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(PRWEB) May 31, 2010 — It’s often said that when faced with a problem most people will choose the easy way out. Now it seems like celebrities are following this logic by turning to hypnosis companies like HypnoBusters to help them quit smoking.

Ben Affleck has successfully quit smoking thanks to hypnosis.

I finally decided to quit smoking when I found out I was going to have a child. That was the thing that sort of put it over the top for me. I decided to go to a hypnotist. You sit in a chair and the hypnotist sips water and just talks to you for an hour, and explains how nicotine is poison.

People are always looking for ways to make their life better and with the increased exposure hypnotherapy has been getting it’s only natural that they’d want to see what all the talk is about.

Our Stop Smoking Now session has become one of our most popular products we have. Not only are people buying it but many of them have taken the time to email me and say how helpful it has been for them.

Celebrities including Drew Barrymore, Ellen DeGeneres, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have all admitted to using hypnosis to help kick the smoking habit.

Ben Affleck spoke about his experience with hypnosis on the Oprah Winfrey Show.

“I finally decided to quit smoking when I found out I was going to have a child. That was the thing that sort of put it over the top for me. I decided to go to a hypnotist. You sit in a chair and the hypnotist sips water and just talks to you for an hour, and explains how nicotine is poison.”

“All of a sudden, I thought, ‘This is asinine that I’ve been doing this to myself for all these years.’ My last cigarette was on November 10th, 2005, and I feel a huge difference in my health now that I don’t smoke. I feel like I’m in better shape than I was five years ago.”

It isn’t just celebrities who are hopping onto the hypnosis bandwagon either. Due to the number of hypnotherapists offering affordable digital versions of their sessions, people from around the world have experienced similar success with hypnosis.

Leading hypnotherapist Jon Rhodes DHyp expounded on the recent popularity of hypnosis.

“People are always looking for ways to make their life better and with the increased exposure hypnotherapy has been getting it’s only natural that they’d want to see what all the talk is about.”

Jon has good reason to celebrate as his website HypnoBusters was recently voted number one on The Hypnosis Review. In addition to this HypnoBusters have just released their own stop smoking hypnosis MP3 which has become a big success for the site.

“Our Stop Smoking Now session has become one of our most popular products we have. Not only are people buying it but many of them have taken the time to email me and say how helpful it has been for them.”

For more information please visit http://www.hypnobusters.com

About HypnoBusters

HypnoBusters are a family company run by clinical hypnotherapist Jon Rhodes DHyp and Head of Development Jake Rhodes. They specialize in offering quality hypnosis sessions via MP3 at prices affordable to everyone.

There are a lot of conflicting opinions on the soundness of hypnosis as a form of treatment. Nevertheless scientific researchesseem to have concluded that hypnosis is not only a real form of treatment but also highly effective.

It is only natural that ahead of experimenting with an alternative treatment, such as hypnosis, that anyone would demand to be shown proof that it really works. There have been a number of controlled studies over the last several decades and they all seem to arrive at the same conclusion, hypnosis really does work. In this article I will reveal just a couple of the many pieces of research about hypnosis and how they show that hypnosis works.

Before I begin though I would like to explain how hypnosis worksas many people are unaware of this. Individuals who’ve not been in a hypnotic trance often imagine it to be a type of sleep where you can be forced to perform certain actions against your will. This belief is brought about by street hypnosis where the hypnotist “manipulates” their volunteer. The keyword in that last sentence was volunteer. A street hypnotist will request volunteers, and merely by volunteering they’re already agreeing to do whatever the hypnotist asks of them. It’s simple to “hypnotize” a person into acting like a chicken in front of a crowd but if the hypnotist then asked them to murder someone, do you think the volunteer woulddo so? Certainly not since the volunteer is there to enjoy themselves, not commit a serious crime.

Hypnotherapy (therapy from hypnosis) is rather different from stage hypnotism. Prior to a therapeutic hypnosis session starts the hypnotist and the client will talk about the goals of the client and agree on the subjects the session will concentrate on.

It is believed that hypnosis works first by priming the subconscious mind to suggestion. Once the mind is open the hypnotherapist can implant suggestions to assist the client to achieve their goal, whether it be to lose weight, quit smoking or another thing entirely.

By now you should have a strong understanding of how hypnosis works so now I will show the evidence that hypnosis works as a form of treatment.

Hypnosis and Weight Loss

In research to examine the helpfulness of hypnosis on weight loss 109 subjects (who were aged between 17 to 67) completed a behavioral treatment either with or without the addition of hypnosis. The treatment lasted 9 weeks and after follow ups both 8 months and 2 years after the treatment the subjects who used hypnosis showed a long-term weight loss rate much higher than the people who didn’t. It was also found that those who used hypnosis were much better at achieving and maintaining their ideal weight goals.

Journal for Clinical Psychology January 1985 41(1):35-41
Effectiveness of Hypnosis as an Adjunct to Behavioral Weight Management

Hypnosis Effects Can Be Scanned

At Hull University in 2009 scientists found that hypnosis had a noticeable effect on brain patterns when scanned. This means that hypnosis is not only a sop treatment as some sceptics say it to be.

Dr. Michael Heap, a psychologist involved in the study, concluded that hypnosis primes the mind for suggestion. This piece of research shows proof that hypnosis works and also exactly how it works.

Once a mind is primed to suggestion a hypnotist can then help their patron achieve their goals. I have just touched upon a couple of the many pieces of research into hypnosis but they have been many more. There is proof that hypnosis works for pain relief, relieving IBS symptoms, skin problems, improving confidence as well as many other problems.

Maybe the ultimate proof that hypnosis works though is to experience it for yourself as personal accounts also appear to fall on the side of hypnosis working. Even A-List stars such as Drew Barrymore and Ben Affleck have gone on the record as saying hypnosis helped them to quit smoking.

If you’ve ever thought about using hypnosis but not felt sure whether it would work for you, you should now have all the proof you need to use hypnosis with confidence.

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