Recently a couple of contributors to this blog - who have started to take Champix or Chantix themselves and feel fine on it - have commented that the page they are reading here ”seems very negative”.
This is my sixth blog post on Champix/Chantix. I check all comments that come in, and with the obvious exception of [...]
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Hurrah for Uncle Edzard Ernst, his merry band of scoffers and the pharmaceutical industry! NHS funding for homoeopathy has been withdrawn they have claimed their first scalp. Now, which CAM therapy shall we pick on next? Which seems - on the face of it - the most implausible? And on we [...]
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The weird and wonderful internet just threw up another amusing splinter of craziness in the form of an email message, sent through the Truth Will Out Contact Form facility, from a website called ChampixMagic. It purported to be from a person called Jay, and it said:
Jay wrote:
Dear sir/webmaster,
I am the responsible person for link [...]
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In response to the post Champix Kills, But Don’t Tell The Smokers a comment came in from James which raised a number of important points, so I have decided to reproduce it here, along with my response to the points he raised:
JAMES on October 27th, 2009 at 7:11 am Said:
I am in two minds regarding [...]
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This development, I am certain, has nothing whatever to do with the Truth Will Out Campaign, but it is a bit ironic: I’ve just been invited to become an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Medicine!
This is because I am involved - to quote the letter - “in one of the many medical and [...]
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Scientists - you know, those people with white labcoats and glasses who tirelessly Mine The Seam Of Truth for all mankind – have been getting very excited about the role of Money in the development of new Wonder Drugs.
Useful Definitions:
‘Wonder Drug’
A Wonder Drug is a drug which has just been launched, so it has yet [...]
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In every country, there are millions of tobacco smokers. The majority probably still believe that the reason they feel compelled to smoke is because they are addicted to a drug called nicotine. Yet if they had never been told this, they would have no concept of nicotine at all. Not one of [...]
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Sometimes analytical people say to me: “You know, I don’t think I’d be a very good candidate for your hypnotherapy - I’m very strong-minded!”
The implication and the assumption that lies behind that is that people who respond well to the hypnotherapy process must be weak-minded people who are easily influenced! The comment also masks [...]
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Now I must admit, after four years slogging away at this book, the months it took to publish it and the months we’ve spent creating this site, I was feeling a bit like going far away and sitting in a dark cave for a while. And maybe never coming back.
Of course I do have a [...]
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After the article appeared in the Stockport Express in early January 2008, I got an email from Vanessa Williams, Editor of the live Breakfast Show on Channel M (TV for Manchester!), asking if I would like to come on the show and talk about the book. I accepted, and the item was scheduled [...]
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