| Nationwide every November, millions of tobacco users | | | | start reversing years of tobacco harm that leads to |
| quit for the Great American Smokeout. They prove | | | | cancer, lung disease, heart disease, stroke, countless |
| they can go smoke-free and give up cigarettes, cigars, | | | | other physical ailments and early death. |
| pipes, snuff, chewing tobacco and those new "spitless" | | | | Here's a sample from Dr. Mike's Top 10 Tips to Quit |
| tobacco packets. The tobacco industry loses billions of | | | | Smoking: |
| dollars and hates that day. But we in the medical | | | | 1. Have a "big enough why." What are your personal |
| community are proud to promote the Great American | | | | reasons to quit? Write them down, post them on your |
| Smokeout and to encourage the public to take that | | | | refrigerator and elsewhere, and let the list remind you |
| smoke-free day a step further. This is the ideal | | | | every day. |
| opportunity to QUIT FOR GOOD ... to QUIT FOR LIFE | | | | 2. Throw away anything to do with smoking: all |
| ... to give yourself and your loved ones the ideal holiday | | | | cigarettes, matches, ashtrays, lighters, rolling papers, |
| gift of better health and longer lifespan. | | | | cigars, hookahs, logo clothing, and other items tobacco |
| But we recognize that you (or a smoker you love) will | | | | companies use to brand you as a smoker. Don't allow |
| need help breaking away from the insidiously addictive | | | | any of that stuff at home, at work, or in your car. |
| power of tobacco. You'll need information that | | | | 3. Set a definite quit date, or when you'll start a gradual |
| motivates you to quit and to stick with your goal. First, | | | | scheduled reduction program. For more information |
| it helps to know some startling facts: | | | | see pages 341-343 in the book Ending The Tobacco |
| * According to the World Health Organization, 1 billion | | | | Holocaust. |
| people will DIE from smoking in this century (That's | | | | 4. Change your identity and self image to "I am a |
| billion with a 'B'). The World Health Organization has | | | | non-smoker." You are no longer a smoker having a |
| also found that 17% of all 13 to 15 year olds on our | | | | problem with quitting. Change your identity to that of a |
| planet currently use some form of tobacco. So who | | | | non-smoker so that smoking isn't congruent with who |
| will YOUR family lose? | | | | you are. Visualize yourself as smoke-free, happily |
| * Even if you don't smoke, your yearly household tax | | | | breathing fresh healthy air, and feeling relaxed and |
| burden from smoking is about $1,600. The yearly | | | | refreshed. |
| national burden from smoking is $250 billion! | | | | For the complete Dr. Mike's Top Ten Tips To Quit |
| Now, the good news: Tobacco users CAN quit, and | | | | Smoking, visit his website. |