He's been a guest on the Huberman lab podcast and he is a world expert , if not the world expert in the clinical applications of hypnosis . Now , when I say hypnosis , a lot of people think stage hypnosis , which is the hypnotist trying to get people to do certain things and say certain things not necessarily against their will because they actually have to agree . But the hypnotist is dictating what the person thinks says and does clinical hypnosis is vastly different from that clinical hypnosis is where the person , the patient actually directs their own brain changes toward a specific emotional or behavioral goal work from Doctor David Spiegel's laboratory done in 1993 .
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 .
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 . Nowadays , you can access this hypnosis . There's a wonderful app that was developed by Doctor David Spiegel and others .
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 . Nowadays , you can access this hypnosis .
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 .
