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90.6% Success Rate for Smoking Cessation Using
Hypnosis
Of 43 consecutive patients undergoing this
treatment protocol, 39 reported remaining abstinent from tobacco use at
follow-up (6 months to 3 years post-treatment). This represents a 90.6% success
rate using hypnosis.
University of Washington School of Medicine,
Depts. of Anesthesiology and Rehabilitation Medicine, Int J Clin Exp Hypn. 2001
Jul;49(3):257-66. Barber J.
87% Reported Abstinence From Tobacco Use With
Hypnosis
A field study of 93 male and 93 female CMHC
outpatients examined the facilitation of smoking cessation by using hypnosis.
At 3-month follow-up, 86% of the men and 87% of the women reported continued
abstinence from the use of tobacco using hypnosis.
Performance by gender in a stop-smoking program
combining hypnosis and aversion.
Johnson DL, Karkut RT. Adkar Associates, Inc., Bloomington, Indiana. Psychol
Rep. 1994 Oct;75(2):851-7.
PMID: 7862796 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
81% Reported They Had Stopped Smoking After Hypnosis
Thirty smokers enrolled in an HMO were referred
by their primary physician for treatment. Twenty-one patients returned after an
initial consultation and received hypnosis for smoking cessation. At the end of
treatment, 81% of those patients reported that they had stopped smoking, and
48% reported abstinence at 12 months post-treatment.
Texas A&M University, System Health Science
Center, College of Medicine, College Station, TX USA. Int J Clin Exp Hypn. 2004
Jan;52(1):73-81. Clinical hypnosis for smoking cessation: preliminary
results of a three-session intervention. Elkins GR, Rajab MH.
Hypnosis Patients Twice As Likely To Remain
Smoke-Free After Two Years
Study of 71 smokers showed that after a two-year
follow up, patients that quit with hypnosis were twice as likely to remain
smoke-free than those who quit on their own.
Guided health imagery for smoking cessation and
long-term abstinence. Wynd,
CA. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 2005; 37:3, pages 245-250.
Hypnosis More Effective Than Drug Interventions
For Smoking Cessation
Group hypnosis sessions, evaluated at a less
effective success rate (22% success) than individualized hypnosis sessions.
However, group hypnosis sessions were still demonstrated here as being more
effective than drug interventions.
Ohio State University, College of Nursing,
Columbus, OH 43210, USA Descriptive outcomes of the American Lung
Association of Ohio hypnotherapy smoking cessation program. Ahijevych K,
Yerardi R, Nedilsky N.
Hypnosis Most Effective Says Largest Study Ever:
3 Times as Effective as Patch and 15 Times as Effective as Willpower.
Hypnosis is the most effective way of giving up
smoking, according to the largest ever scientific comparison of ways of
breaking the habit. A meta-analysis, statistically combining results of more than
600 studies of 72,000 people from America and Europe to compare various methods
of quitting. On average, hypnosis was over three times as effective as nicotine
replacement methods and 15 times as effective as trying to quit alone.
University of Iowa, Journal of Applied
Psychology, How One in Five Give Up Smoking. October 1992.
(Also New Scientist, October 10, 1992.)
Hypnosis Over 30 Times as Effective for Weight
Loss
Investigated the effects of hypnosis in weight loss
for 60 females, at least 20% overweight. Treatment included group hypnosis with
metaphors for ego-strengthening, decision making and motivation, ideomotor
exploration in individual hypnosis, and group hypnosis with maintenance
suggestions. Hypnosis was more effective than a control group: an average of 17
lbs lost by the hypnosis group vs. an average of 0.5 lbs lost by the control
group, on follow-up.
Cochrane, Gordon; Friesen, J. (1986). Hypnotherapy
in weight loss treatment. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology,
54, 489-492.
Two Years Later: Hypnosis Subjects Continued To
Lose Significant Weight
109 people completed a behavioral treatment for
weight management either with or without the addition of hypnosis. At the end
of the 9-week program, both interventions resulted in significant weight
reduction. At 8-month and 2-year follow-ups, the hypnosis subjects were found
to have continued to lose significant weight, while those in the
behavioral-treatment-only group showed little further change.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
(1985)
Hypnosis Subjects Lost More Weight Than 90% of Others
and Kept it Off
Researchers analyzed 18 studies comparing a
cognitive behavioral therapy such as relaxation training, guided imagery, self
monitoring, or goal setting with the same therapy supplemented by hypnosis.
