Adele Uses Hypnotherapy to Stop Smoking

Adele Uses Hypnotherapy to Stop Smoking.

Singer Adele kicked her 20-a day cigarette habit with a secret visit to a London hypnotherapist famous for helping celebrities quit, the DailyMail.com can reveal.Ā The British singer spent 3 hours with renowned addiction specialist Max Kirsten in August 2015 after five-years of failed attempts to stop.
She announced that she had finally knocked the habit on the head in a Rolling Stone interview before Christmas but didnā€™t explain how.
ā€˜I absolutely loved it, but it’s not that f****** cool when I’m dying from a smoking-related illness and my kid is, like, devastatedā€™, she said.

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Adele paid a visit to see one of the most eminent hypnotherapists, Max Kirsten, at his London clinic in August 2015 after doctors warned her that her 20-a day habit could spell the end of her singing career
Dramatic transformation: Since quitting cigarettes the singer has since seen huge success with her latest single Hello and also looks pretty fabulous.Ā After losing her voice completely in 2011, canceling shows and undergoing surgery, she was told by doctors to quit her habit or face the end of her career.

She had a Ā£295 session with Harley Street hypnotist Susan Hepburn in 2014 in an attempt to give up for good but relapsed.Ā Her trip to Max Kirstenā€™s Knightsbridge clinic came just months before the release of her smash hit single Hello.
Kirsten, author of self-help book Find Yourself to Help Yourself boasts an impressive roll-call of celebrities he has helped to quit, including Ewan Mcgregor (25-a day),Oscar nominee Tom Hardy and even, it is rumoured, Prime Minister David Cameron.
At the time Mcgregor said: ā€˜I didnā€™t think I would ever be able to give up and he (Max) made it effortless ā€“ very easy’.

Max, a former 30-a day smoker said: ‘Iā€™ve smoked in the cold and rain, Iā€™ve smoked through flu and Iā€™ve had those blind panics you get when you run out of cigarettes late at night. I know what it feels like to try and stop smoking using willpower or patches and why those methods fail in 85% of cases.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3400072/How-Hello-singer-Adele-said-goodbye-25-day-cigarette-habit-Songstress-paid-secret-385-visit-hypnotherapist-stars-Max-Kirsten.html#ixzz3yFM1o56W

The Truth About Sugar Documentary 2015 – YouTube

A brilliant documentary which I recommend to all my weight loss clients.

The Truth About Sugar BBC Documentary

 

Sugar is not, I repeat not, very good for you but you probably knew that.

In a new BBC documentary called The Truth Aboutā€¦ Sugar,Ā  Fiona Phillips decided to take a look at just how harmful sugar actually is. Fiona meets scientists, sugar junkies and people from the food industry to figure out just how dangerous our favourite substance is.

ā€˜I heard aĀ news bulletin the other day from the governmentā€™s lead person on childhood cancer and he said if our kids continue eating junk food and fizzy drinks at the rate they are then theyā€™re going to be the first generation to die before us,ā€™ Fiona said. ā€˜I thought that was so shocking. How can manufacturers be allowed to make a can of Coke with nine teaspoons of sugar it when the daily allowance is six?!ā€™

The problem lies, according to the documentary, not in naturally occuring sugars but instead in ‘free’ and ‘refined’ sugars. ā€˜You need to watch out for sugar OUT of itā€™s natural sources,ā€™ Says Fiona. ‘Once removed from it’s natural sources, we’re liable to eat way more of the stuff .’

So what damage can overeating sugar do? ā€˜Itā€™s packed with pure energy, but no nutrients,’ explains Fiona. ‘So, if youā€™re packing loads of sugar away and youā€™re not burning that energy off itā€™s leading to obesity, itā€™s leading to type 2 diabetes, liver diesasesā€¦ Since you canā€™t burn it off it gets stored as fat and then if it doesnā€™t get stored as fat then it starts getting stored in your organs and it can be horrendous.ā€™

WEā€™RE HARD-WIRED TO CRAVE ALL ENERGY GIVING FOOD BECAUSE IT KEEPS US GOING BUT SUGAR IS JUST EMPTY ENERGY; IT DOESNā€™T HAVE NUTRIENTS

Whatā€™s even worse is that our brains are actually hard-wired to crave sugar. ā€˜Thereā€™s a receptor in your brain that lights up and makes you feel good and it makes you want more sugar. Weā€™re hard-wired to crave all energy giving food because it keeps us going but sugar is just empty energy; it doesnā€™t have nutrients.ā€™

And itā€™s not just food to watch out for; obviously Coke and sports drinks are big offenders but other drinks you might not have considered like ginger beer (six of more teaspoons per can) and sweetened water (same per bottle). Also, seemingly healthy drinksā€¦ ā€˜Those Innocent smoothies!ā€™ Says Fiona. ā€˜I used to think “What would keep me going through the day thatā€™ll give me a bit of nutrition?” And then halfway though the morning Iā€™d have a massive slump and itā€™s because thereā€™s so much sugar in those smoothies! When youā€™re overeating sugar, your body is really struggling to get enough insulin out to deal with the sugar and thatā€™s why your pancreas can eventually stop working.ā€™

