** Update 16/07.10: There is a link in the third comment at the end of this article to the website of Action on Smoking and Health (A.S.H.) which refers to a study on cravings that confirms exactly what I’m talking about here. God knows I never expected ASH to confirm or agree with anything [...]
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Just heard Simon Singh on Radio 4’s Today programme talking about homeopathy again, rubbishing three randomised controlled trials that seem to indicate benefits despite the fact that he “only looked at them very quickly last night”. Very rigorous, that, Simon! Anyway, thanks for dismissing them for us so we don’t have to bother looking [...]
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An excerpt from Nicotine: The Drug That Never Was (Volume II: A Change Of Mind)
ii). The tobacco story has so many curious twists and turns that I am never really surprised when another one pops up. In Volume One I mentioned that I hadn’t quite managed to discover exactly when the “nicotine addiction” story [...]
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by Chris Holmes
Now Meet Doug Wilson
What have I been saying all this time? That tobacco smoking has been MISTAKEN for an addiction but is really just a compulsive habit. How did I discover this? By finding that a single hypnotherapy session can shut it down easily, cravings and all, with no weight gain and no [...]
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By Chris Holmes
The Non-Smoker Tries a Cigarette
Remember your first cigarette? Or to be more precise, do you remember the first time you inhaled tobacco smoke properly and experienced the effect on the way you felt, physically and mentally?
If there was no alcohol in your system already at the time - or any other recreational drug [...]
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(Sing!): “What Shall We Do With The Poison Factory…?”
In the original post entitled “New Poison For Old!” I pointed to the amusing phenomenon over recent years of the drug companies who have already spent a lot of money developing the facilities for producing nicotine gum, patches, lozenges, micro-tabs, nasal sprays and suppositories spending research and [...]
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WELCOME, EVERYBODY!
This month, the readership of this site has absolutely gone through the roof - and no, it doesn’t have anything to do with Edzard Ernst! Or at least, not much to do with him. “Inconsistencies in the Addiction Story” is the page everyone is reading, and despite recent fuss over other pages this remains [...]
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…when I suggested that the Department of Health KNEW THEY WERE LYING when they made all those claims for the supposed ‘effectiveness’ of nicotine replacement poisoning:
http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2010/03/17/patrick-basham-the-doh-is-wrong-about-cessation/
Now: the plot thickens, as we hear rumours that the ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE is very likely to be BANNED in the U.K. towards the end of June - the only competition [...]
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The Addiction Myth
Yes, it is the case that many smokers find it very difficult to give up smoking. Cravings can drive you up the wall. Trying to ignore them can make you very irritable or reduce you to tears. Smokers can sometimes go to extraordinary lengths to obtain tobacco.
All true.
These facts have often [...]
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The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) have blocked an NHS advertising leaflet which claimed that smokers were “twice as likely” to quit with Nicotine Replacement products and “four times as likely” to quit if they also used NHS Stop Smoking Services. For the very first time since the Truth Will Out Campaign was launched, the claims [...]
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