Well well, the things you find on ASH's website...
ash.org.uk/media-room/news/...
Of course they tweaked it a bit to stay true to their masters.
The house of cards can't stay up that much longer I'm sure.... :rolleyes:
Of course we know why we crave... - No Smoking Day
Of course we know why we crave...
austinlegro11 Years Smoke Free
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11 Years Smoke Free
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This line, "if you want to quit smoking...planning on how to deal with situations when you usually smoke may be as important as thinking about smoking cessation aids such as nicotine replacement" seems to chime heavily :rolleyes:
If folk need something to lean on to get the first few days and possible longer started then that should be available. However, if the powers that be could only switch onto the fact that education seems a very valid and successful method and find it within themselves to give as wide a broadcast as possible to that message then mindsets could actually change and we could possibly see the total end of nicotine as a substance sold over the counter.
But where's the profit in that?
But where's the profit in that?
Ker-Ching! A ding ding.
Thank you Mr NHS with buying all these products you're really spoiling us, we've noticed no drop in revenue since the 1960's - the tobacco companies.
austinlegro11 Years Smoke Free
Ker-Ching! A ding ding.
Indeed...
It's one thing spending your hard-saved fag money on patches, fine, whatever, it's your money..
..but when the country is trying to now justify every penny of public spending but they're spending my tax £ on a load of useless drugs, well, it's a not so small slap in the face...
How DO you get anthrax into a jiffy bag?? 
Indeed...
It's one thing spending your hard-saved fag money on patches, fine, whatever, it's your money..
..but when the country is trying to now justify every penny of public spending but they're spending my tax £ on a load of useless drugs, well, it's a not so small slap in the face...
How DO you get anthrax into a jiffy bag??
Do remember being petrified of what was going to happen at the beginning of my quit, stopping, in the first few days is a huge undertaking of willpower and determination. Didn't think I could stop without using something, the idea of actually having no more nicotine was terrifying.
Like anything you can get through it if you want it enough, for the first time ever on this quit, I wanted to stop more than I wanted the next cigarette. Can't say that was the truth for any of my other previous quits.
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austinlegro11 Years Smoke Free
Didn't think I could stop without using something, the idea of actually having no more nicotine was terrifying.
Unless you'd suddenly discovered nicotine didn't actually play a major role..
Like anything you can get through it if you want it enough, for the first time ever on this quit, I wanted to stop more than I wanted the next cigarette. Can't say that was the truth for any of my other previous quits.
Same here. They were always a scary start with lots of determination and they always failed for the same reason, weeks, months or years further on. In my case stress. Usually a major work based trauma that needed just one fag to de-stress me... 
Unless you'd suddenly discovered nicotine didn't actually play a major role..
Hmm see what you mean, for me though the major thing was the nicotine addiciton, even feeding it with NRT left me vulnerable, the quicker I got the nicotine out of my system the better, then it was the long haul - the mental realignment, which never even got started in all my other quits.
Same here. They were always a scary start with lots of determination and they always failed for the same reason, weeks, months or years further on. In my case stress. Usually a major work based trauma that needed just one fag to de-stress me...
Can't even claim that as an excuse, I always started again because I couldn't bare to battle my way through withdrawal.
NicFirth10 Years Smoke Free
Not sure that I'm quite on board with your usage of the term 'major role' Austin
Nicotine certainly plays a significant role in the initial stages, after all it is what drove you to become addicted in the 1st place.
There are physical symptoms of withdrawal which combine with the psychological ones to make the 1st week uncomfortable, how uncomfortable tends to depend on the person and their attitude, mindset or whatever you choose to call it. Many quits fail in the 1st couple of weeks and that is partly due to the body's physical demands for nicotine where as others fail after a few months and that is clearly due to the minds perceived need for nicotine.
IMO if nicotine didn't play a major role then surely NRT would be more effective, its the fact that giving people the drug they are addicted to to get them off smoking which makes no sense to me!
Unless you'd suddenly discovered nicotine didn't actually play a major role..
IMHO this is the rub as most...the very vast majority...don't 'suddenly' discover that nugget of truth. Better focus on utilising the scarce resources of public funding to target and develop more/better educational tools.
austinlegro11 Years Smoke Free
I reckon it's a bit like the Smoking Matrix starring Kingsize Reeves and Laurence Fagburn...
Imagine waking up one day to find everything you thought you knew about smoking, nicotine and addiction was a big fat lie...
Take the red pill and make us some profit, take the blue pill and find yourself hanging from the bannisters.
Sometimes you feel like crying... 
