Who keeps telling smokers they can't quit without help? For decades
there have been far more ex-smokers than smokers, and an estimated
75% of smokers quit without drugs or professional help. But smoking
cessation is a global phenomenon serviced by multibillion-dollar
industries, including the pharmaceutical and e-cigarette sectors
and health professionals. These industries try to denigrate
unassisted cessation and promote their products and services a
"weapons of mass distraction" -- as essential to successful
quitting. This contributes to the medicalisation of a process that,
before these products were available, had a natural history where
drugs and expertise were absent, yet millions of people around the
world still quit. Simon Chapman AO is one of Australia's foremost
experts on strategies to minimise harm from tobacco. In Quit
Smoking Weapons of Mass Distraction, he reviews the early history
of quitting smoking and the rise of assisted quitting, and gives
insight into the forces that have tried to undermine smokers'
agency to stop. Chapman also provides actionable policy solutions
to help people actually quit smoking". This is a splendid read for
anyone interested in what really works to reduce smoking, and what
helps to keep Big Tobacco in business". -- Mike Daube AO, Emeritus
Professor in Public Health, Curtin University. Chapman is
indispensable reading for anyone wanting to help the billion-odd
smokers end their addiction. A powerful and important book!" --
Robert N. Proctor, Professor of the History of Science at Stanford
University
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