first off you need to ask yourself: "who do i believe and trust, them or me?"
personally, have smoked cigarettes for 50 years. a pipe off and on for the same time period. rarely ever finishing a pack of pipe tobacco and wound up being thrown out after sitting around for a year or so. my pipe didnt even have a chance to get anywhere near warm before i had a cigarette smoked down to the filter. when i smoke cigs, always to the filter, every drag deeply inhaled. would make john wayne proud. minimum of two packs a day. one and a half at best. nuf said, you get the point.
i remember when the government first required the tobacco companies to put warning on their labels and local gov. started emforcing the no sale to minors. miners were excluded, after all, what difference did it make?
that said, millions if not billions of dollars were and still spent on telling us the dangers of cigarette smoking and the impossiblities and likely hood that even with their help and products to quit smoking, our chances of quitting were slim to none.
with all the advertising money spent on pshchologist and such, their products are in for greater demand from the off the shelf to perscription. funny when you think of it, nicotine in patches and gum. fight fire with fire???
you can fool all the people some of the time, some of the people all the time, but, you cant fool all of the people all of the time.
my personal experience to quit smoking; i'd rather fight than quit and i'm just not going to do it, and the most importantly, i dont want to! but i could forgive my doctor for telling me i needed to.
the way i quit dumbfounded me. now, so help me God, the honest truth is that i woke up one morning and never had another cigarette since. the day before that and as always i just DID NOT want to quit, not then or now. same thing has happened before with sore bloody finger nail biteing.
so i ask you again; who do you trust, you or them?
you can do this and the 'switch to' WILL be a breeze.
there is no "i'm trying to" "i can't" "i'm never lucky enough to". infact, i'm not even going to wish you luck. all this is irrelevant.
so i ask you again; who are you going to beleive?
greetings and salutations