The Father of Smoking Cessation, Dr. Karl Fagerström, tells smokers to quit smoking now. He also listed down ways to get rid of the habit.
Fagerström was in Manila to speak on “Why Quitting Can’t Wait: A Forum on the Issue of Nicotine Addiction."
Watch this video interview with Fagerstrom done by multimedia reporter Izah Morales.
He has created a nicotine dependence scale, aptly called "The Fagerström Test For Nicotine Dependence," which later earned him a World Health Organization medal 1999 for outstanding work in tobacco control, according to this website.
Listen to this interesting podcast of Fagerström's speech during the UK National Smoking Cessation Conference way back in 2005.
Father of Smoking Cessation to smokers: quit now
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it is really hard to Quit Smoking. currently, i am using Nicotine Patches to curb may addiction to smoking and nicotine.
We all know that smoking is a deadly habit and the earlier we give up this habit the better for us. Nicotine, even in small uses is not good for health in the long run. We had the smokeless charynx, hope I spelled it correctly, it is a pill and users say it helps in giving up the habit but there are side effects like drowsiness. In America, people working in the field of aviation like pilots were banned from using this pill. Now we have the electronic cigarette which comes in the form of liquid nicotine, it is smokeless but some users have reported of headaches.
It is very difficult to break a habit, an addiction. Smokers too are facing a hard time trying to give up the habit by switching to safer alternatives but I believe baby steps are not going to help at all. Once and for all throw out that packet out of the house, out of your life and promise on something that you're not going to smoke again, believe me it works, you just have to be determined.
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