Breaking Old Habits | @caroline-cavanagh | The Anxiety Alchemist

16 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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Caroline Cavanagh walks through her process for breaking habits, starting with how they work biologically and chemically, then applying five or six tools together in a 2½-hour session. She focuses on nicotine addiction as the example, arguing the combination is stronger than any single tool alone.

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The process that I've created is really using a series of 5 or 6 tools that in isolation work really well, but when you bring them all together are really, really powerful. So, we have a deep dive session. People come to me for about 2 and a half hours, and we just throw everything at that habit. The first part of the session is where we really talk about what's going on biologically, in the mind, to perpetuate the habit, but also the chemistry, which is a really important element of any forms of chemical addictions, of which nicotine clearly is one. And then we do the therapeutic work.