Smoking and Shame
Does the Symonds Method make smokers feel ashamed? Smokers, if they’re honest with themselves, are already ashamed by their apparent inability to stop poisoning themselves with tobacco fumes – a [...]
How Not To Quit Smoking – Again
To help smokers in London stick to a New Year’s resolution to quit smoking, a campaign was announced towards the end of December 2020. It was called, appropriately enough, ‘Stop [...]
Is Allen Carr’s ‘Easyway to Stop Smoking’ Really Easy?
In a previous blog about Allen Carr I critiqued his Easyway To Stop Smoking book and looked at the claimed success rate of his stop-smoking seminars. Today I’ll tell you [...]
The Symonds Method Compared
The table below shows the main features of the Symonds Method compared with conventional quit-smoking methods. The ‘chalk and cheese’ analogy puts it clearly, even if I say so myself. [...]
Does the Symonds Method Work?
All right, Dr Symonds, what's the evidence that your method works? This hypothetical question, on the face of it, is not unreasonable. The question is about whether there have been [...]