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However this will inadvertently cause unnecessary emotional trauma for many smokers being forced to stop smoking without access to comprehensive educational programs. Educational programs are essential for smokers to LEARN how to overcome
many internal and external psychological influences associated with nicotine addiction.
The multi-million dollar NRT industry, which seems to be riding very nicely on
back of
trillion dollar tobacco market, seems to target smokers and tobacco users with a very narrow medical approach, and as Alan I. Leshner Ph.D. Director of
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) once quoted “Science has also shown that treating addiction with medications alone is not nearly as effective as when coupled with a behavioral approach.” [source NIDA]
The world is facing a major health epidemic as a result of smoking and tobacco related diseases. Over 450,000 people will die this year in
US alone from these diseases. These are very serious issues and my soap box plea is that tobacco is not thought of as 'just another consumer product', it is
source of
world’s greatest deception.
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