I was out last night, so I couldn’t watch it when it was broadcast, but I’ve just caught up with the Close Up current affairs programme feature on hypnotherapy for smoking cessation. (TVNZ very nicely makes it available on the net – I’m not sure for how long.)
It’s a good, positive story featuring a Wellington doctor who primarily uses hypnotherapy. His course is three sessions at $120 each, which he claims is 65% successful versus 15% for single-session hypnotherapy. This is arguable. It depends, really, on what is in the session. The man that was followed for the piece – one person, so not necessarily representative – stopped smoking after the first session, you’ll notice.
Being journalism, and television journalism at that, it wasn’t in depth at all, but it’s nice to see a positive story on hypnotherapy. Anecdotal stories are not at all scientific, of course, but even if they encourage people to realize that there are options out there, they’ve had a positive effect. Different therapies work for different people, after all.
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