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Quit Smoking
By Ian McKenzie
Have you tried to quit smoking, once, maybe twice or perhaps even more times?
If you have, you are not alone. It may be easy for smokers to stop smoking, but what is not so easy for most smokers is to stay stopped. Most smokers would prefer to be non-smokers. We also know that most smokers have tried at least once to give up the habit.
Why is it so difficult for so many smokers to stop smoking and to stay stopped?
One of my favourite cartoonists is Gary Larson. Like Larsons approach to just about everything, try to keep your approach to smoking cessation fun. The very first cartoon in his Far Side desk calendar back in 2001 shows the real reasons dinosaurs became extinct. It shows two dinosaurs smoking cigarettes. One of them is furtively looking around as it lights up for a third dinosaur.
I have published several Web Sites related to tobacco use. (And YES, I was a former smoker!)
And, as a former smoker I am very aware that nagging does not work. In fact it is generally counterproductive. A smoker has got to want to stop smoking for him or her self!
Staying Stopped provides strategies for smokers who want to quit. It is also very useful for Health Professionals who work with smokers who would prefer to be non-smokers. Its URL is at the end of this article. Cease Smoking is another useful web site that has a heap of articles written for smokers who want to quit. A link to it can be found on the Staying Stopped listed at the end of this article.
Do you know of anyone who has successfully quit? I am sure that you do. In Australia there are now more ex-smokers than there are smokers. If you personally have a quitting success story
that you would like to share, then I would like to publish it. Please send it to me, my contact details are on the web site listed below. Include photographs if you wish and I will publish them on my Stop Smoking Web Site. There are also links to that site from the website listed below. People trying to quit are often motivated by hearing about people who have successfully done so. Mark Twain once said, “to cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I have done it a thousand times”. As Mark Twain Said, quitting smoking may be easy, but for most people, staying QUIT is not.
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Ian McKenzie is a Health Educator and Motivator who has worked with Health Professionals and Smokers to assist with quitting. His website http://www.stayingstopped.info is full of useful resources and strategies. |