No Smoking

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A wonderful collection.......2005-12-15

First off, I am not a smoker. I have smoked cigarettes before, and enjoy the occasional cigar, but don't consider myself a smoker. However I was intrigued when I saw this book in Barnes and Noble this afternoon (I thought the box was very clever) and ended up sitting down and reading pretty much the entire book.

You don't have to be a smoker to appreciate the effort put into this collection of art, including old advertisements, photos, paintings, and quotes from an array of influential people from the past two centuries. This is not a glorification of smoking; neither is it an indictment. Rather, it asks the reader to forget for awhile their beliefs about smoking and realize what a large part smoking played in American culture as well as European culture.

Yes, smoking can kill you. But to immeadiatly dismiss this book as a nostalgic collection for the fiendish smoker is juvenile, and frankly, disrespectful; like it or not, tobacco has played an enormous part in this country's history. This book does a very good job of taking the reader beyond their beliefs to see a whole world of art, life, and culture that revolved around smoking.

Lovely book.......2005-05-17

The pictures are terrific, and they demonstrate irrefutably that our cultural identity was established by people who smoked like it was their last day alive. What was/is smoking considered cool by some people? Who knows. But all P.C. nonsense aside, this is a fascinating book.

To the previous reviewer..........2005-04-19

Have you even bothered to READ the book, Betty??? The only drivel here is the "nanny-state" prohibitionism you're shoveling. In fact, he's not even an addict--HE QUIT YEARS AGO. I suppose you and your ilk just can't allow things like the truth to get in the way of your opinions. How typical.

romanticized drivel from an addict.......2005-03-21

A silly recounting of smoker's affectations and cravings in a wistful tone devoid of any honest appraisal of risk or corporate malefaction. Just say no!

No-Nag, No-Guilt, Do-It-Your-Own-Way Guide to Quitting Smoking

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No Nag, No Guilt, Do It Your Own Way Guide to Quitting Smoking
Best Book
intelligent advice on quitting smoking
The No-Nag, No-Guilt, Do-It-Your-Own Way Guide to Quitting S
Helped me prepare, then reduce, then quit, smoking 4 yrs ago

No-Nag, No-Guilt, Do-It-Your-Own-Way Guide to Quitting Smoking
Tom Ferguson
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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ASIN: 0345355784
Release Date: 1988-12-13

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If you are one of millions of smokers who are torn between the desire to smoke and the desire to stop, award-winning medical writer Dr. Tom Ferguson has the answers. With this reasoned, responsible, and practical program, he can help you control, reduce, and quit smoking on your terms. He'll show you how to : Pinpoint the psychological factors behind your habit, as well as alternative ways to handle them; use exercise, stress management, and a prudent diet to reduce your desire to smoke, and much more.

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No Nag, No Guilt, Do It Your Own Way Guide to Quitting Smoking.......2007-07-15

I have been a Smoking Cessation facilitator for 15 years. I have led classes for several hospitals. Much of the most effective teaching I share comes from Dr. Ferguson's book. Excellent reference for facilitators or participants. I recommend it in my classes.
Thank You, Joyce R. Hinkle

Best Book.......2002-07-03

I have accumulated 5 or 6 books on quitting smoking.

Finally (via Zyban) I have been successful - this book was the most useful and helpful of all

intelligent advice on quitting smoking.......2002-03-08

this book is dated now. it would be nice if there was an updated version with the advent of patches now in use.
i found some of the statistics very illuminating and provided me with a strategy on quitting smoking which i am attempting to implement. for instance only half of all people who stopped smoking did so cold turkey. the other half had a well thought out plan of gradual cessation. which makes sense to me. we did not become smokers overnight so it's logical that we don't become non-smokers overnight.
there is a useful appendix on the brands of cigarettes and their tar and nicotine level to guide you to weaning you off nicotine if you prefer to attempt to quit that way.
at the price this book sells for it is a good value in my opinion

The No-Nag, No-Guilt, Do-It-Your-Own Way Guide to Quitting S.......2000-10-22

This book is an excellent guide for anyone thinking about cutting down or quitting smoking. It was THE most important thing I read before I quit smoking. Haven't had a cigarette since July 3, 1989!

