Danger! Your reading this page may

decrease the profits of the Tobacco industry!

 

 If you are a

Cigarette

SMOKER
  

 The One BEST

thing you can do

to live longer is..

Quit Smoking!

But you knew that already, didn't you!

 

 I'm Doctor

Robert Holt,MD

for over 20 yrs

an ER doctor.

 Goofydoc on

your left will

help me with

your case.

 We have 7ways

to help you

stop smoking!

[besides suicide!]

The Tobacco companies can no longer tell you in their ads that

smoking is glamorous, will help you lose weight, shows your

independence, is a great way to relax, and is not habit-forming.

INSTEAD,

They are forced on every pack to tell you that cigarettes are

addicting, cause emphysema and heart problems, contain carbon

monoxide [a deadly poison], and can cause birth defects if pregnant

women smoke......ENOUGH SAID....

STOP-SMOKING METHOD #1 [Statistically most used]

A fairly high percentage of people who ONCE SMOKED, but no longer smoke,

stopped smoking without any help at all from medication, gum, psycho-therapy,

social groups meetings, their doctor, or anyone else.....It just became TOO

INCONVENIENT for them to smoke, SO THEY QUIT! Perhaps they

got a new job where it was impossible to sneak off every hour or so for a cigarette,

or moved up the ladder to a higher class neighborhood where smoking was

considered to be a sign of weakness and poor health...

Our help to you here on this WEB-SITE is to let you know that YES

it is POSSIBLE, even COMMON for people to QUIT SMOKING

without any "crutches" or help from anybody...Thousands have

done it, and you MAY be able to do it TOO!

STOP-SMOKING METHOD #2 [Quite Effective]

Many people started smoking because of PEER PRESSURE....The gang

of kids you hung around with as a teen-ager may have thought it was a cool

thing to do, so you began to smoke because virtually everyone you respected

smoked....I'll bet if you look around you now, you'll find the situation has

reversed, and everyone you respect, and who has made it in the real world

has QUIT SMOKING if they ever did, or never started smoking in the first

place......Our advice along this line is this....

Imagine yourself to be one of these successful people, who do

not spend their hard-earned money on nasty cigarettes, do not

have to hide from their fellow workers every hour to smoke a

cigarette, and whose wives, husbands or lovers do not have to

kiss someone whose mouths and breath tastes like a garbage can!

Then MAKE IT HAPPEN!

STOP-SMOKING METHOD #3 [Altruistic]

Many smokers continue smoking even though they know they are shortening

their lives and causing themselves to spend more money on doctor bills than

they might otherwise because of rationalization ....The reasoning goes thus [And

cigarette ads still capitalize on this reasoning] "I work hard, and spend a lot of

my efforts to make my spouse and family comfortable...I have a RIGHT to some

type of enjoyment of my own, even if it is slightly destructive and ill-advised...In my

case, I choose to smoke cigarettes...The most enjoyable thing I've ever done."

Our advice here is to TRY, [and this is not easy] to see yourself

as others see you....Your grandchildren, perhaps your spouse, those

people who have to leave your presence perhaps for health reasons,

while you are smoking.....You are CHEATING all these people

in some way by your SELFISH habit, and showing them that you

don't really care THAT MUCH for them after all....What do you

want to be written on your gravestone?

T.C.N.W?

The Coffin-Nails Won?

STOP-SMOKING METHOD #4 [Medical Advice]

When I, and Goofydoc over there were a bit younger, most doctors smoked...

I have gone to medical meetings in which the air was so blue with tobacco

smoke that I could hardly make out who the speaker was down front...And

it would be unthinkable for the hotel or convention-hall not to provide ash-

trays for all us "Professional Healers"....Well, the first thing that started to

change was that these doctors were urged by SOME of the speakers to

encourage their patients not to smoke.....Nowadays when I go to medical

meetings there are NO ashtrays, and very FEW doctors smoke...Those who

do HIDE when they smoke just as other smokers do in modern society.

If you are not "up to date" about what today's doctors think of

the HEALTH CONSEQUENCES of smoking, ASK YOUR

DOCTOR, even if he or she is a smoker...to some, their answer

may be just the PUSH you need to get started in the right

direction.....An anecdote may help here....For about 6 years

I was an ER doctor in Samson County North Carolina, which

grows a fair percentage of this country's tobacco....The Heart

Specialist at the Hospital I worked had tobacco fields of his

own as an investment....but as soon as he accepted a new

Heart Patient, he gave them about 2 weeks to quit smoking...

if they didn't, he forced them to choose another doctor!

That was back about 1980...almost 20 years ago!