Those who received the hypnosis lost more weight
than 90 percent of those not receiving hypnosis and maintained the weight loss
two years after treatment ended.
University of Connecticut, Storrs Allison DB,
Faith MS. Hypnosis as an adjunct to cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy for
obesity: a meta-analytic reappraisal. J Consult Clin Psychol.
1996;64(3):513-516.
Hypnosis More Than Doubled Average Weight Loss
Study of the effect of adding hypnosis to
cognitive-behavioral treatments for weight reduction, additional data were
obtained from authors of two studies. Analyses indicated that the benefits of
hypnosis increased substantially over time.
Kirsch, Irving (1996). Hypnotic enhancement of
cognitive-behavioral weight loss treatments--Another meta-reanalysis.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64 (3), 517-519.
Hypnosis Showed Significantly Lower
Post-Treatment Weights
Two studies compared overweight smoking and
non-smoking adult women in an hypnosis-based, weight-loss program. Both
achieved significant weight losses and decreases in Body Mass Index. Follow-up
study replicated significant weight losses and declines in Body Mass Index. The
overt aversion and hypnosis program yielded significantly lower post-treatment
weights and a greater average number of pounds lost.
Weight loss for women: studies of smokers and
nonsmokers using hypnosis and multi-component treatments with and without overt
aversion. Johnson DL,
Psychology Reprints. 1997 Jun;80(3 Pt 1):931-3.
Hypnotherapy group with stress reduction achieved
significantly more weight loss than the other two treatments.
Randomised, controlled, parallel study of two
forms of hypnotherapy (directed at stress reduction or energy intake
reduction), vs dietary advice alone in 60 obese patients with
obstructive sleep apnoea on nasal continuous positive airway pressure
treatment.
J Stradling, D Roberts, A Wilson and F Lovelock,
Chest Unit, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7LJ, UK
Hypnosis can more than double the effects of
traditional weight loss approaches
An analysis of five weight loss studies reported
in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology in 1996 showed that the
"… weight loss reported in the five studies indicates that hypnosis can
more than double the effects" of traditional weight loss approaches.
University of Connecticut, Journal of Consulting
and Clinical Psychology in 1996 (Vol. 64, No. 3, pgs 517-519).
Weight loss is greater where hypnosis is utilized
Research into cognitive-behavioral weight loss
treatments established that weight loss is greater where hypnosis is utilized.
It was also established that the benefits of hypnosis increase over time.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
(1996)
Showed Hypnosis As "An Effective Way To Lose
Weight"
A study of 60 females who were at least 20%
overweight and not involved in other treatment showed hypnosis is an effective
way to lose weight.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
(1986)
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Hypnosis Reduces Frequency and Intensity of
Migraines
Compared the treatment of migraine by hypnosis
and autohypnosis with the treatment of migraine by the drug prochlorperazine
(Stemetil). Results show that the number of attacks and the number of people
who suffered blinding attacks were significantly lower for the group receiving
hypnotherapy than for the group receiving prochlorperazine. For the group on
hypnotherapy, these two measures were significantly lower when on hypnotherapy
than when on the previous treatment. It is concluded that further trials of
hypnotherapy are justified against some other treatment not solely associated
with the ingestion of tablets.
Anderson JA, Basker MA, Dalton R, Migraine and
hypnotherapy, International Journal of Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis
1975; 23(1): 48-58.
Hypnosis Reduces Pain and Speeds up Recovery from
Surgery
Since 1992, we have used hypnosis routinely in
more than 1400 patients undergoing surgery. We found that hypnosis used with
patients as an adjunct to conscious sedation and local anesthesia was
associated with improved intraoperative patient comfort, and with reduced
anxiety, pain, intraoperative requirements for anxiolytic and analgesic drugs,
optimal surgical conditions and a faster recovery of the patient. We reported
our clinical experience and our fundamental research.
[Hypnosis and its application in surgery] Faymonville
ME, Defechereux T, Joris J, Adant JP, Hamoir E, Meurisse M, Service
d'Anesthesie-Reanimation, Universite de Liege, Rev Med Liege. 1998
Jul;53(7):414-8.
Hypnosis Reduces Pain Intensity
Analysis of the simple-simple main effects,
holding both group and condition constant, revealed that application of
hypnotic analgesia reduced report of pain intensity significantly more than
report of pain unpleasantness.
Dahlgren LA, Kurtz RM, Strube MJ, Malone MD, Differential
effects of hypnotic suggestion on multiple dimensions of pain. Journal of
Pain & Symptom Management. 1995; 10(6): 464-70.
