FACT: One Puff of One Cigarette Begins Nicotine Addiction – (That Includes Nicotine in Electronic Cigarettes) Read below then please meet Charlie for a simple lesson (Video Below) 40 years of puffing and Charlie’s stop watch was slowing down; his shortness of breath had hinted one too many times that “It’s time”….. As he went [...]
FACT: 40 Million Americans Try to Quit Smoking One Day Per Year! (This Man Did it!) Please read then watch the video below. .. It is like being born again, a second chance to feel a new energy and better yet , to know you are strong enough to beat the most agressive addiction on [...]
FACT: Second Hand Smoke Causes 300,000 lung Infections per Year Please Read then watch the Video Below George is launching into his second week ont he 7 Steps to Stop Smoking Program in my family practice office - Notice a couple things! 1. He is not taking medications (He’s learning about the colors of Nicotine) [...]
FACT: The Key to Stopping Smoking is a Program With Long Term Support Please read then meet George in the great Video below. This is a real patient, a real person, in my medical practice starting our 4 week stop smoking program. He has already tried to quit…so…many…times! Here’s a man who leaves 45 years of smoking and [...]
FACT: It Takes 15 Years after You Stop Smoking to Decrease Your Heart Attack Risk But Only 90 Days to Decrease Wrinkles… Hmmmm! Please read then watch the video! I have this discussion multiple times every day with smokers who want to quit, don’t want to quit, have tried ten times to quit, or just [...]
FACT: Tobacco companies refer to Teenagers as “Replacement Smokers”. The reponse to the Youtube video showing the Indonesion 2 year old smoking 40 cigarettes per day was overwhelming. Yet, here in the U.S. the facts for our kids and teens smoking are also staggering as shown in this quote from the American Heart Association: “32% of 22 [...]
FACT: 80% of All Lung Cancers Occur In Smokers The medical world is changing. We know smokers die on the average 14 years before their non-smoking counterparts. Why do they get cancer? In this article “ Heavy Smoking Mutates Thousands of Genes” we get another inkling of the heavy damage caused by one cigarette. As [...]
FACT: The Average Cost of One Pack of Cigarettes Over A Lifetime is ….$40 per pack (Think Insurance, clothing, auto trade in, medical…etc.) A young couple. Three children, professional, fair income and…each a smoker. They were in my office yesterday talking about trying to beat tobacco dependence. It’s a re-run of the stories so many have [...]
FACT: A Chest X-ray does not show Emphysema until the disease has destroyed tissue and progressed to later stages. Once in a while I have to share a patient’s success story. It’s not about smoking but it is about this miracle called exercise and taking care yourself. I tell my clients who take part in [...]
FACT: 80% of All Lung Cancers Occur In Smokers They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the case of Austrailia and smoking, the new cigarette packaging pictures could save a million lives. The plan is simple. Take away the brand names and add pictures on each pack that depict the lung cancer [...]
