To quit smoking is not an easy process, but it certainly isn't impossible!
So you decide to sneak out of the pub for a quick one, your in the middle of a restaurant itching for one, your at work and you cannot wait for that coffee break. What's the point? That quick, 'harmless' (sound sarcastic) cigarette you just enjoyed has just decreased eleven minutes of your life! (Emphasise.) By the end of the day you smoke fifteen cigarettes, which has decreased two hours and fourty-five minutes of your life. In this time you could have watched a game of football or a movie, played a sport or even spent time with a loved one. Or think of the money you have spent on those cigarettes of yours. In the UK you are roughly smoking away £1400 a year, whereas this money could have been constructively spent. (Cough twice) Or quit for yourself, as you will not die an early death from smoking related diseases such as cancers, heart disease and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder. You must not believe manufacturers such as Marlboro those good Samaritans providing you with 'Marlboro Lights'. Oh these cigarettes are an utter gimmick and Phillip Morris the manufacturer of Marlboro himself said that Marlboro lights play a 'psychological game with consumers. Whether you smoke light cigarettes or heavy cigarettes the amount of harmful chemicals inhaled are the same. Nicotine sends messages to parts of the brain telling you to smoke a cigarette. However nicotine is in fact harmless and with Niquirette you can stop now! Over a period of sixteen hours you will receive 15mg, 10 mg or 5 mg of nicotine depending on your state of smoking right now. Each hour you will receive 1 mg of nicotine, which is the equivalent to receiving the nicotine in one cigarette. Quit now and live longer. Call us free on 0800 000 0000.
Passive smoking
Although England has gone smoke free, many of you smokers out there have
not yet quit. Every thirty-five minutes a person in Britain is dieing of smoking related diseases. Before youpick up the next one think about those you are leaving behind you; think about your children, parents, siblings, friends, think about those goals you haven't accomplished, just think about what that cigarette is doing inside of you. Think about the effect your smoke is having on the others around you (play child coughing in background.) Just thirty minutes of exposure to a non-smoking passive smoker will reduce their blood flow to their heart. It will increase their risk of getting heart disease and lung cancer by twenty five percent. It has also been estimated that almost half of all children in the UK are exposed to smoke at home. Why? Why make friends and family suffer. You need willpower to quit, its up to you: you will have help. Nicoaid is a brand of nicotine gum, which can be taken in different strengths and flavours. Quit now, live longer and let the others around you live a longer, healthier life. Call us free on 0800 000 0000.
Cravings and temptations
106000 people in the UK die from smoking related diseases and more than half of you smokers decrease your life expectancy by eight to twelve years. The cravings you often get come from your smoking routine. For example if you usually smoke after a meal. If you do not get this 'after meal' cigarette your brain will tell you to have one and if you cannot obtain one you will desire it more and more. These cravings, even the most overwhelming ones can only last between five to ten minutes: if you can divert you attention elsewhere in this short time span the cravings will not get the better of you. Nicassist is a brand of our smokable nicotine sticks, which contain no tar or any other harmful chemicals contained in normal cigarettes. You can continue to smoke, but only smoke Nicassist and you can quit smoking 'cancer sticks' now and live longer. Call us free on 0800 000 0000.
My cigarette, my friend
You love your friend. This friend of yours is expensive. He makes you spend at least five pounds a day. He doesn't like you. But you love him. He takes control of your life. If you can't have him, you find a way to get him: whether its walking five miles to get him or asking random people on the street if they have seen him. Usually when you're in school or at work, he gets jealous and during your break you decide to go and play with him. He makes you cough but you play with him at least ten times a day. Often when you're walking home you decide to keep stopping and gasping for breath. You see a gym as you go along, see people running on treadmills, lifting weights however your friend doesn't allow you to go to the gym. He doesn't like energetic activity. In fact he doesn't like you being healthy at all, if you try to exercise he will literally handcuff you to your bed. The air your friend exhales, is the air you inhale, this air contains poisonous chemicals such as carbon monoxide, hydrazine and urethane. These poisonous gases are nothing compared to his secret lethal weapon, nicotine. Eventually the air he constantly breathes in your face will lead to your demise from diseases like lung cancer, heart disease, bronchitis, emphysema and pneumonia. Ultimately your best friend, the one you've spent money on and dedicated a lot of time to get fed up of you. He conspires of different ways to kill you, he has so many. He thinks slow deaths are the best way. So he gives you lung cancer, so will die a slow horrible death. In the end you wish you had made a better friend, maybe wishing you made friends with a nicotine patch like Nicquitine instead of those Marlboros. You still have one last chance to quit before your best friend kills you. Quit now with Nicquitine and live longer. Call us free on 0800 000 0000.
