Call it quits at the Great American Smoke Out

People across the South East are being urged to back a hard-hitting initiative to save Stop Smoking Services from closure, as new figures released today (Wednesday) reveal unsafe funding cuts.

According to The American Cancer Society, in addition to health benefits, there are financial benefits to quitting: A regular smoker can save around $2,500 per year by not buying cigarettes. “However, as “Vital Signs” reports, tobacco use still accounts for an unacceptably high number of cancer diagnoses and deaths each year, especially lung cancer, which accounts for more than 126,000 deaths each year”. “I strongly encourage tobacco users to utilize the cessation resources that DPH has available to increase their chances of quitting successfully”.

For more information regarding this program, contact HSHS St. Anthony’s Community Programs at 217-347-1529, or visit St. Anthony’s website at stanthonyshospital.org. “We’re trying to get to that generation in time to prevent them from becoming lifelong smokers”.

For those who are interested in quitting but don’t know how, St. Anthony’s will be offering a Smoking Cessation Class in January. People who are not high school graduates or are poor have the highest smoking rates. Online registration also is available at quitnow.net/Connecticut and a texting program to help stay on track.

Lynn Daly, Cancer Research UK spokesperson for the South East, said: “The figures released today expose the awful financial pressures facing councils across the region”.

“We’re not just talking about numbers on a balance sheet”. One thing that people have learned about addiction is that teamwork helps.

The university was awarded a $20,000 grant to work toward becoming a 100 percent smoke- and tobacco-free campus, officials announced Tuesday.

E-cigarettes, or “vaping”, often cited as an effective tool in quitting smoking, are in fact heavily marketed by the big tobacco companies as a cleaner, more acceptable alternative to smoking, while the products still contain nicotine, the most addictive substance in cigarettes.

When they are more serious about permanently exterminating the habit, Truman VA offers a Quit Program. Five years after quitting, a former smoker’s excess risk of cardiovascular disease does down. The English average is £14.78. Smoking kills people – there’s no “safe” way to smoke tobacco.

Dr. Gordon, an oncologist who specializes in lung cancer, says smoking is a top risk factor for several types of cancer.

“One method to quitting smoking is rate reduction”, said Halvorson.

The Smokeout connects smokers to resources that can help them quit.