinking with your friends, and then you had a smoke. Or you may not have smoked at all and feel like you quit for good, but may be a bit cranky or find that you're eating more. Still others might find they went from over a pack a day to 3 cigarettes a day, and just want those 3 cigarettes during a coffee break. And there are always those that feel they got everything they needed in just one session.

During the second session wed work on these situational challenges and get you on track to being an ex-smoker for life. We may also address some of the challenges that could occur, such as the fallacy that you can have "just one." Now, some people can quit in one session, and others will require 3. Everyone is different. But for most people, two sessions is sufficient. However, if you have smoked for 25 or more years, are a heavy smoker or suspect that you have some resistance to quitting, you may want to invest in the 3-session package. Call for fees.

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