Quit smoking support forums: Are they worthwhile?

I have decided to give nicotine replacement therapy (my favoured punchbag) a rest for today and ask some questions about quit smoking support forums.

In the years I have been involved with smoking cessation and familiarising myself with the whole industry, I have focussed mainly on the two great evils of smoking cessation: pharmaceutical companies and snake oil vendors.

Smokers are a desperate bunch. They desperately want to quit smoking but they don’t know how and every time they try something new, it fails them (or so it seems). Anecdotally of course, hypnosis, acupuncture, even bloody homoeopathy is successful, but in the long term, education if far and away the most successful way of quitting smoking.

So why am I having a go at quit smoking support forums today?

Well, If you have read my book (if you haven’t you should!) you will understand that I make people realise how easy it can be to quit smoking if you know how. If you know how to quit smoking, much like changing a tyre on your car, you dont need any support. It is so easy, there is no need.

Quit smoking support forums merely serve to perpetuate the lie that quitting smoking is a) difficult and therefore b) a big deal.

It is neither!

Quitting smoking is just as easy as changing a car tyre ONCE YOU KNOW HOW! As a result, you do not need a quit smoking support forum to get you through it, just as you don’t need a tyre changing support forum to overcome changing a tyre on your car!

I am not suggesting for a minute that you don’t look at quit smoking support forums because there is plenty of useful information on them. It’s just a bit difficult to get at because a quit smoking support forum isn’t organised like a book. Books that are written to convey information to you are ordered (it’s one of the things that makes them valuable!) wheras forums are discussion boards and are disorganised. Sure the information is probably there is snippets and nuggets but there is a lot of fat between the meaty bits.

So for now, my view is that you shouldn’t worry about quit smoking support forums, you should worry about learning how to quit smoking!