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Revisited: a new approach to quitting smoking; how to stop people-pleasing; and why do we have the dreams we do?

47 min

Journalist Chris Godfrey spent a decade trying to quit smoking. Then he tried hypnotherapy, and it changed his life; Oliver Burkeman reveals the liberating truth about people-pleasing and how to stop; and why do we have the dreams that we do?

Chris Godfrey spent a decade trying to quit smoking, then he tried hypnotherapy and it changed his life. ‘They’re probably not thinking about you’: Oliver Burkeman on how to liberate yourself and stop people-pleasing. And ‘one night I’m a murderer, the next my husband’s having an affair’. Why do we have the dreams that we do?