Kick the smoking habit with new Nintendo game

By SUSAN WYATT / KING5.com

SEATTLE - The stop smoking method that celebrities Ellen DeGeneres, Anthony Hopkins and Ashton Kutcher swear by is the basis for a new video game for the Nintendo DS handheld game system.

San Francisco-based Ubisoft will develop and publish the game based on the highly successful "Allen Carr’s Easyway to Stop Smoking" method, which claims to have the highest success rate of any quit smoking method, with 10 million "success stories."

According to its Web site, Easyway is often referred to as a "smoker's way to stop smoking." Rather than pound smokers with horror stories about lung cancer, Easyway challenges the beliefs smokers have about their habit and teaches them better ways to cope.

"If you can learn how to see smoking the way a happy non-smoker sees it, then you can find it very easy to stop," the site says.

http://www.krem.com/news/local/stories/krem_nintendo_DS...SW.493dc23e.html?npc

Last video games I became any good at were Pacman (and Ms.Pacman), Space Invaders, and Centipede. Why can't the rest of the world see things through the eyes of a happy smoker who just wants to be left alone? I am really tired of all these celebrities staying closet smokers because they're ashamed and then going on a crusade/preaching to the world once they quit.

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Originally posted by dave clark:
I am really tired of all these celebrities staying closet smokers because they're ashamed and then going on a crusade/preaching to the world once they quit.

I was thinking when I read that story that I didn't know any of them smoked.

I didn't know any of them smoked.

I agree with Dave. I am so sick of all these bastards.

The antis need all of the help that we can give!!

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/tables/adult/table_2.htm

Census data shows there were 144.75 million adults in 1965, 187 million adults in 1990 and 224.25 million adults in 2006.

Using data from these sources, we find that in 1965 there were 61.37 million smokers and 20 million x-smokers, in 1990 there were about 48 million smokers and 46 million x-smokers.

In 2006 there were 47 million smokers and 47 million x-smokers.

Between 1990 and 2006 there were billions of dollars spent on advertising smoking cessation devices and smoking cessation campaigns,there have been a great number of smoking ban laws passed, and the price of cigarettes has skyrocketed.

The antis are losers and have accomplished nothing!!!

There may be fewer adults starting to smoke,thus the lower percentages(not surprising);but, smokers are NOT quitting.

Two things to note:
1. These are self-reported surveys and the numbers may reflect
a certain amount of PC answering. Thus the about 13 million fewer smokers from 1965 to 1990 and the 26 million more x-smokers.

2.Since 1990 there has been a rather large increase in the number of cigar smokers. The surveys were for cigarette smoking only. The actual number of smokers in 2006 may be several million higher!!

Gary K.

It's funny I saw this post, because I just found this thing online called the Anti-Smoke Break at instantaction.com.

Basically, it is encouraging people to spend more time playing video games instead of going out for smoke breaks.

It's pretty intense:
www.antismokebreak.com