For those reading this thread:
Effectiveness of interventions to help people stop smoking: finding from the Cochrane LibraryIf you would like the Cliff notes version:
Summary points (to help people stop smoking)
Advice from doctors, structured interventions from nurses, and individual and group counselling are effective interventions
Generic self help materials are no better than brief advice but more effective than doing nothing; personalised materials are more effective than standard materials
All forms of nicotine replacement therapy are effective
The antidepressants bupropion and nortriptyline increased quit rates in a small number of trials; the usefulness of the antihypertensive drug clonidine is limited by side effects
Anxiolytics and lobeline are ineffective
The effectiveness of aversion therapy, mecamylamine, acupuncture, hypnotherapy, and exercise is uncertain
*So before you come trotting in here on your "you guys are doing wrong and there isn't any evidence based research and I am the expert because I did it my way and I am no longer an addict" horse, get your facts straight. Don't give us your pseudo science witch doctor advise about "indian tobacco" and claim that KTC isn't effective. I don't know if you are female or male, but you sir/madam are most certainly a troll-braless and diaperless- but still a troll. Go start your own site and stay the fuck away.
**To others reading - notice the above summary is how to stop smoking, not stop nicotine. The statement "All forms of NRT are effective" is correct in the proper context. In other words, I could stop freebase smoking heroine by injecting it IV. I would still be a heroine addict, but would no longer be smoking it.
***I am tired of spooks coming in here spewing advice. You want to share the spoils of KTC, but you refuse to adhere to what works. Spooks STOP through spite. We QUIT here everyday. One day at time. And we do not forget. EVER.
I posted and quit with Euty, Kemper, Fanpro, and Jerry today in Dec 2006. They have collectively been quit 25 years! 6 years of quit a piece. Go ask them how they
DO it.
1. Post Roll
2. Keep Your Word
3. Rinse and Repeat Daily.
Vadge