Šalje: QuitSmokingSupport.com [support@quitsmokingsupport.com] Poslano: 29. siječanj 2001 2:00 Prima: List Member Predmet: QuitSmokingSupport Newsletter QuitSmokingSupport.com - http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ..................................................................... Sunday January 28, 2001 *** Volume 4 Number 4 *** ..................................................................... ...IN THIS ISSUE... 1 What's New on QuitSmokingSupport.com 2. Quitting is difficult but beneficial at any age! 3. Are you smoking more and enjoying it less. 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This powerful interactive guide shadows you throughout the day, initially assessing your habit, then advising you, monitoring your progress, supporting and inspiring you, until you reach your ultimate goal of being a non-smoker. Visit: www.SmokerSaver.com for more information! ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ========> 1. What's New on QuitSmokingSupport.com Our newsletters are sent out to over 70,000 people a month making them one of the largest circulated quitting smoking Internet email ezines in the world! Thinking about quitting smoking? Get some of the most interactive online support available at: http://network54.com/Hide/Forum/76750 Purchase "The Complete Idiot's Guide To Quitting Smoking" at: http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/otherbook.htm Add your name to our growing list of over 3,100 ex-smokers at: http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/feedback.htm ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ========> 2. Quitting is difficult but beneficial at any age! Quitting is difficult but beneficial at any age! Even at 60, giving up smoking almost completely removes the risk of lung cancer, research has found. People who have not already developed the condition are unlikely to do so after they quit. Professor Julian Peto, of the Cancer Research Institute, told a conference in London that the finding indicated a need for new public health strategies. Currently they focus mainly on dissuading children from starting but fail to encourage adults to quit, he said. Public health focus... The Cancer Research Campaign backed the call to focus efforts on persuading adults to give up. The government is due to publish a white paper on public health in the autumn, hich will cover strategies to prevent smoking. Jean King, head of education for the campaign, said: "We have been pressing the government to put more on cessation in its white paper." She said: "People should realise that there are benefits at all ages. "After 10 years the risk of cancer is significantly reduced, and it only takes one year to cut the risk of heart disease." She added that although nicotine was extremely addictive and hence difficult to give up, there were plenty of support bodies to help smokers quit. The finding came as the result of long-term research projects such as the 40-year British Doctors Study. They allow doctors to compare the health of 60-year-olds who stopped smoking at 50 with that of smokers of the same age. Smoking triggers cancer... The reason for the advantages of quitting applying at any age could lie in the sequential way lung cancer develops. Tobacco can trigger changes to cells. A series of these changes must occur to trigger lung cancer, so if someone gives up smoking before all of them have taken place, they are unlikely to develop the disease. Professor Peto said: "It has not been until the last year that we could see the full horrors of what smoking does." He said that half of all smokers die as a result of their tobacco use, not a quarter as was previously thought. Other factors that could cause the cancer were a poor diet lacking in fresh fruit or vegetables and prolonged exposure to the sun. ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ========> 3. Are you smoking more and enjoying it less! This creative slogan was once used by a cigarette advertiser trying to entice smokers of other brands to switch to their product. The slogan was a brilliantly conceived advertising tactic. Almost every smoker who had indulged for a significant period of time would instantly recognize him or herself in the slogan. He or she may even have tried smoking the other brand to recapture the pleasure and joy of earlier days of smoking. But to his or her dismay, even this cigarette failed to deliver that special feeling once derived from smoking. Why do cigarettes seem to lose that special appeal for the veteran smoker? Have cigarettes changed so drastically over the years? No, that is not the problem at all. Cigarettes haven't changed, smokers have. For the longer an individual smokes, the more dependent the smoker becomes on his nicotine fix. In his early days of smoking, the smoker derived much pleasure from the pharmacological action of nicotine. It made him feel alert, energetic, or maybe even had a calming, relaxing effect. It helped in studying and in learning. Sometimes it made him feel more mature, confidant, and more social. It pretty much did whatever he wanted it to, depending on the circumstances surrounding him while he smoked it. In these early days, he smoked maybe 5 to 10 per day, usually just when he wanted the desired effect. But gradually, something happens to the smoker. He becomes more dependent on cigarettes. He no longer smokes to solve a problem, to celebrate, or to feel great. He smokes because he NEEDS a cigarette. In essence he smokes because he is a smoker, or, more accurately, a smoke-a-holic. No longer does he get those special smoker highs--now he smokes because not smoking makes him feel withdrawal. Not smoking means feeling nervous, irritable, depressed, angry, afraid, nauseous, or headachy just to mention a few effects. He grasps for a cigarette to alleviate these symptoms, all the time hoping to get that special warm feeling that cigarettes used to give him. But, to his dismay, all that happens is he feels almost normal after smoking a cigarette. And 20 minutes later the whole process starts up again. Once he quits smoking, life becomes nice again. No longer does he go into withdrawal 20 to 80 times per day. He can go anywhere any time he wishes and not have to worry about whether he will be able to smoke at his needed intervals. When he gets a headache or feels nauseous, he knows he is coming down with an infection, not feeling the way he does every day as a smoker from too much or too little smoking. In comparison to his life as a smoker, he feels great. But then something insidious starts to occur. He begins to remember the best cigarette he ever had in his life. It may be one he smoked 10, 20 or maybe even 40 years earlier. He remembers that special warm feeling of that wonderful cigarette. If he thinks about it long enough, he may even try to recapture the moment. Unfortunately, however, the moment will recapture him. Once again he will be in the grip of an addiction which will cause him to be smoking more and enjoying less. This time he may not get off. This wonderful cigarette will cost him his freedom, his health and eventually his life. Don't make this mistake when you quit. Remember how cigarettes were the day you stopped, for that will be what they are like the day you go back, no matter how far apart those two days are. Remember the way they were and - NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF! Permission to reproduce given by Š Joel Spitzer 1989, 2000 http://whyquit.com/ ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` The contents of this newsletter do not necessarily reflect the opinions of QuitSmokingSupport.com. We want this newsletter to be the best one around. If you have suggestions, ideas, or feedback about this newsletter, feel free to email us at support@quitsmokingsupport.com Please feel free to pass this newsletter along to anyone you know who may benefit from it! To unsubscribe to this newsletter, please go to http://www.listbot.com/ (c) Copyright 1995-2001 QuitSmokingSupport.com Take care and have a great week! 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