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 and no [...]

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 other recreational drug [...]

Poor Little Conscious Mind

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 have influence over other [...]

The Quacks, the Hacks and the Therapists

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 suggest that the [...]

‘New Poison for Old!’ Part 2

(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 and suppositories spending research and [...]