Stop smoking gel-whatever next?It brought a smile to my face when I read about one of the latest stop smoking aids.
It consists of a gel that is rubbed into the hands and contains all the extracts of tobacco with a marked reduction in nicotine which is purported to have been leeched out in the process. Now call me Mr Cynical but are we to really believe that this product is going to help. It is now becoming more and more apparent that the most common form of stop smoking aid; Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) in the form of patches and gums has a very poor success rate. ( below 20% effective).
Of course the more enlightened observers will be aware that the raw material for NRT does in fact come from Tobacco Manufacturers. A cunning plan if ever there was one, the manufacturers of this new stop smoking gel plainly declare that they obtain their raw material from tobacco, therefore supporting the 'poor old tobacco producer' in his noble efforts to help people kick their habits!
What nonsense! The tobacco producers first concern is to their shareholders. They can only score if more tobacco is sold, whatever form people are crazy enough to buy it in, be it dead leaves chopped up in paper rolls, tacky little rash forming patches, foul tasting gum. or now a handy little squirt. The testing stated in The Mail quoted a pool of 200 candidates who had various degrees of success. Well hello, is this bribery or can we assume this a valid result.
It is common knowledge, for those who wish to see it, that other psychological interventions like hypnotherapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming and Time Line therapyTM to mention a few have studies of candidates numbering into the thousands which have proven to be far more effective than all of the state funded assistance currently available.
These treatments still receive no formal acceptance. I ask myself why? Could it be that they require no raw materials from tobacco manufacturers and are so effective that they would drastically reduce smoking for those who want to quit, thereby slashing treasury income, who knows? Conspiracy theorists amongst you may agree.
Picture the scene. A Women smoker gets stressed by her kids, has a row with her husband then goes round to her friend for a consoling coffee and a chat. She reaches into her handbag and squirts some gel into her hands. As she rubs her hands together, a la Fagin, her face relaxes and she lets out that long satisfying sigh, (you'll know the one if your a smoker). Meanwhile her friend is looking on with a look on her face that says," oh my god, my friend's turned into a drooling nutter". She hands her her coffee but the slippery hands prevent her from gripping the cup and she spills the coffee onto her white trousers, getting really stressed again. Straight into her bag she goes, but no, not for tissues, she needs another squirt! This time her friends doubts are confirmed as she watches her mate rubbing her hands together while rolling her eye.... she is a drooling nutter!
Ridiculous as it may seem this is what we are being led to believe is a way forward. It's high time people understand that if you want to stop smoking then replacing it with something else will just transfer the habit at best, or worse, another source of toxins for the poor body to deal with as well as the tobacco poisons that are trying to be eliminated!
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