Stop Smoking With The Help Of The NHS

April 25, 2009 – 8:14 am

Anything you can do to help you quit smoking for good gets the vote from me, whether its joining a support group, getting hypnotherapy or replacing your cigarettes with the e cigarette. There are even herbs to quit smoking available these days and I’m sure they are as effective as anything you will get from your doctor. But according to the UK’s national health service you’re up to 4 times more likely to stop smoking if you get NHS support and use nicotine replacement therapies.

Not really sure what they mean when they say you are ‘up to’ 4 times more likely to stop though, and when did they start calling nicotine replacement therapies ’stop smoking medicine’? I don’t know, maybe they’re just so excited about the opportunity to stop people smoking that they get a bit carried away with themselves.

You know I’m a bit skeptical about the drug companies in general but I wonder how hard the pharmaceutical companies push the NHS to flog their products to the public extra hard. And calling nicotine replacement therapy a medicine seems like an outright lie. I mean if a medicine is a substance used to treat a disease or illness then I guess nicotine addiction is now a disease. Sounds to me as if someone is trying to gloss over the fact that these ’stop smoking medicines’ do exactly the same thing as the cigarette you are trying to give up, that is deliver nicotine into your bloodstream.

Still, I guess if the NHS really achieves its aim of increasing peoples chances to stop smoking then its worth giving it a shot if you’re in the UK and having trouble giving up the weed. Just try and do it without the aid of the ’stop smoking medicines, the drug companies have enough money and you can stop without their help.

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Nicotine Replacement Therapy Causes Cancer

April 22, 2009 – 1:40 pm

An article published in the London times today brings up the possibility that the use of nicotine replacement therapy may carry a higher cancer risk than previously thought. It has always been assumed that NRT was potentially harmful, but that it was much better than smoking cigarettes considering as nicotine doesn’t seem to be nearly as dangerous as the many stronger carcinogens found in burning tobacco products.However what has now been discovered is that the use of the nicotine replacements such as stop smoking patches, nicotine gum and the nicotine inhaler may be more of a health hazard than feared.

A new study out of the University of London, has found that a genetic mutation which can cause mouth cancer can be worsened by the nicotine levels found in stop smoking products. Its too early to tell if smokers should be worried about the risk from these products but we can be sure that the cancer risk will still be much lower for a nicotine gum user when to compared to someone who continues to smoke cigarettes.

Its hard to say exactly what this means for those of use who use the E Cigarette as a nicotine replacement therapy. After reading the article my stance is pretty much as it has always, E Cigarettes are probably not the healthiest product on the market and should not be seen as a long term replacement for tobacco cigarettes. At the same time, using an E Cigarette for a few months as a stepping stone to becoming nicotine free is infinitely preferable to continuing to smoke and is currently the best way to quit smoking we have.

You might say that its easy to find a successful Stop Smoking Aid on the market, but which of them really offers a genuinely high chance of helping you stop. My guess is that the majority of people who manage to use most current NRT products would have been able to stop with or without their use. If you think about it, all they do is keep you addicted to nicotine without giving you the comfort of the physically smoking. That’s what sets the e cig apart from nicotine patches and gums and why its far more successful in helping us stop even if we continue to be addicted to this product instead.

No matter how bad they might tell vaping is in the media, there is no way you are going to convince the majority of the public that they even approach the dangers we are all to aware of in tobacco products.

The rest of the stop smoking industry isn’t really worth discussing either in my humble opinion. Quit Smoking Hypnosis has never worked for anyone I’ve talked to about it. Some feel after their session that they are free from their nicotine addiction but they all seem to end up back on the cigarettes a few months later. Most of the stop smoking books at your local bookshop and support groups are just as ineffective.

The only exception to the rule would be Allan Carr’s “Easy Way To Stop Smoking” technique which undoubtedly works for many smokers but there will always be those who are unwilling to take the effort to attend a course of read his book and for those people the e cigarette is the perfect option.

Read the original article HERE.

