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[QUOTE="JS, post: 2273572, member: 6"]
I quit smoking some years ago through hypnosis, when nothing else worked.

Didn't think I was susceptible after group experiments in college where some in the class responded to hypnotic suggestion and others, including me, didn't.

But I was very cooperative when it was suggested to me as a means of kicking the cigarette habit and therefore, I guess, a better subject.  Had one session with a hypnotist in New York on the recommendation of a friend, and that was it.

The technique, during which I never lost consciousness, involved implanting a hypnotic suggestion that, whenever I felt a desire to smoke, I would repeat a certain word to myself and the urge would dissipate.

Just kept that up for a while until the physical nicotine craving was gone.  Twenty years now, smoke free.

And you know what?  I miss it.  Loved to smoke, and would still do it if it didn't scare me to death.

Would no doubt work for other things too, but there are no other vices I'm willing to give up, or will even acknowledge as vices for that matter.  No need to get on the slippery slope toward boring abstinence.
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