• Great American Smokeout •

Each Year millions of Americans spend thousands of dollars on cigarettes and shave years off their lives by smoking them. Today is the day it all changes. Every year on the third Thursday of November smokers across the country take part in the American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout. It is a day to finally implement your exit strategy from the nasty habit of smoking or to begin planning. For many, this day is a tremendous challenge to give up tobacco.

The Great American Smokeout began in the 1970’s when smoking and secondhand smoking were extremely prevalent. The seed was planted when in 1971 in Randolph, Massachusetts Arthur P. Mullaney asked resident smokers to give up cigarettes for one day and donate the money that would have generally been spent on cigarettes to a high school scholarship fund. The idea continued to spread and in 1974, Lynn R. Smith, editor of the Monticello Times in Minnesota lead readers to quit smoking for the first Don’t Smoke Day. Then in 1976, the California Division of the American Cancer Society was able to get 1 million people to quit smoking, and the rest was history! Now each year many smokers take today to change their lives for the better. (American Cancer Society, “History of Great American Smokeout”)

Research shows that people are more successful quitting smoking with the help of counseling, stop-smoking groups, online quit groups, nicotine replacement products, prescription medicine, hypnosis, and the support of friends and family.

If you’re a smoker I strongly encourage you to quit today. If find that you are not ready, then do some research and find a support tool that will help you accomplish the amazing goal of quitting smoking. I’ve helped thousands quit smoking through the use of hypnosis, so if you feel that is a tool that you can utilize, Please visit www.quititnow.com.

Best Regard,

Dr. Rosenberg.