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Several studies have shown that hypnosis can be an effective method of achieving smoking cessation. Since hypnotic protocols vary widely from one clinician or researcher to the next, it is not surprising that studies employing hypnotic techniques report a wide range of success.

Chances of achieving long term abstinence increase when hypnotic suggestions are incorporated into a treatment program that is a grounded in well-established cognitive-behavioural strategies. Additional techniques to create effective smoking cessation treatment programs should be provided.

 

 

Smoking cessation programs may be an important component in the implementation of worksite smoking policies. One study examines the impact of a smoke-free policy and the effectiveness of an accompanying hypnotherapy smoking cessation program. In the study, participants in the 90-minutes smoking cessation seminar were surveyed 12 months the program was implemented. Seventy one percent of the smokers participated in the hypnotherapy program. Fifteen percent of survey respondents quit and remained continuously abstinent. These results suggest that hypnotherapy may be an attractive alternative smoking cessation method, particularly when used in conjunction with a smoke-free worksite policy that offers added incentive for smokers to think about quitting. (Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Vol. 37)

Hypnosis has come to be recognized as a potent antianxiety intervention which can be incorporated into a wide variety of psychotherapeutic models. It can play an important role in facilitating treatment of anxiety states, whether the treating clinical’s orientation biological, dynamic, interpersonal, cognitive or behavioral.

Additionally, hypnotherapy and training in self-hypnosis can help persons achieve remarkable success in alleviating anxiety, not only in anxiety disorders, but also in any problem involving anxiety. Because hypnosis exploits the intimate connection between mind and body, it provides relief through improved self-regulation and also beneficially affects cognition and the experience of self-mastery.

General medical use of hypnosis

In the XIX century, hypnosis is used increasingly for healthcare applications in hospitals, clinics, and psychotherapy practice. A substantial body of research demonstrates the efficacy of hypnosis as a part of the integrative treatment of many conditions that traditional medicine has found difficult to treat…We have come to develop more detailed expectations about the beneficial effects of hypnotic interventions for health problems. We have also come to know that in these populations hypnosis can lead not only to reduced anxiety but also specifically altered physiological parameters.

 

Hypnosis can be useful adjunct to other treatment modalities. For example, hypnosis may induce a level of relaxation that allows patients to cooperate more easily with conventional treatment. The often dramatic historical background of hypnosis has led to misconceptions about hypnotic technique and its clinical applications in modern medicine. Hypnosis is useful in the treatment of acute and chronic pain, somatoform and habit disorder, anxiety and depression. Persons who are attempting to stop smoking, patients with bulimia and those with psychological importance may respond to hypnosis.

 

Hypnosis is used to reduce the amount of intravenous anaesthesia required to perform liposuction surgery. The patient listens to a hypnotic audiocassette tape intraoperatively.

This explains the procedure to the patient. First, relaxation techniques are used to comfort and relax the patient. The patient is then guided to experience his or her favourite place and then progressed through future positive imagery. Posthypnotic suggestions for healing and recovery are incorporated and distraction techniques are used to dissociate the patient from the procedure. The doctor has used this hypnotic tape for more than 300 patients and there has either been a marked reduction in the amount of intravenous medication needed, or frequently no intravenous medication has been needed at all. The patient returns to the recovery area fully awake and ready for discharge.

Hypnosis has been used as a therapeutical tool for centuries, but only in the past 50 years have the clinical applications been delineated. As evident in the medical literature, the use of hypnosis and hypnotherapy by the medical community has increased, partly as result of a growing awareness of hypnotherapy as an available treatment modality, and also as a result of major improvements in research methodology through strict standardization. Hypnotherapy, once considered to be limited to entertainment, has now proven useful in the treatment of a wide variety of medical and psychological illnesses.

Hypnosis has proven to be extremely valuable in the treatment of cancer patients. Specific applications include: establishing rapport between the patient and members of the medical health team; control of pain with self-regulation of pain perception through the use of glove anesthesia, time distortion, amnesia, transference of pain to a different body part, or dissociation of painful part from the rest of the body; controlling symptoms, such as, nausea, anticipatory emesis, learned food aversions, etc.; Psychotherapy for anxiety, depression, guilt, anger, hostility, frustration, isolation,  and a diminished sense of self-esteem; visualisation for health improvement; and dealing with death anxiety and other related issues. Hypnosis has unique advantages for patients including improvement of self-esteem, involvement in self-care, return of locus and control, lack of unpleasant side effects, and continued efficacy despite continued use.

 

A driving force in an eating disorder like anorexia nervosa has been a distorted body image. The psychobiological dynamics of eating disorders have demonstrated significant hypnotic phenomena such as forms of dissociation, hallucination, time distortion and catalepsy, and therefore, pose hypnosis as a good fit for particular parts of treatment. Therefore, hypnosis and hypnotherapy has been determined to be an effective approach for treating bulimia nervosa. Recent literature indicates that there are significant connections between the hypnotic process and the underlying cognitive and psychological processes of bulimic symptomatology.

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