Mary Anderson's job puts her on the road three days a week. Smoking helped pass the time. Then she decided to kick the habit. She never tried hypnosis because she feared the unknown. What is he gonna make me do when I'm under hypnosis.
All hypnosis is, is that little gray area between consciousness and sleep.
A lot of people refer to it as daydreaming. So, it's not mind controlling or brainwashing as people are led to believe on TV and the stage. It's a form of therapy. Richard Erickson is a certified hynotherapist, who treated Anderson for a condition he calls Habitual Smoking Syndrome. There is an addiction to nicotine, but the habitual and emotional side is much greater than the nicotine.