The brutal truth is if you were the only person on the planet who smoked, you would give up.

Controlled indulgence is all about being able to have a bit of what you fancy, now and again, without it becoming a compulsive addiction you need to get you through your life.

So if sex is about mating, nesting and marriage, common sense tells us we should make sure we pick the right one.

Drinking alcohol to excess like any other addiction is lethal. If you are trying to forget your misery, you have to learn how to be happy sober, to ever be a happy drunk. The irony once you're happy sober, drinking or fake spirit as i like to call it becomes redundant.

Spend one week living on just £50 and see how far you get

You are what you eat and must learn how to break away from your food addiction if you want to be healthy and happy.

Understanding much of what we do is triggered in our subconscious by unconscious patterns is the start of getting on top of ourselves and our behaviour.

Too much shopping may give us the lift we crave just like any other addiction but the feeling is temporary and not the reality.

Don’t smoke, choke and smell like an old ashtray, it’s stupid.

Change the way you think about things and the things you get will change. Sometimes the most dangerous trips we take are the places we go for comfort in our minds.

Being addicted to something means you feel you cannot live without it. Likely you will do anything to get it but prioritising alcohol will ultimately damage your human connections.

Does the thought of one day being in love consume you? Have you ever considered this constant yearning for love may have been mis placed in your mind? Do you feel empty without love?

Men are seven-and-a-half times more likely than women to become problem gamblers, research suggests according to the BBC.

I am horrified to see the facts around porn addiction and young men in today's web and technology culture, where few communicate face to face, many cannot write correctly or spell because of texting and most get their unlimited sexual fantasies on-line. Internet porn is where our young men are learning to dominate sexually and our young women are being subjected to humiliation as a result. If you can imagine when a young male, already dealing with testosterone issues, is learning life...

Chemical dependency comes from smoking nicotine and is one of the most intense, repetitive and dependable relationships you will ever have, as it will dominate almost every aspect of your life and your thinking. I smoked on and off for most of my life giving up this time, since my near death
experience except for the odd one now and again, 10 years.

I understand the power of a nicotine buzz or that compulsive dependency and I also understand the...

I decided to set up my social enterprise after spending some years working with really damaged, difficult and often homeless alcoholics. I was never addicted to alcohol in the sense I could go for days without one but on the days I did drink, I could drink for England. Getting drunk in the fast world of stocks and shares, champagne and cocaine, money and often debauchery, I trained with the best drunks...