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Jump to full article: whyquit.com, 2008-11-20
Author: pharmaceutical interests. Originally a day to quit smoking
Intro: Ready to take back your mind, health and life? The Great American Smokeout is a great excuse to come home! Sadly, the Great American Smokeout has been hijacked by pharmaceutical interests. Originally a day to quit smoking nicotine, it has been transformed into a day to use "replacement" nicotine, or new nicotine designer drugs that imitate it. The following cold turkey quitting tips recapture the glory of the very first Smokeout, of ending use of the chemical that has kept you enslaved. .
Watching Pfizer's new tortoise and hare Chantix commericals, you'd think cold turkey quitters never succeed. But according to the American Cancer Society, 91% of America's 46 million ex-smokers quit entirely on their own: more than 41 million strong. Truth is that the hare isn't a turkey but placebo. Truth is that placebo isn't even a real quitting method. Will Pfizer ever allow Chantix to go head-to-head with real cold turkey quitters? I doubt it.
The below quit smoking tips are a sampling of the cold turkey quitting lessons available at WhyQuit, a totally free, all-volunteer, non-commerical quit smoking site that sells nothing and actually declines donations. Since mid-2000 WhyQuit has been the Internet's most popular abrupt nicotine cessation destination.
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