Smoking “hijacks” the reward systems in the brain that drive you to seek food, water and sex, driving you to seek nicotine with the same urgency. Your brain thinks that this has to do with survival of the species.
Nicotine isn’t equally addictive for everyone. A lot of people do not smoke because they never liked [...]

Part of a three-pronged approach that may include nicotine replacement therapy and counselling, the idea is to help smokers kick the habit by tackling addiction at its root: long-lasting changes in brain chemistry that train the brain to expect new levels of pleasure it eventually considers normal.
This chemical conditioning occurs gradually, but the changes persist [...]

Most people have an awareness of hypnosis as a way to make someone do something funny in front of an audience, such as purring like a kitten or roaring like a lion. That’s the well worn and often unfortunate view of the extent of what hypnotism can do.
Hypnosis is more than just a stage show, [...]