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Naomi Campbell admits her hardest New Year’s Resolution to keep is her vow to finally quit smoking.

In a bid to quit once and for all, she is going to give hypnotherapy a serious try, she revealed on “The View.”

“I still have a problem with smoking,” the supermodel and actress said, noting that while she now smokes “less” she has arranged to see a hypnotist to stub out the habit for good.

 

While the “Empire” star appeared sheepish in revealing her vice, she is certainly not alone.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that seven out of 10 smokers are looking to quit, making this one of the top 10 New Year’s Resolutions.

And though Statistic Brain shared that determination tends not to outlive the excitement of creating a resolution, with only 46 percent still working on their goal six months later, Campbell seemed to have her eye on the prize.

She has tried hypnotherapy before and sees further sessions as her best solution.

Hypnotherapy has the patient put into a trance-like state where they are given suggestions by the hypnotherapist – such as that smoking is bad – which are intended to become subliminal messages.

The suggestions would not be something the patients sees everyday – such as anti-smoking advertisements – but may subconsciously influence them to make specific choices.

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A 2007 study by the American College of Chest Physicians found that hypnotherapy resulted in higher quit rates than those using nicotine replacement therapy alone. Campbell herself said, “It’s not about replacing it with one of those other things. It’s just you must stop.”

Of course, there are many factors involved in this, such as quality of the therapist and how many sessions – fewer than four seem to equate to poorer results. The jury is still out, technically, on how effective the treatment can be. And it is not an approved therapy by the American Medical Association, per WebMD, though the AMA does not condemn it either.

“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg offered an alternative to Campbell that she said helped her to quit smoking. Goldberg then described seeing a video featuring two children suffering from cystic fibrosis, who could not breathe. She recalled one of them, a nine-year-old, ending the video by saying, “All I want to do is breathe like a normal person.”

“I thought, I’ve spent 40 years smoking, and all this little boy wants to do is take a deep breath without fear. That did it for me,” she shared. “Every time you go to take [a smoke], realize that there are people who can’t.”

Whichever path may be chosen by Campbell, who can also be seen in “Star” the new show from “Empire” co-creator Lee Daniels, here’s hoping she succeeds this time in her resolution to quit smoking.

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