Hypnosis Reduces Pain of Headaches and Anxiety
The improvement was confirmed by the subjective
evaluation data gathered with the use of a questionnaire and by a significant
reduction in anxiety scores.
Melis PM, Rooimans W, Spierings EL, Hoogduin CA, Treatment
of chronic tension-type headache with hypnotherapy: a single-blind time controlled
study. Headache 1991; 31(10): 686-9.
Hypnosis Lowered Post-treatment Pain in Burn
Injuries
Patients in the hypnosis group reported less post
treatment pain than did patients in the control group. The findings are used to
replicate earlier studies of burn pain hypnoanalgesia, explain discrepancies in
the literature, and highlight the potential importance of motivation with this
population.
Patterson DR, Ptacek JT, Baseline pain as a
moderator of hypnotic analgesia for burn injury treatment. Journal of
Consulting & Clinical Psychology 1997; 65(1): 60-7.
Hypnosis Lowered Phantom Limb Pain
Hypnotic procedures appear to be a useful adjunct
to established strategies for the treatment of phantom limb pain and would
repay further, more systematic, investigation. Suggestions are provided as to
the factors which should be considered for a more systematic research program.
Treatment of phantom limb pain using hypnotic
imagery. Oakley DA, Whitman LG, Halligan PW, Department of Psychology,
University College, London, UK.
Hypnosis Has a Reliable and Significant Impact on
Acute and Chronic Pain
Hypnosis has been demonstrated to reduce analogue
pain, and studies on the mechanisms of laboratory pain reduction have provided
useful applications to clinical populations. Studies showing central nervous
system activity during hypnotic procedures offer preliminary information
concerning possible physiological mechanisms of hypnotic analgesia. Randomized
controlled studies with clinical populations indicate that hypnosis has a
reliable and significant impact on acute procedural pain and chronic pain
conditions. Methodological issues of this body of research are discussed, as
are methods to better integrate hypnosis into comprehensive pain treatment.
Hypnosis and clinical pain. Patterson DR, Jensen MP, Department of
Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle,
WA USA 98104 Psychol Bull. 2003 Jul;129(4):495-521.
Hypnosis is a Powerful Tool in Pain Therapy and
is Biological in Addiction to Psychological
Attempting to elucidate cerebral mechanisms
behind hypnotic analgesia, we measured regional cerebral blood flow with
positron emission tomography in patients with fibromyalgia, during hypnotically-induced
analgesia and resting wakefulness. The patients experienced less pain during
hypnosis than at rest. The cerebral blood-flow was bilaterally increased in the
orbitofrontal and subcallosial cingulate cortices, the right thalamus, and the
left inferior parietal cortex, and was decreased bilaterally in the cingulate
cortex. The observed blood-flow pattern supports notions of a multifactorial
nature of hypnotic analgesia, with an interplay between cortical and
subcortical brain dynamics. Copyright 1999 European Federation of Chapters of
the International Association for the Study of Pain.
Functional anatomy of hypnotic analgesia: a PET
study of patients with fibromyalgia. Wik G, Fischer H, Bragee B, Finer B,
Fredrikson M, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Karolinska Institute and
Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden Eur J Pain. 1999 Mar;3(1):7-12.
Hypnosis Useful in Hospital Emergency Rooms
Hypnosis can be a useful adjunct in the emergency
department setting. Its efficacy in various clinical applications has been
replicated in controlled studies. Application to burns, pain, pediatric
procedures, surgery, psychiatric presentations (e.g., coma, somatoform
disorder, anxiety, and post traumatic stress), and obstetric situations (e.g., hyperemesis,
labor, and delivery) are described.
Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2000 May;18(2):327-38,
x. The use of hypnosis in emergency medicine. Peebles-Kleiger MJ,
Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences, Menninger Clinic,
Topeka, KS, USA. peeblemj@menninger.edu
Significantly More Methadone Addicts Quit with
Hypnosis. 94% Remained Narcotic Free
Significant differences were found on all
measures. The experimental group had significantly less discomfort and illicit
drug use, and a significantly greater amount of cessation. At six month follow
up, 94% of the subjects in the experimental group who had achieved cessation
remained narcotic free.
A comparative study of hypnotherapy and
psychotherapy in the treatment of methadone addicts. Manganiello AJ, American
Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 1984; 26(4): 273-9.
