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filed on: Wednesday 25 April 2007 at 17:19, in Uncategorized
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Workers should be given time off without losing pay to attend stop smoking clinics, NHS experts say. It is part of a range of measures being recommended to businesses by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). The watchdog said employers should be doing all they can to help staff give up smoking in the lead up to the start of the ban in England on 1 July.

At the end of the day, if someone really wants to give up smoking, they will quit.  Off their own back, without support.  All it takes is will power.  Not nicotine substitutes, not stop smoking clinics, not acupuncture.  WILL POWER!  All substitutes, support clinics, even alternative therapies provide is an environment for smokers to try to quit, almost an excuse to allow them to fail.  If you’re deadly serious about quitting, your will power will see you through. 

(I’ll also add that, even though I’m four years on from a twenty-a-day habit, I still consider myself a smoker.  Will power has seen me through those years, it’s stifled my desire to return to the habit, despite the odd drunken lapse or environments where I’ve felt at ease or appropriate to allow the smoke again.  And recently, the desire is no more.  But, I’ll always consider myself a smoker.)

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6 Responses to “Really, it is yet another ™ sign…”


  1. iamjimsleftkidney Says:
    Thursday, 26 April 2007 at 0:33.41

    I think my cravings have finally almost totally gone.

    Wait, I just had one after rereading your post. Dammit.


  2. Cazza Says:
    Thursday, 26 April 2007 at 16:18.56

    The truth and nothing but the truth - your spot on with that one, although I dont consider myself a smoker now its been too long probably about 23yrs.


  3. Jim Says:
    Thursday, 26 April 2007 at 16:33.39

    @Hank: Damn those cravings. You should ask your employer for time off to recover! ;-)


  4. Jim Says:
    Thursday, 26 April 2007 at 16:34.17

    @Carol: you’re just a caffeine junkie instead! ;)


  5. Cazza Says:
    Thursday, 26 April 2007 at 16:45.14

    I am hardly a caffeine junkie only on my second cup today, but I may get to be one when I get my new machine and I get to grind my own beans - yummy


  6. Jim Says:
    Thursday, 26 April 2007 at 16:51.26

    I’m on my third. No more today or I will not sleep tonight.

 

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