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gum have been at the forefront of the government\u2019s smoking cessation strategy, closely followed by advertising restrictions and bans on smoking in public places. One might think that after spending hundreds of millions of pounds on these initiatives, we should now be winning the battle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, how has it been going?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In spite of the multi-million pound fanfare which heralded the smoking ban on 1st July 2007 there has been \u201cno significant difference\u201d in the proportion of people smoking as a result of it.<br>\nThe figures presented in data from the Health Survey for England, a report from The <span class=\"caps\">NHS<\/span> Information Center, involved questioning almost 5,000 adults about smoking. The study found there was a similar percentage of smokers in England before the July 1 ban as afterwards.<br>\nResearchers examined the results for thousands of people interviewed before the ban with those questioned after July 1.<br>\nA total of 23% of men and 21% of women said they were \u201ccurrent smokers\u201d before the ban, increasing slightly to 24% of men and 21% of women afterwards.<br>\nThe average number of cigarettes smoked each day also did not fall significantly, the report said.<br>\nMen aged 35 to 54 smoked one-and-a-half cigarettes fewer per day on average after the ban, while men aged 55 and over smoked about three fewer.<br>\nHowever, young men aged 16 to 34 actually smoked more cigarettes after the ban \u2013 around one-and-a-half cigarettes per day more.<br>\nSuch differences were not noticed among women.<br>\nHowever, the report claimed there may have been some important changes in the amount smoked by the public\u2026whatever that means!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ic.nhs.uk\/statistics-and-data-collections\/health-and-lifestyles-related-surveys\/health-survey-for-england\/health-survey-for-england-2007:-healthly-lifestyles:-knowledge-attitudes-and-behaviour-%5Bns%5D\">www.ic.nhs.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>So the government\u2019s smoking cessation strategy is clearly not working. Why not?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, it doesn\u2019t require much intelligence to realise that <span class=\"caps\">NRT<\/span> cannot cure nicotine addiction. You can\u2019t cure an alcoholic by giving them alcohol intravenously, you can\u2019t cure someone addicted to smoking heroin off tin foil by getting them to inject it, and you can\u2019t cure smokers of nicotine addiction by giving them nicotine. Nevertheless, <span class=\"caps\">NRT<\/span> has formed the cornerstone of the government\u2019s attempts to address the smoking problem. The fact that the pharmaceutical industry could afford to conduct enough studies to ensure that at least some of them achieved an encouraging result, while carefully disposing of the many that did not, has been overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>Many of those who championed <span class=\"caps\">NRT<\/span> as an aid to quitting are now backtracking. Nicotine, they argue, should now be administered to addicts, not as a means of quitting the drug, but merely as a \u201csafer alternative\u201d to smoking. So, the objective of nicotine treatment is soon to become a long term (in other words lifelong) maintenance program with a variety of nicotine products provided for addicts to use for the rest of their lives. Allen Carr\u2019s Easyway has consistently stated that <span class=\"caps\">NRT<\/span> is a misnomer. Nicotine is not being replaced, it is being maintained and there\u2019s nothing therapeutic about that. It should be called Nicotine Maintenance Treatment. Recent developments have simply confirmed this view.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent newspaper in the UK reported earlier this year that the Royal College of Physicians (<span class=\"caps\">RCP<\/span>) have called for \u201csafer nicotine delivery systems\/products to be made more widely available to replace cigarettes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Professor John Britton, chief author of the <span class=\"caps\">RCP<\/span> report states: \u201cThe ideal product would be a nicotine inhaler like an asthma inhaler, that delivers a hit of nicotine as close as possible to the experience of smoking a cigarette.