Written by Rupert Kircz | Friday, 28 August 2009 | There is 1 comment
lots of little things you can do to improve the chances of you quitting smoking 
Time Magazine recently conducted an interview with Professor Michael Fiore at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and founder of The Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention and asked him what he felt was the best way to quit smoking.
His responses came as no surprise to Ukmedix News and are backed up by a huge amount of evidence, [8,000 scientific papers] to give an overall picture of what actually works and what doesn’t. He explained how different United States public health services had “systematically and impartially” looked at all of the research on smoking cessation and concluded that three particular areas were the most effective.
Firstly, they spoke about the importance of counseling. Getting good advice from people who know what they’re talking about can drastically reduce the chances of you failing to quit. At Ukmedix News we have published hundreds of articles about how to approach quitting smoking and these are used by individuals who say that they not only give good advice but they also motivate them and encourage them to continue when the cravings get very strong.
The second thing pointed out by Professor Fiore which really has an effect on quit rates is the identifying of smokers when they go to a doctor. The fact that doctors advise their patients to quit smoking has a big impact on whether they make that decision to quit or not. Doctors should understand the responsibility that they have to warn of the dangers of smoking even if the patient comes in to see them for something unrelated to their smoking habit.
Lastly, but by no means least Professor Fiore spoke about certain smoking cessation medications which have been scientifically proven in independent clinical tests to increase the chances of you quitting. He specifically mentioned Champix and Zyban (varenicline and bupropion) as being effective and spoke about how when all the above three smoking cessation therapies were combined together the chances of being able to become completely smoke free would be greatly enhanced.
There are lots of little things you can do to improve the chances of you quitting smoking and you should sit down and work out your own smoking cessation strategy. You need to adapt it to your own lifestyle and set realistic goals. Remember that thousands of people quit smoking every year and that it can be done. Also remember that if you don’t quit smoking the chances are that it will end up killing you, [maybe painfully and slowly].
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John R. Polito said:
Rupert, with due respect, Michael Fiore is a pharmaceutical industry salesman who uses the University of Wisconsin as a store-front to pitch NRT, Zyban and Chantix. He sits in a $50,000 a year endowed professorship chair (providing him unrestricted funds) that was created for him by the maker of Nicorette nicotine gum. The Center has taken millions from the pharm industry to conduct "placebo" controlled studies that Fiore knows were not blind as claimed. In fact, the entire cessation pharmacology industry is built on the study sham that nicotine addicts with lengthy quitting histories will not recognize the onset or absence of full-blown withdrawal. Clinical trial efficacy victories were not earned but instead reflect victory by default; frustrated expectations. As chairman of the panel that authored US cessation policy that effectively outlawed non-pharamacology quitting, it's my opinion that Fiore has done more to destroy effective cessation in America than any man alive. I believe history will hold Fiore accountable for pretending blindness in pushing junk science that resulted in hundreds of thousands needless deaths.
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