PRESS RELEASE – NICOTINE FIGHTS BACK14 May 2010If you’re a smoker you need to contact Allen Carr’s Easyway now. If you can comprehend that the government, encouraged and abetted by the medical and scientific establishment, is set to ramp up the annual multi-million pound campaigns designed purely to keep you hooked on …nicotine for the rest of your life, at your own expense, swelling the treasury’s coffers ad infinitum – you’ll realise – the sooner you escape from this nicotine trap – the better.If you want to make an informed decision – please read on….A story appeared in today’s INDEPENDENT newspaper reporting that the Royal College of Physicians have called for “safer nicotine delivery systems/products�� to be made widely available to replace cigarettes and enable addicts to remain addicted in the long term.This is a link to the full story:http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style … 31864.htmlThese are the main points from this story – perhaps you sense where the medical & scientific establishment are going with this? It reads like an advertisement for nicotine. Allen Carr’s Easyway organisation absolutely reject many of the main points. Our comments are in [brackets] below:• Nicotine is largely harmless [incorrect]• Cigarettes are lethal [correct]• The search is on for ways to deliver the pleasure without the risks [nicotine does not provide any pleasure]• A device that delivers nicotine quickly, efficiently and safely could earn a fortune [correct]• The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) suggest that, with a concerted effort, smoking could be eliminated within 20 years [incorrect, firstly, wasn’t that what the smoking bans were supposed to achieve? Secondly, it could be achieved far quicker than 20 years if smokers were provided with an effective means of quitting via the NHS]• Two things would have to happen, the college said i) curbs on smoking would have to be strengthened, principally by ramping up taxes on tobacco ii) more importantly, access to nicotine in other, safer, forms has to be greatly increased [incorrect – this is just an indication that the hundreds of millions of pounds spent on the government’s smoking cessation programme has been a complete waste or that the strategy was always intended to be the first phase of a systematic, misleading, process of converting smokers into long term users of other addictive nicotine products}• The tobacco industry are on the case. [you bet they are] This week, the Marlboro cigarette empire Altria bought the USA’s biggest maker of chewing tobacco, UST, for $10.4bn (£5.8bn). The deal confirms the tobacco industry’s interest in diversifying out of cigarettes into “smokeless” products. UST makes Skoal – tea bag-like pouches of tobacco that are held between the cheek and gum, allowing nicotine to be absorbed. British American Tobacco is also investing heavily in the search for safer ways to deliver nicotine. BAT paid £2bn to take control of the Swedish company ST, which makes Snus – also pouches of tobacco for sucking.• Evidence suggests that sucking a pouch of tobacco is 90 per cent less harmful than inhaling cigarette smoke [what evidence?] But the products are banned in the EU on the grounds that they are carcinogenic, and that to replace one carcinogen with another, albeit one less lethal, is unwise.• Investigations are under way into alternative ways of delivering nicotine that will satisfy the most hardened of addicts [nicotine does not satisfy]. As more smokers give up, those who puff on are the ones who require most support to quit. Nicotine gum and patches won’t cut it; these are addicts who need the “hit” that only a lungful of smoke supplies [we presume they mean those smokers for whom NRT hasn’t worked. That’s most smokers then]
• Nicotine is the closest we are likely to get to the perfect drug [incorrect]• Its effects are diverse; it stimulates, calms [how can it do both of those things? Think about it} and enhances feelings of pleasure [no it doesn’t] but has few side effects. Its great advantage over other drugs is that its effects are mild. It is pleasurable [no it isn’t] only within a narrow range of concentrations in the blood. That is what makes it safe [where is the scientific evidence that says it’s safe?]• A device that delivers nicotine quickly, efficiently and safely could earn a fortune [you bet – drug pushers always make lots of money]• Regulations on the sale of medicinal nicotine are so tight that they keep prices high – seven days’ worth of nicotine patches costs £17 – and the development of innovative products low [an innovative product would be one that cures the addiction to nicotine and where has the phrase “medicinal nicotine�� come from? My Collins Gem Dictionary describes nicotine as “poison�� not medicine!]Professor John Britton, consultant respiratory physician and chief author of the Royal College of Physicians report said “The ideal product would be a nicotine inhaler like an asthma inhaler that delivered a hit of nicotine as close as possible to the experience of smoking a cigarette. The makers of nicotine gum patches don’t want to do it and the regulatory restrictions make it difficult to get it on to the market. There is no competition. That is why we need a Nicotine Regulatory Authority.” [Britton is also a board member of ASH and appears to be in favour of opening up the nicotine industry]• Nicotine patches and chewing gums available on prescription and, now, sold over the counter are strictly regulated medicinal products designed for short-term use by people trying to quit. They do not deliver the hit required to satisfy hardened smokers [by “hardened addicts we presume they mean those smokers for whom NRT hasn’t worked. That’s most smokers then]• What is needed is a medicinal nicotine product designed not as a short-term crutch to support the quitter, but for long-term use as part of a “harm reduction” approach [what is being described is not a ‘medicinal nicotine product’ it’s a new vehicle to deliver a highly addictive, poisonous drug] This idea is backed by the Royal College of Physicians and by Ash, the antismoking charity [Britton is also a board member of ASH] but it causes disquiet among some public health experts who blanch at the prospect of condoning nicotine dependency.• Nicotine is, if anything, less harmful than caffeine – if it carries less risk than a cup of coffee, where’s the problem in making it freely available in a more attractive form? [what scientific evidence exists to support this claim?]• There are signs that the Government may be willing to listen. Close readers of its cancer reform strategy, published last year, noted that the Department of Health said it would consult on measures “to reduce the significant harm to health caused by smoking for those who are addicted to nicotine and not able to quit altogether”.• Britton, who is the head of the Department of Public Health at the University of Nottingham [and a Board Member of ASH] says: “If these people can be encouraged to use a safer product instead, the impact on public health
