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En 2007, investigadores del Centro Médico North Shore en Salem, Massachusetts, compararon a 67 personas que querían dejar de fumar y se dividieron en 4 grupos según su método de tratamiento para dejar de fumar: (a) hipnoterapia; (b) terapia de reemplazo de nicotina; (c) terapia de reemplazo de nicotina más hipnoterapia; y (d) dejar de fumar “de golpe”. Concluyeron que una persona puede tener más probabilidades de dejar de fumar mediante el uso de hipnoterapia que mediante el uso de otros métodos para dejar de fumar. Este estudio muestra que los fumadores que participaron en una sesión de hipnoterapia tenían más probabilidades de ser no fumadores después de 6 meses en comparación con los pacientes que usaban terapia de reemplazo de nicotina sola o los pacientes que dejaron de fumar «de golpe».[1.1]
En 1992, investigadores de la Universidad de Iowa analizaron estadísticamente los resultados de 633 estudios para dejar de fumar en los que participaron 71.806 participantes. Llegaron a la conclusión de que la hipnosis era la técnica más eficaz utilizada para dejar de fumar. De hecho, descubrieron que una sola sesión de hipnosis es tres veces más eficaz que el chicle de nicotina y cinco veces más eficaz que la fuerza de voluntad por sí sola.[1.2]
En 2004, investigadores del Centro de Ciencias de la Salud de la Universidad Texas A&M estudiaron a 21 fumadores que habían fracasado en intentos anteriores de dejar de fumar sin ayuda. Los participantes recibieron tres sesiones de hipnosis y también una grabación con una inducción hipnótica que podían utilizar en su propio tiempo. Al final del programa, 17 sujetos (81%) informaron que habían dejado de fumar. Un seguimiento de 12 meses reveló que 10 de ellos (48%) seguían sin fumar.[1.3]
En 2015, investigadores de la Facultad de Enfermería de la Universidad Beni-Suef en Egipto estudiaron a 59 estudiantes varones de secundaria que eran fumadores. A estos sujetos se les enseñó autohipnosis con el fin de dejar de fumar. Después de nueve semanas de realizar la autohipnosis, el 65,4% de los estudiados había dejado de fumar.[1.4]
Referencias
1.1. La hipnoterapia para dejar de fumar obtiene buenos resultados
Resultados: Los pacientes hospitalizados que fuman pueden tener más probabilidades de dejar de fumar mediante el uso de hipnoterapia que los pacientes que utilizan otros métodos para dejar de fumar. Este estudio muestra que los pacientes fumadores que participaron en una sesión de hipnoterapia tenían más probabilidades de ser no fumadores a los 6 meses en comparación con los pacientes que usaban terapia de reemplazo de nicotina (NRT) sola o los pacientes que dejaron de fumar «de golpe».
1.2. Dejar de fumar Una comparación metaanalítica de la eficacia de los métodos para dejar de fumar
Resultados: Descubrieron que entre todas las técnicas utilizadas, la hipnosis era la más efectiva. Descubrieron que una sola sesión de hipnosis era tres veces más efectiva que el chicle de nicotina y cinco veces más efectiva que la fuerza de voluntad sola (la fuerza de voluntad era del 6%; el chicle de nicotina era del 10% y una sola sesión de hipnosis era del 30%).
1.3. Hipnosis clínica para dejar de fumar: resultados preliminares de una intervención de tres sesiones
Resultados: Al final del programa 17 sujetos (81%) informaron que habían dejado de fumar. Un seguimiento de 12 meses reveló que 10 de ellos (48%) seguían sin fumar.
- http://bscw.rediris.es/pub/bscw.cgi/d4431440/Elkins-Clinical_hypnosis_smoking_cessation.pdf
- https://blog.healthjourneys.com/smoking-cessation/clinical-hypnosis-for-smoking-cessation-preliminary-results-of-a-three-session-intervention.html
1.4. Efecto de la hipnoterapia para dejar de fumar entre estudiantes de secundaria (2015)
Resultados: Los hallazgos del presente estudio indicaron que la tasa de fumadores varones entre los estudiantes de secundaria en la ciudad de Beni-Suef fue del 52,4%, aproximadamente dos tercios de los estudiantes estudiados (65,4%) dejaron de fumar después de nueve semanas de practicar hipnosis y el porcentaje de paquetes fumados. de cigarrillos/día disminuyó después de implementar el programa.
1.1. Hypnotherapy For Smoking Cessation Sees Strong Results
Results: Hospitalized patients who smoke may be more likely to quit smoking through the use of hypnotherapy than patients using other smoking cessation methods. This study shows that smoking patients who participated in one hypnotherapy session were more likely to be nonsmokers at 6 months compared with patients using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) alone or patients who quit «cold turkey.”
