Comments on: True or False? Most smokers need help to quit

By: Carolyn Thomas

Carolyn Thomas — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:20:43 +0000

Hello James – I liked Carr’s two “easy” steps: 1. start thinking of yourself as a non-smoker, and 2. don’t mope about quitting. Congratulations to you on being a non-smoker now!🙂

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By: James Tepoorten

James Tepoorten — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:50:13 +0000

While I completely concur with regard to actually quitting smoking, Nicorette has been a very effective product for me with regard to harm reduction. I have smoked for 40 years, and for the last 10 years used Nicorette gum as a means to reduce the harmful effects of tobacco smoke on my lungs. By reducing the actual number of cigarettes consumed to 5 to 8 per day, my body could tolerate smoking. Ultimately, I used Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking method, and I am very glad I no longer smoke.

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By: Calum

Calum — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:14:18 +0000

I agree. We have been convinced for years through powerful drug company advertising that we NEED their drugs to quit smoking (also, to lose weight, relax, go to sleep at night, etc). What we do need is exactly what others have shared here too, a final no-excuses conviction that it’s really time to quit. Some of us need to practise this conviction a few times before it really sticks….😉

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By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:07:50 +0000

I too quit cold turkey a few years ago. Just set a QUIT DATE on my calendar and that was that. Best thing I could have ever done for myself and my family. Cool post. Thanks!

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By: margihealing

margihealing — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:56:24 +0000

Here’s another reason to quit without using ‘medical intervention’. Here in Australia, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) says that since 2008, 15 suicides have been linked to the drug Champix.”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/08/04/2973001.htm?section=justin

My own experience as a cold-turkey ex-smoker and practising Acupuncturist is that people are more likely to remain non-smokers after medically unassisted quitting, because doing it without drugs enables and demands of us that we change how we think about ourselves and cigarettes.

Successful quitters change many aspects of our lives and our environments in a whole-of-life-restructuring that the bandaid approach of gum-and-patch-and-drug can never provide.

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By: NZ ex-smoker

NZ ex-smoker — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:55:15 +0000

I’m with you Dr Ruth – like you I too just one day up and quit my 2+ pack a day habit just like that. I was ready. That’s the secret (not pills, patches, gum) — you do have to be finally ready once and for all to start living a new life from now on. It’s been 8+ years now for me!!!

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By: Dr Ruth Simkin

Dr Ruth Simkin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:16:35 +0000

I smoked two packs a day for over twenty years. One day a long time ago, I had coughed one smokers cough too many. I put the trash can in the middle of the room, and tossed in all my cigarettes and smoking paraphernalia. I never looked back. Was it difficult? Yes, at times, but it was much easier to do it on my terms than purchase some smoking cessation aid that really doesn’t do anything anyway. It took about two years until I did not have a craving for a cigarette at key times, like after meals, on the phone, etc, but I never smoked again after the garbage can incident and never will. Looking back, quitting was one of the smartest things I ever did and I’m glad I did it on my own.

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By: anti smoking

anti smoking — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:39:00 +0000

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