Most smokers refuse to acknowlege the real reason they cannot quit smoking, it’s their addiction to Nicotine. Nicotine patches and gum are popular remedies, but only service to transfer smokers’ nicotine addiction from one form to another form.
The British Thoracic Society recently published a ten-author Clinical Statement with the promising title, Medical management of in-patients with tobacco dependency. It’s supposed to be a guide for doctors to help smokers give up the evil weed if they have the misfortune to be admitted to hospital, though if they’re addicted to vaping presumably it doesn’t apply to [...]
Courtesy of that august organ, ISH Daily News, for 10 January 2024, there's both good and bad news about Wirral, part of the city of Liverpool in northwest England. First, the good news: ‘Fewer pregnant women in Wirral were smokers when they give birth, new figures show.’ This means that maternal smoking rates fell from 9.1 per [...]
Does the Symonds Method make smokers feel ashamed? Smokers, if they’re honest with themselves, are already ashamed by their apparent inability to stop poisoning themselves with tobacco fumes – a great misfortune. I recently received a message from a smoker in Australia that was rather critical of my approach to helping smokers become non-smokers again. I am even [...]
I wrote a critique of the so-called New Nicotine Alliance (NNA) in March 2018. What have they been up to lately? NNA Board of Trustees’ Bios Let’s start with the Board of Trustees on their website. Five names are mentioned, but of one, Mary Stamp, we are told nothing except that her bio is to follow. Of the [...]