But I can not help but think, that there are several techniques that some specialists use, to help patients with problems of alcoholism and smoking, and I think they work, we can not ignore how deep the human mind can be.
Therapeutic methods are different from NLP since their effectiveness was empirical evaluated. Sure, not every method of therapy works for everybody - this is why we have different methods. In contrast to NLP there is empirical research backing these methods up :)