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whilst dismissing future daily use of nicotine on a permanent basis as being of no more concern than current use of caffeine, Britton goes on to say: \u201cIf these people [smokers] can be encouraged to use a safer product instead, the impact on public health would be huge. If we end up with a society in which a lot of people use a safe nicotine product every day, so what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\">Source: <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s ignore the fact that nicotine is itself a poison which causes tremendous harm and that little is known about the effects of long term use of these so-called \u201csafer nicotine delivery systems\u201d. Let\u2019s also ignore the fact that drug addiction is classified as a disease in itself by the scientific and medical establishments and is hugely damaging both physically and psychologically, not only to addicts but also to their families. Let\u2019s also ignore the fact that tobacco companies and pharmaceutical companies are now simply competing for the multi-billion dollar a year nicotine market. Instead, let\u2019s confront the subject which none of the policy makers wants to talk about: that a cornerstone of the government\u2019s smoking cessation strategy (<span class=\"caps\">NRT<\/span>) has failed. You can\u2019t cure addiction to nicotine by giving the addict nicotine.<\/p>\n<p>Allen Carr always maintained that restricting advertising would have little effect. Youngsters don\u2019t start smoking because of advertising but simply because other people around them are doing it. Smokers don\u2019t continue smoking because of advertising but because they are addicted to nicotine. The advertising bans have been useful to an extent but without an effective means of curing smokers they were always likely to be impotent. Parents who smoke are the most influential advertisers of tobacco to the next generation of smokers.<\/p>\n<p>Smoking bans are spreading around the world like wildfire and there is no doubt that they protect the health of non-smokers in the workplace and public places. But have they, at least, been a successful part of the smoking cessation policy?<\/p>\n<p>The report from The <span class=\"caps\">NHS<\/span> Information Center indicates not and it verifies the results from one of the pioneers of smoking bans, Ireland.<br>\nEarlier this year, The Irish Examiner newspaper reported that since the introduction of the smoking ban nearly three years ago, smoking levels have actually increased in Ireland. This was indicated by a national study of Irish health and lifestyles by the Department for Health.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.tcm.ie\">Source:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly neither study has been widely reported but it is since the Irish study that a passion for safer nicotine delivery systems appears to have developed amongst the medical and scientific establishments.<br>\n<span class=\"caps\">NRT<\/span> has failed, restricting advertising has failed and smoking bans have failed, so the policy makers are resorting to a strategy of feeding addicts their drug on a lifelong basis and therefore perpetuating drug addiction at taxpayers\u2019 expense. The only winner here is Big Pharma which sells <span class=\"caps\">NRT<\/span> and the tobacco companies who are currently buying companies that already provide a variety of nicotine products.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of this failed strategy should be measured not only in the hundreds of millions of taxpayers\u2019 pounds spent on the folly, but in the continuing misery of those who remain slaves to nicotine and in countless lost lives as well.<\/p>\n<p>Allen Carr\u2019s Easyway has always clearly stated that <span class=\"caps\">NRT<\/span> cannot help cure nicotine addiction and that advertising restrictions and smoking bans would not achieve the desired reduction in smoking populations. To do that, smokers need to be provided with an effective method of stopping. Unfortunately, although such a method has now existed for over 25 years, successive governments have so far failed to do that.<\/p>\n<p>The government, Department of Health, the <span class=\"caps\">NHS<\/span>, and the medical and scientific establishment clearly do not know what they are doing. Isn\u2019t it time they consulted an organisation which does?<\/p>\n<p>Robin Hayley is <span class=\"caps\">CEO<\/span> of Allen Carr\u2019s Easyway. He oversees a global network of quit smoking clinics in over 40 countries and Allen Carr\u2019s book, The Easyway To Quit Smoking, has been translated into more than 40 languages and has sold more than 10 million copies in over 50 countries worldwide.<\/p><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"related-articles u-background-white article-related-articles\">\n                \n                            \n                \n        <h3 class=\"related-articles__title u-text-center\">\n            Up next&#8230;\n        <\/h3>\n\n        <div class=\"container related-articles__container\">\n                                                                            <div class=\"article-preview article-preview--standard_altern u-hover-state\">\n    <div class=\"article-preview__columns article-preview__columns--standard_altern\">\n        <div class=\"article-preview__column article-preview__column--standard_altern\">\n        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