About The Author

Dr Gabriel Symonds is a British medical doctor. He qualified from the University of London and after post-graduate training worked in general practice in the UK for 15 years. He then immigrated to Japan where he gained a medical license and in 1992 established the Tokyo British Clinic. This offered comprehensive medical services to the foreign community, including smoking cessation and psychotherapy (counselling). He retired from full-time practice in 2014 but continues to live in Tokyo.

A smoker during his early student years, he had a shock when he was taken round the men’s chest ward at St Bartholomew’s Hospital where he trained. As a result of this experience he gave up smoking forthwith – from pure fear of the consequences.

For most smokers, however, fear is not very effective for quitting – but there is a much easier way that Dr Symonds developed by working with his many smoker patients. The method, which uses no nicotine, drugs, hypnosis, or gimmicks, is easy and quick to learn.

Dr Symonds has written three books on smoking. The latest (2018), Stop Smoking with the Symonds Method, is a dedicated how-to-do-it book that should enable any smoker to quit easily by working through it.

The best way to stop smoking, however, is with face-to-face sessions, online or in person if you are able to visit his office in Tokyo.

He also writes about smoking and vaping at the Nicotine Monkey Blog.