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[nsd_user663_56515]

Hi.

I am putting together a quit smoking website, partly as a means of trying to get all aspects of giving up smoking in one place, and also as a self-help exercise in my quest to be smoke free.

I am currently 10 weeks cigarette free, using e cigs.

Site is smokerslight.com/

Comments welcome, but please be gentle

[NicFirth 10 Years Smoke Free]

Firstly congratulations on the quit and the site is nicely laid out.

However I don't see any where that you credit the other sites you have copied and pasted from. I have only spent a few moments on there but the below sites have some of your text on them. I only searched on 3 sections from your site and they all came up as plagiarism.

Here are 3 that you have lifted text straight from

ash.org.uk/files/documents/...

bupa.co.uk/individuals/heal...

ucanquit2.org/facts/nicotin...

I've seen some of the images as well and assume you have checked that they are copyright free.

Best of luck with the site and I applaud the work but if you are going to present it as yours I think you should collate and present the information rather than copying and pasting from other sites.

[nsd_user663_56515]

Yes, valid point, I have added credits to the copied parts, it is still very much work in progress and I wanted to get it online while I continue to revise the content.

I had assumed listed images to be in the public domain, or under a creative commons licence, but will research this some more, and credit where due.

Thanks the feedback, this is my first attempt at a resource site.

Phil

[nsd_user663_56515]

I got mine first

[austinlegro 11 Years Smoke Free]

The problem with a lot of these types of site, pretty much following on from Nick's observations, is that they all regurgitate the same information and (accept my apologies for the awful idiom) become part of the problem not the solution.

We occasionally get invited to participate in a smoking survey that always has the same questions, always produces the same results and really only set out to confirm the conclusions it had already made.

Websites are similar. They're generally a collection of the usual myths and addiction theory thus propagating the myths and addiction theory.

It would be lovely to see a site where someone had actually done some original research for a change.

[NicFirth 10 Years Smoke Free]

I doubt it Welsh Phil is ancient :D