http://www.truthwillout.co.uk Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:57:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ** 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 ... http://www.truthwillout.co.uk/2010/07/cravings-are-not-withdrawal-symptoms/ Just heard Simon Singh on Radio 4's Today programme talking about homeopathy again, rubbishing three randomised controlled trials that seem to indicate benefits despite the fact that he "only looked at them very quickly last night". Very rigorous, that, Simon! Anyway, thanks for dismissing them for us so we ... http://www.truthwillout.co.uk/2010/06/simon-says/ 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 ... http://www.truthwillout.co.uk/2010/06/lennox-johnston/ "In a multicenter, randomized, double-blind phase II clinical trial, 638 men and women aged 18-65 who smoked an average of 10 cigarettes per day during the previous year, without a period of abstinence of more than 3 months, where put on placebo, bupropion (another drug used as a smoking cessation ... http://www.truthwillout.co.uk/2010/06/86-failure-rate-for-champix/ Scrap the smoking cessation programme. As I demonstrated with all the evidence from the various government reports in "The NHS Lie Exposed" there is no significant difference between what smokers can achieve by themselves using willpower and the long term outcomes of NHS help, ie. when followed up at ... http://www.truthwillout.co.uk/2010/06/how-the-nhs-can-save-lots-of-money/ 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 ... http://www.truthwillout.co.uk/2010/05/champix-chantix-legal-action-class-actions-suing-pfizer/ 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 ... http://www.truthwillout.co.uk/2010/04/nicotine-the-weird-non-addiction/ 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 - ... http://www.truthwillout.co.uk/2010/04/self-administration-can-be-fun-fun-fun/ 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 ... http://www.truthwillout.co.uk/2010/04/poor-little-conscious-mind/ Edzard Ernst, if we are to believe what certain hacks tell us, is in danger of losing his position at Exeter University - but it has nothing to do with his own behaviour, of course!  This is a link to a particularly lame piece from the Guardian's Sarah Boseley which ... http://www.truthwillout.co.uk/2010/04/the-quacks-the-hacks-and-the-therapists/