Smoking cessation without aids

Smoking cessation without aids

Simon Chapman and Ross MacKenzie from the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney, Australia had studied 511 English-language studies from 2007 to 2008. They scoured the medical database „Medline“ after the words „Stop smoking“.

They now published their findings in the trade magazine „PloSMedicine“. PloS stands for Public Library of Science and is a non-profit organization of physicians and scientists who make scientific and medical articles publicly available worldwide. Chapman and McKenzie found that two-thirds to three-quarters of successful smoking cessations came from outside without any help.

But similar numbers already exist in German-speaking countries:
In a survey on preventive behavior in Germany in 2008, more than half of 491 smokers surveyed intended to quit smoking. 71% of the men and women interviewed took their own „just stop smoking“. The remaining third of the smokers said they needed help in quitting.

One of the methods that is not one of the tools of any branch of industry, with a relatively high success rate of smoking cessation in recent years, is hypnosis. Serious hypnotherapy was gradually able to break free from the vicious circle of pure show hypnotists. This led to the scientific recognition of the procedure by the Scientific Advisory Council for Psychotherapy in 2006.

Because the Australian researchers also see a danger in that too much advertising for aids for smoking cessation, people would be unsettled. People might think that they would not be able to stop by themselves. Because smoking cessation is also a big economic market. (Thorsten Fischer, Naturopath Osteopathy, 09.02.2010)

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Smoking cessation through hypnosis