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01/05/24    Addicted e-cigarette users share wisdom with experimenting teens

11/05/23    Nicotine-free in 2023, it's not too late!

11/01/23    Is Truth Initiative truthful about how smokers quit?

10/13/23    Does nicotine use increase impulsivity?

09/14/23    Pivot’s 1-year quit smoking rate is not 44%

08/19/23    Cytisinicline stop smoking rate quintuples placebo?

07/05/23    Why NRT should not be provided free of charge

05/18/23    Vaping cessation interventions: a cold turkey perspective

05/05/23    Cold turkey still America’s pregnancy quit smoking champ

04/29/23    Is vaping worth asthma-like breathing?

03/20/23    115 reasons to stop vaping

03/14/23    Brains of 20-year ex-smokers primed for smoking relapse

02/02/23    "I love being nicotine free!"

12/27/22    French researchers declare nicotine addiction the winner

11/12/22    10 questions to ask "your smoker" during Nov. "Lung Cancer Awareness Month"

09/29/22    Nicotine-free 2023 guarantee

09/26/22    117 recent reasons to stop vaping e-cigarettes

09/13/22    Is Biden “Cancer Moonshot” already lost in space?

09/06/22    National Cancer Institute quit smoking advice promotes cancer

08/26/22    Use tobacco, smoke or vape? Test your cancer IQ.

08/07/22    More real-world evidence that NRT doesn't work

07/31/22    "Dear Abby's" gobbledygook stop smoking advice

07/25/22    How do most smokers quit?

07/15/22    Review: "Quit smoking weapons of mass distraction"

06/24/22    "Nicotine does not cause cancer." "Yes, it does."

06/03/22    Nearly all pregnant smokers still smoking in e-cig vs. patch study

05/30/22    The birth of NoNicJune

05/26/22    How to lose weight while quitting smoking or vaping

01/10/22    "Did mommy love smoking more than me?"

01/08/22    Salvaging your resolution to stop smoking or vaping

01/01/22    How did most ex-smokers quit smoking?

12/03/21    Best smoker New Year's gift: "NTAP"

12/03/21    Vaping e-cigs may double risk of erectile dysfunction

11/29/21    Does nicotine use diminish exploration, discovery and learning?

11/16/21    WHO reports 1.3 billion worldwide tobacco users

11/11/21    Google search algorithms feature health misinformation

08/14/21    SRNT surrenders to nicotine

07/25/21    Single and combo NRT ineffective among 5,589 screened Veterans

07/20/21    How smokers quit in a lower-middle-income country

07/03/21   Suicide deaths twice as high among smokers

05/18/21   Charleston City Paper promotes nicotine addiction

05/13/21   "Smart Turkey" released

03/31/21   "Big Nic" profits from non-cessation transfer studies

02/23/21   Nicotine: "We knowingly addicted you to an insecticide"

01/18/21   Cold turkey prevails over counseling plus pharmacotherapy

12/27/20   Joel Spitzer, Mr. Cold Turkey, Retires

12/04/20   OhioMagazine now selling cigarettes

10/02/20   Quitting cold turkey during Stoptober

09/05/20   FDA quit smoking products again lose to cold turkey

06/21/20   Lying breath from dying lungs

05/31/20   World No Tobacco Day: nicotine-skinned wolves

03/27/20   The time for isolation from nicotine is now

03/02/20   Coronavirus, stocks, nicotine not!

02/13/20   Surgeon General: most smokers succeed cold turkey

01/16/20   "Why can’t I convince my loved one to quit smoking? I’ve tried everything."

01/07/20   Ex-smoker? Don’t relapse over war with Iran.

12/20/19   Pfizer, are you listening? Cold turkey remains king.

04/04/19   Fact check of FDA cold turkey fact check

03/08/19   "Am I safe smoking 2 to 3 cigarettes a day?"

02/28/19   WARNING: Dreaming of motherhood while you smoke or vape

02/16/19   Parent to parent e-cigarette, Juul and nicotine addiction warnings

02/13/19   “If we stopped selling cigarettes tomorrow, someone else would take our place”

02/09/19   STUDENT ALERT: e-cigarettes & juuling are dangerous

02/06/19   Pfizer Chantix commercial steals cold turkey

02/02/19   FDA knew stop smoking product clinical trials not science-based

12/27/18   2018 findings: cold turkey trounces Nicoderm CQ, Chantix, Nicorette and e-cigs

12/11/18   Did Ray Liotta really quit smoking with Chantix?

09/28/18   Ex-smokers antithesis of England’s 'don’t quit cold turkey' Stoptober campaign

07/18/18   Cold turkey clobbers e-cigs, NRT and Chantix

12/30/17   New Year’s Stop Smoking Keys: Motivation, Education & Support

12/22/17   JNCI study finds pharmaceutical stop smoking aids ineffective

11/29/17    Teens, are you listening? Big Tobacco admits smoking is "highly addictive."

