Smoking Cessation
Did you Know That:
1. Smoking causes approximately 443,000 premature deaths, accounts for up to 30% of cancer deaths, and is the single most preventable cause of disease and death in the United States?
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2. Despite the adverse health effects of smoking cigarettes, one in five U.S. adults (46.6 million men and women) currently smoke?
3. The prevalence of adult smoking is not decreasing. Effective population-based strategies to encourage cessation (e.g., tobacco taxes, smoke-free policies, and media campaigns) are essential to accelerate the reduction in tobacco use among adults in the United States and prevent smoking initiation in young persons?
4. Effective cessation methods should be made available to increase success rates when tobacco users make quit attempts?
Additional information is available at http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco and http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns.
*Key Points from Vital Signs: Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adults Aged Older Than 18 Years – - – United States, 2009 - released on September 10, 2010
% of persons aged 18 or older who were current cigarette smokers by state, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, US, 2009
Get Educated:
A prospective cohort study challenging the effectiveness of population-based medical intervention for smoking cessation
A Hidden Epidemic: Tobacco Use and Mental Illness – June 2011
Smoking and Mental Illness – Breaking the Link – New England Journal of Medicine, July 2011
2010 Surgeon General’s Report – How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking – Attributable Disease
The EX Plan is a free quit smoking program that helps you re-learn your life without cigarettes.
