Comments on: Mystics and Medicine http://findmeacure.com/2008/04/30/mystics-and-medicine/ Alternative Medicine Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:47:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Medicine Assistance http://findmeacure.com/2008/04/30/mystics-and-medicine/#comment-336460 Medicine Assistance Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:41:35 +0000 http://findmeacure.com/?p=5231#comment-336460 Key tips were offered that helped. Key tips were offered that helped.

]]> By: Mystics and Medicine http://findmeacure.com/2008/04/30/mystics-and-medicine/#comment-291675 Mystics and Medicine Mon, 05 May 2008 01:55:34 +0000 http://findmeacure.com/?p=5231#comment-291675 [...] heartburncured6930 wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptAre we being hoodwinked by alternative medicine? ……Two leading scientists examine the evidence. The first of a two-part extract from Trick or Treatment: Alternative Medicine on Trial by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst … [...] [...] heartburncured6930 wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptAre we being hoodwinked by alternative medicine? ……Two leading scientists examine the evidence. The first of a two-part extract from Trick or Treatment: Alternative Medicine on Trial by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst … [...]

]]> By: Mike Reeves-McMillan http://findmeacure.com/2008/04/30/mystics-and-medicine/#comment-290553 Mike Reeves-McMillan Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:03:29 +0000 http://findmeacure.com/?p=5231#comment-290553 You say regarding hypnotherapy: "However, the evidence is that it's not effective to help you stop smoking". Which evidence? There was a massive meta-study published in 1993 which looked at over 600 scientific studies involving almost 72,000 participants from the USA, Canada, England, France and several Scandinavian countries. The studies assessed the proportion of participants who had completely given up smoking, and included 48 studies where hypnotherapy (in some form, varying from "simple suggestions to a complex sequence of imagery, relaxation and counselling") was the intervention chosen. The hypnotherapy studies together covered 6,020 people. The conclusion of the study (Viswesvaran and Schmidt, Journal of Applied Psychology, volume 77, No 4, 1992, pages 554-561) was that hypnotherapy was one of the most effective methods of smoking cessation, with an average 36% success rate. (The average over all the studies was 25%.) As a hypnotherapist myself, I work with smokers frequently, including people who have not been able to give up using other methods. I follow them up periodically, and most report that hypnotherapy was effective for them. You say regarding hypnotherapy: “However, the evidence is that it’s not effective to help you stop smoking”.

Which evidence? There was a massive meta-study published in 1993 which looked at over 600 scientific studies involving almost 72,000 participants from the USA, Canada, England, France and several Scandinavian countries. The studies assessed the proportion of participants who had completely given up smoking, and included 48 studies where hypnotherapy (in some form, varying from “simple suggestions to a complex sequence of imagery, relaxation and counselling”) was the intervention chosen. The hypnotherapy studies together covered 6,020 people.

The conclusion of the study (Viswesvaran and Schmidt, Journal of Applied Psychology, volume 77, No 4, 1992, pages 554-561) was that hypnotherapy was one of the most effective methods of smoking cessation, with an average 36% success rate. (The average over all the studies was 25%.)

As a hypnotherapist myself, I work with smokers frequently, including people who have not been able to give up using other methods. I follow them up periodically, and most report that hypnotherapy was effective for them.

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