Re: Substitutes (att: Edna Pearl and NRT supporters)

On May 30, 10:07 pm, Burner Fan <jkr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Let this be a day of growth and understanding, today we all have the
opportunity to debunk one of the greatest myths of smoking, NRT.

SUBSTITUTES by Allen Carr (Easyway)

Substitutes include chewing gum, sweets, peppermints, herbal
cigarettes, and pills. DO NOT USE ANY OF THEM. They make it harder,
not easier. If you do get a pang and use a substitute, it will prolong
the pang and make it harder. What you are really saying is “I need to
smoke or fill the void.” It will be like giving in to a hijacker or
the tantrums of a child. It will just keep the pangs coming and
prolong the torture. In any event the substitutes will not relieve the
pangs. Your craving is for nicotine, not food. All it will do is keep
you thinking about smoking. Remember these points:

1. There is no substitute for nicotine.
2. You do not need nicotine. It is not food; it is poison. When the
pangs come remind yourself that it is smokers who suffer withdrawal
pangs, not non-smokers. See the pangs as another evil of the drug. See
them as the death of a monster.

Big snippage here.

Pity poor Burner Fan. He really does not understand that it is not
the nicotine in tobacco that kills people. It is the inhaling of
smoke laden with tars and other chemicals that causes the lung cancer
that kills people.

He does not understand that thousands of people have successfully quit
smoking with the help of the nicotine patch. I am one of them so I
know what I'm talking about, while Burner Fan just mindlessly parrots
his god Allen Carr. There are quite a few other quit aids available.
I am writing only about the patch because I lived through quitting
with the patch. I doubt if Burner Fan is even a smoker.

I don't know why I am even wasting my time addressing him. I post
this because I want the newbies here to know that Burner Fan is
probably a troll and should be ignored. Which I will do from this
moment on.

Joyce
10 years 6 months 1 week 2 days and if that's not a successful quit, I
challenge BF to let us know what qualifies as successful in his view.
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