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1 NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFFBy Joel SpitzeriiCopyright Joel Spitzer, 2003. This book or any portion thereof may be freely distributed in either electronic or print form so long as no charge is made for it, and so long as this notice remains with any significant portion of the book when s Disclaimers and Use Authorization Copyright Joel Spitzer, 2006. This book or any portion thereof may be freely distributed in either electronic or print form so long as no charge is made for it, and so long as this notice remains with any significant portion of the book when distributed. Joel Spitzer and are not affiliated with any product or service, nor do they endorse any service or product. It is our belief that a person does not need to spend any money in order to break free from nicotine. It is our belief that people do not need to be hypnotized, acupunctured, lasered, patched, gummed, lozenged, take bupropion, varenicline or any vitamin or supplement, or use any other product or procedure to quit smoking.

2 Joel Spitzer and provide all information totally free of charge. Our work may not be used to endorse any quitting product and service. Those marketing quitting products and services do at times approach us for consent to share our materials. We allow our materials to be distributed for the benefit of individual quitters but they must be distributed totally free of charge, without solicitation or donation requests, there can be no mention of any quitting service or product on any page of our materials, any reproduction must contain our copyrights, this disclaimer must be included in full, and sharing our materials should in no way be construed as an endorsement of any product or service. Please contact us at if any handout or publication is found to contain product or service information, or if these materials were used to market or promote any fee based product or service.

3 Specific complaints will result in permanent revocation of permission for the offending business to distribute our materials. Our literature is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a reader and his/her physician. Do not rely upon any information in this quitting literature to replace individual consultations with your doctor or other qualified health care the Author Joel Spitzer has been a leading authority in the development and implementation of smoking cessation and prevention programs for over 30 years. Far from just following and teaching the commonly held beliefs of the day, he has been a visionary who recognized early on that nicotine was an addiction while the rest of the medical and scientific community contended it was simply a habit. His unique insight allowed him to develop and implement nicotine prevention and intervention strategies that were decades ahead of their time.

4 Participants in his clinics have success in quitting at rates that far exceed the national average for such programs. Currently, he serves as a smoking prevention and cessation consultant to the Evanston and Skokie, Illinois Health Departments. He is conducting full 6-day clinics throughout the year as well as conducting monthly seminars. He also is currently co-managing an Internet based smoking cessation support group with over 3,000 members and serves as a technical advisor for ANOTHER smoking prevention and cessation site that has over four million hits per year. His materials are being widely utilized on many Internet based quit Mr. Spitzer has been providing smoking cessation and prevention services since 1972, first as a volunteer speaker and then a member of the professional staff of the American Cancer Society, and later as the smoking programs coordinator for the Rush North Shore Medical Center s Good Health Program.

5 He has conducted over 325 six-session stop smoking clinics to over 4,500 participants, including programs for major corporations, medium and small sized companies, universities, health departments and numerous hospitals in the Metropolitan Chicago area. Besides smoking cessation clinics, he has developed and presented smoking education seminars to both adult and school age groups. Since 1972, he has presented over 570 one-session seminars to over 92,000 people. He has been a main speaker on the physical, psychological, and social aspects of smoking at over 30 major conferences on smoking and health throughout Illinois. He has trained physician and lay speakers for the American Cancer Society. He has done many radio, television, newspaper and magazine interviews. He has written over 100 articles used as part of the follow-up reinforcement for participants of his Stop Smoking Clinics.

6 He has been involved in other aspects of health promotion. He has done public speaking on lifestyle and fitness, weight control, drug abuse, cancer prevention and cancer early diagnosis. He personally designed and produced most of the audio-visual materials used in conjunction with these programs. In September of 2000 he established Joel Spitzer, Ltd., where he is working as a private consultant providing smoking cessation and prevention programs in the Chicago NEVER take ANOTHER puff. It seems so simple. If you want to quit smoking all you need to do is to NEVER take ANOTHER puff. There you have it-a roadmap for breaking free from one of the deadliest scourges ever to hit mankind. Nearly five million people a year die from smoking. Many knew the dangers and wanted to quit but didn t feel as if they knew how to break away from such a complicated and powerful addiction.

7 Truth be known, this is not a complicated addiction and while on the surface it may seem powerful, in truth, it is not. Yes there are lots and lots of people who smoke until it kills them but it is not that they couldn t quit. It s that they didn t have the understanding of what was needed to quit, and more importantly, what they needed to do to stay quit. Again, the answer to both is to NEVER take ANOTHER puff. Anyone who goes through the trouble of reading this book is going to see that phrase a lot. While it may sound repetitive to the point of being annoying, it is the one key piece of information that will secure your quit. This series of short articles, exploring different smoking issues, was written over a twenty-two year period. They were not written to be a how to manual for quitting, but as follow-up reinforcement to support those who had already quit smoking through clinics I had conducted, to remind them of the importance of remaining vigilant in order to stay free.

8 While they were not intended to be a how to manual, when compiled and organized as they are here, they may very well serve as an empowering tool to help you learn how to join the ranks of the millions of successful ex-smokers alive today. The more you read the more you will understand why you smoke and why you should quit. You will also begin to grasp how your life can change by quitting. After spending a few minutes reading any article that touches on some aspect of smoking pertinent to you, you will arrive at a sentence spelling out what you need to do to remain free today. Make it through to the end and you will have all the understanding and tools in place to make a commitment that can preserve your health and likely save your life. You will understand that all you need to do to stay smoke-free is to NEVER Take ANOTHER Puff!viTable of ContentsChapter 1 Why do people continue to smoke?

9 Junkie, burn-out, addict, drug abuser, drunk, alcoholic, smoke-a-holic ..1I Smoke Because I Like Smoking! ..2I Smoke Because I m Self-Destructive! ..4 You Smoke Because You re A Smoke-a-holic! ..5 Why Do I Smoke? ..7 How would you deal with the following situations? ..8I Have to Smoke Because of All My Stress! ..10I ve Smoked for So Long and So Much, What is the Use in Quitting Now? ..12 What A Relief, I Think I Have Cancer! ..14 The Power of Advertising ..16A Safer Way to Smoke ..18 Are You Smoking More and Enjoying it Less ..19 Quitting Smoking : A Fate Worse than Death? ..20 Quitting by Gradual Withdrawal ..22I Can t Quit or I Won t Quit ..23 Why Did I Start Smoking? Why Did I Quit? ..27 chapter 2 The Real Cost of SmokingMy Cigarette, My Friend ..29 Smoking and Circulation ..30 Because Now it Really Hurts! ..43 Smoking s Impact on the Lungs.

10 44 The Isolation of a Widowed Smoker ..58 Medical Implications of Smoking ..61viiReasons People Want to Quit Smoking ..63 Individual Approaches Used to Motivate Smokers to Quit ..64 If Cigarettes Were as Deadly as You Claim They Are, The Government Would Not Sell Them! ..66So I Can t Run Marathons ..68He Will Quit When He Bottoms Out! ..69 It s only cigarette smoking - it s not like a crime punishable by death ..71 Smokers Need Not Apply! ..72 The Social Toll of Smoking ..73 Proud To Be A Smoker? ..74 The Closet Smoker ..76 Divine Revelations ..77 The Fan Letter ..79 chapter 3 How to quit smoking Quitting Methods - Who to Believe?..82 Quit Smoking Tip Sheet ..83 Quit Cold Turkey! ..85 Setting Quit it ONE DAY AT A TIME ..88 Quitting for Others ..89 Every Quit is Different ..90I m Not Going to Smoke Today! ..91 Minimizing the Most Common Side Effects to Quitting Smoking.