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...........MISSION: QUIT SMOKING TODAY.

Agents are needed for a very special mission. Your mission, if you decide to accept it, is to become completely smoke-free. The agents for this mission should be smokers sharing a common interest and goal. The interest is to: “improve their quality of life” and the goal is to enjoy the lifetime of benefits that comes with the freedom from smoking.

To succeed all agents need to accept and understand the mission since successfully quitting is a matter of planning and commitment, not luck. To accomplish the mission, all agents will need to create a plan of action to eliminate the deadly habit that they have been conditioned to support by the tobacco companies.

.......REASON: TO IMPROVE LIFE

Health concerns usually top the list of reasons people give for quitting smoking. About half of all smokers who continue to smoke will end up dying from some form of smoking-related illness. Smoking-related illnesses can limit your activities by making it harder to breathe, get around, work, or play and slowly diminishes your health and your quality of life. Quitting smoking reduces the health risks.

......…THE FACTS:

• Millions of Americans have health problems caused by smoking. Cigarette smoking and exposure to tobacco smoke cause an estimated average of 438,000 premature deaths each year in the United States alone. U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI)

• Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body and diminishes a person’s overall health. Smoking is a leading cause of cancer.2004 Surgeon General’s Report on the Health Consequences of Smoking

• Regardless of their age, smokers can substantially reduce their risk of disease, including cancer, by quitting...risks.American Heart Association

…..... WARNING:

Those agents who choose to accept this mission should be aware that quitting is not easy. To have the best chance to accomplish the mission and successfully quit, all agents need to know what they are up against, and what are their best options are for ultimately quitting.

.. HOW IT WORKS?

Smoking causes nicotine to be carried deep into lungs, where it is absorbed quickly into the bloodstream and carried throughout the body. Once in the body, nicotine begins to affect the heart and blood vessels, as well as and the brain and other major organs. Nicotine also affects the hormonal system and, the body’s metabolism.

Nicotine induces cravings that increase the likelihood that a smoker will continue to smoke. It also interferes with the flow of information between nerve cells that can lead to feelings of depression. As the nervous system adapts to nicotine, smokers tend to increase the number of cigarettes they smoke, and therefore the amount of nicotine in their blood. After a while, the smoker develops a tolerance to the drug, which leads to an increase in smoking over time. Over time, the smoker reaches a certain nicotine level and then smokes to maintain this level of nicotine. In fact, nicotine, when inhaled in cigarette smoke, reaches the brain faster than drugs that enter the body intravenously.

......BEGINNING THE MISSION

Don’t worry about being alone of this special mission. Help is available by calling The Free Line 1–800–784–8669 (1–800–QUITNOW) where everyone can receive help to be released from the smoking trap.

As stated earlier, the best approach to accomplish the mission of quitting is to develop an action plan. This will be explained in the next edition. Watch for it!

“Thank you for sharing this information with people who smokes and you want help”

The information in this article was excerpted in part from Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, a U.S. Public Health Service-sponsored Clinical Practice Guideline. A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service booklet developed by a non-Federal panel of experts sponsored by a consortium consisting of Federal Government and nonprofit organizations.

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