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