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Can’t Stick Electronic Cigarettes?

April 21, 2009 – 11:31 am

If you have tried using the E cigarette to stop smoking but aren’t having much in the way of success then you may want to try something different instead. I have mentioned Allan Carr’s “Easy Way To Stop Smoking” before and how it helped my get off the tobacco, but it doesn’t work for everyone.

Still, there are other methods that have varying success rates. You might want to try to Quit with Ciggarrest. You might not have heard of this before as its not so well known, at least it wasn’t to me.

The ciggarest plan is a smoking cessation program which has actually been around a long time, since 1986 in fact if my information is correct, and has helped more than one million smokers quit smoking for good.

It a homeopathic stop smoking method so you don’t have to worry about any negative health consequences like you would with stop smoking drugs such as champix that the pharmaceutical industry tries to force upon us.

When you buy this program you are sent tablets, gums, vitamins, a handbook and a CD which are all geared towards getting you off nicotine. The chewable tablets don’t contain any nicotine, are all natural, and supposedly remove the craving for cigarettes. Like I say, I’ve never tried this myself so whether it works or not remains to be seen, but I suppose anything is worth a shot for those among us who don’t like electronic cigarettes and have a history of failed stop smoking attempts.

If anyone out there has tried this before then let me know how it went for you. I’d be interested to hear if it makes stopping smoking any more or less difficult than the use of e cigarettes. You can leave a comment at the bottom of this posts so that everyone else can read it.

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Is It Really That Hard To Give Up Cigarettes?

April 17, 2009 – 4:07 pm

If you smoke cigarettes and have tried to give up at any point then you know how difficult it is to stop. Everyone you speak to will generously offer their own stop smoking tips to try and help you give up but this advice only seems to make things worse. Most of us take several attempts before we manage to quit smoking cigarettes for good with 75% of us returning to the habit after our first seemingly successful stop smoking attempt.

Why Is It Hard To Stop Smoking?

Of course the main reason cigarettes are so addictive is because of the nicotine contained in the tobacco. When we hear that nicotine is a substance so addictive that it can be compared to the illegal street drugs cocaine and heroin, be begin to realize why we find it so hard to give up smoking cigarettes. Soon after we start to smoke cigarettes our body adjusts to the effects of the nicotine and we become dependent as the body craves the drug to maintain its natural equilibrium.

Apart from the physical addiction there is also a psychological element to cigarette addiction. We begin to feel incomplete without cigarettes at certain times in our daily routine. Breaking these habits becomes more and more difficult the longer we smoke so although it may seem like an insurmountable mountain the task will only become more difficult the longer you leave it.

Make the decision today to free yourself from nicotine today, join a support group and get yourself a copy of “The easy way to stop smoking” by Allan Carr. With a little perseverance and luck you’ll be living a happy nicotine free life in no time. And remember, even if you don’t manage to stop smoking this time its easy to give it another go whenever you want.

Those of you who feel you need a little help to kick the habit but don’t want to splash out the cash for a book such as “The Easy Way To Stop Smoking” will find plenty of information Online. There’s no doubt that reading about possible quitting techniques and stories from other smokers can help give you the motivation you need to succeed. A friend of mine has a site called Smoking Effects which has some articles on it which might be exactly what you are looking for. Failing that you can always do a search on Google, the Internet is awash with stop smoking advice, all you need to do is find it.

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Are E Cigarettes Deadly?

April 15, 2009 – 10:31 am

Hopefully that headline caught your attention if you are at all interested in E Cigarettes. Thankfully, as anyone who has tried one knows the E cigarette isn’t only safe but it can dramatically improve the health of anyone who substitutes the E cigarette for regular tobacco cigarettes. However an article I found in the Daily Mail reckons the nicotine cartridges that come with the E cigarette could potentially be harmful or lethal if swallowed by young children. The lesson is to treat the Electronic cigarette the same as you would your regular tobacco products and keep them well out of reach of children.

Read the article HERE

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