Anti-Smoking Campaign Focuses on How Smoking Has Impacted You?
How has smoking impacted your life? Are you trying to quit? Does someone you care about smoke?
The Rhode Island Health Department is encouraging smokers to quit in 2013 with the launch of its new smoking cessation campaign, “Tobacco Made Me.”
The new campaign, which showcases personal stories from Rhode Islanders whose lives have been negatively impacted by smoking and tobacco use, is designed to motivate current smokers to call the state’s quit line at 1-800-QUIT-NOW.
How has smoking impacted your own life? Are you a previous smoker and quit? How did you do it? Tell us your story in the comments section.
“Quitting smoking is tough, but the more times that a smoker tries to quit, the more likely he or she is to ultimately be successful,” said Dr. Michael Fine, director of the health department. “Smokers should know that services to help them quit are available and that HEALTH supports them in making a commitment to kick the habit. We are up against $10 billion of tobacco marketing money, but working together, we can help Rhode Island’s remaining smokers to quit.”
The new campaign is modeled after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) national “Tips from Former Smokers Campaign,” which used ex-smokers’ personal stories to increase quitline calls in other states by up to four times the normal volume.
The health department has launched a new Facebook page at www.facebook.com/TobaccoMadeMe that includes video interviews with Rhode Islanders sharing their personal stories of overcoming nicotine addiction. The page will also be a community space where all Rhode Islanders can share their stories and support each other in their efforts to quit smoking. The videos have also been added to www.Quitnowri.com.
A series of bus, radio, and print advertisements featuring quotes from each personal story will assist in raising campaign awareness. “Tobacco Made Me” will run through February, 2013.
john jane
1:53 pm on Friday, December 28, 2012
most anti-tobacco advertisements like smokeybear (smoke with beer - a play with your subconscious mind) are design to get you to smoke more. "Tobacco made me" sounds like they are trying to make a case that tobacco is your family. watch out for some of those anti ads, they are engineered to reel you in to smoke more.
JackE
3:57 pm on Friday, December 28, 2012
Friday, July 27, 2012
Pharmaceutical Nicotine and Chantix: 93% Failure Rate Reconfirmed
A study published in the European Journal of Internal Medicine indicates that pharmaceutical nicotine and Chantix (varenicline) had 93% failure rates at two inner city academic health center clinics with predominantly Medicaid patients (abstract here).
JackE
3:58 pm on Friday, December 28, 2012
NRT Failure Rate Soars to 98.4%
New revelations confirm that Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) has a documented long term failure rate of 98.4%.
PRLog (Press Release) - Apr 03, 2009 -
New revelations confirm that Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) has a documented long term failure rate of 98.4%.
NRT is the Government’s recommended treatment for its smoking cessation programmes and is heavily funded by the tax-payer.
Pro-choice group Freedom2choose are alarmed at these revelations and the obvious waste of tax-payers’ funds. Colin Grainger, vice chairman of the group states, “NRT products are obviously unfit for the purpose for which they are sold. This is fraud, wrong and immoral.”
Freedom2choose have previously highlighted alternative ways to successfully quit smoking, including the Allen Carr method, with a documented success rate of 58% for those choosing to give up. The Allen Carr method even promises a money back guarantee to those that don’t successfully quit.
JackE
3:58 pm on Friday, December 28, 2012
“More worryingly,” continues Colin Grainger “is the shock that the scientists who put the study together even work for the manufacturers of NRT. This clearly shows how the Big Pharmaceutical companies influence the outcome of studies.”
The revelations were originally made public by long-term anti-smoking campaigner Professor Michael Siegel who states “With a long-term smoking cessation percentage of only 1.6%, one can hardly call NRT treatment an "effective" intervention. In fact, the logical conclusion from this paper is that NRT was a dismal intervention.”
JackE
4:00 pm on Friday, December 28, 2012
Not 1 Death or Sickness Etiologically Assigned to Tobacco. All the diseases attributed to smoking are also present in non smokers. It means, in other words, that they are multifactorial, that is, the result of the interaction of tens, hundreds, sometimes thousands of factors, either known or suspected contributors - of which smoking can be one,