Hypnosis admin on 17 Dec 2008 09:08 pm
Hypnosis and Smoking: How hypnosis can take the hassle out of quitting smoking
There are lots of different methods that you can use to try to quit smoking – hypnosis and smoking is one of them.
They have varying degrees of success, from “pathetic” upwards.
The weird thing is that the cost of the smoking cessation doesn’t particularly relate to the success.
Hypnosis to quit smoking is one of the cheaper methods but also one of the most effective…
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Face it, smoking is a habit. An addictive habit. If it was discovered today, it would likely be banned outright. Instead, governments around the world walk a tightrope: they want to ban smoking but they’re addicted to the tax revenue it generates.
And, despite the press, smokers are actually cheaper for governments than healthy people. (It’s the “die younger” part of smoking that helps this).
But nowadays there’s a social pressure to give up smoking. Likely most of your friends have already quit. Increasingly, even in previously smoker-friendly countries in Europe, smokers are exiled. Forced outside to smoke, whatever the weather.
The adverts on television suggest that you use gum. But the studies show that this works about as well as “will power”, which means most people using gum fail to quit smoking and start their habit again after having spent about the same amount of money on gum as they would have on actual cigarettes (and with less pleasure, let’s face it).
Hypnosis is much, much more effective at helping you quit smoking. Studies vary but the success rate is around 4 out of every 5 people succeed. Pretty much the opposite of will power.
The cost is surprisingly low as well. Depending on how heavy your habit is, using hypnosis to stop smoking will cost about the same as two or three weeks supply. After that, it will pay for itself over and over again.
But what happens if you’re the 1 person in 5 who hypnosis doesn’t work for? Just ask for your money back. Simple. The gum and patch makers won’t offer you that!
on 16 May 2009 at 1:15 pm 1.jason wilton said …
A friend and myself have been arguing about an issue similar to this one! Now I know that I was right. lol! Thanks for the information you posted. and for the great quit smoking advice too!
on 30 Aug 2010 at 3:20 pm 2.Smoking Kills said …
Like many others I used to smoke when I was younger but managed to kick the habit before I was completely dependant on cigs, I was lucky and suffered no damage to my health. But for a close friend it was different, even though he was not a heavy smoker, health was being badly affected and getting worse with time. this is where I can sympathize with smokers.