| “Phillipa: The clinic here says its results have been impressive. On a bad day building contractor Graham Goddard would get through 40 cigarettes. He had the treatment a month ago. |
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| Graham: I don't mind people around me smoking and I don't drift into that like "ooh that smells good", like some smokers do, and that I'd love to try that but I know I can't. I just don't get that feeling at all. |
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| Phillipa: You don't even want a cigarette? |
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| Graham: No, I don't even want a cigarette, no, no. It just doesn't bother me at all. |
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| Phillipa: The clinic says it can help take away the craving and takes away your cigarettes as you leave. But it can't stop you buying more. It says it tackles the physics, but you have to tackle temptation. Phillipa Young, BBC news 24, Croydon.” |
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| Judy: Now, how many times have you tried and failed to stop smoking? Now a brand new way to give up is being launched which claims it has a 70 to 90% success rate depending on how many treatments you have. We tried it out on heavy smoker, Loaded writer, Martin Pashly, who's been trying and failing to stop for three years. Would it work for him? |
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| Martin: I've been smoking for 17 years, and I smoke 20 to 30 a day. If I'm on a night out it can be as much as 50. I have a beaker here, it's going to act as an ashtray, I have my last cigarette, I have to smoke it 3 quarters of the way down and then I'm to spit on it, and that will be it, the end of my smoking career. |
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| Judy: But did it work? Our guinea pig Martin joins us now along with Sunday telegraph journalist Nina Goswami whose also tried this course, and health therapist you saw on that clip, Savita Bhandari. Ok Martin, this was what? 4 days ago. |
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| Martin: Yes that's right, I haven't had a cigarette since, I haven't even thought about them really. I get very tired at night, and I'm sleeping like 12 hours at night but no cigarettes at all. |
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| Richard: You went on a 200 mile car journey? |
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| Martin: Yeah and usually that's a trigger. Driving means cigarette, cigarette, cigarette...I didn't think about it ..drove all the way. |
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| Richard: So you're not fighting an addiction I'm mean you've tried to give up before? |
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| Martin: yeah It feels like the addiction's gone. Something's missing. |
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| Richard: But do you feel different in other ways too? |
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| Martin: Yeah I feel a lot more healthier, lot more wanna run around. But it definitely feels like.You know the addiction when you take gum...you're fighting the monkey on your back. It just feels like it's been taken away from me. |
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| Richard: Switched off? |
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| Martin: Switched off totally |
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