How To Stop Smoking

Smoking is both a habit and an addiction!

• Habits are affected by your environment.
• Something you see or do in your daily life triggers them.
• Triggers are the stimuli associated with smoking.
• What are your smoking triggers?

3 Reasons for Smoking

• Nicotine is a powerful reinforce
• The act of smoking offers many positive reinforcements
• The reinforcement becomes associated with many activities in our daily life.

Smoking is tied to many satisfactions each day!

• Smoking is tied to many satisfactions each day!
• No wonder it is hard to stop!

Research indicates one of the most helpful things you can do to break the smoking habit is to stop and notice your smoking triggers.

• Research indicates one of the most helpful things you can do to break the smoking habit is to stop and notice your smoking triggers.
• The things you do in your daily life that trigger you to smoke.

What smoking does to your body.

• Smoking is a major health hazard!
• Smoking increases your risk of death and illness from many diseases.

The U.S. Surgeon General has called cigarette smoking

• The U.S. Surgeon General has called cigarette smoking

“the chief preventable cause of death in our society”

Most smokers accept the fact that smoking is harmful, but think of this risk as something like a game of roulette:

Most smokers accept the fact that smoking is harmful, but think of this risk as something like a game of roulette:

• Each time they smoke, they may or may not have a heart attack, lung cancer or develop some other illness and if they are lucky, they may even avoid the hazardous effects of smoking.

FACT IS:

• Every cigarette you smoke harms your body!!

What smoking does to your body

• Lung cancer risk increases 50-100% for each cigarette you smoke per day.
• Heart disease risk increases 100% for each pack of cigarettes you smoke per day.
• Switching to filter tip cigarettes decreases your risk of lung cancer about 20% but NOT heart disease.