Hypnosis successful in quitting the chewing tobacco

The San Jose Mercury news ran an article about San Francisco Giant's Bruce Bochy using hypnosis to quit his longtime addiction to chewing tobacco, with some comments about the process and mystery of it all.

http://www.mercurynews.com/health/ci_18639348 -- (Aug 8, 2011)

Quotes from the article:

"I'm a believer," said Murphy, who joined the Giants as a bat boy when the franchise moved West in 1958.

"It's been the best $300 I ever spent," Hayes said. "It's weird to see how it works." (Hayes also quit chewing via hypnosis)

Bochy agrees. He already would have spent well more than $300 on dip by this point in the season, he said.

These were one-session successes, though long sessions (3.5 hrs), by medical hypnotherapist Dr. AlVera Paxson, who lives in Scottsdale, AZ. ( http://medical-hypnotherapy.com/ )

The story was on the AP News wire and carried in several other publications.