![]() ![]() In the UK, figures for 2011 show that approximately 21% of the population reported that they smoked?generally more men (22%) smoke than women (21%). Smoking has a deleterious effect on nearly every organ in the body, and is responsible for many life threatening diseases, thus reducing quality of life and life expectancy (Mikhailidis et al, 1998 Department of Health, 2007 Balbi et al, 2010 Ash, 2011). Key words: Smoking cessation, aversion (covert sensitization), non smoker walk, split screen imagery This case study demonstrates that hypnosis is a cost effective form of treatment (Barber, 2001) for smoking cessation. The client, who had not smoked that day, remained smoke free and maintained this abstinence at one year follow up. Further, he was encouraged to enjoy the sensations of being a non smoker during hypnosis. The therapist utilized the client?s personal motivations to encourage smoking cessation used split screen imagery (Taylor, 1985), ego strengthening and gave suggestions that any cravings would be significantly reduced or absent. In the first session, having identified times of the day when smoking occurred, the therapist gave conditioning trials (Cautela, 1967, 1968 Kraft & Kraft, 2005) for each time of the day, pairing the thought of smoking with an aversion. Having agreed to this, the patient then agreed to throw out all smoking paraphernalia. ![]() Before treatment, the therapist made a verbal contract with the client who confirmed that he was ready to give up smoking and that the proposed approach would be a complete abstinence programme. The following case study reports the successful treatment of a heavy smoker (age=33) in a one hour session using a multi-modal approach. This paper is based on a Lecture given by David Kraft to the Section of Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine at the Royal Society of Medicine on 6th of June, 2011 The following paper is a pre-publication version of the article published in Contemporary Hypnosis & Integrative Therapy. ![]()
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