Cancer Survivor Tells Students in Utah About Dangers of Chew
CLEARFIELD - As the handsome star of his high school baseball team in the small town of Stewardson, Ill., Gruen Von Behrens always had a date come Friday night. But after four years of chewing up to half a can of Copenhagen per day, he would soon hear children ask their mothers why "that man looks like a monster."

Spanish Study Shows Smoking-Sport Link
GRANADA, Spain, Aug. 26 (UPI) - Spanish researchers say they have found a direct relation between sports and cutting adolescent tobacco usage. Samplings of 3,000 adolescents ages 13 to 18 found 80 percent of those who played a sport did not smoke.

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Building the determination to quit smoking is a difficult task, because nicotine addiction has a way of breaking down our will to try as quickly as we work to create it.

Of the 26 years I smoked, 16 of them were unhappy smoker years. Sixteen! These were the years I spent wishing I could find a way to quit on the one hand, and feeding my habit day in and day out on the other. I worried about quitting before a smoking-related disease caught up with me, and I hated how weak and powerless I felt to make that happen. Smoking had imprisoned me, and I didn't know how to break the chains. It was a miserable way to live.

The Value of a Support Community for Addiction Recovery

All that changed when I found the support forum here at About.come Smoking Cessation on the ninth day of what was to be my last quit attempt. I met people who were going through the same discomforts I was and learned what they were doing to cope. I also found a wealth of information from forum members who were ahead of me in cessation and had practical advice to offer. There was magic happening within the walls of this virtual community, I knew I'd found the tools I needed to kick this habit out of my life, once and for all.

Today, that forum is every bit as active as it was the day I found it, nearly 7 years ago. I invite you to fix yourself a cup of tea and take some time to browse through the current discussions taking place at the forum now. You'll come away inspired, and if you're still smoking, perhaps with the beginnings of the resolve you need to quit permanently too.

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Take The Quit Smoking Monday Pledge

Healthy Monday encourages us to think of every Monday as a day that we can begin work anew on goals that we have for ourselves. If you're still smoking, put your cigarettes down and get started on your quit program today.

We all have the ability to quit smoking successfully, and we all deserve a life that is free of addiction. Honor your life by choosing Monday as the day to start and reinforce your quit program.

You can quit smoking ... and we’re here to help you, one simple Monday at a time.

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Thoughts of smoking just one cigarette have been the ruin of many a good quit program. It's important for us to realize ahead of time that the mental contortions we go through when we first quit smoking are a normal part of the recovery process.

If you've just quit smoking, a little preparation will keep you in the drivers seat when your mind starts to wander and smoking seems like a good option.

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