Cravings Are Not Withdrawal Symptoms

** 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 [...]

Soon to be published… Volume II

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 [...]

Nicotine: The Weird (Non) Addiction

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 [...]

Self-Administration Can Be Fun, Fun, Fun!

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 [...]

Poor Little Conscious Mind

If you were ever under the impression that the Subconscious mind was just a robotic ‘lizard brain’ that blindly obeys instructions from a hypnotist, you couldn’t be more wrong!  Many people get that idea from seeing stage hypnotists, who are deliberately misleading their audience but only getting away with creating the impression that they have influence over other [...]

Remember When You First Started Smoking?

 
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 [...]

Inconsistencies in the ‘Addiction’ Story

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 [...]

On a Lighter Note…

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 [...]

The Department of Stealth

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 [...]

Rave Reviews for The Book!

“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 [...]