Will Young Gives Up Smoking

Pop Idol champ Will Young has broken his smoking habit with the help of hypnotherapy sessions. “I started smoking when I was 19 and there were times last year when I was smoking a lot. I tried giving up but couldn’t,” he tells The Sun’s Victoria Newton. “In the end I went to a hypnotherapist. She was talking to me and said, ‘You are in a hypnotic state.’ I said, ‘Don’t be ridiculous,’ but she said, ‘Yes, you really are.’ She obviously lodged the thought in my mind that if I was a serious singer I’d never smoke. It worked. I don’t smoke any more.” Read more, including Newton’s favorable review of Young’s new album ‘Friday’s Child’, here.