Figure 5.

Effect sizes for comparing hypnosis against control conditions for smoking cessation, obesity, patients with psychological/psychosomatic symptoms or somatic complaints, and for various disorders. Colored areas indicate different effect size interpretation as negative (red), very small/d < 0.2 (yellow), and small/d ≥ 0.2, medium/d ≥ 0.5, or large effects/d ≥ 0.8 (green). Blank cells indicate missing information. Attention, attention control; CBT, cognitive-behavioral therapy; NoT, no treatment control; TAU, treatment as usual; WL, waitlist control.