Does Hypnotherapy work for quitting smoking and how much does it cost?
November 3, 2010 by admin
Filed under history of hypnosis
Question by ed l: Does Hypnotherapy work for quitting smoking and how much does it cost?
A clinic called Health Awareness is in town and offering Hypnotherapy to stop smoking. Does this work and what is the cost as they didn’t say in their ad except for a $ 10 donation when signing in.
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Answer by shorty b
I tied it a few yrs back and i;m still smoking, it cost me 850.00
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
I can’t tell you the cost today but it does work. I paid $ 50 but that was 17 years ago. The key is you really really must want to quit. It doesn’t get rid of the urge to smoke but it helps to lessen the urge. With that and your will you can succeed.
I have been off cigarettes 17 years now thanks to hypnotherapy.
Even if you pay a lot for the hypnotherapy at today’s prices for cigarettes you can save a lot of money quickly while improving your health.
It costs from $ 25 to $ 75, plus the $ 10 donation at the door. It only works if you really want to quit. No stop-smoking plan will work without a planned commitment to quit. Been there – done that, lots of times. The last time I quit, I managed to stay off them permanently (so far!)
My sister had hypnotherapy to help cure smoking (It worked) not to sure of the cost though.
While I’m not a smoker, it seems that hypnotherapy might be worth a shot. However, there is conflicting info. out there on the web.
“Evidence from systematic reviews shows hypnosis and relaxation techniques are probably not of general benefit in stopping smoking or substance misuse or in treating hypertension…”
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1071579
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“”Half of people will typically stop smoking after a single [hypnosis] session, and half of those won’t have a cigarette for two years,” Spiegel said. In the world of smoking-cessation, a 25 percent long-term success rate is considered impressive, he said.
From: http://www.healthfinder.gov/news/newsstory.asp?docid=601238
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“Generally a total cessation of smoking is the goal of hypnotic intervention, and results are likely to appear in sharply defined
success or failure classifications rather than in categories that
rate degrees of smoking reduction. On the whole, hypnosis rates
higher in effectiveness than other single methods in comparable
reports. However the range is great: 15% to 90% depending on
the sample, the length of follow-up, and other variables. Hypnosis
combined with individual counselling or psychotherapy appears
to be more effective than hypnosis alone. Multiple doctorpatient
contacts, employing hypnotic reinforcements on initial
suggestions of abstinence, are more effective than a single session. However Spiegel’s success rate with a single-treatment…….”
Taken from page 368 of a 397 page PDF document at:
http://www.nida.nih.gov/pdf/monographs/17.pdf
for some stop smoking tips, check out:
http://www.smokefree.gov/