would be huge. If we end up with a society in which a lot of people use a safe nicotine product every day, so what?”Allen Carr’s Easyway’s stance on this issue:So, the medical and scientific establishment, who for years have endorsed the use of Nicotine as a cure for nicotine addiction, encouraging governments to invest hundreds of millions of pounds each year in smoking cessation programmes based entirely on the use of nicotine as a means of quitting smoking, have changed their minds.Allen Carr’s Easyway organisation said they were wrong – THERE IS NOW NO DOUBT – WE WERE RIGHT TO DO SO.Now, the same medical and scientific establishment are saying that nicotine won’t cure smoking unless the addicts remain addicted to nicotine in the long term, in other words, for the rest of their lives.By “hardened addicts�� we can only presume that they are referring to those people who have attempted to quit by using NRT and failed, in other words most smokers.One gets the impression that the medical and scientific establishment are making this up as they go along.John Britton’s comment that, “If we end up with a society in which a lot of people use a safe nicotine product every day, so what?” understates the situation somewhat by a careful and selective use of words. What he is actually saying is
“If we end up with a society in which a lot of people remain addicted to nicotine for the rest of their lives, so what?”So what? SO WHAT? John Britton obviously has no understanding or appreciation of the psychological damage caused to a person who is an addict. He clearly has no understanding of the harm and hardship caused to, not only the addict, but to the addict’s family, who – in some user groups – go without basic food staples in order for the addict to fund their addiction.The feature also appears to state, no doubt prompted by Britton, that long term addiction to nicotine is actually safer than long term addiction to caffeine. On what basis does the newspaper or Britton make this claim? What scientific evidence exists to support this claim?The newspaper appears to suggest that nicotine provides both a stimulant effect and a calming effect. This is quite impossible. Think about it for a moment. It also claims that nicotine enhances pleasure. This is also quite incorrect.Does John Britton, The Independent, or their journalist Jeremy Laurance, receive funding from the pharmaceutical industry or the tobacco industry, both of whom have a vested interest in maintaining addiction to nicotine? Jeremy Laurance writes like a poster boy for the nicotine industry seemingly inventing benefits for nicotine which simply do not exist.Allen Carr’s Easyway organisation have always maintained that the nicotine industry in the form of tobacco and pharmaceutical companies have a vested interest in maintaining addiction to nicotine and that it was this vested interest which was behind so called Nicotine Replacement Therapy – THERE IS NOW NO DOUBT THAT WE WERE RIGHT.The medical and scientific establishment continue to ignore solutions to the smoking problem such as Allen Carr’s Easyway and now appear to be “bailing out�� from a “cure solution�� entirely. In a neat sidestep – policy appears to be moving from attempts to cure nicotine addiction to maintaining nicotine addiction long term (that means for the entire lifetime of the addict).This is a step which will no doubt appeal to governments around the world who must be rubbing their hands at the prospect of tax revenues from an array of so called “safer nicotine delivery products” as they replace cigarettes. What greater incentive for governments to phase out the sale of cigarettes – safe in the knowledge that the nicotine industry will continue to supply addicts, generate huge tax revenues, and take the cost burden of nicotine products such as gum and patches out of health budgets and firmly back to being the poor addict’s own responsibility. The attitude will be “They want the drug – they can pay for it”.If you’re a smoker you need to contact Allen Carr’s Easyway now – if you can comprehend that the government, encouraged and abetted by the medical and scientific establishment, is set to ramp up the annual multi-million pound campaigns designed purely to keep you hooked on nicotine for the rest of your life, at your own expense, swelling the treasury’s coffers ad infinitum – the sooner you escape from this nicotine trap – the better.As is the practise of all accomplished drug pushers – the addicts will first be tempted by ‘freebies’. These will continue to be provided at the tax payers expense via the NHS (after all they’ve been in the role of ‘the pusher’ for years now) but after the initial period of transfer – the addict will have to pay their own way.It is clear that the growing momentum towards so called “safer nicotine delivery systems” will soon include the recommendation that our children be encouraged to START using these nicotine products on the basis that they are less harmful than the children being tempted to smoke cigarettes. NICOTINE CANDY anyone?Allen Carr’s Easyway repeats its call for smokers to be provided with a popular, effective, and proven means of stopping smoking which is inexpensive, doesn’t involve the use of drugs, is perfectly safe, and has no side effects. Such a method has been available over the past 25 years…and has been ignored and attacked by the medical and scientific establishment….it’s called Allen Carr’s Easyway To Stop Smoking.If you’re a smoker – you need to call us for help. If you have an understanding of what the medical and scientific establishment have in mind for you – the sooner you get free from nicotine – the better. Call 1890 37 9929 to contact your nearest clinic, or click this link tobook online: http://www.allencarr.ie/quit-smokingIf you’re the media – for further comment or interviews on this issue contact Allen Carr’s Easyway Press Office 01 4999010, brenda@allencarr.ie

