When San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy decided it was time to quit using chewing tobacco, he turned to a solution that worked for fellow members of the Major League Baseball team: hypnotherapy.
Bochy was skeptical at first, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. But he decided to give it a try when his bullpen catcher Bill Hayes and equipment manager Mike Murphy vouched for the services of AlVera Paxson, PhD, a hypnotherapist for 30 years.
Bochy had dipped for nearly 40 years before undergoing the $300, three-and-a-half-hour treatment in April of this year. Afterward, he went straight to the ballpark where he had habitually dipped three times per game for decades and was surprised to find that he did not feel the familiar craving, the article stated.
And despite some challenging moments for the World Series champs throughout this season, he has yet to return to his old ways, he told the Chronicle.
In fact, despite some friendly ribbing about the treatment from fellow teammates, Bochy, Hayes, and Murphy all claim the treatment works.