Helped me prepare, then reduce, then quit, smoking 4 yrs ago.......1999-04-12

I wanted to smoke less, not necessarily quit. The book is realistic and practical. The only thing it isn't: magic. It still wasn't easy. Now I have quit entirely.

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Smoke-Free & No Buts!
Geoff Ibbotson , Ann Williamson , and Ann. Williamson
Manufacturer: Crown House Publishing
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ASIN: 1899836209

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A must for all aspiring ex-smokers: fun, readable and packed with techniques hypnotic and otherwise developed through the authors' experience of twenty-five years in general practice. This emotionally supportive book shows the smoker not only how to kick the habit, but also how to handle stress levels. Both authors are accredited members of the British Society of Medical and Dental Hypnosis, and certified NLP Master Practitioners who teach doctors and dentists how to use hypnotic techniques for themselves and within their own practices. Chapters cover: how to become an ex-smoker; getting in touch with the unconscious mind; dealing with the physical addiction to nicotine; the psychological dependency; bringing the habit into consciousness; Freedom Day and beyond. For those who really want to give up for good here's how!

No Ifs Ands or Butts: A Smokers Guide to Kicking the Habit

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This book really works!

No Ifs Ands or Butts: A Smokers Guide to Kicking the Habit
Julie Waltz Kembel , and Julie Waltz
Manufacturer: Northwest Learning Assoc
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This book really works!.......2002-08-06

As a former smoker of 7 years and a life-long nicotine addict since 13 years of age, I can absolutely state this was my best resource for quitting smoking. I had quit for short periods of time before, but the skills I learned in this book helped me to quit for years. My patients in my medical practice have all benefited from lessons learned in this useful book.

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Our adorable cast of adopted babies, Our KidsPak, are back and saving children's lives! This hard cover children's book spreads the word about the dangers of smoking, and pleads with children not to start this nasty habit. Each page is delightfully illustrated in full color, and is easy to read and understand. Ideal for young children, parents will appreciate "N" is for NO SMOKING...please, as a support tool in their quest to discourage their children from smoking. "N" is for NO SMOKING...please, does an excellent job of tackling a negative topic in a positive format.

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No Smoking: The Ethical Issues
Robert E. Goodin
Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press Journals
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ASIN: 0226303012

Smoking and Health - Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service (U. S. Department of Health Education, and Welfare - Public Health Service, Public Health Service Publication No 1103)

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Smoking and Health - Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service (U. S. Department of Health Education, and Welfare - Public Health Service, Public Health Service Publication No 1103)

Manufacturer: US Dept. of Health, Edu, and Welfare
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ASIN: B000CR3V0W

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According to the Surgeon General, "...In 1959, the Public Health Service assessed the then available evidence linking smoking with health and made its findings known to the professions and the public. The Service's review of the evidece and its statement at that time was largely focused on the relationship of cigarette smoking to lung cancer. Since 1959 much additional data has accumulated on the whole subject...Accordingly, I appointed a committee, drawm from all the pertinent scientific diciplines, to review and evaluate both this new and older data and, if possible, to reach some difinitive conclusions on the relationship between smoking and health in general. The results of the Committee's study and evaluation are contained in this report..." Some of the topics covered: conduct of the study, criteria, summaries and conclusions; evidence of the relationship of smoking to health (consumption in the US, characteristics of tobacco and tobacco smoke, pharmacology and toxicology of nicotine, respitory diseases,pyscho-social aspects of smoking, morphological constitution of smokers). Publication date appears on the last page.

