A Jakarta-based psychiatrist claims that hypnosis can increase smokers’ chances of kicking the habit, and decrease their chances of kicking the bucket.
Tribowo Ginting, from the Smoking Cessation Clinic at the Persahabatan Pulmonary and Respiratory Hospital in East Jakarta, said on Monday that the alternative treatment could help some people quit smoking for whom willpower alone was not enough.
“Hypnosis and continued counseling will increase the chances of smokers giving up completely by as much as 30 percent,” Ginting claimed, adding that only about 5 percent of smokers were able to kick …

Why can’t I cure my own bad habit?
If you have a bad habit – such as comfort eating, smoking or an addiction to gambling or alcohol, for example, then you can probably answer the question for yourself. A lot of us simply can’t kick a bad habit on our own – we tend to say that it’s because we don’t have the willpower to actually carry it through.
The fact is that any kind of bad habit takes hold of you both psychologically and physically. So, when you try to kick …

There has been much hoopla made about the 20-foot smoke-free zone going into effect around Arizona businesses. The details of the successful proposition can be seen at http://www.smokefreearizona.org Though this may seem a stern requirement, many U.S. employers have declared their entire facility and surrounding grounds as “Off Limits” to smokers.
Putting health risks aside and the resultant costs associated with inflated insurance costs, the average smoker is at best 90 percent as efficient as their non-smoking counterparts. In addition to coffee breaks and lunch periods, the average smoker will take …

What is hypnosis?
Hypnosis must be the only medical procedure ever to be featured in nightclub acts. (Can you imagine audiences applauding the Amazing Anesthesiologist or the Radiology Wizard?) Depictions of hypnosis on stage and screen, in fact, have contributed to a great deal of misunderstanding about the technique. But a closer look reveals that it can be a valuable and effective medical therapy.
Hypnosis isn’t a form of mind control, as stage acts suggest, and there’s no evidence that it can be used to make someone do anything against his or …

Using Unconscious Learning to promote Health and Well being
By Jaime V. Pitner, MICP, RHC
Your mind is much like a computer, what you experience shows up on the monitor of your consciousness, without a thought of where it came from. But, like your computer, much work happens behind the scenes, processes, programs, electrical pathways of information and direction, and the vast storage of memory.
You may think that you have one mind, but you actually have two, or perhaps better put, you have two parts of one mind: the conscious and …

There are books on sale, that you can buy in any high street book store, written by accomplished well respected hypnotists, aimed at complete beginners, that are crammed with basic errors!
I know this sounds crazy, and it completely disgusts me, but it’s true! If you have any books on hypnosis go grab one now and you’ll see exactly what I mean…
Here’s a basic rule of creating affirmations… They must be positive and in the present tense. This is a basic rule… the kind of thing you’d learn in hypnosis101!
To give …

If you have already tried a variety of the stop smoking aids, and you have tried quitting smoking without any help at all, you may think it is just not meant to be. If you have not tried stop smoking hypnosis, you should take a minute to consider the possibility.
When the word “hypnosis” is mentioned, many people immediately conjure up images of the comedic hypnotists that make unsuspecting participants quack like a duck or perform some other ridiculous action. Hypnosis stop smoking programs are serious help for those with a …