About UsThe anti-smoking brigade we are NOT. Our website offers you choices. Choices which we hope will make your decision to quit, or not just yet, easier for you.So if you're looking for information on smoking, chewing tobacco, and would like a stack of free resources and help on quitting your nicotine addiction — then this is why we built this site. We know nearly all readers have, or know someone who has, battled a disease caused by smoking, and watched lives and whole generations changed by the havoc and misery it causes. We know, and you've seen it too, that the prominent people get in the news if they get lung cancer or some other disease caused by their smoking addiction, whilst millions of other everyday smokers become just statistics as they go through unimaginable heroism and grief behind hospital doors. But we are all affected by smoking, and some give it a short experimental try and that's all, whilst others get hooked. We decided simply to help these smokers quit smoking. More than 15 years ago, we ran highly successful live stop smoking group classes, called the Isis Stop Smoking Program. It's hard to believe how much fun and amazement smokers experience when they realise how their behavior patterns can be changed, how their minds work, and what they simply need to do to make it easy for them to take on board instructions, and yet come out of the experience as if they had achieved it all themselves. Over a number of years we then gave presentations to staff groups, organized and ran many courses and with our teams, helped thousands of people quit smoking, both in NZ and Australia. After discussions, the founders of Isis, Michael Bates and Paul Sulzberger, along with a few others, collaborated to further develop the original program into a new and easily accessible audio format called Quit for Good Stop Smoking Program Our sincere wish was to make this method available to as many smokers as possible. And we can proudly say that the program has subsequently been taken up by over 35,000 people around the world. Many thought of themselves as "hopeless" cases, or were heavy smokers, but they successfully broke free of their smoking addiction with this method. We congratulate you in taking the first step in searching for a solution to your smoking or chewing addiction. Amongst the first class resources available on this website, there's also a ton of free help to quit smoking. We would be positively delighted if we can contribute to a new smoke-free life for you or someone you know. Comments or questions? Fire away here
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Paul first developed the original approach to the QUIT FOR GOOD course. It was through experimental work done in the Psychology Department of the University of Otago and it was then a live course called the Isis Stop Smoking Program. Paul in the early testing stage used the program successfully on his colleagues and even on himself to kick his own 30-a-day habit! Paul is still involved in the Quit for Good Course and has just completed a PhD in the exciting area of linguistics. Learning a language, as with quitting smoking, involves similar cognitive processes.
Michael has spent over 20 years in public health, as a toxicologist and an epidemiologist. He became interested in smoking addiction because of his knowledge about preventable illness and premature death caused by tobacco. He developed an early interest in psychology. He was fascinated by the way in which people's behavior could be improved to overcome personal challenges or improve their wellbeing. Subsequently he became interested by Paul's work and was instrumental in further developing the original program into the format of these unique audio sessions. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley US.
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Paul Sulzberger MA (Hons)
Michael Bates PhD
