Who signed off on the ad campaign for Nicoderm in which it appears that if you slap on one of their patches, not only do you not have a craving for cigarettes, but you also hallucinate little men singing old Rare Earth tunes at you?
The uninformed viewer is going to be thinking "Dude, if the cravings are that bad, just spark up rather than slapping on the psychotropic patches."
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Brought to you by the same clowns who thought having a bunch of clowns from my age group sing "Viva Viagra" was a good idea, mebbe?
Nicotine Patch dreams are fantastic. 6 inch high dinosaur rock bands performing on the transmission hump are probably the MORE normal part of them.
Yeah, that ad put me right off any thought of ever trying one of their products. If I want to see tiny bands at my dinner table, I'll eat mushrooms.
LittleRed1
Exactly what does it say about this guy that his dinner companions see him staring at the middle of the table, playing air drums with his chopsticks, and consider it completely unremarkable?
WV=tobacI 50
"I use Nicoderm, so I don't crave tobacI."
My spouse is a physician. The first time she saw a Viagra commercial (the whole scene tinted blue as a manly man does manly things with a truck with horses) she burst out laughing.
And I learned from her that blue tinted vision is the most common side effect of taking Viagra.
Commercials are funny. Sometimes.
I don't know, I like Rare Earth.
Do they have a patch for Sly and the Family Stone? I never smoked but who doesn't want a live mini band in their car.
Gerry
If i could hallucinate like that i would eat the patches.
Probably the same ad company as came up with the 2000 Mitsubishi campaign which involved some guy screaming "Zero! Zero! Zero!". They were referring to zero down, zero interest, and zero some thing else related to payment, but my father pointed out that it sounded awfully like "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and given that the nice folks screaming that were flying Zeros made by Mitsubishi, perhaps it wasn't the most tactful ad ever.
I was in the process of buying a Mirage at the time and mentioned this to the salesman, an older gentleman who paused, turned a little pale, and agreed that someone hadn't been thinking.
I read Jerry della Femina's book "From those wonderful folks who brought you Pearl Harbor" at an impressionable age, and have never been able to take advertising too seriously since then. I also assume that most folks in the industry are insane, especially when you see the ad campaigns. I mean really, Cialis? How are two separate tubs supposed to make me think of sex?
Heh. I love the one with the guy driving the musclecar down the lonely road in the middle of the desert somewhere...it overheats, so he pulls off at a gas station and grabs a huge gallon bottle of water...out of a refrigerated cooler....and pours it into the radiator immediately after stopping. I'm not good at physics, but even *I* know that cold water + hot metal = BAD THING. The blue tint always annoyed me, and I always laugh at the "see our ad in Golf Digest magazine". What, are golfers the only ones who have problems 'raising the flag'?
That's a problem with the anti seasick patches, too. Those have scopalomine and you're not supposed to use them for more than three days straight.
Otherwise, hallucinations. Something you don't want at sea, and their desirability decreases as the seas get worse. I've never been seasick myself, so I've never had to choose between puking my guts out and being chased by twelve foot tall Smurfs with fireaxes.
That's the saddest hallucination ever.
Now if it were, say, Florence...
"...and I always laugh at the "see our ad in Golf Digest magazine". What, are golfers the only ones who have problems 'raising the flag'?"
That could possibly explain quite a bit about the avid golfer formerly known as Barry.
I dunno. Sharing second hand smoke leaves me nauseous and needing a shower. Little men singing Rare Earth songs, if they aren't too bad, come in second. Unless someone asks who is responsible for the Rare Earth song royalties, then "I know nothing!"
NJT is right.
I've slept with a nicotine patch on.
Psychotropic doesn't even begin to describe it.
I stopped wearing the patch after that.
Maybe I'll try those cheesy electronic cigarettes.
Nicoderm, you say? And they sell those where, again?
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