I was talking to a guy who used it to quit smoking, but he actually tried 3 different people before he found one that worked for him.
He said with the first it worked a couple weeks. The second didn't do a thing. The third didn't call himself a hypnotist, but they sat, chatted, and when he left he didn't have the urge to smoke. And that was 15 years ago.
I know one other person who I would have thought was a for-life smoker that hypnotism worked.
Maybe it is purely suggestion and the placebo effect, and I don't think I'd want to spend a lot of money to try it. But for the people who it does work for, good for them.
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