I have been hypnotized before. Once was for a show and the 2nd time was to stop smoking. I stopped smoking for almost 8 years. I will say this, you can not be made to do anything that you don't want to do, such as clucking like a chicken. That being said, if you are not 100% committed to whatever the reason that you are being hypnotized for it will not work. When I did it to stop smoking I went with 2 other people, one person went because his wife had stopped smoking this way and he was doing it for her. He was very skeptical though out the who process. He asked for his money back at the end. The 2nd person that I went with wanted to stop smoking and did for about 2 weeks, but used a fight with her husband as an excuse to start again. I very much wanted to stop and it made it much easier to do so. Sure there were times when I did miss it, but I didn't miss everything that came with it. The down side is that I put on a lot of weight on when I stopped. I did start smoking again at a very stressful time in my life after my son was paralyzed and my marriage was falling apart. The big thing is that you have to want it to work and you have to want if for yourself and not someone else.