As this handy infographic illustrates, alternative treatments such as acupuncture and hypnotherapy are not effective in the fight against tobacco addiction. Real medicine works (better).
DrEd
As this handy infographic illustrates, alternative treatments such as acupuncture and hypnotherapy are not effective in the fight against tobacco addiction. Real medicine works (better).
DrEd
I think the big miss here is the published study a year or so ago that said the best incentive was monetary. I forget the details, but essentially bigger payouts over time had a very high quit %. Something like $1000 cash at the one year mark, but you start out with $50 instant at the one week mark.
I wonder who sponsored the studies? Great to see Verenicline coming out tops and probably best not to mention the downside of potential serious psychiatric side effects, like suicidal thoughts and behaviour….. might spoil drug sales.
Some of the data comes from surveys conducted in the UK, sponsored by Cancer Research UK and the Dept. of Health. (http://www.smokinginengland.info/)
And more from the NHS: http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/live/11925/43885/43885.pdf
It seems at first glance that this data comes from government funded studies into smoking cessation. Unless of course there is some uber-conspiracy of NHS-DOH- Big Pharma etc. But I would be skeptical of that.
This is a very interesting infographic – thank you for posting it. The branding of hypnotherapy as “NOT EFFECTIVE”, though, appears to be misleading. The accompanying text says that hypnotherapy demonstrates “No improvement over any other form of general counselling” – implying that hypnotherapy reaps the same benefit as any other type of general counselling. And since even phone and internet counselling have an 8% efficacy, it stands to reason that general counselling would produce at least this effect. It seems to me that the “NOT EFFECTIVE” label should be removed from hypnotherapy, as it is misleading.
Yup, I think you hit the nail on the head there Zach.
Thanks, Angela. Is it possible to update the infographic? As it is, it’s very informative but promotes misinformation about hypnotherapy.
I didn’t make the infographic, but I will get hold of the people who sent it to me.
What was the relapse rate of the medical intervention model? — what was average rate of time before relapsing?