The Emperor’s New Electronic Cigarette! By Paul Bergen of tobaccoharmreduction.org CN Creative have announced that they are moving forward with plans to finish Nicadex, “a nicotine replacement therapy product for use as part of medically supervised smoking cessation programmes”. E-Cigarettes and Nicotine Replacement Therapy This sounded like very good news, another alternative for smokers. However, whereas there are several [...]

A campaign in Portsmouth is telling smokers NOT to quit cold turkey. Whose funding the campaign? Surprise, surprise, it’s Pfizer, a manufacturer of quit smoking aids. One problem – pharmaceutical aids, when measured at 12 months, have half the effectiveness of quitting cold turkey. In fact, according to one study, effectiveness can be low as 0.8% - [...]

By researcher Paul Bergen of tobaccoharmreduction.org What anti-smokers never seem to quite understand is that smoking is a pleasure.  It is not, as some have characterized it, a disease.  And any solutions or alternatives to smoking that are based on the ludicrous idea that people don’t actually enjoy it are bound to have dismal success [...]

Ever since I read about the man who went to live on a deserted island to try and quit smoking (more on that shortly!), I’ve been fascinated by the more bizarre ways people have tried to quit smoking. Believe it or not, all of the methods below have been suggested somewhere on the net or [...]

Except for those few brave die-hards amongst us everyone has, at one time or another tried, to quit smoking. As we all know the internet is awash with tips on how to give up the evil weed. For example, putting the money you would spend on cigarettes away to save up for a treat, or [...]

More than 50% of smokers can quit using the liquid cigarette according to a new study.

One way of quitting that has always appealed to me is that of joining forces. Two or more of you to share the pain and to reinforce each other at times of weakness. To raise the odds and to make things more interested, it is good to get some money involved. It works like this. [...]

The first time I successfully gave up smoking I was tricked into it by a very clever mother! She had read about acupuncture being an effective method of giving up the beastly weed, and made an appointment for both of us to have the treatment. We went to a local small town, up some greasy [...]

Can you quit with the E-cigarette? Obviously there are two answers to this – yes and no – but I am going to go for a third one. But first, a quick digression, so sit back and light up your fag (or inhale your vapour if you have already made the jump to an electronic [...]

The Linux operating system has helped one woman to quit smoking, according to IT Wire. But it wasn’t down to a sophisticated computer cessation programme, but rather to a few games of solitaire. The woman, who is not named in the story, found the programme AisleRiot Solitaire, a package of 82 distinct solitaire games. She [...]