I attended a session on 6th March in Dublin with Maria and I would just like to say thank you for your work which has helped me stop smoking, this is something I thought I would never be able to do, my family and friends are astonished that I was able to achieve this goal.

Sarah O’Hare

I just came across this in my mailbox, nearly 3 years to the date that I booked. Am now three years off cigarettes and a long distance runner and triathlete!

 Thought I’d share this credential and keep up the good work J!

 Cheers

 Ciarán McCabe

It’s almost 3 months now but I knew the moment I put out that final cigarette that it was my final one and I don’t miss them one bit. I think I could have given Allen ‘a run for his money’ on the worst addicted smoker – I was diagnosed with breast cancer in November 2008

- caught on time thank goodness and did give up smoking for the surgery but tried ‘just one’ when I thought I needed ‘that crutch’

when the chemo started and we all know where ‘just one’ gets us and in no time at all I was back smoking 20 a day while on chemo & loosing my hair. I though, until I read Allen Carr that there was something wrong with me and clinged to the fact that the surgeon said that they could not confirm a definite like between smoking / lifestyle and breast cancer. How kind he is to smokers and how bind I was. My final test was dinner with my smoking friends in one of their homes last week and the first thing I said was that I don’t mind if they smoke (smokers are persecuted enough) and I passed this test with flying colours – although I did need to take a few breaths of fresh air I enjoyed the night for the company and the cigarettes did not bother me at all. In fact they really wanted to know more about giving up. It’s like as if I know Allen from his Easyway books and I am finally loosing the extra weight too.

 If I had to describe the feeling it would be like as if Allen had put his arm into a raging river and pulled me out.

I wish he was still with us to thank him and I know he added very valuable quality years to his own life when he gave up. I feel my life is taking a huge turn for the better in many other ways too but stopping smoking was definitely the starting point.

 Also, just to let you know that Allen Carr’s Easyway books are now being recommended by the HSE hospital stop smoking service. That is how I heard of him in the first place.

If you would like to contact me please feel free on Tel: 067 27912

 Thank You Allen

Audrey Forde

 You put a lot of yourself into the session and you really got the message through..

 There’s simply nothing to ‘give up’.

Since I left the session I don’t feel like I’ve sacrificed anything by becoming a non smoker.

I simply feel I am in total control of my life.

Thats the best feeling in the world

Thank you so much

 Sean De Burca

The late Allen Carr’s EasyWay Method has helped literally millions of smokers to quit smoking. Through his clinics around the world and multi-million selling book, Carr has possibly been the most influential individual in the smoking cessation arena. Smokers everywhere swear by his simple methods, and many readers have said that after putting his book down, they never picked up another cigarette.

by Mariano

Sydney
Australia

There is no OTHER WAY to QUIT!!!

Get it clear in your head! You have got the disease of nicotine addiction. The best time to cure it is now! Smoking is a trap. And because quitting is easy, we get back into the habit, and make it hard for ourselves. Make a DECISION that you will NEVER SMOKE AGAIN and stick to it NO MATTER WHAT. You’ll see how truly easy it is to stop. In fact, I have enjoyed killing the nicotine monster. You’ll end feeling sorry for smokers and the smoker you once were.

