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Nicotine Addiction?

If you want to stop smoking or learn how to encourage someone to quit smoking here is a curious thing…The media talk about nicotine addiction, your doctor may prescribe patches and local health authorities reinforce the message. Millions (approx 70% of smokers) would like to stop smoking but are afraid to quit smoking because they fear cravings. Indeed, many have experienced cravings when they have tried to stop smoking previously.

And yet, if nicotine is addictive, and if your local health authorities are correct that it's as addictive (some say more addictive) as drugs such as heroin and cocaine, and if doctors prescribe nicotine patches to their patients, then there must be people addicted to patches mustn't there? How many people have you met who are addicted to patches? Have you met any at all??

Over the past six years at the Stop Smoking Centre in Hertford, we have spoken to hundreds upon hundreds of smokers and none of them mentioned they’d heard of anyone who was addicted to patches. In fact, most clients who reported trying them couldn't wait to get rid of them, owing to the side effects such as nightmares or skin irritations.

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Although the office is situated in Hertford, we tend to attract clients from all over Herts. Mostly this includes: Ware, Hoddesdon, Bishops Stortford, Cheshunt, Buntingford, Stansted, Royston, Enfield, Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City and Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire.

Recommendations have also tended to attract people from further affield, from Cambridgeshire, Essex, London and even Dover in Kent, with the furthest visiting us from the Bahamas!

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“I wanted to stop. Most smokers, if they’re honest, want to give up. I knew I had to. I’d tried lots of things to quit. I didn’t like the patches; either too strong or too weak, they were giving me nightmares and disturbed sleep. I’d tried lozenges but the sugar wasn’t helping my diabetes.

I booked a session because my health and fitness were important to me. Also the money was important, because I realised I’d be saving £50 a week.

Just one session and all those things that were important to me have been realised. I’ve joined a gym, I feel better in myself. The diabetes is improved and my high cholesterol levels have dropped by a substantial amount. My specialist at the QEII Hospital is very impressed.

Of course you do find yourself in situations when previously you would have smoked automatically. I got tempted once in Portugal – “I fancy a cigar” but the thought went straight away. The thought of smoking doesn’t bother me in the least. If I’m with other smokers it just doesn’t bother me.

Friends are all interested. How did you do it? When you find something that works for you, you want to share that.”

- Keith Anderson, Policeman, Essex

When you are trying to stop smoking, you will often be told that ‘nicotine is highly addictive' and even, ‘nicotine is as addictive as heroin or cocaine'. The reality is that it is the habit of smoking which is addictive, rather than the nicotine. Just think about it. Many people can go for long periods of time without smoking if they have to, on a flight, in a restaurant, and not smoking doesn't bother them. Many women just stop smoking completely as soon as they discover they are pregnant.

Smokers don't wake up in the middle of the night to have a cigarette (unless suffering disturbed sleep) or wake up and smoke eight one after the other to make up for the ones they missed whilst asleep! If you were chemically addicted to nicotine you would not have that control.

Clients frequently tell us that when they tried patches, after the novelty wore off, that they still wanted to smoke! Why? They are getting a strong dose of nicotine, directly into their system, yet they still want to smoke – why? Because they are battling the habit of smoking.

Stephen made this comment on his feedback form...

Patches were a complete and utter waste of time. I'd spoken to others who had stopped so I booked the appointment.

This time it was very easy. I had no desire to smoke after the one session. This was a huge difference from my previous experience. When I walked out after the session there was no desire, no withdrawal symptoms. I couldn't really understand it, found it hard to believe. I tell people that what HSSC do is very effective. It has made it extremely easy for me to say no. It's up to me now whether I chose to smoke – rather than being controlled by the tobacco habit. But since I don't have any cravings, why would I want to?”

- Stephen Porter, Hertford, Herts

“I'd stopped smoking previously for periods of two to five years but it's always been an enormous fight, and one was always conscious that one would like a cigarette even after years of quitting.

“I tried patches ten years ago. Lasted three months. Have tried about three other times, lasted a couple of weeks. The last time that I tried, I lasted ten weeks but had such a bad reaction to the patches I felt better smoking again.

I have not had to struggle at all. There has probably been a couple of occasions when I have actually thought I may have wanted a cigarette, but that was gone in an instant.

I really did not think that it would be this easy. Having said this I do not intend to become complacent.

As it was a totally pain free experience for me and have not wanted a cigarette since the session I can’t think of anything that needs improving.”

- Stephen Allan, Horsham, W. Sussex

If you want to stop smoking or learn how to encourage someone to quit smoking the statistics of people who stop smoking are interesting. About 6% of people stop smoking using willpower. About 10%* of people stop smoking using gum. An improvement, but not much of one. About 16%* of people quit smoking using patches, again, an improvement, but not much of one.

* Health care trusts are allowed to claim success if their patients stop smoking for just one month … Yet you probably know people who have quit smoking (using gum or patches) who have started smoking again

a few months later.

Now, if you turn those figures the right way up, that means that 84-90% of people trying nicotine replacement therapies fail . Statistically, nicotine replacement doesn't work! In fact, a placebo is much more effective. (At 30% it's almost twice as effective) Isn't that interesting? A placebo, a pill without any medicinal value is more affective than the nicotine replacement therapies prescribed by your doctor or sold to you by your chemist. How can ‘nothing’ be twice as effective as something prescribed by your Doctor?

If you want to stop smoking your doctor will confirm that all the nicotine is out of your body within 48 hours. Yet you probably know of people who have stopped smoking for weeks, months or even years and then started again. If all the nicotine was out of the system in 48 hours what got them started again?

Long term research on the efficacy of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) released by the University of Geneva in the summer of 2006 indicated that within one to four years 92.8% of those using NRT had returned to smoking!! As the BBC reported:

“Nicotine replacement effectiveness ‘Hyped’.”

Would you buy a product that only worked for 8 people out of every hundred? As a consequence of this farce the pharmaceutical companies are banking millions on the failed attempts of those who are desperate to stop smoking.

According to many of our clients, Stephen Porter’s experience is typical:

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