Have you succeeded in big life-change and kept to it? As you think about it now was it one particular mental switch that made the difference? The other night my partner revealed how he finally quit smoking after many painful failed attempts. At the heart of his success was sticking to one simple [...]

When’ve you’ve been a smoker for many years it’s hard to quit. You tell yourself that one day you’re going to be a non-smoker but that day has a never-never land quality. It’s just a tale you tell yourself.
I’ve helped many people quit by helping them change their thinking about what smoking does for them [...]

What is motivation? It’s hard to explain but everyone uses it or wants it. It could be useful to think of it as shorthand for opening the gap from where you are to where you want to be. In other words how to achieve your goals.
When you let that sink in your mind [...]

If you’ve made a resolution to quit smoking how is it going? Are you winning or struggling? Many of us start off a New Year with a resolution to stop or drop a habit and find the going gets tough pretty quickly.
The reason for this is that as we make our promise to quit our [...]

New Year is the time when many smokers swear they’ll quit for good. Then within a couple of days are straight back to smoking feeling disappointed but strangely glad to be back with their cigarettes.
According the research recently published by the Department of Health over 1.2 million smokers will try to quit over this [...]