How to achieve your New Year’s resolutions

From losing weight to quitting smoking, each December people around the world vow to stick to their New Year’s resolutions.

But studies have shown that despite our best efforts, a quarter of resolutions will be abandoned by the end of the first week of the New Year.

To break that pattern, one expert is urging people to set realistic resolutions this year, and to expect gradual changes rather than a major transformation.