Hypnotherapy has been used as a smoking cessation tool for many years

Research done on different smoking cessation methods shows that hypnotherapy is an extremely useful tool in smoking cessation. The researchers said that by working with a hypnotherapist along with other smoking cessation treatments hardened smokers were much more likely to quit their habit. The researchers said that when they gave smokers some free hypnotherapy after they had been hospitalised they were much more likely to be not smoking in six months time than those people who only used nicotine replacement therapies or who decided to just go ‘cold turkey.’

In all 67 smokers were looked at and it was seen that half of them who used a hypnotherapist alone or in a combination with a nicotine replacement drug quit the habit. Only sixteen percent of those who used nicotine replacement alone had still quit the habit after six months. Interestingly and surprisingly 25 percent of those people who just went cold turkey on their cigarette habit quit the habit implying therefore that using nicotine replacement therapy could have a negative effect!

Hypnotherapy has been used as a smoking cessation tool for many years however its clinical effectiveness is not the same for all people. Many people say that hypnotherapy is an unreliable method of getting rid of your smoking habit however this new research shows that it is extremely effective especially when it is used in tandem with some other smoking cessation remedies.

The researchers also noted from the volunteers of their study that people who decided to quit smoking after being hospitalised due to heart problems were more likely to give up smoking than those volunteers who had been admitted to hospital for lung diseases. The figures showed that 46 percent of people who had been hospitalised for heart problems quit their habit whereas only sixteen percent of those with lung problems did the same.