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Research from CHEST has found that adding hypnotherapy to the mix of treatments may help die-hard smokers quit more easily than using nicotine replacement therapy alone or going cold turkey.

A new study shows that smokers given free hypnotherapy to help them quit smoking after hospitalisation were more likely to be nonsmokers about six months later than those who used nicotine replacement therapy alone, such as gum or patches, or who went cold turkey.

The results were presented this week at CHEST 2007, the 73rd annual international scientific assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians in Chicago.

Help To Quit Smoking

In the study, researchers followed 67 smokers who were hospitalised for heart or lung problems. All of the patients were offered help to quit smoking in the form of hypnotherapy, nicotine replacement therapy, or hypnotherapy plus nicotine replacement therapy percent or they could choose to try to quit cold turkey.

Twenty-six weeks after leaving the hospital, the results show that 50 percent of smokers who used hypnotherapy alone or in combination with nicotine replacement therapy, compared with 16 percent who used nicotine replacement therapy alone, became nonsmokers. In comparison, 25 percent of those who went cold turkey had kicked the habit. 

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/23/health/webmd/main3397246.shtml

I have been reading a snippet of an article this morning about how pop singer LilyAllen has had hypnosis and as uch has dropped 2 dress sizes. Great to hear. Here is what this hypnosis article at Contact Music says:

British Singer Lily Allen has dropped two dress sizes - thanks to a London hypnotist. The Smile singer, 22, has shed weight since attending $600-(GBP300) an hour “brain reprogramming” sessions with hypnotism expert Susan Hepburn. She says, “After the hypnotism I want to go to the gym every day otherwise I feel really bad. I just want to get more toned and healthy. I’m really good at the moment - I’ve never been happier.” Of her success with Allen, Hepburn says, “Lily was great, a really nice girl. I’m glad I could help.”

If you have  look at the website where the article is, you’ll see that the pictures of her are outside her nightspot… Smoking a cigarette… Which I think is hilarious given that Susan Hepburn (her hypnotherapist) is the author of Stop Smoking in One Hour. Come on Susan Hepburn, get her off the fags too, she could promote health and well-being far better then!

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