Maximise your Success

Audio recordings work when the content and instructions are correct, then you can obtain maximum benefit. Suggestion based hypnotherapy can easily be done at home with the help of hypnosis downloads and a good set of instructions. Ideas or 'suggestions' around new attitudes and behaviours are given during hypnosis. It is worth noting that there are vast differences in the suggestion success rates, demonstrating that the quality of the audio content is critical.

One of the largest scientific studies on hypnotherapy success was reported in the New Scientist in October 1992¹. Researchers wanted to use audio recording to hypnotize smokers so that the voice of the hypnotist would be the same for each smoker, and therefore they would not be swayed by different personalities or types of voices used. They believed that this would give more accurate findings and in so doing proved that audio tapes worked.

A proven success

Comparing success rates for stop smoking therapies, 72,000 people across 600 studies were evaluated, and hypnosis was proven to be the most successful stop smoking treatment on the market.

Even the most basic suggestion hypnotherapy tapes worked far more effectively than any other treatment, including willpower (6 per cent), nicotine patches (13 per cent) and counseling (20 per cent). Simple advice from the doctor was less that 1 per cent.

Impressive success rates

Suggestion hypnosis using audio tapes was shown, to have at worst a 30 per cent success rate, but it could double to 60 per cent² with the latest relaxation methods and good suggestion.

"The latest relaxation techniques achieve success rates of up to 60 per cent from a single session"

Christoper Pattinson, Academic Chairman of The British Society of Medical & Dental Hypnosis.

It is worth noting that there were vast differences in the suggestion success rates, demonstrating that the quality of the audio content and how the session is conducted is critical.

These success rates are significantly better that any other treatment for stop smoking on the market, including nicotine patches and Champix/Chantix (23 per cent)³.

Furthermore specialist advanced techniques demonstrated even higher success rate, which would be expected due to the more personal and individualized nature of the treatment. One notable study was by Von Dedenroth (1968), who found 94% of over 1,000 smokers that stopped smoking with hypnotherapy reported being non-smokers at least 18 months later.

If you’re serious about making changes to your life, hypnotherapy is the most effective approach available on the market today.

¹New Scientist (Robert Matthews, Issue 1845, October 1992). Collected from statistics from more than 600 studies, covering almost 72,000 people in America, Scandinavia and elsewhere in Europe and including 48 studies of hypnosis covering 6000 smokers ²Christopher Pattinson, Academic chairman , British Society of Medical & Dental Hypnosis ³ash.org.uk, accessed June 2009