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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President Barack Obama said today: “Where there is inefficiency, where there is corruption, we expect those people to be held accountable.”
That is a fine democratic principle. Well said, Mr President. Of course he was talking about the government of Afghanistan, warning those people that they could not expect continued support from Western governments if they [...]
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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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Spurious New ‘Uses’ for Nicotine
Not so long ago this site was blasted in a blog written by one of the passionate converts to the new Electronic Cigarette. He took exception to my statement that nicotine is “just a poison”, and that it has no therapeutic use or any recreational use (there is no high), so [...]
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Scientific proof that Nicotine Replacement doesn’t work any better than willpower is being suppressed even further now! pr-inside.com which published the damning press release from freedom2choose that made the key facts public a few weeks ago has now suddenly ‘unpublished’ it!
This came to light after the smokers’ rights organisation sent out another message warning about [...]
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Well thanks to Mr Cameron Gordon of the Department of Health I have now had a chance to study carefully the various reports that he claims are the scientific basis for the famous advertising slogan that smokers are “up to four times more likely to quit” if they use NHS Stop Smoking Services.
In email communications [...]
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“You are up to four times more likely to succeed” in stopping smoking if you use NHS Stop Smoking services, that’s what smokers have been told by the Department of Stealth and NHS bosses.
As I have already demonstrated in the Evidence section of this site, for years the NHS published “success rates” with figures ranging [...]
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So we finally got a response from the Department of Health that was supposed to give us access to the ’scientific’ reports that they claim underpin the suggestion that smokers are “up to four times more likely to be successful” in quitting if they use NHS services to help them.
This came in the form of [...]
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Brief update: On 28th April 2009, the Department of Health sent Belinda (freedom2choose organisation) an email containing four links to relevant information, plus copies of three reports in an attachment.
Needless to say, this will take a little time for us to read and assess. Meanwhile I did not want my previous post [...]
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