Well, it's that time of the year again and once more one of the most popular resolution is to give up smoking. Now this is something I managed about 8 or 9 years ago and happened to find quite easy.
There was someone else who found it pretty easy too, Allen Carr used to have a 100 a day habit and once he'd decided he was going to quit, he did. He then went on to make rather a lot of money writing books and running seminars about how to give up.
Allen Carr died in 2006, of cancer, whether directly or indirectly due to that 100 a day habit or just that he was susceptible to the disease doesn't really matter.
His way of quitting cigarettes is pretty much how I managed and how a lot of others can do the same, not using Nicotine Replacement Therepy (a waste of money) but by actually wanting to give up and then doing so, destroying any remaining tobacco and then sticking to your principles.
My rant though is over this NRT, now how can anyone stop smoking when the health service tells you to keep taking the substance that creates the addiction in the first place? Nicotine is what make you want to smoke. It can't work, indeed if you look at figures for people who use this over the long term they return to smoking cigarettes, they don't stand a chance. They're all just replacing one type of addiction with another one that uses the exact same substance
Check out Allen Carr's website, open your mind and realise that pharmaceutical companies that produce these patches, gums and god only knows whatelse want your money and are actively fighting against the tobacco companies to gain a bigger foothold in the nicotine supply market.
