If you hear yourself saying that “I’m Scared I’ll never stop smoking” , it’s usually not because you do not understand the risks. You already know. It’s because you keep having the same experience, you do well for a bit, you feel stressed, flat, irritated, overwhelmed, or oddly empty, then you cave. And afterwards you …
It’s that time of year when we all start contemplating how we can make the year before us really count. Some people decide to stop smoking or to eat in a healthy way, whilst others may work to change things that negatively affect their lives, like anxiety or depression. Sticking to New Year resolutions can …
Saturday 31st May – World No Tobacco Day could be a great day to get rid of smoking. The World Health Organisation (WHO) state that tobacco is the single most preventable cause of death around the globe, wiping out nearly 6 million people a year – 600,000 of whom are non-smokers. WHO promotes the day …
Given that the festive season is now out of the way, many of us will turn to our health and look for strategies to make it better. Over the festive season it is fairly common to overindulge, both on food and drink, and not just on Christmas day. The Christmas events and New Year’s festivities …
If you’re looking to quit smoking using hypnotherapy, there’s a decent chance you feel a bit conflicted about it. You might be curious, you might be sceptical, and you might be quietly hoping it’s not one of those things that looks impressive online but falls apart in real life. A lot of people come to …
Ladies who smoke and also have hypertension are twenty times more prone to experience a brain bleed compared to non-smoking men that have normal blood pressure levels, as outlined by a new study. A bleed in the brain is frequently triggered from a burst aneurysm, this is a balloon filled up with blood on the …
Smokers who successfully quit feel less anxious afterwards – despite the belief that smoking relieves stress, researchers say. The British Journal of Psychiatry study followed nearly 500 smokers attending NHS hypnotherapy for Stop Smoking clinics in England. It found a “significant” decrease in anxiety levels among the 68 smokers who had quit after six months. …
Women who get rid of smoking by the time their 30 will almost completely avoid the risks of dying young from tobacco-related illnesses, according to a study of more than a million women in the UK. The study, published in the Lancet, showed lifetime smokers died a decade earlier compared with those who never smoked. …
Nearly half of cancers (over 130,000) diagnosed in the UK each year are caused by avoidable life choices including smoking, drinking and diet, research reveals. Smoking is the biggest culprit, causing 23% of cases in men and 15.6% in women, says the Cancer Research UK report. This is followed in men by a lack of …
What would you and your partner do with over half a million pounds £532,304.10 to be precise? Spend it on cigarettes perhaps? Well, if you and your partner both smoke 60 cigarettes a day between you, and you both smoke for another 50 years, this is exactly how much it will cost you.
Simon has reportedly started to undergo hypnosis to kick the habit, as it has been claimed that the star’s friends and family want him to try and quit. The X Factor USA judge has been smoking for almost 44 years despite his family’s history of health complications, and he admitted that his New Year’s resolution was to try and give up his 15-a-day. A source says,
It was reported today in The Sun that Kate Moss is the latest celebrity to turn to hypnotherapy. Â She follows a long list of high profile stars to successfully kick the habit using, what research shows is the best way to stop smoking.
A Office for National Statistics report, based on research on 13,000 people, has discovered that 63% of smokers in Britain wanted to quit. Â Not much of a surprise I hear you saying. Â Well it certainly wasn’t to us, but it went on to say that they find it hard to go even a day without smoking.
As a society we start to pick up inappropriate habits right from childhood. Things like using food as a treat or reward. “If you’re a good girl you can have a sweet/biscuit/ice cream” or who remembers a parent saying something like “eat all your dinner and you can have a pudding” or “you must eat all your dinner as there are starving people in Africa”. This is just one area where we are hypnotised in our life into inappropriate beliefs.