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