From the conclusion: "If a benefit is present, current evidence suggests the benefit is small at most."
The effect size and certainty with mushrooms seem much greater.
I actually only ever tried smoking cessation once, at a party, to demonstrate hypnosis. A friend of a friend went from two packs a day to two cigarettes a day, and a month later she was still barely smoking. YMMV.
Oh man! I just remembered what happened: I went into an online quit-smoking chatroom and offered to help people quit and they tore me a new one. People were howling for my blood! That's why I never went into business as a therapist. (That and I'm kind of an anti-social curmudgeon.)
Only in certain areas.
> So you think that you 'hypnotized' the person to gradually stop smoking over a month from a sort session?
No. The change in rate of smoking (2 packs a day to 2 cigs a day) was immediate and durable (at least up to a month, I didn't talk to her again beyond that.) Interestingly, at the very end of the session there was a momentary unconscious movement of the hand in a holding-cigarette gesture. I think the reason that she didn't stop smoking entirely was somehow connected to that gesture, FWIW.
> You have some 'magical' powers.
Maybe..? Certainly, to myself I seem nondescript.
> Sorry for the skepticism...
It's fine. You're nicer than most. I sometimes think I should write an autobiography, but then I think, who would believe it?