And the success rates are incredibly high when one considers that normally it would be only a 5% success rate . The success rate with this particular hypnosis developed at Stanford School of Medicine by Doctor David Spiegel is 23% of people who do this hypnosis one time succeed in quitting smoking now , in the old days , which actually wasn't that long ago , uh before the advent of smartphones and before the internet took off to the extent that it has . Now this was done by having someone come into the clinic and doctor Spiegel himself or one of his colleagues would take somebody through the hypnosis .
And again , this is a prescription drug , a board certified psychiatrist or other physician is going to have to prescribe it for you if it's appropriate for you . And it moves that number of 5% success rate to about what one sees with the clinical hypnosis to about 20% of people will successfully overcome their nicotine or I should say their smoking or vaping addiction . Now , it's important to ask why this would work , right ?
And I'll provide links to those studies in the show note caption so that you can access them . Those studies have shown that using a specific form of hypnosis , people can achieve complete and total cessation of cigarette smoking . And there's no reason to believe this doesn't also carry over to vaping through one single hypnosis session .
So this review covers all of that and then steps beautifully through nicotine replacement therapy and various compounds . Several of which I'm gonna talk about now , which have been shown to increase that number that we talked about earlier , of only 5% of people who try to quit with no other support pharmacologic or hypnosis or otherwise just say that's it . I'm not gonna smoke again or I'm not gonna Vape again .
And yet , I also want to refer back to the incredible success of the clinical hypnosis approach . Again , you can find that at reverie dot com , the clinical hypnosis approach has a success rate of 23% . So it's very closely aligned with if not exceeding the success rate .
