On Nicotine Replacement Therapy (Patches, Gum, Inhalers etc)
From Alan Carr’s ‘SCANDAL’
“...THEY ARE ACTUALLY PRESCRIBING NICOTINE TO CURE NICOTINE ADDICTION! I have gone into great detail to explain why our so- called sociable pastime of smoking, is nothing more nor less than: ADDICTION TO NICOTINE .
To prescribe nicotine in order to cure addiction to nicotine is like saying to a heroin addict: " Don't smoke heroin, smoking is dangerous, why not just inject it straight into your veins!"
In fact the whole business of prescribing NRT is a giant confidence trick motivated by the greed of the pharmaceutical industry and aided and abetted by our Government and the medical establishment. For that reason alone it ranks with the tobacco industry itself as one of the biggest scandals in history.
It (the following article) caught my eye because it was entitled: “ The NRT cessation charade continues”. The author is an American called John Polito who works as a nicotine cessation educator, which means he is honest about trying to stop the source of the addiction, rather than maintain it. He says, and I quote from that respected journal:
“ Imagine a series of studies in which alcoholics being fed alcohol via intravenous bags ( which means alcohol is injected directly into the veins) for a period of 3- 6 months were compared with those who had actually quit using all alcohol. Talk about a built- in start! Imagine studies declaring efficacy victory while the bags were still being used. Imagine billions in profits that could be realized if we could only redefine quitting to mean giving up the bottle or can, while calling intravenous bags of alcohol ‘ medicine’ and its use ‘ therapy’. And don’t forget the advantage we’d realize by the frustrated expectations of those alcoholics who could sense alcohol absence, and the advantage from creating study abstinence definitions that allow a little sip from the bottle now and then. The only thing we’d need to hide would be actual performance.”
– from Alan Carr’s ‘Scandal’ 2006.