Dr. Karan Rajan

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2,601 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 7 Sep

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Dr Karan Explores · The Habit Expert: You Need To Find Your “Keystone” Habits · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

most people think about when they're trying to stop a bad habit.

They're just trying to solve the actual problem itself.

I I I totally agree because actually you're seeing now who are, you know, dual habit of both smoking and vaping because it's the same thing.

So why wouldn't you do both?

Because it provides the same relief and uh, you know, sort of addictive pathways.

The brain circuitry is virtually the same across both.

And it's something which seems synergistic with smoking rather than something which

you know, you would do in place of.

And there's certainly people who do it in place of smoking, but also people who are doing it in combination.

So it's kind of worse than ever.

And I you know, I think, you know, when we're talking about all this kind of Jenga Tower of problems,

You know, vaping seems to be the most branded or well marketed alternative to smoking, but it's not, I don't think, the best one based on the data we have.

You know, when it comes to like, you know, again, just looking at that smoking as an example because I think that's relatable to a lot of people.

Why is it so hard?

And why is it so that the rates of successfully quitting smoking or any bad habit by just going cold turkey on a habit and just restricting not the best approach?

Because you see that with diets where there's some short-term win, a week, a month, but then it relapses and it's even worse than before.

Uh, you know, it's the same with, you know, whether it's like exercise.

You force yourself to do something or you force a restriction and it ends up working, but then not working and even worse longer term.

Why is it

So yeah, ultimately you you have to feed the beast to some degree where, you know, if you think about humans beyond personalities and emotions as a purely

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