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 [...]
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by Chris Holmes 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 [...]
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No smoker started smoking for the effects of nicotine, and no smoker can tell me what nicotine DOES! So they are not smoking for the effects of nicotine, because they don’t even know what those effects ARE. It is a habit, not “drug use”.
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by hypnotherapist Chris Holmes 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 [...]
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by hypnotherapist Chris Holmes 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 [...]
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The Department of Stealth Back in January I was contacted by Belinda Cunnison from the freedom2choose organisation, letting me know that they were investigating the NHS claim that you are “four times more likely to succeed” in quitting smoking with the NHS, and wondering if I knew about any published studies that could back up [...]
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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. [...]
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How to run a clinical trial using nicotine patches to prove that nicotine cannot possibly be an addictive drug.
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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 [...]
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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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