THE GREAT AMERICAN SMOKEOUT
Meet Joe Chemo, a camel who wishes he'd never smoked cigarettes. Joe Chemo was developed as an anti smoking character by Scott Plous, a psychology professor at Wesleyan University, after his father nearly died from smoking. The idea was to present a more honest image of smoking than the Joe Camel character used by R. J. Reynolds.
Now, for the purpose of this post... The 30th annual Great American Smokeout!! The Smokeout takes place every year on the 3rd Thursday in November (1 week before Thanksgiving). This year's event is on Thursday, November 16, 2006. The Great American Smokeout, sponsored by the American Cancer Society, encourages all Americans to quit smoking for 24 hours- and hopefully longer (forever!!).
Click here for a list of resources and local events for each state. If you commit to quitting for 24 hours, you will not be alone!! This could be the first day of the rest of your (smoke-free) life!!
The best way to quit is one day at a time. Once you make it through the first 24 hours, the hope is that you go to bed at night and say to yourself "Well, I made it today. There's no reason that I can't make it for another 24 hours".
There are so many resources and tools to help you quit smoking - Try a Google Search for "smoking cessation", and see what you get.
A few really good resources are:
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/SPC/SPC_0.1.asp
www.quitsmokingonline.com
http://whyquit.com/
http://whyquit.com/whyquit/A_Symptoms.html
http://quitsmoking.about.com/od/forumgems/
You will also benefit from Allen Carr's book "The Easy Way to Quit Smoking"- I wrote about this book in an earlier post, so you might want to check it out. This book is fantastic; I highly recommend it. "Out of the Ashes", by Peter & Peggy Holmes, is an inspirational handbook designed to help ex-smokers on an ongoing basis.
Click here for a list of resources and local events for each state. If you commit to quitting for 24 hours, you will not be alone!! This could be the first day of the rest of your (smoke-free) life!!
The best way to quit is one day at a time. Once you make it through the first 24 hours, the hope is that you go to bed at night and say to yourself "Well, I made it today. There's no reason that I can't make it for another 24 hours".
There are so many resources and tools to help you quit smoking - Try a Google Search for "smoking cessation", and see what you get.
A few really good resources are:
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/SPC/SPC_0.1.asp
www.quitsmokingonline.com
http://whyquit.com/
http://whyquit.com/whyquit/A_Symptoms.html
http://quitsmoking.about.com/od/forumgems/
You will also benefit from Allen Carr's book "The Easy Way to Quit Smoking"- I wrote about this book in an earlier post, so you might want to check it out. This book is fantastic; I highly recommend it. "Out of the Ashes", by Peter & Peggy Holmes, is an inspirational handbook designed to help ex-smokers on an ongoing basis.
You can also download an excellent free e-book about the cognitive-behavioural aspects of smoking cessation by clicking here.
posted by Laurie @ 11/12/2006
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1 Comments:
Don't forget this new one to add to your list:
New website by the American Cancer Society.
www.smokefreeyou.org
1/2 of it is dedicated to mobilizing the average person to action to make change happen to protect us all from smoking.
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