Smokers and quitters visiting QuitNow's Quitting Methods page (12/01/13 screenshot) are told that: "Research shows if you're addicted to smoking and use these medications properly, you can double your chances of quitting successfully." The word "your" clearly implies population level effectiveness over how most smokers normally attempt to quit (cold turkey), not clinical efficacy over a quitter who joined a study seeking free medication, but who was given a look-a-like placebo quitting product instead
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Clearly there are issues in terms of having smokers addicted to nicotine, but this would move us on from having a serious and costly public health issue from smoking-related disease to instead addressing the issue of addiction to a substance which, in and of itself, is not too dissimilar to caffeine addiction. The society, which commissioned an online survey of 2,072 adults from polling company Populus earlier this month, said it was concerned to find that nine in 10 still regarded nicotine itself as harmful