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EPISODE · Jan 30, 2025 · 3 MIN

DTD2914: Bella My Stop Smoking Coach

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Last covered over 1400 episodes ago and mentioned in last week's newsletter from Amazon, this one might just help you kick the habit (if you have one) 🛑👍 Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ [email protected] 👍 Do tell your friends, leave us a review on iTunes (ok, 🍏 Podcasts) or follow us on Twitter with #DTDPod You can also support the show with a tap at https://glow.fm/dottodot - please consider doing so and become an official Dot to Dot 🌟 Why not check out our sister show where @TheBlurredNerd and I (@USA2DAY) talk about all things Echo each week? 🤷 That's The Echo Show at https://theechoshow.pinecast.co 👍 Find out more at https://dottodot.pinecast.co

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You're up to dot. With 85-minute skill to know show. For everyone who's simply dotting about Alexa. Hey guys, Robin here.

Today we're going to look at a skill that we last covered over 1,400 episodes ago. It's called Bella, my stop-smoking coach, but you just open it with stop-smoking. And the way that I'm croaky and coughing at the moment, you might think that this skill applies to me. But no, it's still the COVID, still the Rona after effects.

But yeah, this was mentioned in a recent Amazon Weekly Newsletter, so I thought I'd revisit it. Just in case anyone is trying to kick the weed. Alexa, open, stop-smoking. Hello, it's Bella.

I'm your personal stop-smoking coach. Here is something to remember for when you do feel that temptation coming. Quitting can lower your blood pressure and heart rate almost immediately. Your risk of a heart attack declines within 24 hours.

Have the best smoke-free day ever. Tell me some more. Your hearing, vision, breathing, and seeing will all improve as you quit. Tell me about nicotine patches.

NRT is available in a variety of forms, gum, patch, inhalator, lozenge, micro-tab and nasal spray. They are all as effective as each other's of a choice as a personal and practical one. This range is big enough to allow you to choose a type that will suit your lifestyle. Tell me about cutting down.

There is no evidence that nearly cutting down as a strategy to stop makes a quit attempt more likely to succeed. The only way to really reduce the risks from smoking is to stop completely. If you cannot stop smoking, totally an option is to use NRT while cutting down. What does NRT mean?

NRT works by releasing controlled amounts of nicotine into the body without the tar, carbon monoxide, and other poisonous chemicals you get from tobacco. It's these chemicals that are the most harmful, not the nicotine. All types of NRT deliver a lower dose of nicotine than you would get from cigarettes and are much safer. There are different types of NRT products.

Stop. Okay, bye. That's responsive. Wow, so I think you can ask her a number of things.

We still didn't find out what NRT stands for. Nicotine replacement therapy. Maybe. Maybe that was a no-brainer.

Or maybe she did say it, I don't know. Anyway, there you go, guys. Good luck if you are planning to. Go cold turkey.

That seems to be what they say. Don't kind of just cut back and cut back. Or maybe that's not what they were saying. Thanks, guys.

Speak in tomorrow. Feedback, comments, demos. The dot-to-dot podcast at gmail.com. Freecast.fm.

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