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By Mayo Clinic staffHypnosis is intended to help you gain more control over undesired behaviors or emotions or to help you cope better with a wide range of medical conditions. Hypnosis isn't considered a treatment or a type of psychotherapy. Rather, it's a procedure typically used along with certain treatments and therapies to help a wide variety of conditions.
Hypnosis may be used for:
- Pain control
- Smoking cessation
- Reducing stress related to medical procedures
- Mental health conditions
- Allergies
- Asthma
- Surgical preparation
- Childbirth
- Weight loss
- Athletic performance
- Dental procedures
- Coping with chemotherapy
- Skin conditions
- Gastrointestinal problems
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- Hypnosis. American Cancer Society. http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ETO/content/ETO_5_3X_Hypnosis.asp. Accessed Nov. 19, 2009.
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