I hypnotized a chain smoker, but she lit a cigarette within the hour?

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Permalink Reply by docregal.com on April 19, 2011 at 6:06am

Excellent, Bruce. I am sure you help many with your skills. Let that be an inspiration for others to up their level of proficiency as a practitioner of hypnosis.

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Permalink Reply by John B. Lee IV on April 19, 2011 at 8:45am

I believe the key to Mr. Stephen's protocol is that you need to illicit absolute hypnotic phenomena before the stop-smoking commands are given so the client has no question about the power of hypnosis. It's ballsy, but it works.

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Permalink Reply by Sherry Hood, M.H., C.CHt. on April 19, 2011 at 7:29pm

Hi Dimitrios;

 

I love to read about other hypnotherapists success and interest in the many areas of hypnotherapy and I am so proud to be a part of this group of people that are passionate about helping others. There are so many different methods but the key component I think is working with a client that is truly motivated.

 

Over many years, I worked on a smoking cessation intervention. I worked it through and modified it many times over the years and eventually it became a fifteen phase, single session intervention. I was asked to put it to the test in a university study and so we completed the pilot study last Spring. It was an incredible amount of work to put the study together. You can't imagine how many clinical trials we had to review before writing our proposal and getting ethics approval. An independant researcher was hired through the university and they tracked my past clients back for many years. The outcome was quite excellent and we were chosen to present a poster at the scientific assembly. One of the most interesting details about the study was that not one client reported any weight gain in conjunction with smoking cessation. This is an area that so many people are concerned about when deciding to quit smoking.

 

Now that our pilot study is complete, we are working towards a two year clinical trial. We are hoping for four hundred participants (two hundred to hypnotherapy, using my intervention and two hundred to medical intervention). There have been some meetings with a major drug company concerning funding for our project.

 

I teach my exact intervention to my students and so they are out there helping clients in the same way. When our two year study rolls around, I cannot be the only hypnotherapist working on this because it would skew the results. We need to know if it is my intervention that is successful or it may be that it has something to do with the person conducing the intervention. All of these questions can only be answered through a proper clinical trial. Certain grads will be chosen to be a part of this trial. They won't be chosen by me because again, that could skew the results. I am so excited to move forward with this two year trial and get some real emperical evidence based material. Even if a hypnotherapist see's some real results, they cannot claim that they have 98 or a 99% success rate (as we often read) without a proper trial. There are far to many variables that stand in the way of anyone really knowing those statistics without proper collection of data by an independant researcher.

 

I'm excited that so many hypnotherapists are asking questions and devloping their own excellent interventions. It's all about helping others by facilitating the best hypnotherapy sessions possible. That happens when we ask questions, figure out what works and what does not and continue to press on with a fever to find the answers.

 

Sherry

 

 

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Anthony Verderame, Jr. on April 20, 2011 at 1:44am

WOW Sherry!!!

I am brand new to hypnosis.  You have no idea how thrilled I was to read your post.  I know so much has been written and psuedo studies have been done, but to my knowledge, nothing like this has ever been attempted.  Thank you so much for stepping up and investing your time and energy to make this happen.  Once it is completed, I do hope you will be able to get the word out to the public.  By all means, you need to let your fellow hypnotists know so we might pass the word.  I wish you MUCH success Sherry!

Hypnotically Yours!

Anthony

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Permalink Reply by Stephanie Conkle on April 20, 2011 at 6:45am

I only use John Cleesattles's technique now for smoking cessation. In fact, I've used it for drug addiction too and it worked just as well.

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