It was fraud to label more than 200 placebo-controlled clinical trials “blind” when, regardless of whether evaluating NRT, bupropion or varenicline, 3 to 4 times as many placebo group members could correctly declare their randomized assignment as declared wrong, and could do so within 24-48 hours of ending nicotine use (peak withdrawal).

As I asserted in a November 4, 2008 CMAJ letter, “pharmacologic treatment of chemical dependency may be the only known research area in which blinding is impossible.” If unable or unwilling to call a spade a spade, will we debate the more critical question asked by the title of my February 7, 2012 BMJ letter, “Are those who quit smoking paying with their lives because of NRT’s failure?”

Ask yourself, how many millions of smokers died because pharma convinced them that the addictive natural insecticide nicotine was “medicine”?

If peer-reviewed medical journals are willing to note that the emperor has no clothes, why such fear by the media? It’s critical because the same failed junk science which anointed NRT now serves as the e-cigs cessation yardstick. What’s needed are honest studies which pit nicotine cessation against nicotine cessation, where the accomplishment of an addict who has fully arrested their dependency isn’t defeated by those still using.

John R. Polito
Nicotine Cessation Educator

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The nicotine being released into your system helps calm the cravings almost immediately, but for the first few days I did have a little anxiety about not having a smoke.

First of all, you have to really want to quit because YOU WANT TO QUIT and not for ANY other reason. You can’t quit for your friends, family, husband, wife, lover etc., you have to quit for yourself and the reasons can be many. My reason for wanting to quit was so that I could have control over my life. I was able to overcome a cocaine addiction that took me over in the 80s and 90s. And you would think that if I could beat that, quitting cigarettes would be a cake walk. Not so. And of all the cigarettes I was smoking each day, I only enjoyed one or two (and sometimes none) of them.

It’s been over a year now and I am happy to say that I’ve been able to break the cigarette habit. I did gain about 10 pounds but that’s about it. Just wanted to give an update.
(excerpt from a much-too-long original comment that MAY have originated from an industry insider based on very detailed package directions included!)

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