Crafting mental habits that serve you | Dr Jud Brewer MD PhD

Podcast: Degrees of Health · Benjamin Hopkins

Opublikowano: 2026-10-22

Why is it so hard to break a bad habit, and what if willpower was never the answer? In this episode, Ben Hopkins sits down with psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr Jud Brewer to explore the science of habit change. Jud breaks down the three elements every habit is built on, why your brain keeps repeating behaviours that feel rewarding, and how simply paying attention can make old habits lose their grip. His approach has delivered five times the quit rates of gold-standard smoking cessation treatment and a 67% reduction in anxiety in a randomised controlled trial. <...