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 [...]
Filed under: Drugs on Trial, Nicotine, Smoking, The Book, The Campaign by Chris
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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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Okay: two developments worth a mention, especially the second one.
Number One:
Now that my book has been added to the Borders on-line catalogue, you can now order it from any Borders store - which is great, because not everybody likes buying goods over the internet, do they? So I went into Borders in Stockport yesterday to [...]
Filed under: Nicotine, Smoking, The Book, The Campaign by Chris
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“Highly recommended and possibly one day the book that will be regarded as the seminal tome for examining the smoking habit for what it really is.”
“The real truth behind Nicotine, and the NRT industry is here. Whether you’re attempting to quit smoking, or are just interested in the topic, this will open your eyes. Brilliant.”
These [...]
Filed under: Nicotine, Publicity, Smoking, The Book by Chris
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I’ve noticed that on all the Champix blogs, where people are describing the suffering they are going through on that horrible ‘medication’, some bright spark will always pop up explaining that you should expect it to be difficult and traumatic, for after all, as we all know - don’t we? - nicotine is ‘the most [...]
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I know many visitors to the site are really just investigating various quitting methods, but we’ve had a few interesting comments lately about attempts to purchase the book Nicotine: The Drug That Never Was - either from Amazon, or various other internet outlets.
This edition is published through a ‘Print On Demand’ supplier, and distributed through [...]
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There is a myth in the U.K. that we have a thing called “free speech”. We really love to believe it, too. But in practice, there are some things you are not supposed to tell people about, apparently - and if you try, certain people will try to stop you.
The E-Zine
Here is a [...]
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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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At the very end of the book “Nicotine: The Drug That Never Was”, in the final section called A Pause For Breath which you can read here on the site, I mentioned the announcement of the coming of a new magic pill to stop people smoking, which coincided with my completion of the book in [...]
Filed under: Champix/Chantix, Drugs on Trial, Smoking, The Book by Chris
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I first became fully aware that smoking was not a drug addiction six or seven years ago. My smoking clients would walk in to my office ‘unable’ to stop smoking, and walk out free. How could that be, if they really were addicted to, or dependent on, a drug called nicotine?
The answer was simple: they [...]
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