No Smoking Day Challenges 12 Million Kick the Habit - Tip...

No Smoking Day - 11th March 2009

Patches, gum, microtabs, lozenges, inhalers, nasal sprays and even hypnosis. There are loads of ways to help you quit smoking - but do any of them really work any better than old fashioned cold turkey?

It’s national No Smoking Day again, a day when a quarter of the UK population – that’s 12 million smokers - are encouraged to kick their habit. In fact, every year more than a million people quit smoking on No Smoking Day. The campaign will also highlight the benefits of stopping smoking and how to get help.

Community pharmacist and Royal Pharmaceutical Spokesperson – Lindsey Gilpin will be giving advice to the millions of smokers who want to quit, explaining some of the quitting aids available to help, and revealing why smoking is such a hard habit to break.

For more information or to book an interview contact annette.harada@tvcgroup.com or call 0207 535 5800 Distributed by Tubemogul.

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[svirfneblina]

It's been almost two years since then. Are there any statistics out there as to how many people quit on that day and are still non-smokers today? I quit cigarettes on Jan 5th, 2001... For me, the trick to quitting was to keep trying to quit. If I failed at quitting, I immediately planned to quit again. Also I got really sick with the flu and I literally vomited out what was to become my last cigarette ever. Cravings were there for about 18 months, after that it became easy. Good luck quitters!!!