STOP-SMOKING METHOD #5 [Social and Religious]

I never learned to smoke as a teenager because my parents were Seventh-day

Adventists, and I spent my earliest years in Adventist Parochial Schools...In

the earliest years of the Millerite movement [from which Seventh-day Adventists

had their beginning theologically] the members smoked, and chewed, and dipped

snuff just as other people did in the latter 19th century....Then a young woman,

Ellen G. White started having VISIONS in which she said heavenly beings showed

her that "tobacco was a malignant poison" causing the unnecessary deaths

or multitudes of people...She kept after the ministers until they stopped using

tobacco in any form, and they preached to their congregations until they quit

also [with the Lord's help, of course!]

A generation of Adventist children grew up who had never smoked, and never

intended to smoke....However, as a help to those who wished to join the Adventist

Church, a Program was worked out by Dr. McFarland and others called the

"Five-Day Plan to Stop Smoking"...

Not everyone who went through this Program quit permanently, but thousands

did successfully QUIT, and helped dispel the MYTH that quitting was impossible!

Using a form of "Group Therapy" along with lots of prayer and good

health advice in diet and other habits certainly added to the success rate...

Soon OTHER CHURCHES were following the Adventist lead, with Mormons

out West and Jehovah's Witnesses and Pentecostals in the East quite successful

in using Religious motivation and Group Therapy to help smokers..

If their are those religious people who are in some way deluded

into thinking that Jesus and the Angels "don't care" if you smoke,

and won't help you to quit [if you are a "believer" of course], then

I can help some make up their mind by sending you "Bible Codes"

specifically on the subject of SMOKING....If you know nothing

at all about "Bible Codes" you can learn about them from this

WEB-SITE....The "Smoking Codes" are FREE, but a gift of

$4 will defray the cost of postage and handling.

STOP-SMOKING METHOD #6 [Hypnosis]

Unfortunately there are those who for some reason or other want to stop

smoking but are unable by any of the above methods to stop....They have

tried to quit "cold turkey", can't imagine themselves as a non-smoker, and

still smoke even when their grand-children look at them dolefully and ask

them why they want to die and leave them all alone without a grand-parent..

They know their doctors don't want them to smoke, and may also have tried

every new product that comes along as an aid to "tapering off"...They've done

the "gum" thing, and the "pill" things and are still smokers....And they either

don't go to church, or God doesn't seem to be answering their prayers....Is

the case of these people HOPELESS? I don't think so!

There is indeed another LIGHT at the end of another TUNNEL...Hypnosis!

The reasoning is logical enough..Somebody originally may have TALKED YOU

into SMOKING your first cigarette..You yourself are TALKING YOURSELF

into continuing smoking, so why not let SOMEONE ELSE you trust, [at

least for a few minutes] TALK YOU OUT OF SMOKING!

[this will not work for everyone, but will for A LOT of people].

Dr. Holt has prepared a "Self-Hypnosis" Tape which you can

order from this WEB-SITE, then play the tape repeatedly until

you either give up on this also, or drastically cut down on your

smoking or stop completely......Do not listen to this tape, or

play it while driving a car or with something cooking on the

stove [or if your preacher has convinced you that all hypnosis,

for whatever purpose, is a tool of the Devil to steal your mind!]

Regular audiotape, a $5 gift will get you one.

STOP-SMOKING METHOD #7 [Non-Nicotine Medication]

It's a strange thing about people with strict religious upbringing, and some without,

who have developed prejudices about this and that which defy logic, but which

cannot be readily changed....People who wouldn't think of drinking beer or wine

will beg their doctors for Valium or some other "Mood-elevating" or "Relaxing" drug,

and people who wouldn't give Hypnosis a second thought because it might "Steal

their mind" will take drugs that might indeed "Steal their mind" to a much greater

degree than Hypnosis is likely too....

Well, as a doctor, I am allowed to make a professional decision to prescribe such

drugs for you, at least in North Carolina, and if there is no medical contraindication

I would be inclined to do that, at least temporarily, to gain the greater good of

helping you to quit smoking.

It seems illogical to me to just prescribe Nicotine, or Nicotine-type drugs, but

it should be fairly simple for you to find a doctor locally who will do that if you

wish....However, what I will use is another drug that has been shown to work

directly an that part of the brain that keeps ADDICTIONS and HABITS

going [effective in FOOD addicts as well as NICOTINE addicts]

The theory is that once you are DIVORCED from "Lady Nicotine" you can

"taper off" on this medicine, which is not nearly so bad as quitting smoking.

I can only prescribe this medicine as a North Carolina Physician

to be filled by a Pharmacist who will accept prescriptions made

out by North Carolina Physicians.....to find out more....

Order Medication

Dr. Holt's Health Center and Medical Office

Before 5-13-2000 68 after 5-13-2000