Study: Hypnotherapy to stop smoking (Hasan, 2007)

Can hypnotherapy help to quit smoking?

In 2007, Doctor Faysal Hasan, MD (FCCP, North Shore Medical Center, Salem, MA) compared the quit rates of 67 smoking patients hospitalized with a cardiopulmonary diagnosis.

So, they all had a good reason to stop smoking, even if that had been forced on them by their physical health.

The 67 patients were divided into four groups, based on their own preferred method of smoking cessation treatment (brief counselling was also given to each group):

• 16 went "cold turkey".
• 19 had NRT only.
• 18 had NRT and hypnotherapy.
• 14 had hypnotherapy.

At 26 weeks after discharge from hospital, they found:

• 16% of patients treated with NRT only were now nonsmokers.
• 25% of patients treated with cold turkey were now nonsmokers.
• 50% of patients treated with hypnotherapy alone were now nonsmokers.
• 50% of patients treated with hypnotherapy and NRT were now nonsmokers.

He also found that patients admitted with a cardiac diagnosis were more likely to have quit smoking (45%) than patients admitted with a pulmonary diagnosis (16%).

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