Smoking Stinks!! (Substance Free Kids Series , No 1)

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Such an aggressive little girl...
How can smokers keep their kids from smoking??
My favorite anti-smoking book

Smoking Stinks!! (Substance Free Kids Series , No 1)
Kim Gosselin
Manufacturer: Jayjo Books
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ASIN: 0963944959

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Maddie and Alex prepare for their school health report about smoking, and learn from Maddie's grandfather why he started smoking and why he hasn't quit. The story stresses the importance of never using tobacco products and the dangers of passive smoke, particularly to children with asthma and allergies. This book has received positive reviews from the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association, and many health car professionals.

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Such an aggressive little girl..........2005-11-22

The real truth of this story is lost in the sensasionalist notion of it's topic, namely smoking. Obviously the authors are no shareholders of RJR or Phillip Morris. But, bury a bad-mannered girl who loses the ability to conduct her in a civil manner, by raising her hand to make her sentiments known for instance, in a topic about smoking, then all is well and good, right? Wrong. If this had been a book about anything else, we'd have been outraged at the manners of this child, yet, because it deals with second hand smoke, we tolerate it. For shame. Put this child in the corner, then let her voice her sentiments. Teach her some manners, then she can talk about others' and their right to smoke freely, particularly adults (whom she feels the need to criticize). A bad-mannered, foul-mouthed little girl, in need of serious civility.

How can smokers keep their kids from smoking??.......2004-04-13

Adults who are addicted to tobacco often wonder how they can have the moral authority to tell their children not to smoke. This book will help them keep their children from falling into the tobacco addiction trap. This excellent illustrated book tells about smoking from the points of view of a girl and her grandfather. The information from the grandfather is particularly compelling. He explains to his granddaughter that he still smokes because he is addicted and has tried many times to stop. He expresses anger that he is addicted.

The granddaughter observes people smoking and chewing tobacco. Her observations and the illustrations convey the "yuckiness" of tobacco. Some people who are not moved by long-term consequences, can understand the unattractive, unappealing aspects of tobacco. Between the girl's observations and the grandfather's discussion, children are experience both the short and long term effects of smoking.

This book should be interesting and accessible to elementary school and middle school-aged children and adolescents. Parents who are recovering from other types of addictions might also make use of this book when they talk to their children.

Carol Watkins, M.D.

My favorite anti-smoking book.......2001-05-05

Parents who are addicted to tobacco often wonder how they can have the moral authority to tell their children not to smoke. This book will help them keep their children from falling into the tobacco addiction trap.

This excellent illustrated book tells about smoking from the points of view of a girl and her grandfather. The information from the grandfather is particularly compelling. He explains to his granddaughter that he still smokes because he is addicted and has tried many times to stop. He expresses anger that he is addicted. and uses this to explain why his granddaughter should never start. The granddaughter observes people smoking and chewing tobacco. Her observations and the illustrations convey the "yuckiness" of tobacco.

Between the girl's observations and the grandfather's discussion, children are experience both the short and long term effects of smoking.

This book should be interesting and accessible to elementary school and middle school-aged children and adolescents.

Carol E. Watkins, M.D. Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist

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How Profits and "Lower-Order Parochialism" Changed America

Bad Habits: Drinking, Smoking, Taking Drugs, Gambling, Sexual Misbehavior and Swearing in American History (American Social Experience, No 28)

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ASIN: 081471224X
Release Date: 1994-02-01

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How Profits and "Lower-Order Parochialism" Changed America.......2000-08-04

"Bad Habits" aims to change the way people think about the issues of personal freedom and social responsibility in America. John Burnham takes drinking, smoking, drugs, gambling, sexual misbehavior, and swearing, all traditionally considered "minor vices" and follows their path into acceptability and colossal profitability. As he states in his preface, he started out thinking he would have a nice laugh at how neo-Puritans can't stand to see other people have a little fun. But by the end of his research, he had stopped laughing.