Hypnosis Shows 77 Percent Success Rate for Drug
Addiction
Treatment has been used with 18 clients over the
last 7 years and has shown a 77 percent success rate for at least a 1-year
follow-up. 15 were being seen for alcoholism or alcohol abuse, 2 clients were
being seen for cocaine addiction, and 1 client had a marijuana addiction
Intensive Therapy: Utilizing Hypnosis in the
Treatment of Substance Abuse Disorders. Potter, Greg, American Journal of Clinical
Hypnosis, Jul 2004.
Raised Self-esteem & Serenity. Lowered
Impulsivity and Anger
In a research study on self-hypnosis for relapse
prevention training with chronic drug/alcohol users. Participants were 261
veterans admitted to Substance Abuse Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Programs
(SARRTPs). individuals who used repeated self-hypnosis "at least 3 to 5
times a week," at 7-week follow-up, reported the highest levels of
self-esteem and serenity, and the least anger/impulsivity, in comparison to the
minimal-practice and control groups.
American Journal of Clinical Hypnotherapy (a
publication of the American Psychological Association)
2004 Apr;46(4):281-97)
Hypnosis For Cocaine Addiction Documented Case
Study
Hypnosis was successfully used to overcome a $500
(five grams) per day cocaine addiction. The subject was a female in her
twenties. After approximately 8 months of addiction, she decided to use
hypnosis in an attempt to overcome the addiction itself. Over the next 4
months, she used hypnosis three times a day and at the end of this period, her
addiction was broken, and she has been drug free for the past 9 years. Hypnosis
was the only intervention, and no support network of any kind was available.
The use of hypnosis in cocaine addiction. Page RA, Handley GW, Ohio State University,
Lima, OH USA 45804. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 1993 Oct;36(2):120-3.
Healed 41% faster from fracture
Healed significantly faster from surgery
Two studies from Harvard Medical School show
hypnosis significantly reduces the time it takes to heal.
Study One: Six weeks after an ankle fracture, those in the
hypnosis group showed the equivalent of eight and a half weeks of healing.
Study Two: Three groups of people studied after breast
reduction surgery. Hypnosis group healed "significantly faster" than
supportive attention group and control group.
Harvard Medical School, Carol Ginandes and Union
Institute in Cincinnati, Patricia Brooks, Harvard University Gazette Online at http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/05.08/01-hypnosis.html.
(NaturalNews) The
effectiveness of hypnosis is often questioned because the cause of hypnotic
phenomenon is not yet known. Research has been conducted on hypnosis for
hundreds of years. Thousands of studies have been performed, yet the
origination of hypnosis has not yet been realized. The Mayo Clinic has found
hypnosis to be very effective and beneficial with a variety of disorders.
Hypnosis does not always work the same way for everyone, but its effectiveness
cannot be denied.
The Mayo Clinic defines
hypnosis as being an altered state of consciousness. There are many changes
that occur while a person is in a trance-like state. A person is able to focus
their attention in a more direct way while under hypnosis. People are also more
open to suggestion, which often helps people make changes in their thought
process and in their actions. While in a hypnotic state, people tend to be less
critical and more believing. The Mayo Clinic believes that the purpose of
hypnosis is a therapeutic technique to help you understand and gain more
control over your behavior, actions, emotions, or physical well-being.
Researchers and doctors at
the Mayo Clinic are not sure how exactly hypnosis works, but current research
points to a mind-body connection through nerves, hormones, and chemicals in the
brain and body. Hypnosis is best used in conjunction with other forms of
therapy. The Mayo Clinic lists the following benefits of hypnosis: changing
negative habits (stop-smoking), reduce stress and anxiety, control pain,
relieve irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), lower blood pressure, reduce frequency
and intensity of migraines, treat asthma, and heal skin disorders.
The Mayo Clinic also puts
many hypnosis myths to rest. Many people think that under hypnosis, they will
have no free will. This is untrue; under hypnosis people have a heightened
state of concentration, but they are in complete control. Another myth is that
a hypnotherapist can control people under hypnosis. The truth is that a
hypnotherapist serves as a guide and cannot make anyone do something that they
do not want to do. It is also not true that people can become hypnotized
without consent. Hypnosis involves a person`s willingness to participate (Goal
Oriented Hypnotherapy).
The Mayo Clinic is a one
of the leaders in research in the medical field. Their research of hypnotherapy
is evidence-based (Hypnosis). They are a reputable source of information on the
topic of hypnotherapy and medicine.
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