The Mirror has published six surprising reasons to give up smoking which range from improving your eyes-sight, make you look younger and making your children happier. Working with clients to help them quit smoking they are usually surprised at the benefits they find they didn’t expect over and above the obvious one like short and [...]
A news article today talks about the cost of smoking to a region of the UK (not Cornwall, further up north). Smoking and the subsequent health issues cause an increase in burden to the NHS and other services. Even some company private health plans are putting up the cost for smokers. Everyone can see [...]
…to stop smoking. Giving up smoking isn’t just good for your health, it’s also good for your memory, according to research from Northumbria University. You now you can remember to forget about cigarettes and how great would that be? Like the clients I see in my Cornwall practice I can imagine you thinking ‘I can [...]
I have helped a number of people stop smoking in my Cornwall practice. A study shows that quitting smoking may not be a matter of conscious control. This may sound like the bleedin’ obvious but it also shows that ”only five percent of unaided quit attempts result in successful abstinence”. A lot of smokers turn to [...]
‘We need to get out of the house in 5 minutes’ I remind my son hoping the warning will result in a stress free departure. The pace of life in Cornwall is far more stress free than the rat-race of London however it is not completely stress free! Like many little children his age getting [...]
So why can it be so hard to stop smoking? Is it perhaps because they coat the cigarettes in sugar so you get a sugar kick as well? Most of my clients are surprised at the emotional link to smoking thinking it is just a physical addiction they are trying to overcome. They good news [...]
Below are some examples of research carried out to see if hypnosis and hypnotherapy can help people stop smoking and the overwhelming results are that it can! So, perhaps you have tried patches, gum and will power and still wanting to quit smoking. If so contact me at my Cornwall clinic and I am sure [...]
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