HomeNewsUK Quit Smoking Campaigns Come Under Fire
February 22, 2012 Two current UK government campaigns pull no punches about urging all smokers trying to quit to use drugs. One puts it bluntly: “Don’t go cold turkey”. Another poster on display in the nation’s waiting rooms says: “There are some people who can go cold turkey and stop smoking. But there aren’t many of them.” (See picture at bottom of this post.) That statement is manifestly incorrect and an enquiry should be undertaken into how such nonsense was approved for publication. In 1986, just a few years after nicotine replacement therapies became available, the American Cancer Society stated: “Over 90% of the estimated 37 million people who have stopped smoking in this country since the Surgeon General’s first report linking smoking to cancer [1964] have done so unaided.” How did they possibly manage to do it without drugs?
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