Know About Quitting Cigarettes

What Every Smoker Should Know About Quitting Cigarettes

• Almost all smokers know that smoking cigarettes is harmful to their health. For this reason, 90% of smokers say they want to quit smoking. Each smoker has his or her own personal reasons for wanting to quit, and most would try to quit if there was a simple and convenient way to do so. If you smoke or are concerned about someone who smokes, please read the information below and then make your personal list of the reasons to quit.
• There are 45 million former smokers in the United States today. Many of these former smokers are just like you.
• The overwhelming majority (95%) of these former smokers quit smoking on their own without attending classes or using medications
• On average, they made three to five attempts to quit before they were successful
• On each attempt, these former smokers stayed off tobacco for increasing periods of time.
• Because they made repeated efforts to quit smoking, these former smokers were able to unlearn their smoking behavior and learn how to become non-smokers.
• A recent Surgeon General‘s Report described the addictive properties of tobacco. Addiction to nicotine is just one of many reasons why people continue to smoke. The addiction to tobacco is not so strong that it cannot be overcome. Millions of smokers have already done so.