Effectiveness of Hypnosis-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Smoking Cessation, Anxiety and Self-Efficacy

Aims: Smoking is one of the most important causes of premature mortality worldwide, which is one of the most avoidable factors. People who are under high stress are more likely to start smoking again. Self-efficacy in smoking cessation is one of the important psychological variables that is related to cigarette smoking and is a predictor of smoking failure and recurrence in smokers. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy based on hypnosis on smoking cessation, anxiety and self-efficacy.
This semi-experimental study was carried out with pre-test, post-test and control group design in 1394. Using a non-objective sampling method, 54 policemen from Kermanshah province, Iran, were selected. Participants completed of depression, anxiety, stress scale, smoking abstinence self-efficacy scale, hypnotizability talent scale, and checklist for symptoms of mental disorders in pre-test stage. Data analysis was done in SPSS 21 using Chi-Square test, repeated measurement test and one-way covariance analysis.
Findings: Hypnosis-based cognitive behavioral therapy had a significant effect on smoking cessation (p=0.001). The intervention group reported a lower level of anxiety in the post-test and follow up that indicated the effectiveness of interventional therapy (p Hypnosis-based cognitive behavioral intervention is effectiveness on smoking cessation and self-efficacy increasing which also reduces the amount of anxiety of military forces.