Hypnotherapy Most Effective Way To Quit Smoking

Results from over 600 different studies, totalling over 72,000 people, were combined to gain an overall analysis of the success rate of various methods of quitting smoking.

On average, each method had an average success rate of 19 per cent.  The group of people with the highest success rate was patients with serious cardiac health problems with a success rate of 36 per cent. 

However, amongst most smokers, the most successful treatment was hypnosis where patients were given suggestions whilst in a relaxed trance.  The success rate was 30 per cent.

The second highest success rate was combination therapy, such as combining exercise and breathing methods, with 29 per cent.  Having your own stale cigarette smoke blown back at you had a surprising 25 per cent success rate and acupuncture can fourth with 24 per cent.

The least successful was GP advice, which convinced almost no-one.  Sheer willpower alone achieved a mere 6 per cent, followed closely by self-help books and magazines with 9 per cent and nicotine gum at 10 per cent.

Hypnotherapy can be highly successful at smoking cessation, in as little as one session.  The British Society of Medical & Dental Hypnosis, now incorporated into the British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis stated that the latest techniques have been as successful at 60 per cent from a single session.  The key to success is you must want it enough, as Hypnotherapy cannot make you do what you don’t want to do.  It’s not enough to turn up and it’s not enough to want to do it for your partner or other reasons.  You have to want it for you.

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