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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Any type of government support will only make it worse. The governments gets its money (and its jollies too) by causing cancer on purpose. They make money on everything evil……just another reason to start a new government and rid the old. How do you think any government comes about, anyway?????……the people, of course.
Governments causing cancer on purpose? Where the hell did that come from?
Conspiracy theorist?
Cecorettes have launched a disposable Ecigarette specially for the NHS:this new version will allow the NHS to consider using a disposable cecorette as an alternative to nicotine patches and nicotine chewing gum.The disposable version will allow smokers to try this alternative prior to purchasing a full rechargable kit.Research has shown that smokers want a more realistic device to hold in the hand whilst trying to quit,chewing gum or sticking a patch on ones arm while having a pint or a glass of wine does not go down as well as puffing on a cecorette that dispenses nicotine via a vaporiser.We will update you when we have the response to this proposal from the NHS.
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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 tobacco with something like the e cigarette. Better to get off nicotine completely if you can though.