“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 [...]

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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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by Chris Holmes
*Update: If you or a loved one has suffered a bad reaction to Champix and you are based in the U.K., you can report it to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) here. The more people do that the clearer the true picture will become. Protect others! Report [...]

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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