...I remember back in the UK in the early nineties a brand called "Death" was launched. The logo was a skull and crossbones and the health warning said "Toxic fumes: do not inhale."
Nice to see some truth in advertising!
To get to the truth about quitting, visit us at www.theeasywaytostopsmoking.com
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Thursday, April 17, 2008
When the cure is as bad as the disease...
Today, I was emailed this tragic story by a colleague living in the UK. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351596,00.html
It is the story of Omer Jama, a 39 year-old TV executive who committed suicide while trying to stop smoking using Pfizer's new drug Chantix (a.k.a. Champix).
Around half of the people I see in Allen Carr's Easyway seminars have unsuccessfully used Chantix. Most of them were unable to complete the program of medication because of the side-effects. In fact, back in November 2007 the FDA announced that it was investigating claims brought to the manufacturers attention that the drug caused unpleasant side-effects, including mood swings and 'erratic' behavior in users.
Our thoughts are with Mr. Jama's family at this awful time, and with the tens of thousands of smokers who are prescribed this drug on a weekly basis.
For a simple, drug-free quit smoking method, please visit us at www.theeasywaytostopsmoking.com
It is the story of Omer Jama, a 39 year-old TV executive who committed suicide while trying to stop smoking using Pfizer's new drug Chantix (a.k.a. Champix).
Around half of the people I see in Allen Carr's Easyway seminars have unsuccessfully used Chantix. Most of them were unable to complete the program of medication because of the side-effects. In fact, back in November 2007 the FDA announced that it was investigating claims brought to the manufacturers attention that the drug caused unpleasant side-effects, including mood swings and 'erratic' behavior in users.
Our thoughts are with Mr. Jama's family at this awful time, and with the tens of thousands of smokers who are prescribed this drug on a weekly basis.
For a simple, drug-free quit smoking method, please visit us at www.theeasywaytostopsmoking.com
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
NYC nicotine patches - one over each eye so you can't see the results!
I subscribe to the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene newsletter and today I received an email from them advising me of the launch of their latest quit smoking campaign.
In another repeat of the program first introduced in 2003, until May 1st 2008 the nicotine patch and gum will be available free of charge to an unspecified number of eligible NYC smokers wanting to quit. Whilst I am very happy to see the city taking quitting so seriously, I again question the wisdom of using nicotine replacement therapy which, according to industry reports, has six-month quit rates of just 7%.
To compare these success rates to Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking webcasts and seminars, please click here and for a comprehensive review of all of the major quit smoking methods, please click here
In another repeat of the program first introduced in 2003, until May 1st 2008 the nicotine patch and gum will be available free of charge to an unspecified number of eligible NYC smokers wanting to quit. Whilst I am very happy to see the city taking quitting so seriously, I again question the wisdom of using nicotine replacement therapy which, according to industry reports, has six-month quit rates of just 7%.
To compare these success rates to Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking webcasts and seminars, please click here and for a comprehensive review of all of the major quit smoking methods, please click here
Tobacco and justice...
You may have read John Grisham's latest book The Appeal. In it the evil CEO of a chemical company buys a seat on the Mississippi Supreme Court so that he can get an expensive verdict overturned.
They say that truth is stranger than fiction: in December 2006 when the US Supreme Court declined to review the dismissal of a $10.1bn award against Philip Morris for "enticing smokers to buy "light" cigarettes on a fraudulent promise that they were lower in tar and nicotine" the tobacco industry breathed a huge sigh of relief.
The State Supreme Court judge that cast the deciding vote? Step forward Judge Lloyd Karmeier, who received millions of dollars in campaign support from the tobacco industry, in particular - you guessed it - Philip Morris Inc.
To read Dorothy Samuels' brilliant expose of judicial corruption in the NY Times, go here...http://select.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/opinion/13talkingpoints.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
They say that truth is stranger than fiction: in December 2006 when the US Supreme Court declined to review the dismissal of a $10.1bn award against Philip Morris for "enticing smokers to buy "light" cigarettes on a fraudulent promise that they were lower in tar and nicotine" the tobacco industry breathed a huge sigh of relief.
The State Supreme Court judge that cast the deciding vote? Step forward Judge Lloyd Karmeier, who received millions of dollars in campaign support from the tobacco industry, in particular - you guessed it - Philip Morris Inc.
To read Dorothy Samuels' brilliant expose of judicial corruption in the NY Times, go here...http://select.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/opinion/13talkingpoints.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Thursday, February 21, 2008
The truth about Nicotine Replacement Therapy
For years Allen Carr tried to convince the UK tobacco control establishment to look at the incredible success rates he was achieving with his simple, fast, drug-free approach, with a view to making it freely available to all smokers wanting to quit.