Notes: This study compared the quit rates of 67 smoking patients hospitalized with a cardiopulmonary diagnosis. All patients were approached about smoking cessation and all included in the study were patients who expressed a desire to quit smoking. At discharge, patients were divided into four groups based on their preferred method of smoking cessation treatment: hypnotherapy (n=14), NRT (n=19), NRT and hypnotherapy (n=18), and a group of controls who preferred to quit «cold turkey» (n=16). All patients received self-help brochures. The control group received brief counseling, but other groups received intensive counseling, free supply of NRT and/or a free hypnotherapy session within 7 days of discharge, as well as follow up telephone calls at 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, and 26 weeks after discharge. Patients receiving hypnotherapy also were taught to do self-hypnosis and were given tapes to play at the end of the session.
At 26 weeks after discharge, 50 percent of patients treated with hypnotherapy alone were nonsmokers, compared with 50 percent in the NRT/hypnotherapy group, 25 percent in the control group, and 15.78 percent in the NRT group. Patients admitted with a cardiac diagnosis were more likely to quit smoking at 26 weeks (45.5 percent) than patients admitted with a pulmonary diagnosis (15.63 percent).
The researchers note that hospitalization is an important opportunity to intervene among patients who smoke.
This study as presented at Chest 2007, the 73rd annual international scientific assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians Oct. 24, 2007
By: Faysal Hasan, MD, FCCP, North Shore Medical Center, Salem, MA Dr. Hasan and colleagues from North Shore Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital
1.2. Smoking Cessation A Meta-Analytic Comparison of the Effectiveness of Smoking Cessation Methods
Results: They found that among of all of the techniques used, hypnosis was the most effective. They found that a single session of hypnosis was three times more effective than the nicotine gum and five times more effective then willpower alone (willpower was 6%; nicotine gum was 10% and a single hypnosis session was 30%).
Notes: The Institute of Actuaries (in the US) commissioned the largest study ever done on smoking cessation. It statistically analyzed the results of 633 smoking cessation studies involving 71,806 participants.
Journal of Applied Psychology. Vol 77(4), Aug 1992, 554-561
By: C. Viswesvaran, F. L. Schmidt, Department of Management and Organizations, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242
1.3. Clinical Hypnosis for Smoking Cessation: Preliminary Results of a Three-Session Intervention
Results: At the end of the program 17 subjects (81%) reported that they had stopped smoking. A 12-month follow-up revealed that 10 of them (48%) remained smoke-free.
Notes: Twenty-one smokers who were referred to this study by their physicians for medical reasons, received three smoking cessation hypnosis sessions. All patients reported having failed in previous unassisted attempts to stop smoking. The clinical-treatment protocol included three sessions. The first session was the initial consultation and did not include a hypnotic induction. Sessions 2 and 3 involved individually adapted hypnotic suggestions and an individual therapeutic relationship with each patient. Each patient was also provided with a cassette tape recording of a hypnotic induction with direct suggestions for relaxation and a feeling of comfort. The patients were seen biweekly for treatment.
Hypnotic Suggestions: Absorption in relaxing imagery, a commitment to stop smoking, decreased craving for nicotine, posthypnotic suggestions, practice of self-hypnosis, and to visualize the positive benefits of smoking cessation. The induction was standardized, but the specific imagery for relaxation and the positive benefits for smoking cessation were individualized based upon the patient’s preference regarding such imagery.
Int J Clin Exp Hypn. 2004 , Jan;52(1):73-81
By: G. R. Elkins, M. H. Rajab, Texas A&M University’s Health Science Center
- http://bscw.rediris.es/pub/bscw.cgi/d4431440/Elkins-Clinical_hypnosis_smoking_cessation.pdf
- https://blog.healthjourneys.com/smoking-cessation/clinical-hypnosis-for-smoking-cessation-preliminary-results-of-a-three-session-intervention.html
1.4. Effect of Hypnotherapy on Smoking Cessation Among Secondary School Students (2015)
Background: Hypnotherapy is widely promoted as a method for aiding smoking cessation. It is proposed to act on underlying impulses to weaken the desire to smoke or strengthen the will to stop. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of hypnotherapy on smoking cessation among secondary school students.
Method: A random sample of 59 male smokers was selected from two governmental secondary schools. Design: A quasi- experimental design was used. Tools: Data were collected using; A- an Interview Questionnaire included; I- smoking assessment tool to determine the smoking rate among males students. II-Characteristics of studied students regarding smoking pattern. III- Smoking Cessation Questionnaire. B- Wisconsin smoking withdrawal scale. The hypnotherapy was implemented after assessing the rate of male smokers, the researchers trained the students in practicing self hypnosis, and asked them to practice it at home and to document the frequency of daily smoked packs for nine weeks.
Results: The present study findings indicated that the rate of male smokers among secondary school students in Beni-Suef city was 52.4%, about two third of studied students (65.4%) stopped smoking after nine weeks of practicing hypnosis and the percentage of smoked packs of cigarettes/ day decreased after implementing the program.
Conclusion: The present study findings showed that hypnotherapy has a therapeutic effectiveness in achieving a high rate of smoking cessation among secondary school students. There was a highly significant difference in total score of smoking withdrawal index before and after intervention. Recommendation: Community and school education programs should include sessions on quitting smoking, implementing school-based interventions in combination with anti-tobacco mass media campaigns.