How can hypnotherapy help me to stop smoking?

How can hypnotherapy help me to stop smoking?

Linda Hyder Ferry (Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine and Family Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine) gives expert video advice on: How can alternative medicine help me to quit smoking?; What alternative medicines and methods can help me stop smoking?; How can acupuncture help me to stop smoking? and more...

Hypnotherapy has been tried for decades as a means to help people stop smoking. Remember, not everyone is able to be hypnotized. Some people are fairly resistant to that just innately. But for those who can be hypnotized, it creates a suggestion when you're in the altered state that cigarettes either don't taste good or that you don't want them. If you're one of those people for whom hypnosis works, you can use that as an process to other means such as behavioral counselling, changing the environment, working on your habits, and working on your attitudes. That's really where hypnosis helps, working on the attitudes you have about reaching for a cigarette or thinking that a cigarette is going to be pleasurable. For those people who are quite suggestible, those techniques of hypnosis can really help them change the way they think about cigarette smoking.