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Hypnotic therapy is found to be very effective in the fight against smoking habits if used in combination with other treatment modes. Basically hypnosis is a process by which hypnotist gives positive suggestions to the subjects to bring positive changes into his life style. This treatment mode is commonly used for rectifying the behavioural problems of people of any age and gender.

Smoking is basically a behavioural problem that can be easily rectified by injecting positive vibrations that discourage smoking habit into the mind of a person suffering from the problem.

The most important thing to be considered while you decide to undergo a stop smoking hypnosis therapy is the experience and qualification of the hypnotist that you are approaching. It should also be remembered that you should also be ready and willing to cooperate with the hypnotist by accepting the positive suggestions of the hypnotist. Be prepared to submit yourself to the treatment made by developing a positive frame of mind. No hypnotist can create miracles if the subject is not ready to accept the hypnosis treatment.

Medical hypnosis (also called hypnotherapy) remains one of the most controversial therapeutical methods in Psychiatry. It was coldly received after the undue criticism of Sigmund Freud, the father of Psychoanalysis. But, it came back with renewed strength after the 2nd World War , supported as a valid method by the main international medical societies.

In Brazil, hypnosis has endured serious disbelief, due to its frequent use in stage shows, by non medically qualified persons and even having jeopardized the human “guinea pigs” which were used. Fortunately its use out of the medical environment has been prohibited by a presidential decree in the early 60’s.

Currently, hypnosis is recognized as an adequate treatment for certain psychiatric conditions, even as a method of value to increase the immunological resistance of the patients, increasing the level of white cells (leukocytes) for the defense of our organism against diseases. For this reason it has been very much used in the therapy of AIDS because its seem to be the method which leads to the fastest alteration of the psychoimmunology of the patients (alteration of the immune system by means of the psyche).

Researchers at the University of British Columbia and the Harvard Business School have found that it’s possible to buy happiness after all: when you spend money on others.

In a series of studies, UBC Asst. Prof. Elizabeth Dunn found that individuals report significantly greater happiness if they spend money “pro-socially” - that is on gifts for others or charitable donations — rather than spending on themselves. Her findings will appear in the March 21 edition of the journal Science.