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Smoking Cessation
| You've tried a hundred times before without success. It's understandable, since tobacco is one of the most powerfully addicting drugs known, and dependence on it can be difficult to overcome. |
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95 out of 100 people who try to stop on their own are not successful. The good news is that it can be done. Studies have shown that using a formal treatment program better increases your chances of succeeding than if you try to stop on your own.
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Tobacco Independence Program (TIP)
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| T.I.P. Group Class |
- The T.I.P is facilitated by Holy Family Memorial's Julie A. Tittl, RN, BSN, Smoking Cessation Specialist
- Five one-hour sessions
- Call Insights: A Health Resource Center to register: 920-320-2519 or view our calendar of events for the next class dates and register online
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Week 1 - “Medication & Motivation”
Learn what nicotine replacement therapies are available, and how to use them. Explore your motivators to stopping tobacco use.
Week 2 - “Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail”
Develop your plan for quit day.
Week 3 - “Ready, Set, Action!”
Learn the tools you need to make the important lifestyle change of stopping tobacco usage.
Week 4 - “Rewards & Relaxation”
Learn more about the health improvements noted in week 1, how to support your new lifestyle with relaxation, and tips for taking care of yourself.
Week 5 - “Q-Tips For Your New Lifestyle”
Celebrate your second week of being tobacco free, and learn tips for
healthy eating, avoiding relapse, and more.
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Facts about Smoking
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Smoking causes 440,000 deaths in the U.S. a year. Smoking causes more deaths than all deaths from HIV, illegal drug use, alcohol, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined.
70-80% of all lung cancer cases in the U.S. are related to smoking.
90% of all deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are related to smoking.
Smokers double their risk of having a stroke and are 2-4 times more likely to develop coronary heart disease than nonsmokers.
If you smoke a pack a day of cigarettes around your children, they can inhale the equivalent of 102 packs of cigarettes by age 5.
Each year 26,000 children develop asthma from second hand smoke.
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Five Common Myths about Quitting: Myth vs. Fact
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Myth
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Fact
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| Smoking is just a bad habit |
Smoking is an addiction |
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| Quitting is a matter of willpower |
This is not a myth because smoking is an addiction, quitting is often difficult and there are treatments to help. |
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| The best way to quit is cold turkey |
The most effective way to quit smoking is by using a combination of coaching and nicotine replacement products (gum, patch, lozenge, inhaler, nasal spray) or non-nicotine medicines (chantix, bupropion). |
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| If you can't quit the first time you try, you will never quit |
Usually people make 2 or 3 (or more) quit attempts before they quit for good. |
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| Quitting is expensive |
Treatments cost from $3 to $10 a day and keep in mind a pack a day smoker spends about $2,653.55 a year. |
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