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I’m a Stop Smoking Hypnotherapist in Farringdon, so I normally focus on the psychological aspect of nicotine addiction as it’s by far the more complex and challenging thing to for smokers who want to quit to address. I have said it many times: the physical withdrawal...

As a practitioner of stop smoking hypnosis in the City of London, I am often told by smokers that fear of weight gain is the reason they do not want to stop. But is this really a good reason to put off quitting?   Do people actually change shape after they stop...

Recently, I was thinking about a different public health epidemic to smoking that I have never discussed with my stop smoking hypnotherapy Central London clients. In the UK, most schools, most hospitals, many shops and a lot of homes contain a deadly substance:...

Having children means giving up a lot of your freedoms – your heart will no longer be under your own control for one thing. Nor, really, will your time. But that’s okay. You knowingly and willingly give up a lot for the joy your child will bring. So start as you mean...

I sometimes hear people who have recently quit smoking or vaping say they feel low, foggy, listless and depressed. Some expected to feel this way: they previously used nicotine to manage their moods and feel a bit lost without it. But others are surprised: they never...

Smokers and vapers often think that they will need to really want to stop smoking or vaping to be successful and I can see why they would think this. ‘No pain, no gain (or insert your own cheesy motivational quote of choice. No judgement, honest)’ summarizes much of...

Be kind to your heart One way of learning more about how healthy you are is by measuring your own pulse. The number of beats per minute is your heart rate and, very generally speaking, the lower the better. It’s best to take your pulse when you’ve been sitting down...

If you filled a room with people of the same age and half were smokers and half were not, it would certainly be easy to spot the smokers. Even allowing for differing rates of pollution, sun damage and other abuse of the skin, it’s likely the smokers would still stand...

One of the main reasons smokers and vapers feel they can't cut nicotine out of their lives is because of the sense that it helps them manage stress and anxiety. People who talk to me or who come to see me to quit smoking with hypnosis in Holborn say that in order to...

On some level most smokers feel that their nicotine addiction has trapped them and that successfully exiting the trap will be arduous. They approach the idea of quitting with trepidation and look for what they think will be the easiest, least painful route to freedom....

If you’ve ever carried out a DNA test, for example to research your ancestry or find unknown family members, then you’ll be all too aware that your DNA is what makes you distinctively you. Its famously recognizable double helix is present in every cell of your body...

Sometimes I say to my clients: ‘If I gave you £3 million pounds (tax free) to stop smoking today, would you?’. Most quickly say yes. Some say they aren’t sure – some people just aren’t motivated by money. Sometimes I get the classic ‘I’ll promise you anything as long...