Nicotine advert commentary
My listening English coursework is a series of radio adverts advising and persuading people on how to go about quitting smoking with products such as nicotine gum, nicotine patches and smokable nicotine cigarettes. My incentive for these adverts stemmed from my desire to quit smoking. The adverts intentions are to advise and persuade people on how to quit smoking.
The target audience for this review includes both genders and varies substantially in terms of age. There are many young smokers as well as the 'older generation' of smokers.
The way I end each radio transcript is the same, I have done this to authenticate each advert as if it were a real radio transcript. I tested my radio adverts on some family and friends. The responses I got were good and I actually managed to give some of my nicotine patches away. One friend told me that these adverts 'deeply disturbed' him. The advert that influenced him was called 'cravings/temptations and it talked about how nicotine cravings only last a few minutes.
Many smokers are likely to hear these adverts in the morning. This is perfect because most smokers have their first cigarette during the morning or just after breakfast. Therefore, this influenced me to direct to the audience as if I was talking to them in a one-way conversation. Thus the overuse of 'you and your'. My tone is certainly didactic in its execution because I wanted to increase the awareness of how cigarettes actually harm a person's health.
The first advert, titled harmful cigarettes, reinforces my purpose of persuading and advising the audience to quit smoking. Graphologically and phonologically the advert contains brackets which tell the reader how to execute their speech i.e. one bracket tells the reader to '(emphasise)' a certain sentence.
The second advert, titled passive smoking, meddles with the emotions of the listener i.e. at one point I have direct the reader to play a child coughing in the background. I did this to make parents themselves realise what they are doing to their children. I started the advert with monotonous facts to get through to the listener, then I talked about the effects passive smoking has on family and friends and I ended the advert with advice on how to value willpower as an enemy against cigarettes.
Cravings/ temptations is a radio advert, which would definitely achieve my aim of persuading people to quit smoking. In this advert I use real life personal examples, which smokers would relate to. The use of smokable nicotine cigarettes is a great idea. I wanted to increase the familiarity of these products because they are not very well known in the UK.
My cigarette, my friend has been adapted from the poem by Joel Spitzer. However this adaptation was changed considerably in terms of genre, I changed the poem into speech for the radio transcript. This radio transcript was written while I myself was craving a cigarette. My attitude towards cigarettes was furious and I showed how cigarettes could take over one's life. In the advert I used a euphemism for a cigarette, I referred to cigarettes as a 'friend.' This made the whole piece paint a picture overall because in the end I show how the cigarettes or 'friend' conspires to kill you. However, I have used a dysphemism to show the vulgar aspect of smoking cigarettes when I refer to a cigarette as a 'cancer stick.' This advert covers the real life detrimental effects cigarettes have on one i.e. loss of money, consumption of time and worst of all: terrible effects on health.
Every advert contains the semantic field of cigarettes and its 'relations' for example 'Nicotine, inhaling, exhaling, craving.' In relation to this semantic field another one emerged: disease i.e. ' cancer sticks, lung cancer, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder, heart disease, bronchitis, emphysema, pneumonia. Lastly, the semantic field of chemicals surfaces e.g. ' nicotine, carbon monoxide, hydrazine, urethane.' These semantic fields help to paint a grim image of what cigarettes do to people. It was intentionally vulgar in its execution because it aimed to deter people from picking up the next cigarette.
In conclusion, I think these adverts would definitely achieve its aim of persuading and advising people to quit smoking. I think these advert would receive the same response as the governments 'get unhooked' campaign of 2007. I thoroughly enjoyed research and on rereading my pieces they remind me why I quit in the first place.
Please note that these adverts I have design do not reflect the Niquitin patch....and the numbers provided are random. However Niquitin helped me and many others quit...no point in reviewing a Niquitin patch.....Nicotine is my friend and it is harmless...so please buy this patch because it is very effective and nothing else can compare. You need willpower (coming from a 40 a day for 5 years smoker) and this Niquitin patch is the best assistant to help you quit!
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