01/27/17    100 reasons to get excited about quitting smoking

01/04/17    Best Way to Stop Smoking in 2017

02/11/16    Is smoking damaging your thinking and memory?

01/26/16    "What's the easy way to kick the smoking habit?"

05/30/15    Sunday: World No Tobacco Day

03/31/15    ESPN helping addict teens to smoking nicotine

03/16/15    Nicotine cessation: lost in the deserts of Abu Dhabi

01/01/15    10 studies screaming "leave replacement nicotine alone!"

12/30/14    Is your New Year's resolution to stop smoking?

04/20/14    ITC sustainability award for India's million smoking deaths

01/23/14    New Year's quit smoking resolution up in smoke?

01/20/14    The Surgeon General's Reports: 50 years of cessation ignorance

01/12/14    How NOT to quit smoking: Nicorette or NRT

12/31/13    Help friends discover most productive quit smoking method

11/30/13    Australia's half-baked quit smoking campaign

11/28/13    Cold turkey cure for Thanksgiving smoking

11/18/13    The Great American Quit Smoking Sham

10/22/13    Marlboro maker's report ignores youth addiction

10/14/13    Ten reasons to try smart turkey before e-cigarettes

09/26/13    A letter to Obama: one nicotine addict to another

09/24/13    Ten reasons to turn Stoptober into Smarttober

09/21/13    America's face of smoking cessation, Terrie Hall, laid to rest

09/17/13    Student Warning: nicotine addiction can be quick and permanent

08/26/13    Gallup Poll: cold turkey 48 times smarter than Nicorette

08/08/13    Freedom from Nicotine - The Journey Home, 2nd Edition

07/15/13    Cold turkey quitting still king

06/25/13    WhyQuit's Facebook group Turkeyville celebrates 2,000th member

05/27/13    Build it and smokers will come!

05/25/13    Your smoking friends need your help

05/20/13    How to quit smoking video viewed 50,000 times

11/28/12    FaceBook cold turkey quit smoking forum celebrates 1,000th member

11/15/12    Great American Smokeout breeds smart turkeys

10/31/12    Lung cancer killing twice as many women as breast cancer

09/24/12    How to quit smoking

09/07/12    Waiting to bottom out

08/20/12    Pharma bias destroys ITC quit smoking medication study

05/18/12    Ignorance Killing Millions of Smokers

05/02/12    For smokers only: understanding and silencing the wanting within

04/18/12    Study claims nicotine causes cancer

03/17/12    Potent warnings, horrible quitting advice: what's the CDC smoking?

02/11/12    Replacement nicotine's killing fields

12/27/11    Why 12 of 13 New Year's quit smoking resolutions needlessly fail

12/22/11    Chantix study joins negative findings omissions club

11/23/11    Helen of Tobacco a Joan of Addiction

11/14/11    Dying Truths About Quitting Smoking Methods

06/14/11    Is a 14% Chantix success rate worth risking death?

05/25/11    Turning World No Tobacco Day Into Victory

05/20/11    100 reasons why CVS should stop selling cigarettes

02/18/11    Popular stop smoking library invades Japan

01/28/11    Chantix serious injuries exceed 8,500

01/22/11    How to stop moking videos celebrate 3 million views

01/10/11    Smoke Remedy infomercial: a fraud, hoax and scam?

01/06/11    Chantix - Champix worth questioned

01/04/11    Quit Smoking Site Swamped

01/02/11    Test your quit smoking IQ

12/29/10    Surgeon General chosen liar of the year

12/27/10    A New Years quit smoking letter to the editor

12/18/10    How to quit smoking

11/22/10    U.S. Navy Smoking Policy at War with Itself

11/02/10    GlaxoSmithKline continues defrauding smokers

08/08/10    Little communication in failed war against smoking

07/22/10    "The more you smoke the more you stroke"

07/15/10    Shadow FDA Panel Wants Menthol Out of Cigarettes

05/31/10    Cold Turkey Still #1 Quit Smoking Method

05/28/10    Ten Free World No Tobacco Day Quitting Tools

05/10/10    The Submarine Service Smoker's Dilemma: to Quit or Nic?

04/21/10    Joel's Jukebox: Top 64 Stop Smoking Tunes

04/12/10    Addiction to Smoking Nicotine a Mental Illness

04/05/10    Spring Start to Stop Smoking

03/24/10    Smokefree.gov really Buymeds.now

03/11/10    CDC ignores cold turkey quitters

12/29/09    Five facts Chantix ads keep hidden

12/18/09    The Perfect Smoker Gift: Free MP3 Counseling

12/16/09    UW-CTRI's holiday health media manipulation

12/14/09    "Please help me quit smoking for New Year's!"

