SF Giants manager Bruce Bochy said hypnosis helped him quit...

smokeless tobacco. I do think the hypnosis helped him, but more as a placebo effect because his desire to quit was stronger than others that did hypnosis and didn't quit.

I quit a pack and 1/2 per day cig habit cold turkey around 15 years ago. I really wanted to quit and just developed a strong dislike for the way cigs make you and your surroundings stink, and how they are frowned upon by people that don't smoke, as my motivation.

My mother did the hypnosis to quit cigs once and she said it worked for her. Only problem was that she lied and was firing them up secretly the next day.

I once dropped about 50 lbs or so to get to 190 (i looked super for a short time..lol)...For me, dropping the lbs was by far harder then quitting the cigs.