Category Archives for "Quit Smoking"
Is it possible to quit smoking? Yes, but you have to go about it in the right way.
Quit for Covid – or Quit for Yourself?
Thanks to the ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) Daily News of 18 June 2020, we are informed of a new tactic to get smokers to quit: fear of Covid. Dr Ruth Sharrock, a specialist in respiratory medicine in the English city of Gateshead, is involved in a new campaign launched by an organisation with […]
Continue readingA Complicated Way to Quit Smoking
In California there’s an organisation with the amusing name of ‘Ash Kickers’. It’s a six-session programme intended to cure you of smoking. Sounds interesting, but six sessions? And how do they do it? It’s based on the ‘trans-theoretical model of behaviour modification’. Pardon? They explain: [This] helps smokers travel through the various stages of quitting […]
Continue readingIt Hit Me Like a Wall of Bricks
There are, it must be admitted, other websites that claim to be able to cure smokers without nicotine, drugs or willpower. What these sites offer instead, are techniques. Now don’t get me wrong. If smokers after working their way through a ten-day course to learn how to replace the word ‘cigarette’ in their minds with […]
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