| It is estimated that there are some 70 million smokers | | | | aides such as the various patches, nicotine gum, and |
| in the United States, despite the fact that more than | | | | other nicotine delivery systems to the numerous drugs |
| 400,000 Americans (which is over 18 percent of all | | | | that can be prescribed by your family doctor, one |
| deaths nationwide) die each year because of cigarette | | | | should never try to quit smoking cold turkey. |
| smoking. Doctors say that secondhand smoke kills | | | | One of the newest inventions is the development of |
| about 50,000 of them. | | | | the Electronic Cigarette. This remarkable device |
| With the ever increasing cost of cigarettes (as much | | | | delivers the nicotine to the smoker without the tar, |
| as $6 per pack in some areas) as well as the proven | | | | carbon monoxide, or other toxins found in tobacco |
| toxicity of the carcinogens in them, it's no wonder that | | | | while still satisfying the mechanical addiction to the |
| the most popular new years resolution every year is | | | | smoking habit. E cigarettes look like the real thing, and |
| to kick the nicotine habit. | | | | the smoke they produce looks and tastes like the real |
| But why is it so hard to quit smoking? Why do so | | | | thing as well. The nicotine is delivered to the user all the |
| many people try each year and yet so many of them | | | | while satisfying the mechanical addiction to smoking as |
| fail? There are two addictions associated with | | | | well. |
| smoking cigarettes and both of these addictions must | | | | Although electronic cigarettes have not been approved |
| be addressed and conquered. One is obvious which is | | | | by the FDA as quit smoking aides, they are reputed to |
| the physical addiction to nicotine. The other is the | | | | be much safer than cancer causing tobacco. Most |
| addiction to the smoking habit itself. This is the | | | | people don't know that there are more than 50 cancer |
| mechanical addiction related to the process of lighting | | | | causing agents in tobacco, and that nicotine is not one |
| up and puffing away. To some, the simple act of | | | | of them. |
| smoking is as much a habit as the physical addiction to | | | | If your new years resolution is to kick the smoking |
| the nicotine. To be a successful ex-smoker, you must | | | | habit this year, be sure to take advantage of one or |
| kick both of these habits. Address only one, and your | | | | more of the many stop smoking aids available to you |
| chances of quitting cigarettes are greatly reduced. | | | | so that you may join the more than 200 million |
| You don't have to go through the process alone. | | | | Americans that are tobacco free. Your life depends |
| There is help out there. From nicotine replacement | | | | upon it. |