Of 43 consecutive patients undergoing this
treatment protocol, 39 reported remaining abstinent 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.
Freedom from smoking: integrating hypnotic
methods and rapid smoking to facilitate smoking cessation.
95% Success
Rate Using Hypnosis With NLP
A comparison of hypnosis to quit smoking and
hypnosis combined with NLP reported a 95% success rate using
hypnosis combined with NLP and 51% using
hypnosis alone.
Smoke Free
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Smoke
Free International
http://www.smokefreeinternational.com/report.php
90% Success Rate With Hypnosis
Authors report a success rate in smoking
abstinence of over 90% with hypnosis.
MMW Fortschr Med. 2004 May
13;146(20):16.
Klager, R.
[Article in German]
PMID: 15344725 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
87% Reported Abstinence Using
Hypnosis
A field study of 93 male and 93 female CMHC
outpatients examined the facilitation of smoking cessation by using
hypnosis. At 3-mo. follow-up, 86% of the men and 87% of the women
reported continued abstinence using hypnosis.
Performance by gender in a
stop-smoking program combining hypnosis and aversion.
Johnson DL, Karkut RT. Adkar Associates, Inc.,
Bloomington, Indiana.
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, 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 Quit
Study of 71 smokers showed that after a
two-year follow up,
patients that quit with hypnosis were
twice as likely to still be 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
More Effective Than Drug
Interventions
Group hypnosis, evaluated at a less effective
success rate than individualized hypnosis (at 22%). However, still
demonstrated here as more effective than drug interventions.
Ohio State
University,
College of Nursing, Columbus 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 Effectiveness of
Patch and 15 Times 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 17lbs vs. 0.5 lbs on
follow-up.
Cochrane, Gordon;
Friesen, J. (1986). Hypnotherapy in weight loss treatment.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 54, 489-492.
2 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 the non 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 2 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.
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.
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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 Stradlinga,
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)
Theory: Research using positron emission tomography (PET) scans,
shows that hypnosis might alleviate pain by decreasing the activity of
brain areas involved in the experience of suffering. Scientists have
found that hypnosis reduced the activity of the anterior cingulate
cortex, an area known to be involved in pain, but did not affect the
activity of the somatosensory cortex, where the sensations of pain are
processed.
Summary
Reference
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 who suffered
blinding attacks were significantly lower for the group receiving
hypnotherapy than for the group receiving prochlorperazine. For the
group on hypnotherapy, these 2 measures were significantly lower when
on hypnotherapy than when on 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 in 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]
[Article in French]
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 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
posttraumatic 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.
Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences,
Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas, USA. peeblemj@menninger.edu
4.
Research on Hypnosis for Alcohol & Drug Addiction
Summary
Reference
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
American
Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, Jul 2004 by Potter,
Greg
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 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 1: Six weeks after an ankle
fracture, those in the hypnosis group showed the equivalent of eight
and a half weeks of healing. Study 2: 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
