It’s one of the deadliest weapons of mass destruction… and you can buy it at your nearest convenient store. The weapon is tobacco — and it’s killing more than seven people every minute. That’s more than 3.7 million people every year.

More Americans die from cigarette-related illnesses than car accidents, AIDS, alcohol, suicide, homicide and illegal drugs combined, and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 80 percent of adult smokers started smoking before the age of 18. That’s 3,000 children that become regular smokers every day. Now more than five million children living today will die prematurely because of a decision they will make as adolescents — the decision to smoke cigarettes.

Fortunately, there are people out there trying to help others kick their bad habits. The Smoke Free Society Corporation is a nonprofit, charitable organization dedicated to educating children about the dangers of smoking in hopes that they will never start, providing information and techniques to help smokers of all ages quit smoking (the single most important factor in their children’s and their own future,) and promoting a healthy, smoke-free lifestyle for all of society.

Unique Plan Helps Smokers Quit

Smoke Free Society’s website, www.smokefreesociety.org, educates smokers about their addiction and dependency to smoking, as well as offers them advice on how they can plan and carry out their dream of a smoke-free life. And for those people who think it’s too hard to quit, get this: More than 45 million smokers have kicked their bad habit just in the past decade!

Many stop-smoking aids such as nicotine patches, nicotine chewing gum and hypnotism already exist so what makes their method so different from everything else on the market? Smoke Free Society offers many free, exclusive stop smoking plans that help smokers quit in just 17 days without the aid of any substance or drug. “How is that possible,” you may wonder?

The core technique was developed by their founder and benefactor, Rez Seyedin, in 1985 to help himself and his employees stop smoking. He has further developed many effective plans around the technique which are based on their three-step principle: prepare, quit and get support. His belief that everyone in society should get involved in making our world a healthier place has saved many lives and it will save many more . . . with your help! "If we want to make real difference, we must all work together to help our loved ones quit smoking and stay smoke free," said Rez.

The Cost of Smoking

Smoking doesn’t just have negative effects on your body, but also on your wallet. The amount of money smokers spend on tobacco products every year is astounding. For example, someone who smokes a pack a day spends about $4 every day to pay for their habit. That may not seem like a lot of money, but it adds up to $1,460 a year!

If you include the other hidden costs of smoking such as higher health insurance, loss of time and energy, lighters, air freshener, mouthwash, extra laundering and dry cleaning, and the hospital bills you will eventually have to pay due to the health problems tobacco has already been proven to cause (just to name a few), you could be spending up to $40 per day on your habit. That translates into more than $14,000 a year. Aren’t there a lot of things you’d rather do with $14,000 than throw it away on something that could eventually kill you or your loved ones?

"It not only costs the smoker money, but it costs their employers an extra $9,300 a year for each smoker they employ! More and more employers can't afford to hire smokers. Would you?" said Rez.

Save Lives and be hero

Smoke Free Society is looking for volunteers to help them carry on their mission of making the world a healthier place — one smoker at a time. Volunteerism is one of the best ways to give back to the community. And whether you do it just because you love helping others, or for the self-satisfaction it brings, Smoke Free Society wants to give you the opportunity to do it from comfort of your dorm or where ever and whenever you want!

An excellent part-time Volunteer program for young people the could lead to a great full-time career in the smoking cessation field, or just a productive and rewarding way to spend a few hours every week. It's also a great project to work on with family and friends.

As a volunteer, you help bring awareness as well as providing Smoke Free Society’s stop smoking plans and products to those who want to quit smoking. The more smokers you reach, the more lives you save. Also, you help their educational programs for kids so that they are made aware of the dangers of smoking at the earliest age possible and so they never start.

Thanks to the power of the Internet and technology, volunteers have the freedom of being able to work their own hours, making volunteerism attractive to people who need flexible time, such as students or people with other full or part-time jobs. Other volunteer and paid Associate work is also available. Smoke Free Society needs volunteers and paid Associates to help reach smokers and their loved ones and help them quit.

For more information on becoming a volunteer, click here to learn more.