A recent decision of the Food and Drug Administration gave the green light to Glaxo Wellcome Plc to market its anti-depression drug Zyban as the first nicotine free prescription pill to help smokers kick the habit. In clinical trials, Zyban was more effective than nicotine patches in helping smokers quit, while a combination patch and Zyban produced the best results. Incidently, in behavioral studies we use one year as the target for defining successful treatment, not four weeks. That s a lot of your money for a method that after four weeks 51 percent of you fail. It makes you wonder what the failure rate is for one year.
Research shows that a person is actually relapse prone for a full year after stopping.
Clinical research in smoking cessation using at least four sessions of hypnosis, which is typically a three or four week program of sessions twice the first week, and then once a week until finished, report success rates in one year follow-ups of between 60 and 80 percent. There are probably several reasons, but the biggest is most likely because it puts the power in the person not a drug. Hypnosis is a tool used to make you stronger than the nicotine. Your first session at our office is an evaluation session. This gives you a chance to look more deeply at us and us at you to decide if we have a fit, and want to work together to help you become a non-smoker.