12/02/09    Petition for honest quit smoking studies

11/20/09    Quitting smoking by gradual withdrawal

11/19/09    Want to stop smoking? There's only one rule.

11/16/09    Great American Smokeout Thursday: Help Your Smoker Quit

11/12/09    University of Wisconsin: World's Pharm Nicotine Sales Center

11/03/09    Nicotine causes x3 cancer growth, x9 spreading and x3 regrowth

10/28/09    Nicorette, Commit lozenge and NicoDerm CQ cancer scares

10/18/09    Enslaved college smokers pay hefty price

10/12/09    Free quit smoking ebook's 2 millionth download

09/29/09    City and county council inaction hand youth to nicotine industry

09/22/09    Patrick Swayze's doctor's smoking advice may hasten death

09/14/09    "How do I help a smoker quit smoking?"

09/07/09    ALA's Not-On-Tobacco school quit smoking program not effective

09/01/09    Study finds quit smoking weight gain temporary

08/14/09    Internet stop smoking book invades real world

07/21/09    Want to quit smoking? Jump in the pool!

07/18/09    Professor Siegel demands review of U.S. smoking cessation policy

07/15/09    WhyQuit celebrates its 10th anniversary

07/12/09    Nicotine patch inventor fudges patch study findings

07/09/09    Cold turkey trounces pharmacology in GlaxoSmithKline quitting study

07/06/09    Why Obama and smokers fear quitting

06/29/09    The President Needs Your Help to Quit

06/24/09    Obama Smoking Assertions Fail Fact Checks

06/12/09    The "Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act" of June 2009

06/09/09    39 Year-old Smoker's Heroic Lung Cancer Battle Ends

12/31/08    John releases "Freedom from Nicotine - The Journey Home"

12/01/08    Long-term Nicorette gum uers losing hair and teeth

11/23/08    Obama Can't Quit Smoking for Kinsley or America's Youth

11/19/08    SC Legislature Values Civil War Relics More than Children

11/14/08    Have Smokers Been Hoodwinked and Bamboozled by Placebos?

10/22/08    Pfizer's Chantix Continues Killing Quitters

10/13/08    Inconsistent Flavor of Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids

06/12/08    Pfizer Chantix safety assurances contrary to evidence

05/28/08    World No Tobacco Day - A Call to Action

05/21/08    Chantix blamed for 3,063 serious injuries and 78 deaths

05/13/08    U.S. quit smoking policy integrity drowns in pharmaceutical influence

05/05/08    Does updated tobacco treatment "Guideline" reflect sham science?

04/30/08    Young dying smokers share nightmares online

04/11/08    Do smokers prefer smoking over romance?

04/05/08    Study says smoking next pack costs men $222, women $94

04/03/08    FDA pulls video clip admitting Chantix suicide link

04/02/08    New FDA Chantix suicide risk video clip raises concerns

03/29/08    Do Kennedy and Waxman know about electronic or e-cigarettes?

03/23/08    "Why can't I quit smoking?"

03/13/08    World Tobacco Conference Accused of Prostitution

03/06/08    Obama Youth Nicotine Dependency Lessons Unacceptable

02/29/08    FDA Chantix Handling Betrayed Public Health

02/13/08    Is physician neglect costing smoking patients life?

02/06/08    Nicotine Damages First Trimester Embryo

11/21/07    Free New Year's Quitting Seminar Charleston, SC

11/10/07    Great American Smokeout Cold Turkey Tips

10/18/07    "What if my Chantix or Champix attempt failed?"

10/03/07    Admitting physical addiction key to quitting smoking

09/25/07    Prison Smoking Cessation, Tobacco Cessation and Nicotine Cessation

09/13/07    "I'm Deborah, 38, and smoking has smoked this body"

08/16/07    Over one million copies not sold

07/29/07    The Law of Addiction: quitting's only rule

07/17/07    Confessions of a teenage nicotine addict

07/13/07    Most overlooked quitting method: understanding

07/10/07    Nicotine Cessation Tips

06/23/07    Ten million English smokers plunge deeper into denial

05/28/07    World No Tobacco Day, Thurs., May 31

04/18/07    When Smoking Was a "Choice Addiction"

04/14/07    Caffeine levels double when quitting smoking

04/05/07    What does it feel like to have quit smoking?

04/02/07    Ten Keys to Smoking Yourself to Death

03/18/07    Ready to quit smoking?

03/12/07    Ineffective aids equate placebo to cold turkey

03/07/07    Nixing the patch: Smokers quit cold turkey

03/03/07    Spring excellent time to quit smoking

02/27/07    Senate tobacco bill would alter FDA's mission

02/18/07    Critical Review: Nicotine for the Fetus, the Infant and the Adolescent?

02/06/07    Why do you smoke?