So what needs to happen to make people sit up and take notice? Fiona reckons it’s the food manufacturers that need to take responsibility. ā€˜Thereā€™s a bit of the interview I did with a woman from a food manufacturer in the programme and I sat there and grilled her for half an hour and she just played the safe thing saying: ā€œWell, you know sugar isnā€™t bad for you if itā€™s not taken in large amounts and blah blah blahā€¦ā€ But they need to take responsibility!ā€™ More supermarkets need to up their labelling game, too, ā€˜It takes me two hours to do a shop because Iā€™m studying food packets and I shouldnā€™t have to do that. Everyone should be made to adhere to that traffic light system that Sainsbury’s and Marks & Spencer do so we all know that if we see a “red” by fat or salt or sugar you should not be buying it. But more to the point they shouldnā€™t be making it.’

Hypnosis for Unwanted Behaviours

Having worked with many clients over the years with unwanted behaviours it is often the case that although a person wishes to stop repeating and believes that their lives would be much better without the habit, something undermines all their attempts to stop.

In many cases they find that there is a small part of them that still believes that the habit serves some positive purpose and that life without it would be unhappy or somehow less enjoyable. Motivation to stop can then be reduced and two warring parts are created, one demanding that the habit stops and Ā beating the ‘self’ up when it indulges and the other ignoring all the rationale and logic that it is given to stop.

The person may want to stop in the same way as we may want to do a lot of things such as be richer, work harder, do more exercise etc., but do we find the prospect of having to put in the effort to do these things more daunting than simply carrying with the same old routine? Is the thought of life without the habit and all that it entails more appealing than the life remaining unchanged?

Hypnosis can be used to understand the motivations both towards the habit and away from it and create a negative empathy. When I was at university I recall my professor saying that she thought smokers had more empathy (she was of course a smoker) but of course it is only positive empathy that makes people smoke… I was once a smoker but now the thought of tasting smoke and breathing it in totally repulses me to the extent that the mere thought of it makes me feel sick! If each time you thought about doing something you could perceive no reward and only sickness, you wouldn’t do it, would you?

I usually see clients for an initial intensive session examining all aspects of the habit and concluding with a hypnotherapy session based on all the information gathered. Where the habit is more deeply rooted and has been used to cover abuse or as a tool to escape from depression or anxiety, these issues often need to be worked on in more depth before the habit can be released.

Please do contact me for more details bunny@hypnotherapy-colchester.com or call me on 07748647489.

Hypnotherapy for Compulsive Habits

Hypnotherapy for CompulsiveĀ Behaviours.

Time To Quit SmokingMany people find that the initial motivation to stop a compulsive behaviour such as smoking or gambling can become reduced over time and they give in to that ‘one’ cigarette or equivalent.

Each action in our lives is a result of an impulse which gives way to a reaction. Compulsion arises when the impulse causes us to take a course of action which we no longer desire to take, but lack the motivation to control.

With compulsion these responses have become an ingrained habit on which we have placed some perceived value or use. The habit is maintained by holding on to this perceived benefit despite the evidence against it.

The smoker may believe that they need a cigarette to manage stress, others may be chasing a perceived high, the gambler may be chasing that big win, but they all build up a positive expectation and anticipation that the habit will achieve. It is very rare that we will maintain a habit without anticipation of positive reward, even if this positive reward is very infrequent. It is interesting to note that damage to a certain part of the brain which is believed to be connected to the ability to anticipate certain emotional states, ceases any previous compulsion.

The impulses to indulge in certain activities can be triggered by various thoughts (including emotions), behaviours or environments and this forms a conditioned response to the habit.

When we first give up a habit our motivation is high and this can be elevated and embedded in the subconscious by hypnosis, but as time passes we may lose sight of our motivation and when faced with a behaviour trigger the person may slip up.

It is important, therefore to be aware of your personal triggers and to strengthen your motivations prior to being faced with them. You may choose to remind yourself each day/week using affirmations, or many people find that their resolve to quit the habit is increased when they see another person out of control with their own compulsions. Some choose to attend meetings. Each day a person breaks the habit, new neural pathways are strengthened and feelings of personal efficacy are heightened.

If a slip up occurs you must not attribute this to personal negative attributes such as ā€˜I am no good at thisā€™, ā€˜it is too hard for meā€™, ā€˜I am a failureā€™ or any other personally damming statements.

One slip does not equal failure, only that you were not prepared for that trigger and you need to plan for future obstacles. You are on the pathway of stopping and you must remember that each journey has its obstacles and pot holes which need to be overcome, you do not need to run back to the beginning and start again!

Hypnotherapy can increase motivation and decrease desire, working with both conscious and subconscious patterns of thoughts, beliefs and behaviour.