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Today is No Smoking Day and thousands of Scots will be trying to kick the habit. With just 18 days until the smoking ban in all of Scotland's enclosed public places begins, Allen Carr spoke to Lindsay Clydesdale about his successful stopping method.
His clinics treat 40,000 people a year and his book, EasyWay To Stop Smoking, has sold seven million copies worldwide. Here Allen gives advice to those who want to quit.
DO: ASK FOR HELP I think smokers have been bullied, pushed around and made to feel like lepers. I feel great sympathy for smokers these days. They don't need to be banned, they need to be helped. Smoking bans are a red herring.
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Not everyone with lung cancer is - or has been - a smoker. But some sufferers say people assume they have been - and warn that the stigma could be costing lives.
Wednesday is No Smoking Day, which puts lung cancer back on the national agenda - briefly.
Viewed by most as the "smokers' disease" it is rarely in the headlines and definitely not a cause celebre like breast cancer, despite being the biggest cancer killer in the UK. To put it bluntly, it has a serious image problem.
One in 10 people who get it have never actually been smokers themselves or lived with smokers, according to Cancer Research UK. Dana Reeve, the wife of Superman actor Christopher Reeve, died of the illness on Tuesday despite being a non-smoker her whole life.
Smokers in Scotland should use No Smoking Day to kick the habit, the health minister has said.
Andy Kerr said there had "never been a better time" to give up smoking, citing evidence of bans in Ireland and New York as helping people to do so.
Speaking ahead of Scotland's ban on 26 March, Mr Kerr, a former smoker, said it would improve the nation's health.
Anti-smoking campaign group Ash Scotland said 70% of smokers in the country wanted help to give up. . . .
The minister also commented on latest survey results which suggested the majority of Scotland's population were in favour of the smoking ban.
The survey figures from January found 61% of Scots support the ban on smoking in enclosed public places, although only 26% of smokers do.
The ban on smoking in Northern Ireland will encourage almost 40% of smokers to try to quit, a survey has suggested.
The ban will come into effect in all workplaces and enclosed public spaces, including pubs, from April next year.
The public is currently being asked to help shape legislation which will introduce a smoking ban.
The charity, No Smoking Day, said 38% of Northern Ireland smokers felt the ban would make them try to stop - compared to 22% of smokers nationwide.
Charlotte Church - drinker, clubber, good-time girl extraordinaire - has turned her image on its head to promote healthy living.
The world-famous singer, until recently seen in celebrity magazines holding a drink and a cigarette is backing No Smoking Day this year.
Church chucked her 20-a-day habit at New Year, and apart from a lapse on her birthday, has stuck to her resolution.
But she has warned other quitters they will need "willpower".
Promoting the no-smoking message in Cardiff, the 20-year-old admitted she found it "really hard", but was motivated by changes in the tone of her voice to quit.
A third of London smokers plan to give up when the ban comes into force next year, according to a survey.
The study revealed that a further 53% said they would try to quit the habit when the new laws are introduced.
MPs approved the legislation to ban smoking in workplaces, including pubs and clubs, last month.
The survey, commissioned by the charity No Smoking Day, showed that of 28 million smokers in the UK 22% said they would give up when the ban came in.
The government had predicted that the ban would result in 600,000 people quitting.
A fifth of UK smokers plan to quit when the ban on smoking in enclosed public spaces comes in, a survey suggests.
The poll, by the No Smoking Day organisation, says that 22% giving up as a direct result of the ban would mean more than 2.8m smokers quitting.
But pro-smoking group Forest said the idea that so many people would quit as a result of the ban was "laughable" .
Five million smokers - a record number - will try to give up as part of this year's annual No Smoking Day on March 8, it was claimed.
Each year millions of smokers attempt to quit en masse spurred on by the annual health awareness campaign.
It is thought that the forthcoming ban on smoking in public places in England has persuaded many smokers to try to give up.
On the eve of the annual No Smoking Day, ASH is urging smokers who want to stop to have a go at quitting, even if they hadn’t planned to do so. Recent research suggests that many smokers give up spontaneously as a result of a particular trigger. [1] For many, that trigger will be the prospect of having to work in a smokefree environment. Now that a smoking ban in all enclosed workplaces is set to be enacted shortly, [2] and some companies are already pressing ahead with smokefree policies [3] ASH is urging all would-be ex-smokers to think of the health and financial benefits of being smokefree and to give up now.
No Smoking Day (NSD) is organised by a charity of the same name run by 3 full time staff. Based in London the charity is funded by a coalition of governmental and voluntary sector organisations with an interest in health.
NSD aims to help people who want to stop smoking by creating a supportive environment for them, and by highlighting the many sources of help available to people who want to quit.
Now in its 23rd year it is a firm fixture in the UK calendar because of its popularity amongst smokers and continued success. Three quarters of smokers would like to stop and on NSD over 1.5 million try. NSD isn't just about the Day. Giving up smoking requires much planning, encouragement, support and motivation. Helping others to prepare to give up can be done year round but the Day provides an excellent focus and motivation for many smokers to stop.
* How to stop smoking
* Organise a No Smoking Day event
* No Smoking Day the charity
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VOICE of an Angel Charlotte Church has quit smoking and admitted that the 25-a-day habit affected her voice.
Charlotte, 20, has revealed that she gave up the habit on New Year's Day.
The opera singer-turned-pop star urged others to do the same to mark No Smoking Day today, saying smoking "looks disgusting". She said: "I smoked about 20 or 25 a day and I'd tried to give up a couple of times before but only lasted half a day.
DEVOTED gran Anne Cunliffe, 62, smoked up to 15 cigarettes a day for almost 40 years, but after several quit attempts she finally gave up three years ago. A year later she was diagnosed with lung cancer.
She is having chemotherapy and will have to wait to see if doctors can reduce the tumour.
She wishes the smoking ban had been brought in years ago.
She believes that by banning smoking in public places, MPs will turn smoking from a social to an anti-social habit. She believes many people will quit as a result.
FIVE lives could be saved every day in Greater Manchester by a ban on smoking in public places.
According to anti-smoking campaigners, 14 people die every day in the county as a direct result of smoking.
That figure is expected to fall by five following the ban on smoking in public places. Smoking is the biggest single cause of ill health in Britain, with a third of regular smokers dying from diseases like lung cancer which are directly linked to their habit.
Research carried out in Ireland, when it went smoke free in 2004, suggests there will be a huge increase in the number of people quitting cigarettes when smoking is banned in all bars and clubs. . . .
Today - national No Smoking Day - the M.E.N. can reveal that health services across Greater Manchester are already gearing up to support thousands of extra smokers in their bid to quit when the ban comes into force next year.
ANTI-SMOKING campaigners aim to persuade record numbers to kick the habit.
Their ambitious target is to persuade one in six Yorkshire smokers to stub it out.
Meanwhile, health experts today pleaded: Please get serious about giving up.
They spoke out as the countdown begins to national No Smoking Day.
This year's big drive is on March 8.