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Stop Smoking – Who Dunnit Story?

Stop Smoking – A Who Dunnit Story?

Some Background First

Stop Smoking – Many hypnotherapists making impressive claims regarding hypnotherapy and stopping smoking.

Adam Eason (Hypnotherapist, Tutor and Author) wrote an article on his blog about the research:
https://www.adam-eason.com/what-is-the-actual-evidence-for-using-hypnosis-for-stopping-smoking/

Yes indeed, a fairly well-known UK hypnotherapist who markets her one-hour stop smoking programme actually also refers to the 1964 study by Von Dedenroth (conducted in 1964, published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis in 1968) who made these claims of a 94% success rate. She claims to have a ‘comparably high success rate’ and there are many others that use this study in their marketing literature if you google it.

Then Adam points out there have been several other bits of research since that have not been so convincing.

Then he points out:

However, however, however, all is not lost, oh no…

Racing to our rescue in the early 1990s, as featured in the New Scientist and referred to by many of us in the field, was published a study by Viswesvaran and Schmidt (1992) who had conducted a metaanalysis on 633 studies of smoking cessation which included a whopping 48 studies in the hypnosis category which they investigated.

This also had a total number of 6,020 participants. Which is impressive. Hypnosis did prove to be better and more effective than just about every other treatment it was compared to including nicotine replacement therapy and aversion techniques, yet still only really offering up a success rate far inferior to that of the Von Dedenroth 1968 study.

It is complex and there are other factors.

 

Stop Smoking Research

Our Stop Smoking Product Warning

In our Hypnosis For Download store we have a self-hypnosis product called ‘Stop Smoking Now’

But right at the top of the sales page we have the following copy:

Purchase Warning

Let me be honest with you.

Please please – do not buy this product if you REALLY DON’T want to give up smoking.

WHY?

The straight forward truth is because it won’t work. So you might as well save the purchase price of this product and buy another pack of cigarettes instead.

ALSO…

Please don’t buy this as a gift for someone else if they don’t REALLY WANT to give up smoking.

YOU SEE…

The absolutely essential first step is to WANT TO GIVE UP SMOKING

Hypnosis will work if you want your behaviour, addiction or whatever to change.

Without the desire – well forget it.

I like to think of hypnosis as the ‘willpower assistant’.

 

Now In My Last Blog

In my last blog   https://wats-on.net/hypnosis-and-hypnotherapy-control/

I pointed out this:

Many people who have used hypnosis will say the same thing. “I don’t know how it worked – but it did.”

Now The Stop Smoking Story

I remember Adam telling this story to a class of his hypnotherapy students.  Adam is a great story teller and this is not exactly word for word but the giso is there.

A man (who I will call John) came to see Adam at  his practice to stop smoking.   All the usual chats were done.  John made it clear that somebody had suggested hypnosis – but he himself, didn’t believe it could work because he was sure nobody could hypnotise him.

Adam tried to give him examples of how we are all in a trance like state at times, reading a book or watching a film.  Just think how absorbed you are and ignoring people around you.  What about calling a child downstairs for lunch – when does play and imagination not interfere.

John and Adam agreed to give it all a go.

The hypnosis induction was done and Adam could see that John’s eyes were flickering and that there were breathing changes.  In fact Adam knew that John was in hypnosis.  The stop smoking script was provided and after 20 minutes it was time for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and now you are back in your surroundings.

Well asked Adam “How was that”.

“No” says John, I can’t see that working.  I could hear you but I wasn’t hypnotised.

Adam then suggested that John wait till the next session in a weeks time to discuss it again.

During the week John rang Adam to tell him that even though he had paid for the next session that was no problem.  He wasn’t going to attend because he didn’t thing he could be hypnotised.

AND then came the funny bit.

John carried on by saying to Adam that he really didn’t need it now ANYWAY as he had manage to stop smoking all by himself.  He pointed out that he didn’t know how that had happened but he clearly didn’t need hypnosis.

Ha ha!

 


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