Numerous studies have been done showing the effectiveness of hypnosis for smoking cessation. Several of these stop smoking studies are summarized below, along with a list of other references.

Helping kids learn to succeed with hypnosis is one of our specialties.

Psychiatrists have been using hypnosis on patients for decades — to help them reduce their pain or kick a smoking habit, among other reasons.

Psychiatrists have been using hypnosis on patients for decades — to help them reduce their pain or kick a smoking habit, among other reasons.

When you first started smoking, you probably coughed or thought it tasted or smelled terrible, but you kept doing it. Maybe it was to be cool, or rebel against your parents, or bond with your friends. By smoking over and over again, you convinced yourself you were a smoker. In other words you hypnotized yourself into it.

You know what it’s like to get excited about achieving a life goal, only to have it fall by the wayside.  For example, vowing to finally lose those extra pounds.  Or stop smoking once and for all.  Or manage your stress better.  First you are excited and all in, and then something distracts you.  As a result, you abandon your goal.  It’s disappointing.  It wears away at your confidence.  And you suffer the pain and hassle of keeping your problem.

There is an old Yiddish curse that says “may you grow like an onion with your head in the ground.” Unfortunately many people are under this curse, and they often don’t even know it. Make sure you’re not one of them.

A new review of the scientific literature studying hypnosis, in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience, by Oakley and Halligan, discusses the potential for hypnosis to provide insights into brain mechanisms involved in attention, motor control, pain perception, beliefs and volition and also to produce informative analogues of clinical conditions.