22 octobre 2009
Tips to Get rid of all nicotine
Attitude - A positive can-do attitude is important to both the conscious thinking mind and the primitive lizard brain, which is in control of the body’s fight or flight panic responses. Take pride in each hour of healing and each challenge overcome. Celebrate the full and complete victory each day of freedom and healing reflects. The next few minutes are all that matter and each is entirely do-able. Yes you can!
Patience - Years of satisfying low blood-serum nicotine levels conditioned us to be extremely impatient, at least when it came to our addiction. A deprived nicotine addict could inhale a puff of nicotine and have it arrive in the brain and release dopamine within 8 to 10 seconds, and oral nicotine users could feel it within minutes. Realize the importance of patience to successful recovery. Baby steps, just one hour, challenge and day at a time, and then celebrate. Keeping or Carrying Cigarettes, Dip or
Chew - Get rid of all nicotine delivery vehicles, including replacement nicotine products. Keeping a stash of nicotine makes as much sense as someone on suicide watch keeping a loaded gun handy just to prove they can. Why toy with failure or play mind-games with your ongoing healing and freedom? Build in some delay for those less than three minute crave episodes. Fully commit to going the distance and seeing what it is like to awaken to new expectations of a nicotine-free life.
12 août 2009
British American Tobacco
British American Tobacco (BAT) which dates to 1902 and sells more
than 300 brands worldwide. BAT’s international brands include Dunhill, Kent, Lucky
Strike, Pall Mall, Vogue, Rothmans, Peter Stuyvesant, Benson & Hedges, Winfield, John
Player, State Express 555, Kool and Viceroy. It does not own all these brands but is licensed
by other companies to distribute them. Here are a few BAT admissions.
November 1961 - Smoking “differs in important features from addiction to other
alkaloid drugs, but yet there are sufficient similarities to justify stating that smokers are
nicotine addicts.”
1967- “There has been significant progress in understanding why people smoke and the
opinion is hardening in medical circles that the pharmacological effects of nicotine play
an important part... It may be useful, therefore, to look at the tobacco industry as if for a
large part its business is the administration of nicotine (in the clinical sense).”
August 1979 - “We are searching explicitly for a socially acceptable addictive product.
The essential constituent is most likely to be nicotine or a direct substitute for it.”
April 1980 - “In a world of increased government intervention, B.A.T should learn to
look at itself as a drug company rather than as a tobacco company.”66
In light of the above tiny sampling of tobacco industry admissions, should there be any
doubt in our minds as to who was slave and who was master, who profited and who lost?
24 juin 2009
Campaign of deceptive marketing
A district court that finds a defendant civilly liable for
violating RICO has jurisdiction “to prevent and restrain
violations of RICO by issuing appropriate orders .” Congress limited relief under section 1964(a)
to forward-looking remedies aimed at preventing and restraining
future RICO violations.
Earlier in this litigation, we held that the statute
does not authorize disgorgement because it is “both aimed at and
measured by past conduct”: “[i]t is measured by the amount of
prior unlawful gains and is awarded without respect to whether
the defendant will act unlawfully in the future.”
Defendants argue that corrective statements are similarly
“focused on remedying the effects of past conduct,” id., because
they seek to correct Defendants’ campaign of deceptive
marketing.