The use of extended group hypnotherapy sessions in controlling cigarette habituation

The results of the present experimental approach to the treatment of smoking habituation tend to be consistent with the view of smoking habituation aa a dependence reaction, parallel to drug addiction, and with the concept that habituation must be examined, as other investigators have indicated, as a psychosomatic entity. Therapeutic approaches designed to deal with this problem must take into account the psychophysiological characteristics of deprivation behavior. Hypnosis, and particularly extended periods of hypnotherapy involving the reduction and control of deprivation behavior, seems to offer a promising approach to the therapeutic treatment of smoking habituation.