Enabling and encouraging people to stop smoking has been one of the biggest public health achievments in the last 40 years. Rates of vascular disease, heart attacks and strokes caused by smoking have dropped significantly.
The major craving for a cigarette to satisfy the nicotine addiction is the hardest element for smokers to overcome and manage in order to kick the habit.
Hypnotherapy has been one of several approaches used to help smokers become non-smokers. The use of hypnotic aversion suggestion is used to both help smokers stop and minimise relapse rates.
However like all approaches used, hypnotherapy does not always work and a recent study in China ananlysed pre-hypnotic induction electro-encephalograms (EEG) and post hypnotherapy results to see if there is a method of predicting success after hypnotherapy to stop smoking.
They analysed the EEG reading and compared with success in stopping smoking. It turns out is is possible predict how successful hypnosis will be on reducing cigarette cravings in individuals.
So a simple non-invasive test will demonstrate which smokers are far more likely to benefit from hypnotherapy.
from UK Hypnotherapy Directory
http://www.ukhypnotherapydirectory.com/resting-eeg-predicts-success-after-hypnosis-to-stop-smoking/
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