Nicotine: The Weird (Non) Addiction

by Chris Holmes Now Meet Doug Wilson What have I been saying all this time?  That tobacco smoking has been MISTAKEN for an addiction but is really just a compulsive habit.  How did I discover this?  By finding that a single hypnotherapy session can shut it down easily, cravings and all, with no weight gain [...]

Self-Administration Can Be Fun, Fun, Fun!

By Chris Holmes The Non-Smoker Tries a Cigarette Remember your first cigarette?  Or to be more precise, do you remember the first time you inhaled tobacco smoke properly and experienced the effect on the way you felt, physically and mentally? If there was no alcohol in your system already at the time – or any [...]

Poor Little Conscious Mind

by Chris Holmes If you were ever under the impression that the Subconscious mind was just a robotic ‘lizard brain’ that blindly obeys instructions from a hypnotist, you couldn’t be more wrong!  Many people get that idea from seeing stage hypnotists, who are deliberately misleading their audience but only getting away with creating the impression that they [...]

The Quacks, the Hacks and the Therapists

by Chris Holmes Edzard Ernst, if we are to believe what certain hacks tell us, is in danger of losing his position at Exeter University – but it has nothing to do with his own behaviour, of course!  This is a link to a particularly lame piece from the Guardian’s Sarah Boseley which tries to [...]

‘New Poison for Old!’ Part 2

by hypnotherapist Chris Holmes (Sing!): “What Shall We Do With The Poison Factory…?” In the original post entitled “New Poison For Old!” I pointed to the amusing phenomenon over recent years of the drug companies who have already spent a lot of money developing the facilities for producing nicotine gum, patches, lozenges, micro-tabs, nasal sprays [...]