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.

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.