“I
vow every New Year’s to give up smoking .
. . And it never happens."
We all know
it is not the best addiction in the world for us,
but we continue to puff, puff, and puff. This year,
I am entirely committed to stop puffing and that
will help me to stop my huffing when I exercise……I
did a little research on the matter and found that
I am not alone……
Millions of smokers are fed
up and tired of smoking and commit themselves to
stop smoking at the start of each new year. Unfortunately,
the majority either doesn’t follow through
or fail to quit properly, relapse and pick up the
habit again due to lack of preparation and proper
support. Quitting smoking is a process and there
is no “silver bullet” that can cure
a smoking habit overnight. But the good news is
that thousands of smokers give up smoking each day
by using modern cessation methods. Smoke Free Society
offers plans and services that help smokers quit
smoking in just seventeen days without the use of
any substance or drug. This self-help process is
based on its three-step principle of preparation,
quitting and support, helping smokers to correctly
prepare and successfully quit.
In 2005, quitting smoking
was the number one New Year’s resolution in
America. Unfortunately one out of four, or nearly
50 million, Americans still smoke and need help
to quit. According to the Office of the U.S. Surgeon
General, “Stopping smoking represents the
single most important step that smokers can take
to enhance the length and quality of their lives.”
An immediate benefit of quitting
is saving money. An average smoker spends over $1,500
a year on their cigarettes alone, and that doesn’t
include all other related costs. A Duke University
study puts the true cost of lifetime smoking at
$40-a-pack money that could be used to provide food,
education, healthcare and wellbeing for their family.
My son Joe and my daughter-in-law
Janie decided about five years ago to quit their
three-packs-a-day (between them) habit and did a
little math. The cost of their smokes added up to
a car payment for a brand new Pathfinder……Guess
what they’re driving. I am so proud of both
of them.
“The upcoming holidays
and New Year are great times to give loved ones
the gift of life, by providing them with the means
to quit smoking for good. Download our free ‘Proven
Stop Smoking Technique’ or use our other quit-smoking
plans and services to show your loved ones you care
and to encourage them to quit smoking,” said
Rez Seyedin, founder of Smoke Free Society.
“Today, we better understand
and can address the smoker’s psychological
and emotional dependency and conditioning to smoking
and nicotine. Over time, smokers become conditioned
to smoke more, triggered by their daily routines
that feed their urge to light up. An effective way
of quitting is to signal smokers when to smoke,
disrupting their usual smoking pattern and gradually
increasing the time between cigarettes. This helps
break the association of lighting up with having
a cup of coffee, finishing a meal, etc. Preparation,
education and support from professionals and family
can further help smokers quit and stay quit,”
said Seyedin.
Due to the overwhelming demand
in November for its free, online download of the
“Proven Stop Smoking Technique,” Smoke
Free Society has announced plans to continue offering
it through the end of January to help encourage
smokers to follow through with their New Year’s
resolution, to quit for good this coming year, while
saving their life, their loved ones’ health
and their hard-earned money.
Smoke Free Society is a national,
nonprofit organization dedicated to helping smokers
quit and educating kids not to start. Over 4,400
kids start to smoke every day and nearly 5 million
loved ones are killed by tobacco use each year.
It is currently offering a free download of its
“Proven Stop Smoking Technique” ($39.95
) to anyone who wants to quit smoking or help a
loved one quit. Its Web site is a portal to an array
of information on the adverse effects of smoking
and offers a variety of quit smoking seminars, plans
and programs. Its dedicated staff is ready to help
you, your employees, friends or loved ones quit
smoking before it’s too late. Visit the Web
site at www.SmokeFreeSociety.org today.
For more information on this
subject, contact Lane Fitzgibbons via e-mail at:
lane@smokefreesociety.org.
This New Year’s resolution,
I’m there!
–Maria Tennariello
http://www.danspapers.com/paper/health.html
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