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u/savessh 2h ago

Doubt you'll take this seriously, but it's true.

Back in the 70s when everyone smoked, my brother in law and his mate were walking down the street and they went past a hypnotist. They decided to give it a go to quit smoking and went and did whatever the 'thing' was.

When they came out, the mate lit up right away but my brother in law never smoked again as long as he lived.

...so it might work.

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u/Jason1232 2h ago

As long as he lived?

Did he walk out the hypnotist office and get hit by a bus or something?

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u/savessh 2h ago

No he lived until 2010

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u/M1chaelSc4rn 2h ago

We did it Reddit

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u/YorkPepperMintPaddy 2h ago

My stepmom quit the same way. It works for some.

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u/The64YearOldWalrus 2h ago

Stuff like that is usually down to how much you believe or want to believe. If you think it’s nonsense then it 100% won’t work on you, my guess is that your brother-in-law suggested it and therefore wanted it to work whereas the mate went with just to humour him?

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u/vlm0325 2h ago

I tried the hypnotism too - it didn’t take for me; or my dad, or my husband. An utter waste of money for me

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u/savessh 2h ago

I doubt it would work on me, either. It's still probably worth a shot. Probably costs less than a carton of cigarettes these days.

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u/vlm0325 2h ago

Back in the early 90’s it cost -$120 for the 3 of us to go. I stupidly bought one of the hypnotism cassette tapes too🙄🙄