Hypnotherapy could offer relief from severe chest pain that is not caused by a heart condition. Researchers found 80 per cent reported ‘significant’ relief from pain after undergoing the treatment.
About a third of people who have chest pain have no identifiable cause for why they suffer. Researchers believe that acid reflux or psychological problems could be to blame – and young women seem to be more prone to getting the pain.
As we highlighted in a previous article, it pays to be an optimist. Take a look at the following letters:
According to an article in New Scientist, smokers with lung cancer who continue smoking may prevent the chemotherapy treament from working. Nor are patches the answer, as it turns out it is nicotine that causes the effect.
Srikumar Chellappan and colleagues at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa, Florida, looked at how nicotine affected the performance of three anti-cancer drugs – gemcitabine, cisplatin and Taxol.
Nicotine protected the cancer cells by activating two genes called XIAP and survivin, which prevent the cell suicide normally induced by the drugs (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0509313103).
“Patients who continue to smoke have worse survival profiles than those who quit before treatment,” says Chellappan. “Of course they have to be treated, but they should be undergoing smoking cessation programmes.”
(Issue 2546 of New Scientist magazine, 08 April 2006, page 20)
Hypnotherapy is a safe, natural way to quit smoking, and is up to three times more effective than Nicotine Replacement Therapy (patches, gum etc). Please contact us for more information on how we can help you to quit.
Make sure to comment below!Hypnotherapy is a drug-free, natural therapy with over 150 years of scientific research behind it.
Ironically, the first scientific experiments on hypnosis were performed by sceptical physician, James Braid, in an attempt to understand or debunk hypnosis, which was then the preserve of entertainers and known as ‘Animal Magnetism’. His work turned hypnosis into a discipline accepted by the medical community and upheld by scientific experiment, and earnt him the title ‘Father of Hypnosis’.
However, in the UK at present, it is almost impossible to obtain Hypnotherapy on the NHS, and there are only a handful of medical health insurance companies offering rebates or incentives for those wanting Hypnotherapy. It appears to be a similar story in the USA, as noted in a recent article in the New York Hospital Newspaper.
And yet, in the long term, Hypnotherapy could save the Government and private health insurers millions of pounds each year… as well as vastly improving the outlook for many patients (and stressed or overworked staff) by complementing medical approaches.
Any other ideas?For many smokers wanting to kick the habit, National Stop Smoking Day on 8th March comes as a mixed blessing. For some, it acts as an encouragement to continue the good work they started at New Year; for others, it is a painful reminder that the “season of good willpower” is well and truly over.
Many smokers will be contemplating quitting now that the pressure of New Years is over, whilst others are vowing to stay at home and smoke twice as many cigarettes on the 8th as a mark of defiance…
The Gravesham and surrounding boroughs are organising a number of events to help smokers – according to Gravesend News Shopper, Carbon Monoxide tests and stop smoking advice will be available to the general public at Dartford Priory Centre from 10am – 4pm, all day at Asda in London Road Swanley, and at lunchtime for students and staff at North West Kent College’s Dartford campus.
Gravesend’s Town Crier will be telling (or is that yelling?) people about stop smoking stands at the Thames Way Asda store, The Grand on the High Street, and the North West Kent College’s Gravesend campus.
As we mentioned in our previous blog, Hypnotherapy is three times more effective than patches or gum, so we want to do our bit to help local smokers quit this Stop Smoking Day.
Participate in the conversation by leaving your comment below.According to Scotland Today, there are calls for hypnosis treatment for smokers to be funded by the NHS ahead of the public smoking ban.
According to research into the most effective methods to stop smoking, hypnosis was found to be three times more effective than Nicotine Replacement Therapy (i.e nicotine patches or gum). A New Scientist article (vol 136 issue 1845 page 6) confirms:
“To find the most effective method to stop smoking Frank Schmidt and research student Chockalingham Viswesvaran from the university of Iowa used a meta-analysis, utilising the results of more than 600 studies totalling nearly 72,000 people.
The results, which were published in the Journal of Applied Psychology and included 48 studies of hypnosis covering 6000 smokers, clearly showed that hypnosis, to use the same terminology as the quit counsellor, was three times more effective than NRT.”
Smokers find it so hard to quit because their unconscious mind has a faulty program which believes smoking is serving a positive purpose. And because the unconscious mind is responsible for keeping you safe, it has many ways to override your conscious will. The combination of hypnosis and NLP is so sucessful in helping people to quit smoking because it effectively re-programs your unconscious mind to work with you to achieve your goal.
If you are trying to make that New Years resolution stick, but are finding the ‘season of good will-power’ is coming to an end, why not contact us to find out how we can help you stop smoking today.
Your Turn: Do you have any advice you would like to share? What tips would you like to add? Please comment below.An article in this week’s Sunday Times highlights the benefits of NLP in helping people overcome habits and negative behaviours. As Anita Chaudhuri reports, NLP is a way of reprogramming the mind in order to change negative behaviour.
Looking forward to your comments...It works by identifying subconscious pessimistic patterns, then zaps them by replacing them with new thoughts and images. A typical example would be the habitual smoker who is prone to lighting up when sipping a morning espresso or a glass of wine at the end of the day. An NLP therapist would program their brain to desire something other than a cigarette at those trigger moments.
NLP is just high-tech hypnosis says, Paul McKenna. Your brain is like a computer, and it?s as if you are installing new software to overwrite programs that no longer work. The key programs of human behaviour are habit and imagination, and they are far more powerful than logic or willpower. I?ve seen people make astounding changes in their thoughts and behaviour quickly.
With Christmas fast approaching, many smokers are mentally gearing themselves up to quit – once the festivities have finished, of course – determined to make sure that this year the New Years resolution will stick.
Certainly, as hypnotherapists, we see a marked increase in the numbers of clients wanting help to stop smoking around the end of February, once the “season-of-good-will-power” has ended.
The Hypnotherapy Register is a UK directory of Hypnotherapists who belong to associations under the UK Confederation of Hypnotherapy Organisations (UKCHO), the umbrella body for the Hypnotherapy profession in the UK.
If you are visiting our site, but are not in our area, or just want to find other hypnotherapists to compare us with, this site can help you find therapists who are fully qualified, insured, bound by a code of ethics, and belonging to an association with a disciplinary procedure… like us.
We couldn’t find any major new research on hypnosis this week, but there was an interesting news report on the internet, which said that Ben Affleck has been given strict orders by his wife, Jennifer Garner, to quit smoking before the birth of their baby.
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