Burnham made one key decision: rather than focus on the reformers (and just assume that everyone "naturally" wants a drink or a smoke), he decided to focus on the anti-reformers. What was driving them? As he found, money, of course. Pressure for repeal or liberalization of laws and social mores against the "minor vices" starts with back-stage funding by those who sell both the item in question-brewers, casino owners, marijuana dealers, pornographers-and related items, from glass-bottle manufacturers to money launderers. This is not big news, although it's worth repeating that agitation for liberalization of drug laws, for example, has always been funded chiefly by drug traders and their financial allies. Moreover, as Burnham shows, legalization is only the first step. After all, if marijuana is legal and no one smokes it, then the investment in funding legalization organizations has been wasted. Not to worry: Burnham demonstrates that just as prohibition really does work in reducing the "bad habits," so too legalization and a good ad campaign really do increase the number of indulgers. Of course an ad campaign needs to be directed at the right audience. Just as tobacco executives do, pornographers, drug-dealers, and liquor merchants also know that their profits comes from heavy users and heavy users need to be started when they are young.

But who would believe such obviously self-interested advocates? Here Burnham builds on social history to identify "lower-order parochialism" as a significant force advocating and celebrating the "bad habits." Formed in America's 19th century urban areas where minor-vice merchants, exemplified by the saloon-keeper, became intimately intertwined with the bachelor sub-culture, new immigrants, and the Bohemian scene, "lower-order parochialism" validated the "bad habits" as a positive act of rebellion against the dominant Yankee, middle-class, often evangelical, coalition who supported reform campaigns. In the barracks of World Wars I and II, this lower-order parochialism was able to break out of the urban red-light districts and make abstention seem deviant. Those who made money off the minor vices found an increasing public for their campaigns first to normalize and then to celebrate the minor vices. From the repeal of prohibition onwards, Burnham traces the process by which our mores are approximating those of the Victorian underworld.

The minor vice industrial complex has always found vital support in irresponsible members of the upper class: they indulge, they invest, and they find taxes on legal vices can reduce their own. The spread of state-sponsored lotteries as alternatives to income tax increases is a case in point.

But what about the lives ruined by drinking, lung cancer, gambling, and so on? Burnham details how the minor vice industrialists heavily fund organizations that study and combat these problems-but only as long as the organizations treat them as a problem for the individuals concerned and not a problem for the industry. Funding research on alcoholism or "compulsive gambling" forms a wonderful counterpart to the insistent advocacy of more and more "moderate drinking," "responsible gambling," etc. Only where no "responsible" use exists (as in smoking) do they have to resort to stonewalling.

After a century of growth, the minor-vices are not simply isolated entities; they work together synergistically as a combined force aiming to destroy the standards of the "prudes" and replace them with those of the "lewds." Casinos and brothels can't stay in business without selling liquor, liquor and tobacco products are the major advertisers for pornographic magazines, tobacco companies buy up liquor giants, Hugh Hefner financed the marijuana legalization lobby, etc. Thus the significance of swearing: it does not make any money but is a powerful way of outraging "prude" sensibilities and publicly announcing lower-order standards

Burnham does not wish to sound like one of the more hysterical opponents of "bad habits." He does not advocate new campaigns of Prohibition. He bends over backwards to avoid dramatization, and if anything pulls his punches. The massive documentation in Burnham's footnotes show the care he has taken not to push his evidence farther than it will go. But his portrait of the minor-vice industrial complex is all the more troubling for that.

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These full-color collections of Vaughn Bode's Cavalier pages are scrupulously reproduced from high-quality slides of the original art, showcasing some of the best and most sensual Bode artwork ever released.

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Very amusing underground 'toons for adults!.......2000-03-10

Our most favorite eccentric in the whole comix-makin' field of the 1970s presents us with his very vivid color-drenched fantasies featuring those ugly toad-like lechers and their very naked "Bode Broad" girlie companions with their fat, bouncing breasts and perky, swinging buttocks. Very groovy! Such beautiful, dreamy artwork evidently influenced by LSD visions and such funny, bizarre comic stories and crazy punchlines featured on each delightful page! No physical encounters, sorry!

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