Since the report of the Surgeon General in 1964, and subsequent passage of many restrictive laws, cigarette smoking in the United States has fallen from near 50 percent to a fairly unvarying 21 percent of “incorrigible” smokers. The hypnosis literature is full of reports claiming high rates of success, but with only short term, verbal follow up. I give them little credence because smokers often lie to their doctors to avoid being reprimanded. Very few people resume smoking after a year of abstinence, and I hope we will see a prospective controlled study with chemical follow-up at one year.