For more than thirty years of my life I had smoked with increasing habit. I was finally separated from the addiction by Betsy, who, after carefully studying hypnosis, practiced it, with my full permission and trust, as I was going off to sleep one night. She sat in a chair near the bed and, in a quiet, calm voice, rhythmically repeated what I inwardly knew to be true, the fact that smoking was not good for me; and, as my conscious mind relaxed and no longer cared to offer a negative thought, her words sank into my subconscious; and the following day, to my surprise I had no need or wish to smoke. Nor have I smoked since. Nor have I, as far as I know, replaced it with any other harmful habit.
- Cary GrantI tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.
- Christy TurlingtonI think I`m nice enough to look at, but I think people make a big deal about my appearance. I think it was like hypnosis, like all of the sudden everybody`s been trained: `OK, now cluck like a chicken!` `OK, now say David Duchovny`s handsome!` I mean, I was a normal-looking kid, and whoever you are and whatever you look like, there are always things you want to change. I just remember that I wished I was blond. And I wished that my nose were smaller and my lips were smaller and my eyes were bigger... you know, everything.
- David Duchovny