Education
Gibson graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, in 1933.
Gibson graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, in 1933.
The following year, he was the youngest surgeon ever to become a fellow of the college, at the age of 25. After locums in Aden, Nyasaland, and South Africa, he became Dean of Durban Medical School in 1939. During World World War II, he served with the Emergency Medical Service in Britain, treating wounded soldiers.
After a brief return to private practice in South Africa, he spent the 1950s in Guernsey.
In 1959 he briefly went to Hailie Selassie Hospital in Ethiopia as a surgeon, then back to Dublin to take an appointment at Doctor Steeven"s Hospital. In 1965, Gibson began producing his self hypnosis material in popular media.
How to Stop Smoking was Ireland"s best-selling LP of 1971. Doctor Gibson died peacefully in the Naas General Hospital on Saturday 2 April 2005, at the age of 95.