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 [...]

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 [...]

The NHS are re-considering their stance on hypnosis and smoking cessation it seems.
At the recent UK National Smoking Cessation Conference delegates were presented with the findings of a pilot that offered one hypnosis session to relapsed NHS quitters.
The resulting abstinence rates at 4 weeks and then at 6 months
compared well to the NHS regime of [...]