"CIGARREST helps you break the nicotine addiction" commercial, USA Network 1988

Vintage cable commercial for smoking cessation product. USA Network, August 1988.
Source: diognesthefox on the internet archive. This was extracted from a large block of ads. I adjusted the brightness and color and contrast for transformative and improvement purposes. Check out the original poster's material at Archive.org.
All rights reserved to the advertiser and broadcaster. Posted for historic, ephemeral media interest.

[@leestamm3187]

Funny. A vintage, proven ineffective and subsequently banned smoking cessation product. Strangely enough, this is a topic that has long interested me.
Personal experience;
In 1981, after smoking a pack of cigarettes a day (sometimes more) for 14 years, I successfully quit in the same way as around 75% of the successful ex-smokers I ever have known. Cold Turkey.
Personal observation;
The statistics show that "modern" cessation products and/or therapies are, at best, only minimally effective. Though worth it for the few who succeed, the gazillions of dollars spent on them primarily benefit those who manufacture and market them. The fact remains, as it always has been, that it requires a considerable level of personal discipline to quit smoking permanently. Unfortunately, as we both know, personal discipline usually is in short supply.

[@OuterGalaxyLounge]

The most effective thing that got me off cigars last year was the early death of a smoker relative. Will power kicked in there. There is a nicotine craving there, even though not as pernicious, perhaps, as cigarettes. Many people in my family have been smokers and all of them met too-early ends. Glad to hear you kicked it a long time ago. That really upped your chance of having a normal lifespan. I was wondering if CigArrest was still around or not. I knew I hadn't seen the ads in ages. When I stumbled across it scrolling through commercial blocks on the Internet Archive it fascinated me as well and wanted to post it.