I recommend the book “THE EASY WAY TO QUIT SMOKING” by Allen Carr. It really did the job for me. I smoked for 15 years. I stopped more than a month ago. And I know I am not going back to the trap ever again. Good luck! I wish you free! And remember, YOU CAN DO IT!!! YES, YOU CAN.

Book a clinic now for January or February in Dublin or Cork and get a 20% Discount

Smoking breaks during office hours now cost the Irish economy up to €5m per day in productivity according to the Office of Tobacco Control.

For every staff member who takes a smoking break every hour, a company looses over 6 hours productivity per week per smoker,” says Brenda Sweeney Director of Allen Carr Easyway Clinics. “That is 7.5 weeks of productivity per smoker per year and that doesn’t include absenteeism due to smoking related illnesses.”

“According to Dr Michael Boland, chairperson of the Office of Tobacco Control, the majority of smokers ‘want to quit’ and employers should actively assist employees who want to give up,” says Brenda.

“Investing time and resources in smoking cessation programmes is a win-win situation for both employers and employees. The medium to long-term benefits are significant.”

Many corporations in Ireland have chosen Allen Carr’s method to assist employees who wish to stop smoking, including Waterford City Council, AXA and ESB. In 2008, five seminars were organized for ESB staff across the country with almost 100 attendees in total. A recent follow-up survey indicated that 70% of those that attended the seminar remain off cigarettes.

Easyway is offering 10% discount for corporate clinics booked for January, February and March. For more information, contact 1890 379929 or visit www.easyway.ie.

Allen Carr Easyway may yet be holding a clinic in the White House as it may be Obama’s next port of call in his effort to quit his habit.

“Obama is due to become president of the USA on January 20^th so time is ticking away for him to kick his smoking addiction for good. He has tried other methods but none have worked as he is still smoking. So our clinics in the States have offered to help him overcome his addiction before taking up office,” explains Brenda Sweeney, director of Allen Carr’s Easyway in Ireland.  The White House is a smoke free zone since First Lady Hillary Clinton made it a rule when she resided there. Perhaps more to the point, Obama’s wife, Michelle, reportedly insisted he renounce cigarettes as a condition for allowing him to run for president.  “Obviously if Obama accepts the offer it will be done in the strictest confidence on a one to one basis,” says Brenda.

In a country where cigarettes are responsible for one in five deaths and smoking costs tens of billions of dollars in health care, the president-elect has also been under pressure to set an example by giving up his reported two-decade-old habit.

Available in Ireland since 1998, Allen Carr’s Easyway is without doubt the most successful method of helping people to stop smoking in the world. Since 1983 over eight million copies of Allen Carr’s Easyway to stop smoking books have been sold and thousands of smokers have attended clinics of which there are now over 70 worldwide.

Other celebrity clients of Easyway include Sir Richard Branson, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Goldie Hawn, Dave Stewart, Bruce Oldfield, Julie Christie, Ruby Wax, Johnny Cash, Gian Luca Vialli, Barry Sheen, Kerry Packer, Susannah York, Marie Helvin, John Sessions, Lord & Lady Bonham Carter, David Cameron, Lady Astor, Leslie Grantham, Dennis Waterman, Rula Lenska, John Cougar Mellencamp, Rick Parfitt, Martin Clunes, Lisa Stansfield, Robson Green, Vicky Binns, George Melly, Derek Jameson, Sean Bean, Ronnie O’Sullivan, Linda Robson…and many others who wish to remain anonymous.

In Ireland, companies which have introduced the Easyway Stop Smoking Clinics for their employees include ESB, AXA, Waterford City Council, AGF Irish Life Holdings, Project Management, Aer Rianta and Musgraves Supervalue.

Allen Carr Easyway can be contacted on 1890 379929 and website is www.easyway.ie.

It’s 2009 and my new years resolution is to start saving for the 2011 Rugby World Cup in

I think this is a real tangible way to demonstrate the financial savings of being a non smoker.

As it happened I had bad sinusitis over the Christmas Holidays however I truly feel that it could of developed into something worse if I was still smoking.

Merv

It is nearly 2 months since I quitted.

I haven’t been out running over the last 2 weeks as I had a bad sinus infection and I was taking antibiotics. I noticed that my recovery was quicker as a non smoker. I remember as a smoker getting an infection it took longer and if was a lot harder to shake off.

Christmas is nearly upon us and I am longer forward to having nights out and really enjoying being a non smoker.

I have had a couple of nights out already and the I must say the hang over the following morning isn’t nearly as bad.  There are so many benefits of being a non smoker such as  health, financial and no bad hang over’s!!!!

 Mervyn