Success Rates?

When folks ask me about my success rates, I very honestly tell them I have no idea. And I tell them that if I did, that would mean I had way too much time on my hands. I also tell them to ask any hypnotherapist who does give them success rates: "how do they know?" When do they follow up? My last follow up is at a year, and since I have been doing this for twelve years, I really have NO idea what my success rate is.

On that Jane Pauley show, the good doctor said that according to many published reports, hypnosis has a 50% success rate for some time, and 25% for permanent change. About the same as cold turkey. But boy, if I had to choose between cold turkey and hypnosis, guess which I would choose?