Can Hypnotising really cure your bad habits?.

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jeepin

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I have heard of people that use hypnotising to stop them from smoking, losing weight, drinking, etc. And wondered if it really worked or not?, there is a person I know that has tried everything to quit, and cant. Also how much would it cost for something like that to be done?, thanks in advance.
 
Back in the late '70s and early '80s, I tried many things to quit smoking (a carton a week, at least), including hypnosis. It only worked for me for a day or less for each treatment. Back then it cost $40.00/treatment. I gave up on it soon.

A couple of years later, in 1983, I finally got it together and realized that only I could make myself quit, and went cold turkey. I have never even tasted tobacco since then. I have read that 90% of those who quit for over a year, do it on their own, without external crutches.

Even the Patch only treats the nicotine homeostasis, which is the easy part of quitting. It only takes a few days to get the nicotine out of your system. It's the habit that makes it so hard to quit.
 
Hypnotherapy can help but is dependent on some factors:
suggestibility: the more suggestible you are in a hypnotic state the better,
level of commitment to change: read James Prochaska's Stages of Change..it's an excellent resource to understand how people make changes, in other words, if you are in a pre-contemplative stage and not really committed then hypnotherapy won't help.
 
You might try googling "James Prochaska" or google "Motivational Enhancement Therapy", the latter being a means to help improve your motivation to change. The stuff works.
 
[size=+1]The six stages of the change process as defined by psychologist James Prochaska and colleagues:
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  • Precontemplation:has no intention to take action within the next six months
  • Contemplation:intends to take action within the next six months
  • Preparation: intends to take action within the next 30 days and has taken some behavioral steps in this direction
  • Action:has changed behavior for less than six months
  • Maintenance:has changed behavior for more than six months
  • Termination:has no temptation to return to old behavior regardless of the situation.
http://www.uri.edu/research/cprc/transtheoretical.htm

and

http://www.uri.edu/research/cprc/TTM/detailedoverview.htm
 
A couple of years ago, I called my father and invited him to a get away father/daughter weekend. We hadn't done anything like that since I was a small child, and I thought it was way overdue. I was hoping to go somewhere like Washington, D.C. to see the sites. Maybe we'd go to the wall so he could finally see it for himself. :confused: My dad told me he'd think it over.

A week later he called me and invited me to this seminar in Orlando, Florida. I kept asking him what it was about, but he just kept on insisting that I come and see for myself. This would be our father/daughter weekend. :rolleyes:

It turned out to be a motivational speaker. He made us swallow fire, break wood with a karate chop, and lay on the floor for hypnosis. I did just fine with the fire and the wood, but the hypnosis was just rediculous. I remember him talking about balloons lifting up my arms. I didn't feel any balloons. :D I remember him standing over me amplifying his voice in a most influential manner while telling me that if my hands aren't rising than it's my fault because I don't want it bad enough. ;) My hands never did raise up off the ground. The man was very skilled at using his voice to manipulate the audience. His ****ing voice was ringing in my head for days. At the end of the seminar he offered the audience an opportunity to join a "mentoring program" for the very low fee of $10,000. He actually had people jumping up and running to join up. I just sat there with my father trying to figure out what kind of drugs were laced in these peoples' lunches. Upon arriving home, I looked up this jerk on the internet. Apparently, he's having problems with the feds right now for a number of reasons including fraud. He also has problems with BIG gambling debts in casinos throughout Las Vegas. Interestingly, addiction was one of the ailments that his hypnotherapy was supposed to cure. I know because his ****ing voice kept telling me about it for days following the seminar. :mad: Why didn't he try it on himself? :rolleyes: ;) Be careful.
 
It sounds like the six stages of buying a knife:


Precontemplation:has no intention to take action within the next six months

Bladeshow


Contemplation:intends to take action within the next six minutes
Preparation: intends to take action within the next 30 seconds and has taken some behavioral steps in this direction (i.e. counting money in wallet)
Action:has changed behavior for less than six seconds (waiting for credit card approval)
Maintenance: militec-1, Flitz, and Ren wax.
Termination: Bladeshow is only how many months away???
 
My FIL quit smoking after one hypnotism session at a carnival a long time ago. I've heard people tell me that it works when you already want to quit, and doesn't if you don't.

In sort of a related matter, acupuncturists have really good success treating people for smoking. I interned in a chiro/medical office who had a part time acupuncturist and most of his business was former smokers. The usual protocol is three visits in the first 2 weeks, I think (maybe the first month), then every few months after that for "tune ups." I've heard lots of good things about it from lots of different people.
 
Chiro,

I watched this program years ago about this circuit court judge in Miami. Apparently, he instituted this program that was only available to non-violent drug offenders who admitted to having an addiction problem. If these defendants qualified, he would place them on house arrest and provide them with career training and acupuncture for withdrawal symptoms. Apparently, his rate of recidivism was cut down by 2/3rds where it had been previously. I remember thinking that, that reflected a phenomenal success rate. I wonder if he's still on the bench, and how his program is working out so many years later.

BTW, apparently, my "hypnotherapist" didn't wanna quit gambling. ;)

Edited to add: They're called drug courts. They were started in 1989 in the Miami-Dade area. They also required that the defendants agree to random drug testing while in the program.
 
jmatos,

Most likely, the people who were running up to plunk down their $10,000 were plants working for the motivational speaker. It's a pretty common techique for scammers. If you see others excited to get in on a "good deal," you'll be more likely to jump on it too. I've seen this sort of thing happen a couple of times.
I HATE scammers. Scum!

Scott
 
hypnosis works

hypnosis is good

i like hypnosis

i will sign up for hypnosis sessions

i will pay cash

i will go back again

and again

and bring cash

hypnosis is good


i feel happy when i think of the word "hypnosis"

happy

very happy
 
Okay HJK concentrate

Your arms and legs are weightless

The rest of your body is weightless too

You are floating

calmly floating with no worries in the world

no more need to pay bills

no more need to hold on to silly earthly belongings

You suddenly realize that all of these things are holding you back...

Send money and knives to the needy...

Send money and knives to jsmatos...

(Hey, keep your eyes shut, you're weightless remember weightless) ;)

You are now feeling lighter than you have in years...

When you wake up you will send those things to jsmatos ASAP...

SNAP...Wake up....:D
 
Scott Ridgeway said:
Most likely, the people who were running up to plunk down their $10,000 were plants working for the motivational speaker. It's a pretty common techique for scammers. If you see others excited to get in on a "good deal," you'll be more likely to jump on it too. I've seen this sort of thing happen a couple of times.
I HATE scammers. Scum!
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Scott, Now that you mention it, I suspected at the time that they were plants. I realized there was a problem during lunch when he had his minions walking around the room and sharing stories about their successes (obviously resulting from this program that we would hear about later :rolleyes: ) I kept commenting to my father that the substance of their stories were lacking. I later read that many of these poor SOBs were actually former victims who were trying to work off their debts by bringing in new victims. It was all a part of the investigation. Can you imagine being scammed by some POS, and then working for him to get off the hook by putting others in your place. :rolleyes: They signed contracts agreeing to pay monies. They were legally on the hook, yet it was all a big scam. If I ever see something like that again, I will be much more aggressive with my questioning. I will make that person completely miserable. You see one, you've seen them all. :mad:
 
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