01/07/07    The secret to quitting smoking

01/03/07    Fifty New Year's stop smoking tips

12/31/06    90% of ex-smokers quit smoking cold turkey

12/16/06    Chantix - an 8 in 10 failure rate or worse?

12/02/06    Quit smoking counselor gifts free video lessons

11/28/06    School smoking & nicotine dependency: students helping students

11/19/06    Smokeless Tobacco Quitting Tips

11/11/06    Watch video quit smoking lessons during Smokeout

10/29/06    Is the U.S. government's quitting policy killing smokers?

10/16/06    Free video quit smoking lessons

10/14/06    Champix - an 8 in 10 failure rate or worse?

10/02/06    Half-a-million downloads of free quit smoking book

09/18/06    Talk radio shares quit smoking keys

08/25/06    Will Chantix really help me quit smoking?

07/30/06    The nightmare of loving a smoker who fails to quit

07/24/06    The Law of Addiction

07/18/06    WhyQuit Celebrates 7th Year

07/10/06    13th World Conference on Tobacco or Health Drenched in Nicotine

06/16/06    Are you smoking more and enjoying it less?

06/14/06    Never Take Another Puff now available in German (article in German)

05/31/06    World No Tobacco Day 2006 Quitting Tips

05/28/06    World No Tobacco Day 2006 Quit Smoking Guide

05/19/06    Cold Turkey Twice as Effective as NRT or Zyban

04/18/06    Nicotine Not Medicine, Its Use Not Therapy

03/18/06    Convenience Stores - Nicotine Addiction Central

03/07/06    No Smoking Day 2006 - Quit Smoking Tips

02/16/06    Nicotine 166 Times More Deadly than Caffeine?

01/31/06    Survey Questions Quit Smoking Experts' "Expertness"

01/05/06    Minimizing Common Quit Smoking Side Effects

01/02/06    Your 2006 Quit Smoking Keys

12/18/05    Survey finds dramatic decline in College of Charleston student smoking

12/13/05    GlaxoSmithKline Attacks Cold Turkey Quitting

12/08/05    Ask Joel your quit smoking question

12/05/05    Philip Morris revises "Raising kids who don't smoke"

11/22/05    College smokers teach teens tobacco truths

11/10/05    The Great American Smokeout - Nov. 17, 2005

10/23/05    Test your quit smoking IQ

10/19/05    TIME Magazine's Health Hypocrisy

10/16/05    ABC News seeking new quitters

10/10/05    "I can't quit smoking" or "I won't quit smoking"

10/05/05    Kids just don't get it!

10/03/05    Ten unusual quit smoking tips

09/29/05    "I smoke because I like smoking!"

09/25/05    How will smoking kill you?

09/19/05    Study takes preschoolers cigarette shopping

09/16/05    Physicians Turning To Free Patient Quit Smoking Resources

09/03/05    Latina Magazine - Enslaving & Killing Hispanic Females

08/30/05    Philip Morris USA's "Could your kid be smoking?"

08/27/05    Thousands download free quit smoking book

08/17/05    TIME Pays Greater Tribute to Smoking than Jennings

08/11/05    Jennings Quitters Download Free Quit Smoking Books

07/20/05    100 Quit Smoking/Vaping Tips

06/24/05    Attorneys General Consent to School Tobacco Advertising

06/15/05    The New Jazz Philosophy Tour 2005

06/03/05    What Tobacco Issue is Important to Philip Morris?

05/13/05    Surveys Suggest Nicotine Smoking Extremely Addictive

04/04/05    The Nicotine Patch, Gum and Lozenge - Mounting Evidence of a Sham

02/04/05    Quitters Demolish Site's Record

05/30/04    World No Tobacco Day 2004 - Shedding Dependency Ignorance

05/19/04    Widespread Blinding Failures Put NRT Studies in Serious Question

05/17/04    Nicotine Gum Maker's Concern Raises Concerns

04/27/04    Quebec CT Quitters Disprove "Double Your Chances" NRT Assertion

04/05/04    Cold Turkey Quitters Gobble Up Education

12/02/03    South Carolina Ignores Dying Nicotine Addicts

11/14/03    Great American Smokeout Hijacked

10/18/03    Are nicotine weaning products a bad joke?

07/18/03    Is CT Quitting More Productive & Effective Than NRT?

06/11/03    Are Teens Getting Hooked on NRT?

04/21/03    Online Quit Smoking Program Reports 39% Six Month Cessation

03/05/03    March 2003 OTC NRT Meta-Analysis Finds 93% Midyear Relapse Rate

09/11/02    JAMA Study Concludes NRT is Ineffective

06/30/02    Real-World Nicotine Patch and Gum Rates

04/08/02    Does the OTC Nicotine Patch Really Double Your Chances of Quitting?

11/14/00    Is Nicotine Replacement Therapy The Smoker's Last Best Hope?