{"id":1807,"date":"2010-11-12T00:52:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T05:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smoke-free-at-last.com\/lib\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2019-08-12T07:32:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T11:32:09","slug":"is-using-hypnosis-to-stop-smoking-a-waste-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.smoke-free-at-last.com\/lib\/is-using-hypnosis-to-stop-smoking-a-waste-of-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Using Hypnosis to Stop Smoking a Waste of Money?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Will hypnosis burn your money?<\/p><\/div>\n

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I saw this headline the other day and having a background in hypnotherapy was intrigued enough to read it.<\/p>\n

The author explained why he thought everything else but hypnosis works and you shouldn\u2019t spend any money on hypnosis for quitting cigarettes<\/a> because it won\u2019t work for you.<\/p>\n

The author didn\u2019t promote himself as an authority on the subject and likely is a smoker or they mingle with other smokers.<\/p>\n

Hypnosis was probably tried to help either them or a friend quit smoking but it didn\u2019t work for whomever, and so the reasonable conclusion is why would you expect it work for others.<\/p>\n

Now you can certainly argue with this logic as its sort of like saying chemotherapy didn\u2019t work for my friend with cancer because she died, and so you shouldn\u2019t try chemotherapy if you have cancer because it won\u2019t work for you. An extreme I know but similar logic.<\/p>\n

But the thought of \u201cis using hypnosis to stop smoking a waste of money<\/em>\u201d is an interesting and valid question and one I\u2019ll explore today?<\/p>\n

Now let\u2019s be honest here, some people do try hypnosis to stop smoking<\/strong> and it doesn\u2019t work for them. I\u2019d be the first to admit it. Hypnosis doesn\u2019t work for everybody for a variety of reasons. Sometimes because of the client and other times the hypnotherapist is at fault.<\/p>\n

For the client it could be they didn\u2019t really want to quit, or they\u2019ve other stressful stuff in their life going on, and giving up smoking is really secondary to what needs to be fixed.\u00a0 Or just plain simple, hypnosis isn\u2019t the method that\u2019ll do it for them.<\/p>\n

For a hypnotherapist, they may not be right for the client, for example, no rapport with the client, or experience in smoking cessation, among other challenges.<\/p>\n

This is one of the reasons why I always advocate to people to choose a hypnotherapist the same way you\u2019d choose a doctor or dentist. Interview them and ask questions and get comfortable with them based on the answers they provide you about their experience and how they can help you. I\u2019ve generally found smokers tend to gloss over this process and spend more time shopping around for a hypnotherapist based on their view of what it should cost. Bad idea.<\/p>\n

For hypnotherapists smokers present a difficult challenge. They come to hypnosis usually as a last resort, and don\u2019t want to spend much money to get rid of their expensive habit, so multi-sessions to rid them of cigarettes are out of the question – even if for many, multiple sessions are needed.<\/p>\n

But the toughest challenge for hypnotherapists with smokers is that most are looking for a magic pill<\/em>. They\u2019re at the end of the road and just want somebody to take over responsibility for their habit and eradicate it from their life. As a hypnotherapist friend says they\u2019re attitude is \u201cplease take out my brain and scrub it clean of this habit for me<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

But hypnosis doesn\u2019t work that way.<\/p>\n

As the author noted the hypnotherapist is there to guide you to leverage tools you already have but don\u2019t know how to access or use. The skill of the hypnotherapist is in understanding your unique situation and identifying the tools and techniques most appropriate to help you quit. Yes, there is work for the smoker to do to become smoke free. If it was easy you could do it yourself, right?<\/p>\n

Another bone of contention with the author was cost. He compared it to patches and gum and even electronic cigarettes and said at $300 – $800 it was the most expensive alternative stop smoking method. On the surface this may be true if hypnosis didn\u2019t work long-term.<\/p>\n

But patches and gum are also expensive and don\u2019t have a larger success rate long-term compared to hypnosis, and electronic cigarettes still have health risks. Most hypnotherapists that still do smoking cessation \u2013 many don\u2019t anymore because of the clientele challenges \u2013 offer a free follow-up session. As far as I know pharmacists won\u2019t provide you a free course of nicotine patches if the first course didn\u2019t work for you.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll repeat here again hypnosis to quit smoking doesn\u2019t work for everybody, but there are many independent studies that show hypnosis has a higher success rate than any other method.<\/p>\n

The subconscious mind is a powerful tool as evidence by the placebo effect. The medical body is recognizing that hypnosis accesses this wonderful tool of the subconscious mind the best, and it can help with managing the impact life-saving procedures such as chemotherapy has on patients with pain management, and coping with after-effects of the treatment.<\/p>\n

Engaging hypnotherapy to quit smoking isn\u2019t necessarily a \u201chome run<\/em>\u201d blast for everybody, but for many of those needing help to stop smoking it can be.<\/p>\n

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Becca Scott
\nStaff Writer
\nFree At Last Hypnosis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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