Quit Smoking Gradually With Proven Stop Smoking Technique

	First Annual PARC meeting - Smoke Free Society’s First Annual Physicians Advisory and Recommendation Committee (PARC) meeting was held on May 24, 2006 at the new Seacoast Bank Center on PGA Boulevard in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. In attendance were founders, Rez and Linda Seyedin; Greg Leach, President of Seacoast National Bank and Chairman of the American Heart Association of Florida and Puerto Rico; Dr. Leonard Rosenbaum, PhD, psychology, Maryland; Prof. William Rosenbaum, professor of psychology and its industrial application, New York Institute of Technology; James Tucker, motivational and empowerment speaker, writer, columnist for The Hometown News; Michael Abramowitz; Elizabeth Hoffmann, health teacher and philanthropist, Palm Beach, Florida. (more)

	Smoke Free Society's Physicians Advisory and Recommendation Committee (PARC) and its honorable members are dedicated and caring physicians and psychologists who have volunteered their valuable time to help smokers quit for better, healthier and more prosperous lives. The committee physicians and psychologists review and discuss issues in their annual meeting regarding smoking, its adverse affects on all of us and the great benefits of quitting. The committee then publishes a letter outlining its findings and makes recommendations to help shape Smoke Free Society's programs and services that help educate and provide the means for smokers to quit and educate children not to start tobacco use. Media availability: The committee members are available for print and television interviews with prior arrangement. Please click here to email us with your request.
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	Photo not yet posted	Professor Leonard L. Rosenbaum, Ph.D., Psychology, Maryland. Smoking is a learned behavior and can be unlearned or extinguished. It is very much possible to break the psychological dependency of smokers by modifying the smoker’s usual behavior pattern thereby breaking the associations that have been reinforced in the past. (Full letter) Click here for his recent letter.


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