Dr. Oz... again.

[sbdivemaster]

Does he ride in the pocket of BT or BP...?

onlineathens.com/health/2013-05-13/drs-oz-and-roizen-e-cigs-not-best-bet-quitting

 

[jkos]

He did not mention anything about(if they work).They do work and he knows they work.He's a B.P. Supporter, plain and simple.

 

[Lessifer]

He's such a hack, never mind the fact that the FDA eased up on it's recommendations not to smoke while taking nrt's and that switching from nicotine plus tar etc to just nicotine could be life saving. Just because someone is on Oprah, it doesn't make them right.

 

[sbdivemaster]

He did not mention anything about(if they work).They do work and he knows they work.He's a B.P. Supporter, plain and simple.

Yeah, recommending the patch AND Zyban kinda gives it away... So, is he admitting that the patch doesn't reduce cravings?

 

[Petrodus]

He's such a hack, never mind the fact that the FDA eased up on it's recommendations not to smoke while taking nrt's and that switching from nicotine plus tar etc to just nicotine could be life saving. Just because someone is on Oprah, it doesn't make them right.

 

[Jethead]

He's a TV PERSONALITY....

They SELL THEMSELVES to the highest bidder.

That's what they do.

 

[hazarada]

i red as far as "water vapor" (3rd line of 2nd paragraph). If they don't even know what it is then how are thy qualified to have an opinion

 

[Vocalek]

Left this comment:

The Royal College of Physicians issued a 250+ page report in 2007 titled Harm reduction in nicotine addiction. Helping people who can't quit. The report stated, "It appears increasingly probable that some smokers may experience very long-term, perhaps lifelong, disruption of brain function, mood and/or cognitive ability following smoking cessation. Such individuals may require similarly long-term treatment support or nicotine maintenance, and this may account for the sustained use of nicotine medications by some ex-smokers, many of whom report that their use is to enable them to maintain abstinence." Dr. Oz, you need to consider whether prejudice against nicotine use is justified if it results in condemning millions of smokers to an early death. E-cigarettes definitely do work to help people escape from inhaling smoke. I tried to quit by your method (nicotine abstinence) for 45 years and it DID NOT WORK. Please don't begrudge me my 4 years of improved health due to smoking abstinence because you dislike my use of nicotine as a maintenance medication.