90.6% Success Rate Using Hypnosis 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. Int J Clin Exp Hypn. 2001 Jul;49(3):257-66. Barber J.
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 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.
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 men and 87% of women reported continued abstinence using hypnosis. Psychol Rep. 1994 Oct;75(2):851-7. PMID: 7862796
81% Reported They Had Stopped Smoking 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. Int J Clin Exp Hypn. 2004 Jan;52(1):73-81.
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. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 2005; 37:3, pages 245-250.
• Gastrointestinal disorders: ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, colitis, crohn’s disease
• Dermatologic disorders: eczema, herpes, neurodermatitis, pruritus, psoriasis and warts
• Surgery/anesthesiology: when hypnosis is the sole anesthetic and when patient needs to be able to respond to questions from surgeon
• Acute and chronic pain: back, dental and cancer pain, headaches or arthritis
• Burns: when hypnotic anesthesia and feelings of coolness can reduce inflammation and promote healing.
• Nausea/vomiting: chemotherapy and pregnancy
• Childbirth: eliminates risks that medications can pose to both the mother and child
• Hemophilia: control vascular flow and keep from requiring a blood transfusion
• Allergies/asthma
• High blood pressure (hypertension)
• Raynaud’s disease
(Courtesy of www.asch.net)
Can you imagine going through major surgery without general anesthesia? That’s what Christel Place did when she had her thyroid removed – and she’s one of a growing number of patients who opt out of general anesthesia and get hypnotized instead. [more]
Our thoughts can make us sick, and they can help us get well. Medical research increasingly supports the role played by the mind in physical health. Dr. Herbert Benson, founder of the Benson-Henry Institute for mind body medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. What’s new is our detailed scientific knowledge of how the mind connection operates.Scientists first proved a link between stress and disease in the early half of the century.
We can now measure changes in immune cells and the brain in ways that give us objective scientific proof of the connection between them.The body responds to mental input as if it were physically real, “explains Larry Dorsey, a physician and advocate for mind-body study since the 1980s. “Images create bodily changes–just as if the experience were really happening. Brain scans show that when we imagine an event, our thoughts “light up ” the part of the brain that are triggered during the actual event. Such singing, sports of any kinds, past anger, fears, motivation any event.
The placebo effect is an example of how the connection between brain and body works in healing. It has been demonstrated when a patient believes something will relieve pain, the body actually releases endorphins that do so. In a recent study, Parkinson,s patients who were given fake surgery or fake drug treatments produced dopamine (a chemical their bodies lack) in quantities similar to those they might have received in a genuine intervention. Medical research has suggested that 30% to 70% of successful treatments may be the result of the patient,s belief that the treatment will work.
“There is ample evidence that negative thoughts and feelings can be harmful to the body,” says Lorenzo Cohen, director of the Integrative Medical Program at the M. D. Anderson Cancer in Houston. Stress is known to be a factor in heart disease, headaches, asthma and many other illnesses.
A Boston area Hypnotherapist, with 10 years of medical experience as an RN, Paul has been helping clients since 2001 to overcome everyday challenges. Read more
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