Allen said to me that he felt like he had a cure for cancer, but nobody in authority wanted to know. According to Allen, the tobacco control bureaucracy was no different than any other inept government body - slow-moving, bureaucratic and biased. His frustration was partially born out of the unwavering support by the establishment towards Nicotine Reaplcement Therapy which has comparitively low success rates. He felt that this support was based on the funding provided by the drug companies that manufacture these products.
Allen wrote about this at length in his final book, Scandal, which can be downloaded free of charge at http://www.allencarr.com/
The Wall St. Journal's Kevin Helliker wrote a fascinating article about the influence of drug companies in the formation of public health policy in this field. To read more go to http://www.aerzteinitiative.at/PharmaTies07.htm
Allen said to me that he felt like he had a cure for cancer, but nobody in authority wanted to know. According to Allen, the tobacco control bureaucracy was no different than any other inept government body - slow-moving, bureaucratic and biased. His frustration was partially born out of the unwavering support by the establishment towards Nicotine Reaplcement Therapy which has comparitively low success rates. He felt that this support was based on the funding provided by the drug companies that manufacture these products.
Allen wrote about this at length in his final book, Scandal, which can be downloaded free of charge at http://www.allencarr.com/
The Wall St. Journal's Kevin Helliker wrote a fascinating article about the influence of drug companies in the formation of public health policy in this field. To read more go to http://www.aerzteinitiative.at/PharmaTies07.htm
This is your brain on Chantix
Derek DeKoff, a journalist writing for New York magazine had this to say about his experience to try to quit smoking using Chantix (Champix). Suicidal thoughts, hallucinations and blackouts - not everyone's idea of fun.
http://nymag.com/news/features/43892/
For a more effective, drug-free approach to quitting smoking, visit us at www.theeasywaytostopsmoking.com
http://nymag.com/news/features/43892/
For a more effective, drug-free approach to quitting smoking, visit us at www.theeasywaytostopsmoking.com
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
The Best Time to Quit Smoking
The one word answer: tomorrow!
But isn't that what you said yesterday? And the day before?
The reason that 'tomorrow' is the smoker's favorite answer is because it means we don't have to do it today. We know we should quit smoking in the long-term, but that's the long-term and we'll think about that later. For now, we want to smoke, and the immediate fear of feeling deprived trumps the longer-term fear of being killed by smoking.
We 'want' to smoke because, even though we know it kills one out of every two smokers, we think it helps us relax or cope with stress or that it keeps us thin. On top of these beliefs that smoking is somehow pleasurable or beneficial, we believe that quitting smoking is extremely difficult and unpleasant. Nicotine withdrawal is said to be brutal; "harder to quit than heroin" we're told. We believe that even if we make it, we will never be truly happy as non-smokers and that we will go through the rest of lives feeling deprived.
With beliefs like this is it surprising that the best day to quit is always 'tomorrow'?
The key to finding it easy to stop smoking is to change the way you see smoking and quitting. Allen Carr's method teaches smokers to shift their prespective. As soon as I began to see the cigarette not as the solution, but as the problem; when I realized that there was nothing to 'give up'; when I understood that as a smoker I experienced nicotine withdrawal for hours at a time when I was asleep and that it was so mild that it didn't even wake me up; when I realized that it was smokers, not non-smokers, who were deprived - of their health, their money, their energy, their self-respect and their freedom - then I realized it could be easy to quit and do you know what?
It was.
For more information on how to build a winning mindset when it comes to quitting smoking, visit us at http://www.theeasywaytostopsmoking.com/
But isn't that what you said yesterday? And the day before?
The reason that 'tomorrow' is the smoker's favorite answer is because it means we don't have to do it today. We know we should quit smoking in the long-term, but that's the long-term and we'll think about that later. For now, we want to smoke, and the immediate fear of feeling deprived trumps the longer-term fear of being killed by smoking.
We 'want' to smoke because, even though we know it kills one out of every two smokers, we think it helps us relax or cope with stress or that it keeps us thin. On top of these beliefs that smoking is somehow pleasurable or beneficial, we believe that quitting smoking is extremely difficult and unpleasant. Nicotine withdrawal is said to be brutal; "harder to quit than heroin" we're told. We believe that even if we make it, we will never be truly happy as non-smokers and that we will go through the rest of lives feeling deprived.
With beliefs like this is it surprising that the best day to quit is always 'tomorrow'?
The key to finding it easy to stop smoking is to change the way you see smoking and quitting. Allen Carr's method teaches smokers to shift their prespective. As soon as I began to see the cigarette not as the solution, but as the problem; when I realized that there was nothing to 'give up'; when I understood that as a smoker I experienced nicotine withdrawal for hours at a time when I was asleep and that it was so mild that it didn't even wake me up; when I realized that it was smokers, not non-smokers, who were deprived - of their health, their money, their energy, their self-respect and their freedom - then I realized it could be easy to quit and do you know what?
It was.
For more information on how to build a winning mindset when it comes to quitting smoking, visit us at http://www.theeasywaytostopsmoking.com/
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