Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy is widely recognized as a way to help quit smoking, but there is conflicting evidence about its effectiveness. In the meta-analysis, hypnotism was three times more effective than nicotine replacement, proving to be 15 times more effective than without help (Schmidt and Chockalingham, 1992). Even so, the results are not necessarily beautiful. A number of studies have reported success rates of 90.6% (Barber, 2001), 90% (Klager, 2004) and 80% (Crasilneck, 1990), but other studies have shown a considerably lower success rate of 48% It is Rajab, 2004) and 25% (Ahijevych, Yerardi and Nedilsky, 2000).

Target group: Interventions for smoking cessation assessment for all adults include social support, hypnotherapy, counseling, risk assessment, aversive therapy, and recurrence prevention. Hypnotherapy Cochran Review (1, A) evaluated the use of hypnotherapy in smoking cessation (Abbot et al., 1998). This is a systematic review of nine randomized controlled trials (915 participants) who are comparing hypnotherapy with no treatment or other therapeutic interventions. Participants are smokers who want to quit smoking regardless of gender, years of smoking and nicotine dependence. This research is mainly conducted in the United States and Canada based on studies by Australia and the UK. By comparing hypnotherapy with 14 different controlled interventions, the authors conclude that hypnotherapy has a greater impact on the 6 month discontinuation rate than other interventions, or that it has not been confirmed that there is no intervention discovered. However, the authors suggest that large-scale trials are required to determine effectiveness

Nine studies compared hypnotherapy with 14 control interventions. There is significant heterogeneity between the results of individual studies and the effectiveness of hypnotherapy is inconsistent compared to untreated or recommended. Therefore, the authors did not attempt to calculate the total odds ratio for the overall effect of hypnotherapy. There is no evidence that hypnotherapy is effective compared to high-speed smoking and psychotherapy. Regardless of publicity or recruiting strategy, the population-based interventions described in this review usually attract 1% to 2% of the target population. It has not been shown that certain types of recruitment strategies are always more effective than others. The participation rate of the research was 9.5%, which was achieved by making the recruitment period more flexible. The actual continued quit rate is very low (13%), but competition has the greatest impact.