electronic cigarettes

[mstevens]

and other promotional stuff and money for their office upgrades and yadda yadda yadda

Money would be incredibly illegal. Even stuff that might actually benefit patients (such as mainstream textbooks about a general field not specific to any one treatment) are usually too expensive to pass the test.

We haven't allowed anything with a pharmaceutical logo on it, including samples or reps, in our office for several years. I miss being able to give someone samples at most a handful of times per year, and we've always been able to find a workaround. The hospital has a fund especially for people who need to start something they can't afford, and there are resources to get long-term supplies fairly easily.

Every prescriber will promise you that all those inducements don't affect their prescribing. There is no way on earth pharma companies would spend a penny on those things if they weren't highly effective in changing prescribing.

Don't assume ER's are necessarily immune. They write tons of prescriptions and they like pizza. The also use lots of very expensive consumables (cast material, suture, anesthetics) and disposables (EKG electrodes, resuscitation masks, emesis basins). Somebody wants to sell them all that stuff.

None of this, of course, even comes close to comparing with what tobacco companies have done over the years.

[somegirl]

We haven't allowed anything with a pharmaceutical logo on it, including samples or reps, in our office for several years.

[causeofkaos]

e cigs worked for me to quit. All previous attempts lacked one thing. me really wanting to stop smoking. the rig i had was a three part like almost all of them and you would refill the liquid nicotine. it does come in different mg and flavors. i had about four flavors i would rotate every 4 or 5 days. used it for about 4 months and quickly realised how bad smokers smell. then one day it got to the point where it was too much work to use it. making sure battery is charged refilling the juice and replacing the end that holds the juice. so i just stopped. 4 months after that in a moment of weakness (stressed out situation needed a crutch) lit a real cig took two drags almost threw up and never touched one again. almost a year of non smoking with no cravings at all.
i will point out though that you dont smoke it like a regular cig, you drag on it to hard and you will get a mouth full of the nastiest syrupy juice. but the buzz that comes with it almost makes it not so bad  .
it worked for me good luck.